Sandra Jovanovska
MA in Digital Arts and Practices, ALUMNI AU
Sandra Jovanovska is a multimedia artist working in the field of arts and culture. After her BA studies in French and English language she continued her MA qualification in multimedia with a major in animation at the School of Arts (University of Nova Gorica). She has been working as a festival pre-selector and a student competition programmer at Makedox (2013-2017), worked and co-founded the festival Pod Zemja Polesno se Dishe (2012-present) and since 2019 she is the head programmer of the film program for First Crossings (A Tribute to a Vision). She has also been part of the art collective Kompressor (2012-present), co-founded and worked in the cultural center Kula in Skopje (2013-2015) and instituted the duo-jewelry brand Mei-Ro (2012-2018). In her creative work Sandra is fluctuating between analog and digital media, often using the method of recycling, both physically and intellectually. She is currently finishing her master’s studies in animation and film at the School of Arts in Nova Gorica. Her films and animations visited a number of festivals and won several awards. Sandra is currently working on a new script for her first stop-motion animation outside the academic environment. She is collaborating with the cross-border organization Kinoatelje on various projects including mentoring children workshops.
REFERENCES
-art residence “Nature meets technology”, Lazaropole, Macedonia, 2012.
-group exhibition, ”Iknav”, cultural center Kula, Skopje, Macedonia, 2013.
-video poetry exhibition, Design week, Kurshumli An, Skopje, Macedonia, 2013.
-group exhibition, Mei Ro, cultural center Kula, Skopje, Macedonia, 2014.
-exhibition, Mei Ro, Koj se plashi od molkot losh, Skopje, Macedonia, 2014.
-exhibition, Mei Ro, Paratissima, Skopje, Macedonia, 2014.
-exhibition Mei Ro, Moda za poneti, Kulturni Centar Grad, Belgrade, Serbia, 2014.
-concert Shutofonija at Drim On, Struga, Macedonia, 2015.
–group exhibition, Speculum Artium – Trbovlje New Media Festival, Trbovlje, Slovenia 2015.
-group exhibition, Pod Zemja Polesno Se Dise, Skopje, Macedonia, 2015.
-exhibition Mei Ro, COLABS, Belgrade, Serbia, 2015.
-participant in the MyMachine workship, Nova Gorica, Slovenia and Flanders, Belgium.
-group exhibition, object Scatterbrain, Pixxelpoint, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 2015.
-participating guest, festival identity platform, Jihlava, Czech Republic, 2016.
-exhibition, Mei Ro, Pod Zemja Polesno Se Dise, Skopje, Macedonia, 2016.
-participant at the IDEATE workshop, Turku, Finland and Vilnius, Lithuania, 2016.
-participating guest at the Kinedok, East Doc platform for innovative distribution, Prague, Czech Republic, 2017.
-exhibition, Mei Ro, Barbacan Produce, Trieste, Italy, 2017.
-art residence, TROFAIACH MACHTe URLAUB! Trofaiach, Austria, 2017.
– solo exhibition “Recycling life”, cultural center Rjeka, Croatia, 2017.
– participant in the MAST program, Madeira, Portugal, 2018.
-instalation: “ANTI-SYNCHONIC SCIENTIFIC KARAOKE READING”, Pod Zemja Polesno Se Dise, Skopje, Macedonia, 2018.
– a New Talent, Visegrad animation platform, Trebon, Czech Republic, 2018.
– trainee at the Institute of Electronic music and acoustics; University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria, 2018.
– scholarship, installation scenography at MFRU, Maribor, Slovenia, 2018.
-trainee at the cross-border platform Kinoatelje, Gorizia, Italy, 2018.
-group exhibition “Sedajnost Prihodnost”, street gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019.
-guest nominee at the Watersprite film festival, Cambrigde, UK, 2020.
-status samozaposlenega v kulturi, Slovenia, 2020.
-Sarajevo talent within the Director campus, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2020.
