The Alternativa Film Project, an initiative of the California-based tech company inDrive, is a new international project to support filmmakers from developing film industries and to make them more visible on a global scale.
The project kicked off in autumn 2023 by featuring 3 film labs, including the so-called Impact Lab, that caters for producers and directors of projects that could have significant impact on society.
Each year, one of the participating projects of the Lab will receive the Pop Up Alternativa Impact Award, and thus benefits from an individualized program within the Pop Up Film Residency in the year following the award reception.
Read more on https://alternativa.film/
Diana Zhilkenova
Diana Zhilkenova is a documentary filmmaker from Kazakhstan. In 2013 she graduated from Academy of Arts with a degree in (non-fiction) Directing.
She is working on a creative documentary titled The Cellar. With this project she had participated in a number of pitchings and training programs.
THE CELLAR
The woman who changed the mind of an entire country.
Mentor
Alexandra Slastanova
Alexandra graduated from Bratislava‘s VŠMU editing department, where she now teaches in addition to editing films. After trying out different types and scales of productions, from newscast, reality TV and fiction series to feature animation she has found her calling in documentaries, their dramaturgy. Work experience in Dublin, Paris and Prague, currently based in Bratislava, partly on maternity leave. She is a member of the ASFS, Association of Slovak Film Editors.