Alexandra Maria ColtaTalent Development & Distribution

Alexandra joined the SDI team in 2019 to work on the distribution strategy for the films produced through the Bridging the Gap programme. Since then, she continued to be involved in the organisation’s flagship programmes like BTG, New Voices, Stories as well as the public-facing series of events and masterclasses.

Before joining SDI, Alexandra worked in various curation and production roles, including as Festival Producer for Document Human Rights Film Festival in Glasgow, as programmer for the Glasgow Refugee Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNet) Film Series, as intern/researcher at Tern TV in Glasgow and as Production and Distribution Assistant at Alien Film in Romania. She also occasionally teaches curation and distribution for film studies students.

Alexandra holds a BA degree in Journalism and Communication, specialising in Advertising. Her MA studies at Humboldt University in Berlin focused on media and cultural management in the British context. In 2019, Alexandra obtained her PhD from the University of Glasgow, for her collaborative practice-oriented research on the politics of programming human rights film festivals. She is passionate about the creative potential of the documentary form, and is eager to support filmmakers at different stages of their career, and to grow audiences around short and feature documentaries.

Alexandra is a board member of Document Human Rights Film Festival and an alumna of the EAVE Marketing Workshop and Transylvania Talent Lab (part of TIFF Romania).