– selected participant at the CEE animation forum in Liberec, Czech Republic, 2020.
SCREENINGS AND AWARDS (Filmography)
2016 – Armando Diaz (film)
•7th Makedox creative documentary film festival, Skopje, Macedonia, 2016 (screening)
•Church Film Night, Church St. Floriana, Gornji Trg, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2018 (screening)
• 5th Drim On, Struga, Macedonia, 2016 (screening)
2016 – Scarecrow Cross (film)
• 19th Slovenian film Festival, Portoroz, Slovenia,
• 15th Cinedays, Skopje, Macedonia, 2016 (BEST STUDENT FILM AWARD),
• 2nd Mediteranian Film Festival, Siracusa, Italy 2016,
• 64th Martovski festival, Belgrade, Serbia, 2017,
• 6th Student cuts, Maribor, Slovenia, 2017,
• 19th International Eskisehir Film Festival, Eskisehir, Turkey, 2017,
• 7th Balkan film food festival, Pogradec, Albania, 2017,
• 6th Tetovo International Film Festival, Tetovo, Macedonia, 2017,
• 1st AM Egypt Film Festival, Kairo, Egypt, 2017,
• 2nd Jacksonsville Documentary Film Festival, Jacksonsville, Florida, 2017,
• 2nd Geo Film Festival and Expo Cinema, Palermo, Italy, 2017,
• 2nd Caribbean Film Festival & Market, Miami, Florida, 2017,
• 16th Festival Internazionale del Cinema d’Arte, Bergamo, Italy, 2017.
2015 – Naked Across Borders (animation)
• 7th Speculum Artium Trebovlje, Slovenia,
• 12th Kino Otok, Izola, Slovenia,
• 19th Slovenian film Festival, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2016,
• 5th Drim On, Struga, Macedonia, 2016.
2016 – Dzoni’s song (animation)
• 13th Animateka, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2016,
• 19th Slovenian film Festival, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2016,
• 8th Speculum Artium Trebovlje, Slovenia.
2016 – Sweet Self-destruction (animation)
• 5th Drim On, Struga, Macedonia, 2016,
• 2nd Milwaukee Twisted Dreams Film Festival, Wisconsin, 2017,
• 8th VAFI – International Children and Youth Animation Film Festival Varaždin, Croatia, 2017.
2017 – The Mery and Jesus Galaxy (animation)
• 13th Animateka, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2017,
• 13th Kino Otok, Izola, Slovenia, 2017,
• 7th StopTrik International Film Festival 2018,
• Short film night, Slovenia 2017 (paralel screening in a dozen od art cinemas in Slovenia),
• VAF, New Talents, Trebon, Czech Republic, 2018,
• 2nd Reanima, International, Animated Film Festival Bergen, Norway 2018,
• 10th Fest Anča International Animation festival, Žiline, Slovakia, 2018,
• 46th Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia, 2018,
• 11th CutOut Fest International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Querétaro, Mexico, 2018.
2017 – Baby Boom (animation)
• 13th Animateka, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2017,
• 7th StopTrik International Film Festival,
• 20th Slovenian film Festival, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2016,
• Short film night, Slovenia (parallel screening in a dozen of art cinemas in Slovenia).
2017 – Una di Loro (film)
• 8th Makedox creative documentary film festival, Skopje Macedonia, 2017,
• 14th Kino Otok, Izola, Slovenia, 2018,
• 7th Summer Cinema, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 2018,
• 21th Slovenian film Festival, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2016,
• 1st European film night, Bitola, Macedonia, 2019,
• a student film screening, Ajdovščina, Slovenia,
• 9th Speculum Artium, Trebovlje, Slovenia,
• 41th Greek Festival in Drama, Athens, Greece, 2018.
