Dea Gjinovci is a Swiss-Albanian director and producer. Films she has directed and/or produced have premiered in prestigious international film festivals including Tribeca Film Festival, Visions du Réel, IDFA, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Thessaloniki, True/False, Sheffield, DocNYC, Winterthur KurzFilmTage and many others. Her films also screened at the Centre Pompidou and la Gaîté lyrique in Paris as well as the Museo M9 in Venice. She was awarded the RTS pitch award 2018 at Visions FIFDH impact days award in 2019 and 2022. She is a Sundance alumna, a 2021 EsoDoc participant and a 2019 Film Independent Fellow. Her cinematographic style blends poetic narration, magical realism and cinéma vérité. She won several awards including ‘Best National Film’ at 2017 Dokufest, ‘Best new Talent’ mentions at both ZagrebDox 2021 and Biografilm 2020. She is a member of the Swiss Film Academy since her ‘Best Documentary’ nomination for Wake Up on Mars in 2022. She is also a member of the European Film Academy. Dea has held masterclasses and lectures at NYU-AbuDhabi, the University of Geneva, Centro Frantz Fanon in Turin, Neo School in Prishtina and Dokufest Film school in Prizren. She has a BA(Hons) in Economics and Politics from SOAS, University of London and a MA in Ethnographic and documentary film from UCL, University of London. She speaks four languages: French, English, Italian and Albanian.
Human X Project is a collaboration between an academic researcher Andreas Bjorklund, film-director Dea Gjinovci and Nasser Al-Anezy from the Kuwaiti Community Association, a community centre for Kuwaiti Bidoon in Britain. Find out more here.