Tunde Aladese
Nigeria/Germany
Tunde has lived in Berlin since 2015 but has worked as a screenwriter on television series and soap operas from Nigeria, broadcast across sub-Saharan Africa for over 10 years. She served as Head Writer on projects like ‘Tinsel’, Nigeria’s first daily soap, where she ran the team for 4 years, the 6th season of the MTV youth drama series ‘Shuga’, and several telenovelas.
In 2017, she completed a second BA degree in Practical Filmmaking from Met Film School Berlin. She currently serves as co-head writer and co-director on Alone Together, a pandemic-focused season of ‘Shuga’ featuring characters from previous seasons in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Cote d’Ivoire in 7-minute episodes. She is an organizing member of the Women’s Film Network Berlin.
Cornelia Iordache
Romania
Born in Romania in 1984, Cornelia Iordache graduated Creative Writing MA and later worked as an artistic secretary at the German State Theatre in Timisoara. In 2013 she took part in Sarajevo Talent Campus and Adapting for Cinema, a project initiated by Scuola Holden (Italy) in partnership with MOME Budapest and London Film School. Since 2019 she has been a board member of NISI MASA, European Network of Young Cinema.
She focuses on writing for both the stage and the screen, getting involved in national and international projects. Among them, short documentary Iterance (Portugal), surrendered to their senses (Belgium-Luxembourg) choreography project Everything is New (Romania). She is currently developing her first feature film screenplay for a young audience.
Luke Eve
Australia
Luke is a graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School. Soon after, he established his own production company, More Sauce, and went on to direct a number of short films including multi-award winner Cockroach, and Australian Summer. In 2010 he began directing television such as Dave in The Life, SEX: An Unnatural History and the landmark documentary series Great Southern Land. In 2014 Luke created, produced and directed the online series, Low Life. It won over 25 major festival awards and was sold to Amazon Prime and CanalPlay.
In 2017 he completed directing and producing the follow up series, High Life,
Executive Produced by Stephen Fry and stars Odessa Young with music by Sarah Blasko. The series has won 32 major awards including Best Digital Original at C21 Content London and was also nominated for an AACTA Award. It took out the Web Series World Cup for 2017 for being the most awarded and successful web series of the year. The series has sold to BBC3, Channel 9, CanalPlay and Fullscreen. Luke is currently producing a series, CANCELLED, one of the first mulit-national projects created during the worldwide lockdown of 2020. And he just completed production on his first feature film, I Met A Girl, starring Brenton Thwaites and Lily Sullivan. The film is scheduled for release in 2021 through AMP Worldwide.