2017 – Animals are special effects (film)
• 20th Student cultural center, Rjeka, Croatia, 2017 (exhibition screening),
• 20th Slovenian film Festival, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2017,
• 16th Cinedays, Skopje, Macedonia, 2017,
• Short film night, Slovenia, 2017 (parallel screening in a dozen of art cinemas in Slovenia),
• 7 th Prokuplje film festival, Prokuplje, Serbia, 2018,
• 3rd Cefalu Film Festival, Palermo, Italy, 2018,
• 2nd Film Con Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA, 2018,
• 11th Festival de Cortometraje Universitario UVAQ, Morelia, Mexico, 2018,
• 3rd The Buddha International Film Festival, Pune, India, 2018,
• 19th Sajeta Art and Music Festival, Tolmin, Slovenia, 2018,
• 2nd Newark International Film Festival, New Jercey, USA, 2018,
• 3rd Festival Nacional de Cine de Rioverde, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 2018,
• 6th Star Film Festival, Sisak, Croatia, 2018,
• 15th Progeny Short Film Festival, Virginia, USA 2018 (BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM AWARD),
• 1st Spook Screen Festival, Cork, Ireland, 2018,
• 8th Ultra Cinema, La Joya, Mexico, 2018,
• 20th A Tribute to a Vision, Darko Bratina, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 2018.
2019 – Soma (animation)
• 21th Slovenian film Festival, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2019 (BEST STUDENT FILM-OSTRENJE POGLEDA AWARD),
• 10th MikroFAF – International festival of DIY and independent short film, Belgrade, Serbia, 2019,
• 10th Oaxaca film fest, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2019,
•18th Cinedays, Festival of European Film, Skopje, Macedonia2019,
•5th Newes Sloveniches Kino, Berlin, Germany, 2019,
• 3rd International ACFF, Lac Biwa, Tunisia, 2019,
• 16th Animateka, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019,
•5th Days of Slovenian film, Belgrade, Serbia, 2019,
•3rd International Palm Springs Festival and Expo, Palm Springs, USA, 2019,
• 17th Abuja International Film Festival, Lagos, Nigeria, 2019,
•9th Morbido Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, 2019,
• International animation day, Cinemateque Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019 (BEST DSAF GRADUATION FILM AWARD),
•5th Animation marathon, Athens, Greece, 2019,
•12th Oregon State International Film Festival, Oregon, USA, 2019,
• Italian Kinemax Premiere, Gorizia, Italy, 2019,
•11th K3 Fil Festival, Villach, Austria, 2019 (BEST SHORT FILM AWARD),
•5th Anti-hero production genre fest, Burbank, USA, 2019 (BEST ANIMATED FILM AWARD),
• 18th Festival de cinema estudianti, Rio Grande, Brazil, 2019,
•1st Kolkata Film Festival, Kolkata, India,
•11th Oneota film Festival, Iowa, USA, 2020,
• 10th Watersprite Film Festival, Cambridge, England (BEST EDITING NOMINATION),
• Cinemateque soiree in Ljubljana, Slovenia,
•15th Athens Animfest, Athens, Greece (Special mention – BEST STUDENT ANIMATED FILM),
• 10th MystiCon Independent Film Festival, Roanoke, USA,
• 6th Beeston Film Festival, Nottingham, England (B-OSCAR NOMINATION FOR BEST SOUND DESIGN AND MUSIC),
• Anifilm, Liberec, Czech Republic (CEE Talents compilation).
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NETHERLANDS // Leiden International Short Film Experience (in competition)
ITALY // Life after oil international film festival (in competition)
GERMANY // Kannibal fest (in competition)
SLOVENIA // Sajeta Art and Music Festival (non-competitive festival)
CROATIA // Star Film Fest (in competition)
MACEDONIA // Flipbook film festival (in competition)
SLOVENIA // Kino otok (non-competitive festival)
CROATIA // Student film festival (in competition)
SLOVENIA // FeKK (in competition)
ITALY // Leofanti (Best short film – jury award and audience award)
ECUADOR // Festival Ecuadoriano de Cine Autk (in competition)
ALBANIA // Balkan Film Food Festival (in competition)