Dea Gjinovci
Documentary filmmaker
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Dea Gjinovci has been filming and writing documentaries following her studies between Geneva, London and Paris. In parallel, she has always worked, either on film projects, or as a freelance journalist for Swiss media (Le Temps) or Anglo-Saxon (AJ +). For them, she directed «This is the sound of climate change» during the protests of COP21 in Paris. In early 2017, she coordinated a crowdfunding campaign for the documentary Mr Gay Syria, a campaign relayed by media such as Vanity Fair, the Guardian and The Economist. In 2017, she directed her first film, «Sans le Kosovo». This short documentary was awarded Best National Film Award at the 2017 edition of the Dokufest Festival, and has been presented at festivals in Palermo, Paris, Vienna and Visions du Réel in Nyon. She is now directing her first feature-length documentary "Mars".