ABOUT US
SVEMIRKO FILM and AUDIOVISUAL ART PRODUCTIONS
Svemirko Film and Audiovisual Art Productions was co-founded in 2019 by Venice Atienza (Philippines) and Fan Wu (Taiwan) with the aim to bring to life stories of invisible universes. The word ‘’Svemirko” originates from the former Yugoslavian region. It translates to “dear little universe” or “a person from the cosmos” in English.
Their films have been screened at the Berlinale, Busan International Film Festival, Golden Horse, IDFA – International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Visions Du Réel, and HotDocs to name a few.
Fan Wu’s film XiXi won the Emerging International Filmmaker Award at HotDocs 2024. It was granted the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund 2022, Asian Cinema Fund – Asian Network Documentary Fund 2024, and the National Documentary Production Fund (Taiwan) in 2019. In 2020, the project won Development Prize for the Best Female Director at Dok Leipzig’s Dok Industry. XiXi is also part of Circle Women Doc Accelarator.
The film Last Days at Sea, which premiered at the 71st Berlinale – Generation. It was screened in Visions du Réel, HotDocs, and IDFA – International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam. The film was awarded the IDFA Bertha fund Classic in 2019. The film also won awards at DMZ Rough Cut Presentation and Visions du Réel Rough Cut Lab. In parallel, we are alumnae of IDFA Academy and are members of the Documentary Association of Europe.
Fan WU (1991, Taiwan) is a writer, director and producer for documentaries and audiovisual art. In her works, she has a personal care for human agency and freedom of choice.
She is an alumna of CIRCLE – Women Doc Accelerator, Rotterdam Lab, IDFAcademy, and European MFA program DocNomads. She co-founded SVEMIRKO FILM with Filipino filmmaker Venice Atienza.
Their first production LAST DAYS AT SEA, directed by Venice ATIENZA, premiered in 71st Berlinale and was selected for Visions du Reel 2021 and Hot Docs 2021. She is directing her first feature, “XiXi”, which is supported by the Sundance Institute. The film was awarded the Development Prize for the Best Female Director from the Saxon State Minister for the Arts in DOK Leipzig 2020, and is showcased in Cannes Doc 2021. She is a member of DAE- Documentary Association of Europe.
Venice De Castro Atienza’s directing, cinematographic, and production practice focuses on personal and societal transformations manifesting in everyday life.
After graduating from the DocNomads Erasmus Mundus Program she longed to bring to life stories of invisible universes. This led her and Taiwanese director, Fan Wu to build Svemirko Film and Audiovisual Art Productions.
Her first feature film, “Last Days at Sea” is supported by the IDFA Bertha Fund. It premiered at the 71st Berlinale – Generation KPlus, Visions du Réel 2021, Hot Docs and IDFA – International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam.
She is produced Taiwanese film director Fan WU’s documentary entitled “XiXi”. The film is supported by the Sundance Institute, Asian Cinema Fund – Asian Network of Documentary Fund. The film screened in Busan International Film Festival, Taipei Golden Horse Festival, Taipei Film Festival to name a few. It won awards in HotDocs, and Women Film Festival in Taiwan.
She was part of the International Jury of the 73rd Berlinale – Generation KPlus 2023 and the UNICEF Innocenti Film Festival 2021. She’s also served as a reader for the HotDocs Crosscurrents Fund.
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