Meet our team

Biljana Tutorov, Program Director

Biljana Tutorov is a director, producer and curator. After graduating Art History (UCL, Belgium) she studied Film Anthropology (EPHE) and Drama (Jacques Lecoq School) in Paris. She was first director’s assistant to Yugoslavian film director Želimir Žilnik. In 2010, she founded Wake Up Films in order to produce talents from the CEE region. Biljana established and programmed Regional competition for fiction and docs at FREE ZONE Film Festival in Belgrade until the 2017. In 2018 she created a new platform for women filmmakers - CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator - which she is the head of. Her feature documentary When Pigs Come (2017) won several awards and was screened in Sarajevo, Hot Docs, Vision du Reel, Cinemed, DokuFest among many other festivals. Biljana was a member of the 59. Festival dei Popoli, Florence, international jury. She is among EAVE 2021 Producers workshop participants, Chicken & Egg 2021 grantees and is alumna of EURODOC and Producers On The Move, and a member of DOK Serbia, Documentary Association of Europe (DAE), European Women Audiovisual Network (EWA) and European Film Academy (EFA).

Luka Venturin, Program Coordinator

Luka gained formal education at the College of Entrepreneurship (VERN) in Zagreb. While studying Production on the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, Luka started working as an assistant producer and production manager with many production companies. While working in various aspects of audio-visual production, such as animation, TV show, TV series, event organizing, workshop production, short film production, he became delegate producer and partner in Sekvenca, where he develop film projects by young, perspective writers and directors. His biggest success in Sekvenca was the short film Picnic, that premiered on the Berlinale 2015. In the Generation section, and subsequently won the European Film Award for Best European short film of 2015. From 2018. he started working full time as a freelance producer and organizer. The most recent success came with a 2021 documentary production Factory to the Workers, which premiered at Sheffield documentary festival and was declared best Croatian film in 2021. by Croatian film critics association. He is a Berlinale Talents, Maia Workshop, Ex-oriente and Sarajevo Talent campus alumni.

Since 2017, Luka also works as an organizer of cultural events on many markets and forums, including WEMW Trieste, Zagrebdox, Far East film festival Udine, Connecting Cottbus, Meeting Point Vilnius, Cinelink Sarajevo, SAFFF Singapore.

Anja Koprivšek, Production Assistent

Anja Koprivšek was born in Novi Sad. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade in 2019, with a degree in International Politics. Through the
course of her studies, she completed two educational programs in the Gender studies field in Belgrade and Zagreb. She is currently a student at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, where she is studying Documentary filmmaking. She has been employed as a production assistent at CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator since February, 2022.