Nikolaj Nikitin
Nikolaj Nikitin

Nikolaj Nikitin (born 1974), currently Head of Studies of SOFA – School of Film Advancement and Artistic Director of LAKE DANCE and the Prague International Film Festival is an internationally established independent Curator, Lecturer and Media Expert. After heading the film magazine SCHNITT for 15 years, he implemented the very first editing festival FILMPLUS, was18 years the BERLINALE’S foreign delegate, panel member of the LUX price as well as Artistic Director of the European Film Festival Palic.
Nikitin’s production experience was the highly acclaimed episodic film LOST AND FOUND (2005), which brought together six very gifted directors (Jasmila Zbanic, Stefan Arsenijevic, Kornel Mundruczo, Cristian Mungiu etc.) who then won the most important festival prices.
Nikolaj also teaches film and cultural management around the world and served on many international festival and coproduction juries and panels. He lives in Berlin and is member of EFA, FIPRESCI as well as a General Assembly member of CINEUROPA.

SOFA – School of Film Advancement invites young film agents for a workshop training to Warsaw (Poland), Tbilisi (Georgia) and Vilnius (Lithuania). The program’s special quality is its unique target group: SOFA is looking for professionals with previous experience in cultural management from Central or Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the republics of South Caucasus, Greece, Israel, Germany, or the MENA region. SOFA doesn’t aim to educate film directors or producers. We support culture promoters, mediators and catalyzers with unique film/cinema project ideas for the local and international audience in their country of origin – in all possible creative shapes.

SOFA helps its participants to make their innovative »dream project« come true and – at the same time – develops regional film culture and industry.

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