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Alternativa
Film Project

An international non-profit initiative that supports and promotes filmmakers from developing industries. Our mission is to give greater international visibility to filmmakers whose work has potential to bring social change. We aim to boost the development of local film industries and communities.

We are a nomadic project. We launched in September 2023 in Central Asia and plan to gradually expand our geographic footprint. In 2024 we define Southeast Asia as our focus region.

The project is funded by inDrive, a global technology company, and marks an important milestone in a long line of company initiatives to challenge systematic injustice and provide social elevators to underserved communities.

OUR MISSION

To strengthen the ties between cinema and social change.
To find brave new voices and amplify them on a global scale.
To support filmmakers who need it most by providing resources and networking within the international community.

OUR VALUES

Courage

We dare people to follow a path of their own.

Empowerment

We support local communities by giving them a voice in the film industry.

Cooperation

We foster respectful dialogue and collaboration within the industry and among different cultures.

Openness and transparency

We are transparent about our work and encourage others to do the same.

Inclusiveness

We provide equal opportunities and strive to eliminate discrimination.

Social impact

We promote positive social change through the films and authors we support.

Involvement

We look for engaged cinema that speaks to a wide audience worldwide.

ABOUT inDRIVE

inDrive is an international technology company that provides transport and household services in over 40 countries. The mission of inDrive is to contribute to the fight against injustice and inequality worldwide and support local communities by offering fair business models, access to new opportunities and social elevators. inDrive works both in business and through inVision, which unites the international non-profit initiatives of InDrive.

For several years, inDrive supported cinema in its home region – Yakutia. The films that received inDrive’s grants were successful at festivals and at the box office.

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‘Cinema is a very powerful tool which makes it possible to communicate important ideas to society and draw attention to local and global issues’.

Arsen Tomsky

inDrive CEO and Founder

OUR TEAM

Liza Surganova

Head of Alternativa Film Project

Alyona Bocharova

Head of Alternativa Film Awards

Anna Gudkova

Head of Alternativa Film Labs

ALTERNATIVA FILM AWARDS TEAM

Natalya Pylaeva

Program director, Beat Agency

Mandy Marahimin

Producer/Impact producer

Kiunnei Filippova

Program coordinator, Beat Agency

Nikita Korovin

General producer of the Awards ceremony, Beat Agency

Polina Vedenyapina

Creative director of the Awards ceremony, Beat Agency

Beat Agency, an international cinema events agency and spinoff of Beat Film Festival, participated in the development of the award

ALTERNATIVA FILM LABS TEAM

Irina Reger

Producer

Diana Osmanova

Coordinator

Communications

Andjelka Jankovic

Head of Marketing Communications

Julia Boykova

Сommunication Manager

Andrey Manuylov

Promotion producer in Central Asia

Nadya Gayatri

Parternship manager in Southeast Asia

Mikhail Shapir

SMM manager

Dima Maevskiy

SMM manager

Nastya Shikina

Video producer

Ksenia Samarina

Editor

Operations

Polina Ovsiannikova

Executive Producer

Masha Shcherbakova

Impact & Community Manager

Nadezhda Gabdullina

coordinator

Advisory Board

Experts from various fields of the film industry from around the world who help the team develop the project's growth strategy.

Matthieu Darras

Gita Saedi Kiely

Margje de Koning

Gugi Gumilang

Gulnara Abikeyeva

OUR PARTNERS

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Matthieu Darras

France

As founder and director of Tatino Films, Matthieu leads several programs of film and talent development and consultancy, active worldwide: The First Cut Lab, the Pop Up Film Residency, and the Full Circle Lab

Previously, he founded and directed the European Network of Young Cinema NISI MASA, wrote for the film magazine Positif, and was the artistic director of the TorinoFilmLab. Matthieu worked for major film festivals in Europe: as member of the feature film selection committee for La Semaine de la Critique, as consultant for the Venice Film Festival, and as delegate for the San Sebastian Film Festival. He has also held the position of Artistic Director of Bratislava Film Festival.

Gita Saedi Kiely

USA

Gita is director of FilmAid, a non-profit humanitarian organization that uses film and other media to bring life-saving information, psychological relief, and hope to refugees and other communities in need.

She joined FilmAid after decades of producing, programming and raising funds for documentary films. She spent many years with Kartemquin Films, a Chicago-based film collaborative that empowers documentary makers who create stories that foster a more engaged and just society. At Kartemquin, she produced the acclaimed series The New Americans, a multi-part PBS series following immigrants and refugees from across the world through their first years in the US. Gita also served as executive director of the Big Sky Film Institute and the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, where she led thematic programming around Indigenous storytelling, youth programming and environmental justice.

Margje de Koning

The Netherlands

Artistic director of the Movies that Matter festival

Margje de Koning directed and produced all sorts of documentaries. She also taught Culture & Media Studies at the Film & Television department at the University of Amsterdam. For almost 15 years, she held programming positions at Dutch broadcasting companies, consistently supporting documentary films. In 2006, she founded the international festival Movies that Matter, dedicated to films about human rights and social issues.

Gugi Gumilang

Indonesia

Executive Director at In-Docs, a non-profit organisation that organised Docs by the Sea and Good Pitch Indonesia

Over the years, Gugi has been actively involved in social, arts and culture management in various different countries. He graduated with Master degree in Global Studies from Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales FLACSO Buenos Aires, Argentina and University of Chulalongkorn, Thailand. He splits his residence between Berlin and Jakarta.

Gulnara Abikeyeva

Kazakhstan

Film scholar, President of the Association of Film Critics of Kazakhstan, board member of the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (NETPAC)

Gulnara has participated as a jury member at Berlinale and other prestigious film festivals, and served as the artistic director of the Eurasia International Film Festival in Almaty from 2005 to 2013. Among her books on Central Asian cinema are Cinema in Central Asia: Rewriting Cultural Histories, published in the United Kingdom; and The Unknown New Wave of Central Asian Cinema, published in South Korea. She holds a doctorate in Art History and is a recipient of the French l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.