Dea Gjinovci

Dea Gjinovci is a Swiss-Albanian documentary filmmaker with a background in Economics and Anthropology living between Paris, London and Geneva. She is a 2019 Sundance Talent Forum alum and 2019 Film Independent Fellow. Her award-winning documentary short ‘Sans le Kosovo’ screened at many international festivals and won Best National Film at Dokufest International Film Festival as well as prizes at the Global Migration Film Festival and Festival Cine Zaragoza in 2017. Her debut feature-length documentary ‘Wake Up on Mars’ received support from the Sundance Film Institute and won the “Perspectives d’un doc” pitch award at Visions du Réel 2018. Dea’s work has been described as “a pure embodiment of human dignity” with a sense of “beauty, poetry, sensitivity and wonder”. In 2018, she co-founded Amok Films with her producing partner, Antoine Goldet.