About

About

After her master degree in English, Slavic Languages and Geography at the TU Dresden, Alina completed her double master in Media Art at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Tongji University Shanghai focusing on documentary and experimental film. Her films have been shown and awarded across the world at international film festivals as well as at art exhibitions. In her work, she uses different media formats, technical approaches and narratives. Alina has served on juries of various film festivals and has taught directing and story telling at institutions and workshops around Europe.

Alina is member of the board at the Filmverband Sachsen, since 2019 she has been a jury member at the German Film Rating Comission in Wiesbaden. She also works as a curator for film programs, conducts different film workshops and serves as a jury at diverse festivals. She also commissions works in cultural, social and science sectors. She lives and works as a producer and director in Leipzig, Germany.

Exhibitions

2019

Bauhaus Studio 100, Gaswerk Weimar

2015

»Ausgewählt!« Stipendiatenausstellung der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

2013

STREET LIFE, Online Ausstellung, cold bench gallery
wherever you are, VKUNST Galerie, Frankfurt/Main

2012

Speisen der Welt, Volkshochschule Leipzig
»extra« experimental trails, galerie KUB, Leipzig
THE CLASSROOM, Online Ausstellung, cold bench gallery

2011

Happy Happy, Historischer Ratsherrensaal, Weimar
Enter the Threshold, Alter Katholikenbahnhof, Bochum
Bauhaus Now!, Ukrainian Institute of Contemporary Art, Chicago / USA
Neue Horizonte, Kunstturm Weimar
Lisztomania!, Kunstfest Weimar

2010

First Impressions Outgoing, Bauhaus Universitätsbibliothek, Weimar
TanzMedienAkademie, Kunstfest Weimar
summaery Medienrolle, Weimar
International Women Artists Exhibition, QiSheng Museum, Chengdu / China
100206 Artists’ Exhibition, Don Gallery, Shanghai / China

2009

She’s Vision International Contemporary Female Artists Exhibition, Jiangshan Art Museum, Chongqing / China

Awards

2018

Jury Award Best Animation at FILMthuer for I ♥ my carL

2016

Best Doc Award at the Social Machinery Film Festival in Salerno, Italy, for fading
Best in Show Award at the Chicago Feminist Film Festival for Farewell Scenes
Scholarship from the Kulturstiftung des Freistaats Sachsen für Einen Sack voll guter Wünsche (WT)

2015

Jury Award at the FERFILM International Film Festival in Ferizaj, Kosovo, for Farewell Scenes

Special Mention at the KURZSUECHTIG Festival for Farewell Scenes

Jury Award at the Bamberger Kurzfilmtage for Farewell Scenes

2014

Special Mention at the FILMZ Festival des deutschen Kinos for the Treatment Heaps of Love

Scholarship from the German Institute for Animated Film (DIAF) for I ♥ my carL

Jury Award at the Bundesfestival Video for Family Dinner

2013

Audience Award at the Schmalfilmtage Dresden for TelH78

2012

Jury Award and Audience Award at the Filmforum Selbstgedrehtes for fractured

2011

Jury Award at the Klotzsche Filmherbst for La Déesse

2010

First Prize from Surigao Photo Club in Behind the Scene Photo Competition

Award from the Bauhaus Frauenförderfonds for Lucky Punch

Jury Award at the Procinema Festival in Lodz (Polen) for Oddzwiek / Resonances

2009

Grand Award The Golden Beggar at the International Festival of Local Televisions (Slovakia) for Oddzwiek / Resonances

Jury Award at the Klotzsche Filmherbst for Brachycera

2008

DAAD-Scholarship for the Double-Master-Program Integrated International Media Art and Design Studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Tongji University Shanghai

Filmfest Dresden wellenreiter-Award for the Treatment of Rendezvous

Jury and Audience Award at the Klotzsche Filmherbst for my visit

2007

Scholarship from the TU Dresden for the Belmont University in Nashville / USA