2017

Born in 1978 in the border town of Didymoteicho, she grew up in Thessaloniki and studied economics at Bard College and Brandeis University in the United States, and film at the Stavrakos Film School in Athens.

Papadaki works as a professional screenwriter. September, her first feature script, won the International Balkan Fund Script Development Award in 2010, received a Nipkow scholarship in Berlin, and premiered at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (official competition). Rivers is her second feature film script, currently in development.

Aleksandar Bečanović, born in 1971, is a Montenegrin writer, film critic and screenwriter. He is the author of five poetry books, Ulysses’ Distance (1994), Being (1996), The Pantry (1998), Places in the Letter(2001) and Preludes and Fugues (2007); two short story collections, I am Waiting, What Will Happen Next (2005) and Obsession (2009); and a novel, Arcueil (2015).