AVFRI Talent Network

The AVFRI Talent Network is an international directory connecting emerging and established artists and creative professionals across borders. Created to encourage collaboration, exchange, and new artistic partnerships, the network brings together filmmakers, actors, writers, visual artists, musicians, photographers, and other creative talents whose work has been discovered through AVFRI and the Lisboeta International Short Film Festival (LISFF).

Kiana Tajammol

Director, Actress, Visual Artist

Kiana Tajammol is an Iranian actress, director, and visual artist.

Mateusz Chrystian Gołębiewski

Cinematographer

As cinematographer I worked on many challenging projects across the globe including documentaries, shorts, and feature films.

Hamdi Elhusseini

Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Hamdi Elhusseini is a Palestinian documentary filmmaker, director, and producer based in Gaza

Polina Biliaieva

Director

Polina Biliaieva graduated with a degree in directing from the Kharkiv Academy of Culture and is currently studying directing at the Warsaw Film School.

Anne Thorens

Director, Screenwriter, Actress

Anne found herself on stage at a very young age with the Broadway company, which immediately immersed her in the professional world of theater.

Mahshad Jalalian

Documentary filmmaker, Photographer, Translator

Mahshad Jalalian, a 35-year-old translator and photojournalist, has spent her life dedicated to the art of storytelling.

Deniz Arora

Actor, Director

Deniz Arora is a Berlin based actor and director working in film and television.

Alexander Machlouzarides-Shalit

Writer, Director, Cinematographer

Alexander Machlouzarides-Shalit is an award-winning Cypriot writer and director, born in New York in 1996 and raised in Cyprus from 2006.

Kamyar Vazir

Director, Content Creator, Graphic Designer

Born in Tehran, Iran, Kamyar Vazir is a director, producer, and writer who earned his degree in Film and Media Studies from Columbia University, with additional focus in business, management, and sociology.