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Alena

Alena

Shumakova

working as Consultant for Est Europa film selection at several film festivals. She started in 2002 at AlpeAdria Film Festival and Scienceplusfiction in Trieste, Italy. From 2004 to 2011 she wasCorrispondent for Eastern Europe for Venice IFF and from 2012 to 2015 film selector at Rome IFF.She is also an ajunct professor at MIREES, Bologna State University. From 2016 she has worked atBeijing IFF, Silk Road (Fuzhou) IFF, Macao IFF, Pingyao IFF. During 2002-2018, shehas also curated different retrospective of the films belonging to the former Soviet area for VeniceBiennale Cinema, Locarno IFF, Lisbona and Estoril FF. She has taken part in various juries for thecinema of her area.