Tutors

He studied Film Theory at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (graduated in 2005). Since then he worked in PR, production, programming for several Slovak film festivals (IFF Bratislava, Art Film Fest Košice, Mffk Febiofest, 4 elements film seminar in Banská Štiavnica). Starinsky also worked for the Open Society Foundation (NOS – OSF), where he organized the country-wide “Journalism Award. Between 2016 and 2026, he was the head of documentary and educational department at Radio and Television of Slovakia.

Working in the international documentary sector since 2003, Ove Rishøj Jensen has an extensive network within the industry. In addition to producing and co-producing films, he gives lectures and run workshops about script writing, project development, international financing, co-production, impact, outreach and distribution. Since 2011 Ove has worked for the Swedish production company Auto Images as Producer and Outreach Manager. Alongside this, Ove launched in 2019 his own company for documentary training and consultancy, entitled Paradiddle Pictures. Here he collaborates with partners like IDFA, Fresh Pitch China, Dix in Vitro, Mediterranean Film Institute, Nordisk Panorama and many others. He has a master’s degree in film studies, with additional studying of cultural journalism and humanistic computer informatics.

Phil has been editing documentary and fiction films for the last 20 years. Part of award-winning international productions like Town of Glory, People We Come Across, and Killing Time, his latest work can be seen in Devi and Yalla Parkour. He also works as a rough cut consultant and has been part of films like The Earth is Blue as an Orange, This Rain will Never Stop, Life of Ivana, and others. Working out of Sweden, his projects have originated in places as far afield as Finland, Kenya, France, Slovakia, and beyond. He travels the world as a tutor at events like Dokincubator and the Cinedoc Mentorship Program, helping filmmakers to develop their projects, and giving masterclasses on pitch pilot trailers, the craft of storytelling through scripting and editing, and the genius of sticky notes.

He studied Film Theory at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (graduated in 2005). Since then he worked in PR, production, programming for several Slovak film festivals (IFF Bratislava, Art Film Fest Košice, Mffk Febiofest, 4 elements film seminar in Banská Štiavnica). Starinsky also worked for the Open Society Foundation (NOS – OSF), where he organized the country-wide “Journalism Award. Between 2016 and 2026, he was the head of documentary and educational department at Radio and Television of Slovakia.

Working in the international documentary sector since 2003, Ove Rishøj Jensen has an extensive network within the industry. In addition to producing and co-producing films, he gives lectures and run workshops about script writing, project development, international financing, co-production, impact, outreach and distribution. Since 2011 Ove has worked for the Swedish production company Auto Images as Producer and Outreach Manager. Alongside this, Ove launched in 2019 his own company for documentary training and consultancy, entitled Paradiddle Pictures. Here he collaborates with partners like IDFA, Fresh Pitch China, Dix in Vitro, Mediterranean Film Institute, Nordisk Panorama and many others. He has a master’s degree in film studies, with additional studying of cultural journalism and humanistic computer informatics.

Thomas Ernst has been involved in fictional productions, documentaries, music videos, short films, and also in the animated series “Mr. Bean”. Feature documentaries like “When Pigs Come”, “Overdose”, “Stream Of Love” and “ULTRA” are on his long credit list. The film “Drifter” won the “First Appearance Award” at IDFA 2014. He was awarded the German Kamerapreis for Best Editing 2015 for his editing of the film “The Queen of Silence”. The feature documentary “The Pearl of Africa” can be found on NETFLIX. “Drifter” (2015) and “ULTRA” (2017) have both been selected for the European Film Academy award. He also works as a consultant and lecturer at international workshops as Verzio DocLab, EsoDoc, Rough Cut Boutique, Dok.Incubator, EDN, the Budapest Film Academy and the University for Theatre and Film Arts Budapest.

He is a member of the European Film Academy.

Mila Turajlic is a documentary filmmaker born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia. Mila’s debut documentary film Cinema Komunisto premiered at IDFA and the Tribeca Film Festival, went on to win 16 awards including the Gold Hugo at the Chicago Int’l Film Festival in 2011, and the FOCAL Award for Creative Use of Archival Footage. Her most recent film The Other Side of Everything premiered at the Toronto IFF in 2017 and went on to win 20 awards including the prestigious IDFA Award for Best Documentary Film. The film had a record-breaking theatrical release in Serbia. Her latest work is a series of archive-based video installations commissioned by MoMA in New York for their landmark exhibition on Yugoslav modernist architecture that opened in July 2018. Her most recent film, a documentary diptych Scenes from the Labudović Reels: Non-Aligned and Ciné-Guerrillas premiered at the Toronto IFF and IDFA in 2022.

He studied Film Theory at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (graduated in 2005). Since then he worked in PR, production, programming for several Slovak film festivals (IFF Bratislava, Art Film Fest Košice, Mffk Febiofest, 4 elements film seminar in Banská Štiavnica). Starinsky also worked for the Open Society Foundation (NOS – OSF), where he organized the country-wide “Journalism Award. Between 2016 and 2026, he was the head of documentary and educational department at Radio and Television of Slovakia.

Working in the international documentary sector since 2003, Ove Rishøj Jensen has an extensive network within the industry. In addition to producing and co-producing films, he gives lectures and run workshops about script writing, project development, international financing, co-production, impact, outreach and distribution. Since 2011 Ove has worked for the Swedish production company Auto Images as Producer and Outreach Manager. Alongside this, Ove launched in 2019 his own company for documentary training and consultancy, entitled Paradiddle Pictures. Here he collaborates with partners like IDFA, Fresh Pitch China, Dix in Vitro, Mediterranean Film Institute, Nordisk Panorama and many others. He has a master’s degree in film studies, with additional studying of cultural journalism and humanistic computer informatics.

Thomas Ernst has been involved in fictional productions, documentaries, music videos, short films, and also in the animated series “Mr. Bean”. Feature documentaries like “When Pigs Come”, “Overdose”, “Stream Of Love” and “ULTRA” are on his long credit list. The film “Drifter” won the “First Appearance Award” at IDFA 2014. He was awarded the German Kamerapreis for Best Editing 2015 for his editing of the film “The Queen of Silence”. The feature documentary “The Pearl of Africa” can be found on NETFLIX. “Drifter” (2015) and “ULTRA” (2017) have both been selected for the European Film Academy award. He also works as a consultant and lecturer at international workshops as Verzio DocLab, EsoDoc, Rough Cut Boutique, Dok.Incubator, EDN, the Budapest Film Academy and the University for Theatre and Film Arts Budapest.

He is a member of the European Film Academy.