We are honored to present the selected talents for the Talent Academy of the Linz International Short Film Festival 2022.
Hani Domazet
Germany/Croatia
Hani Domazet is a film director, born and raised in Germany and Croatia. Hani’s work is considered to be explosive, sexy and uniquely sensitive. It combines her fascination with psychology, sexuality, human behavior, dance, and visuals with her passion for youth culture, music and vintage&camp aesthetics. Her attention to atmosphere and the subtle language of the human body connects to her singular camera work, making for visually radical films with a consistently authentic heart. Hani’s visual storytelling can be seen in her filmmaking and creative direction.
Hani was awarded for best pitch at the European short Pitch, and won the Special Mention at the Premiere at Tirana International Film festival 2018, won Venice Shorts 2020 and many more for her film Tina&Sendy. She is an alumna of the Sarajevo Talent Campus.
Isis Caroline
Brazil
Isis Caroline is a Brazilian filmmaker currently based in Berlin, Germany. Film bachelor in 2019 at the Universidade Anhembi Morumbi in São Paulo and Photography graduate at Panamericana School of Arts, she fell in love in expressing herself through pictures and creating her own dream world in her aesthetics. Her projects seek to address themes like womanhood, femininity, identity, race and body image issues, always taking a vulnerable and realistic approach. Isis’ direction debut film “Quinze”got selected in film festivals all over the world, and it got an award for Best Student Short Film by the jury of the Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival.
Mehmet Parmaksız
Turkey
Mehmet Parmaksız born in 1983 in Istanbul, studied sociology at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He continued his interest in photography by working as a director’s assistant in various commercials, series, and cinema. Since 2013, he has gained experience as a documentary director/cinematographer for TRT in different geographies from Afghanistan to Indonesia. Since 2017, he has been working as a director in commercials which he writes mainly the screenplays.
Jasna Safić
Bosnia
Jasna Safić (1978) born and raised in Bosnia and Herzegovina. When she was 14 years old her family moved to Zagreb because of war to live with her grandmother and grandfather. After secondary school and pharmacy studies she has been working on drug registration and pharmacovigilance in Zagreb. She is interested in the film for the last three years during which she has gone through a series of screenwriting and directorial workshops. She is an active member of the film amateur associations KinoKlub Zagreb and Blank.
Natalia Nylec
Poland
A graduate from Gdynia Film School (2019) and the department of Journalism and Political Science at the University of Warsaw (2016). A fellow student of the Danish School of Media and Journalism. Former journalist at Polish Television. Director of short feature film “The loss” screened at numerous film festivals, including Linz International Short Film Festival.
A participant of the Script Atelier – a one year developing script programme where she worked on a first feature film named “Six angry man”. Currently working as a director of one of the most popular polish television series “Barwy Szczęścia”.
Demeter Stavropoulos – Δήμητρα Σταυροπούλου (1984)
Greece
Demeter is a Greek filmmaker (scriptwriter, director, producer, editor), she studied Archaeology and Filmmaking in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR and Digital Arts in Athens School of Fine Arts, GR through a scholarship by Onassis Foundation. As a student, she experimented with various film forms (fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, dance, art) that participated in film festivals. She received an Honorable Mention by Scriptwriters Guild of Greece, she participated in Script Developing Workshop Four Corners MEDIA DESK, in Greek Film Center’s Script Development Program and in Sarajevo Berlinale Talents. In 2017 she received funding by Microfilm Program of Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, ERT S.A. for her short fiction film project Later Aphrodites. Supported by the Greek Film Center she participated at the pitching forum of Fest-New Directors New Films festival in Portugal where she received the Goldcrest Post-Production (UK) Award that contributed to the implementation of her short film. Later Aphrodites (2019) has screened in film festivals in Europe (Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, UK), USA and Asia and received several awards in Greece, Cyprus, and Japan. Her short film Shakira, with which she participates in the Talent Academy of Linz ISFF, is part of her fiction trilogy (Later Aphrodites, Shakira, The Giraffe Dance) in which the feminine element stands out. Her cinema, sensitive, is examining traumatic experiences. Her cinematic language combines film genres, includes elements of magic realism in everyday life and approaches the aesthetic validity of the mythological archetypes.
Sara Grgurić
Croatia
Sara Grgurić was born in 1998 in Rijeka, Croatia. In 2020, she got her BA degree in Film and television directing from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and enrolled in the MA in Feature film directing. She has several noticed and awarded student films but is best known for In The Woods, her undergraduate final film that has been to over 30 festivals such as SSIFF, Encounters, Sarajevo Film Festival, Poitiers Film Festival, Zagreb Film Festival, etc., and won the NEST Award for Best Student Film at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, Jelena Rajković award from Croatian Film Directors’ Guild for the best young director, Golden Pram for best Croatian Short Film in Checkers program at Zagreb Film Festival and many more international and domestic awards.
Alexis Müller
Brazil
Alexis Müller is a Brazilian writer and director based in São Paulo. Graduated in Advertisement (BA); Filmmaking (BA) and Screenplay (MA); and has a degree in acting. Since 2014, he has gained experience working as assistant director and writing and directing his own
projects that combines his enthusiasm about human relationships, the contemporary solitude, the passage of time and how it changes our memories, with his creative perception and the actor’s craft to give a different touch to storytelling.
Within his main projects he has written and directed four short films which have been into different festivals around the World. Alexis was awarded Best Director for Mischa (2015), and the movie also won Best Cinematography and Best Short Film for Kids at The Kids Festival in Malaga, Spain in 2016. With The Rest is Silence (2019), Alexis won Best Director award at New Cinema Monthly Festival in Lisbon (2020).
