Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic is a writer-director born in Dubrovnik whose dramas explore the darker side of desire, the limits of family, and the danger of secrets. Her short Into the Blue — a tense coming of age set on the rocky cliffs over the Adriatic — was awarded a Special International Jury Mention at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival and the Youth Jury Award at the 63rd Oberhausen Film Festival, and has screened at major festivals around the world: Sarajevo, Odense, Brest, Aspen, and more. Currently she is attending the Résidence du Festival of Cinéfondation in Paris where she is developing her first feature film, MURINA, about a Croatian family swept onto an island that reveals the hidden violence between parents, lovers, and their children.

Antoneta is an alumna of the Marcie Bloom Fellowship and numerous labs, including: the Berlinale Talent Lab and Short Film Station, Sarajevo Talent Lab and City of Film, Nisi Masa Short European Pitch, La Femis Producing Atelier, Bloom/Spiegel Partnership Meetings and First Films First.  She holds an MFA in directing from Columbia University in New York.