rada šešić, the netherlands
DOC WORKSHOP 2025 – LECTURER & TUTOR

doc workshop 2024 – LECTURER & TUTOR
doc workshop 2023 / 2022 – LECTURER & TUTOR

Festival programmer, film lecturer, film director. Born in Croatia, lives in The Netherlands. Head of the Documentary Competition at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Programmer of the Documentary Competition at Trieste Film Festival. 15 years ago, started and still co-heads the Docu Rough Cut Boutique platform with three sessions and at WEMW at Trieste leads for 11 years Last Stop Trieste for documentary projects in the fine-cut stage. Takes part in the selection of the DOHA film fund.

From 2001-to 2023, collaborated with IDFAmsterdam in different capacities: selecting projects in the IDFA fund, preselecting films, and later on, selecting the competition program and coordinator of all IDFA juries.

As a program advisor, Rada worked for IFFRotterdam from 2000-2020 on selecting South Asian cinema and curating films from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.

Was a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam for seven years, first at the Film and Television Science faculty and later at Media and Culture. For almost a decade, she was a mentor at the Master of Film in Amsterdam, where she is now a lecturer/consultant.

At several workshops internationally, Rada was mentor/consultant – Doc Edge Kolkata, Wok Doc New Delhi, Vision du Reel Rough Cut Lab, Doc o Go and Doc to Start, Poland, Balkan Discoveries Bulgaria, Doc at Work, Florence, Al Jazeera Doc Industry Days.

From 2008 – 2023, she was artistic director of Eastern Neighbours FF in The Hague, founded by her and two other colleagues.

Directed several dox and short films on 16mm, 35mm, analogue and digital media (Lam Arabi, Room Without a View, Soske, In Whitest Solitude, On the Way to School) screened (and awarded) at around 60 film festivals in Europe, Asia, the USA, including MoMa in New York. Served on more than 50 juries around the world. Member of NETPAC and European Film Academy, where she was a selector and a juror of documentaries for three years.

Collaborated on books on cinema in the USA, the UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and India a.o. Cinema of Flames by Dina Iordanova.

Rada visited India more than 50 times and lived there while teaching at the Sristi, Bangalore in 2008 and 2010. One of the founders and the main programmer of the DOKU Art Festival in Bjelovar/Croatia.