Štefánia

is a Slovak writer – director currently based in London.

Growing up surrounded by technology and cameras being used and content shared every day shaped the way she thinks about film characters, especially how they interact with their own devices. As a director, she is interested in developing a new film language that explores cameras operated by the characters themselves and what these perspectives reveal about them.

Her work often focuses on coming-of-age stories, which she believes capture the hardest and most transformative period of one’s life. Through the lens of her characters’ own cameras, she portrays the loneliness, isolation, and frustration of youth in an original and intimate way.

Previously, she has worked as a writer and 1st AD for television, and has directed music videos and short films. She studied film directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and is currently continuing her studies at the NFTS in London. Her films have screened at international festivals, including Oscar- and BAFTA-qualifying ones.

Her short Venus in Retrograde, which premiered in Uppsala, was theatrically released in Slovakia as an opening short for the American comedy-drama Sorry, Baby.

She is currently developing her first original TV show and her debut feature film.