Ágnes Erőss is a geographer and research fellow at the Geographical Institute Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (GI RCEAS) and a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Opole. Her research tackles symbolic space appropriation strategies in ethnically-culturally diverse urban settings in Central and Eastern Europe. Besides, she has been exploring how family and individual livelihood strategies develop in the context of transnational migration and kin-state politics in CEE. Recently she has been interested in the gender aspect of transnational migration and the immobile local communities in Transcarpathia, Western Ukraine. With director Mária Takács, she made one documentary about a village in Transcarpathia in 2019. The documentary illustrated the everyday of the Hungarian minority in the light of series of geopolitical transformations. https://vimeo.com/393323896
Karina Gaibulina was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where she graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts with a degree in monumental sculpture. She continued her education at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw in Poland and later completed a PhD at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Her main interests oscillate around media studies, cultural anthropology, post-colonial studies (particularly on the 19th-century Russian Empire and Kazakhstan), the theory of orality and literacy, writing practices and personal documents of Polish exiles in Siberia. As part of the doctoral thesis, a project of a short documentary entitled documentary movie titled Adolf Januszkiewicz, among dear Kazakhs was produced. It was selected for the American Association of Geographers Short Films 2021
https://www.filmgeographies.com/video/adolf-januszkiewiczamong-dear-kazakhs/
Clara Kleininger, born and raised in Bucharest, graduated Visual Anthropology in at the Granada Centre in Manchester. Clara has finished the Dok Pro programm in the Wajda Film School in Warsaw. Several of her short documentaries have been shown in international festivals, and her short documentary ‘Everyday Greyness’ premiered in Sheffield Doc/Fest. No Elephant in the Room, her feature length documentary debut is currently in post-production and has been pitched at international forums. Clara is IDFA Summer School and Sarajevo Talents alumni and is lecturing documentary and anthropology at the Sociology department of the University of Opole, Poland.
No Elephant in the Room https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/390528962/723108c4da
Everyday Greyness https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/426230915
Joanna Janikowska is a director, cinematographer, and editor. Author of television reportages and short documentary films. Graduate of Interdepartmental Individual Studies in the Humanities at the University of Warsaw. She learned the art of filmmaking in practice, assisting, among others, Piotr Stasik on the films 21 x New York and Opera about Poland. Her documentary debut Comrades, produced by Anna Gawlita of Kijora Film, is currently in post‐production.
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