People

Tina Lešničar

Slovenia

Biography

Tina Lešničar’s professional career started in journalism. She has been writing for “Delo” – the main Slovenian daily newspaper – about films, music, urban culture and cultural policies for 15 years. As a reporter and film critic she covered national and international festivals such as Sarajevo Film Festival, Berlinale, Tribeca and many more. Then she joined production house Propeler, first as a production assistant and later she worked in the film development department, where she was able to grasp the art of film not just in theory but also from the practical point of view. This experience helped her in developing her own project. She wrote, co-directed and promoted the feature documentary TIME TO IMPROVISE, about the young Slovenian jazz generation. The film had a long span in the art-house cinema circuit in Slovenia and was shown and awarded at several foreign festivals in Austria, Macedonia and Croatia, with special screenings in New York and Washington D.C. introduced by the European Union National Institutes for Culture. Her latest goal is to bring Slovenian film creativity to another level in the public eye under the roof of Slovenian Film Center.

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