Professional activities:
- Special guest at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival as one of 20 prominent European filmmakers invited to celebrate "20 years of the MEDIA program"
- Member of European Film Academy (EFA)
- Board Member of the European Documentary Network (EDN) (until end of 2004)
- Board Member of the Association Filmautor
- Chairperson of the Jury for Documentary Cinema at the Sarajevo Festival Film - 2007
- Member of the jury for documentaries of the European Film Academy - 2008
- Chairperson of the Jury for Documentary Film at Sofia Film Festival - 2009
- Member of the Jury at the International Film Festival in Mumbai, India - 2012
- Member of the Ecumenical Jury at the festivals in Cannes, Berlin, Locarno
- Expert in the workshops of the program EAVE in Oulu, Finland - 2004 and the forum "Encounter between the East and the West" in Utrecht - 2004
- Participant in the Congress of the producers of historical films, Toronto -2004
- Visiting member of the INPUT Conference 2005, San Francisco - 2005
- National Program Coordinator of INPUT for Bulgaria.
- Lecturer at a specialized seminar for filmmakers in Dublin, Ireland - 2007
- Lecturer at the seminar "Financing of a documentary" in Gorizia, Italy - 2009
- Guest lecturer at the Universities of Oklahoma and Loyola, New Orleans - 2009
- Visiting professor at Southwest University - Blagoevgrad (until 2010)
Education:
Academy of Film, Theatre and TV in BelgradeMajor: Film and TV Directing
Courses and Seminars
- Master class in documentary filmmaking - Eurodoc - 1998
- "Religion and Human Rights in the media" - Columbia University, New York - 1999
- Master Class of Discovery Campus - 2004
Until 1990:
She worked as director of television channels in former Yugoslavia. Later, as director in the Studio for documentaries "Vreme" she made more than 50 documentaries and in the Boyana film studio – her feature film “The Neighbor”
Some of her films from this period were banned by the Socialist authorities. These were "Mothers" - Silver Rhyton award, and "In the name of sport" - Critics Award of the National Non-Feaature Film Festival "Golden Rhyton" in Plovdiv
After 1991:
She established her own production house "Adela Media", creating so far more than 30 documentaries in collaboration with partners from Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden and Turkey as well as the TV channels ZDF / ARTE, RBB / ARTE, RTBF, WDR, YLE/TV1, TV-Facta, Synevizion Film. She works actively with and is supported by the programs Eurimages, Media Plus Programme, Programme MEDIA, Foundation KulturKontakt Austria, Jan Vrijman Fund and the SOROS Documentary Fund.