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Vanja Dimitrova is a visual artist and filmmaker born in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia. After graduating from the Audio Visual Department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, she earned her MA in Fine Arts at the Sandberg Institute (AMS). She was selected for Berlinale Talent Campus with her animated film Singing Birdy (2005), also screened at other international festivals. Her short films Laundry (2005/2008, shot on 16mm), and Absence (2006/2008, shot on 35mm) were screened at many international festivals. Locked Storms (2019) is her latest documentary.

Natasha Dimitrievska is an artist and film director born in Skopje, Macedonia. She graduated in 1994 from the Department of Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje. Her films and artworks have been exhibited at several group and solo exhibitions and film festivals. Co-founder of Lokomotiva-Centre for new initiatives in art and culture and its artistic coordinator from 2003 to 2012. She works as an art director, set designer, set decorator and production designer on feature and short films and commercials. She is a film selector for the Balkan Snapshot Film Festival in Amsterdam and programme curator of 4Tuned Cities, a festival for independent film and visual arts.