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Elena Stanisheva
Profession:
Producer
Country:
North Macedonia
Elena Stanisheva is a Macedonian film producer who started her professional career as director's assistant and later as junior producer in the company of the award winning director Milcho Manchevski. Determent to pursue a career as an independent film producer she founded VEDA FILM Productions. Her short film “To Guard a Mountain” won numerous international awards including; AMANDA Award, 1st Prize for Life-Action Short at Chicago International Children Festival and was selected as one of 7 best short films in “Les Nuits en Or” by CEZAR French Film Academy. Through her professional career she continued her film education and graduated from the renowned Film Academy FAMU in Prague. In 2017, she was selected as an emerging producer for the Rotterdam Lab as part of CineMart and Cannes Producers
Workshop. She is currently developing her first feature film titled SUMMER OF SYLVIA by Andrej I. Volkashin and working as a producer on the development of the feature film SHAME by Verica N. Trajkova supported by the Macedonian-Italian co-production development fund.
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SUMMER OF SYLVIA
A charismatic art history student Alex(22), nicknamed Birdboy, has his future secured thanks to his father. On his graduation party he meets the alluring foreign artist SYLVIA(27) and is immediately ...