Rada Šešić lecturer / tutor
Rada Šešiċ – festival programmer, filmmaker, lecturer and critic, born in Croatia, lived in Sarajevo and now lives in The Netherlands. Takes part in the selection of the competition programme of the IDFA Amsterdam and takes part at the IDFA Berta Fund committee as well as at the Hubert Bals Fund of IFFR Rotterdam. She is also on the selection of the Doha Film Fund. She is the head of the documentary competition and co-head of the platform DocuRough Cut Boutique at Sarajevo Film Festival. She is a lecturer at MA film studies at the Dutch film Academy in Amsterdam and she previously taught for 7 years at the University of Amsterdam at Film and Media studies.Šešić is one of the founders and artistic director of the 13-year-old Eastern Neighbours FF in The Hague. She is a mentor at many workshops in Europe and Asia, among which are Vision du Reel Nyon, Docs to Go Poland, Baltic Sea Forum, Doc Lisboa, Ex Oriente, Dragon Forum, Balkan Discoveries, DunaDoc, Doc Edge Kolkata, DocWok New Delhi. She has collaborated on the books: 24 Frames by Dina Iordanova and on three Indian books by Bhimal Roy, Mani Kaul and Girish Kasaravalli as well as on the World Encyclopaedia of the Documentary Cinema published by Aitken. After directing several documentaries in Bosnian production before the 1990s, she made 4 films in the Dutch production which were selected to 60 festivals, awarded and screened in Europe, Asia and America. One of her films was also invited to be shown and also archived at MoMA New York. In 2008 and 2010 she taught one trimester at Srishti Faculty in Bangalore, India. She is a guest lecturer at the film schools in Utrecht, Geneva, Eskisehir, Belgrade, Sarajevo, New Delhi, Trivandrum and Kolkata. As a part of When East Meets West Festival, she heads the Last Stop Trieste documentary platform. She is also a member of the NETPAC and member, as well as the juror, of the EFA.
