Ananda Scepka

Head of Open Doors, Co-production Lab, Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland)

Ananda Scepka is Head of Open Doors, the Festival del film Locarno’s Co-production Lab. Born in Switzerland, she graduated in philosophy and history in Paris, where she was in charge of the Cinema programme at the Heinrich Heine Cultural Center for two years. In 2006 she moved to Tel Aviv, where she ran the Very Short Film Festival for three years. During the same time she started a partnership with Future Shorts, the London-based short film label and collaborated with CoPro, the Israeli Documentary Screen Market. In 2009 she joined the Festival del film Locarno.