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  • A student day at Soho London Independent Short Film Festival, Jan 2025 – a day of screenings, industry panels and networking. https://soholiff.co.uk/ 
  • Three bespoke screenings at PICTUREHOUSE CENTRAL with curated panels for students to understand, Marketing, Festivals and Distributions 2023-2024
  • Invited Samina Kiyani for industry insights on how to side hustle whilst breaking into the Media Industry. This has been made possible through London Higher and  BFI’S Metro London Skills Cluster, supported by the National Lottery Fund. Nov. 2024 
  • Organised a filmmaking bootcamp for all QMUL students to learn on a professional set of a feature film BRIGHTON HOUSE. The film is currently in post and will be screened in September 2025 This has been made possible through London Higher and and BFI’S Metro London Skills Cluster, supported by the National Lottery Fund. 
  • Judge for the Soho London Independent Short Film Festival. https://soholiff.co.uk/ and chairs the Pitching Panel. 

 

  • Juror for the main competition, AFO Festival of Science Documentary Film, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2024
  • Featured in “Filmmakers to Watch” in Cahiers du Cinema, 2023 
  • Constant by Dr Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner included in “The Best Video Essays of 2022”, Sight and Sound magazine, 2022 
  • Interviewed in Senses of Cinema, 2022
  • Interviewed in Filmmaker Magazine, 2022
  • Dr Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner deliver masterclass at CPH:DOX documentary film festival, Denmark, 2022, 2024 
  • Dr Sasha Litvintseva  and Beny Wagner deliver masterclass at Sound Image Culture film development programme, 2023, 2025 
  • Dr Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner present at the Locarno Film Festival Conference, 2025 
  • Jury for ‘Film Practice Award’, British Associate of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) 2020. 
  • Marienbad Film Festival: Curation of the Audiovisual Essay competition (since 2023, with Veronika Hanáková).
  • Artyčok.TV (platform for contemporary art): Curation of video essay collections (since 2024, with Veronika Hanáková).
  • Co-adaptation (with producer Jodie Taylor)  of Autism Plays Itself (2023) for BBC Radio 4’s programme Short Cuts. It featured in the episode In Colour 
  • Hosted workshop on global AV heritage and restitution with film preservation students at Eliás Querejeta Zine Eskola, San Sebastián/Donostia, Spain, May 2025.
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