Dea Gjinovci is a Swiss-Albanian director/producer with a background in economics and anthropology. She is a 2019 Sundance Talent Forum alumna and a 2019 Film Independent Fellow. Her documentary short Sans le Kosovo (2017) screened at several international festivals and won Best National Film at Dokufest International Film Festival. Her debut feature-length documentary, Wake Up on Mars (2020), received support from the Sundance Film Institute and Ford Foundation JustFilms, and won the “Perspectives d’un doc” pitch award at Visions du Réel 2018. In June 2018, she co-founded Amok Films with fellow filmmaker Antoine Goldet, in Paris.