Our Team
Ilja Stenberg
Project Manager
Ilja Stenberg joined B2B Doc in the Fall of 2021 and is in charge of the B2B Doc projects, and communication.
She is the former Communication Manager of Nordisk Panorama and Head of Doc Lounge Stockholm. Ilja is a project manager by nature, driven by the love of creating connections between people. She has been working with outreach for documentary film, various roles at various film festivals and for the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company. Ilja has also been running a hotel in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Anastasia Kirillova
Head of Talent
Anastasia Kirillova is an award winning international documentary filmmaker specializing in emotionally charged storytelling with a strong cinematic imprint.
Her documentaries have been screened at major film festivals around the world, with her latest film, Sleepers’ Beat, winning the Sheffield Doc/Fest Award for Best Documentary.
Of Russian-Swedish heritage, she trained as a director at the Royal College of Art in London. The UK, which subsequently became her second home, is where she also forged her film career - not only as a director – but also a creative force in film development. Specialized in writing and pitching film projects, she has an extensive track record of developing directors’ treatments and winning commissions alongside a wide range of established directors of fiction and documentary.
The Board
Monika Franczak
Chairperson
Monika is not afraid of any kind film job: she writes fiction, TV series, consults documentaries and animations. While 7 months pregnant she worked as an assistant director for the first feature movie she had written, so you may easily call her really devoted to the cinema. As a consultant and screenwriter, she cooperated with the biggest Polish film production houses (Alvernia Studios and Platige Image) as well as with foreign ones (Film.UA Group - Ukraine). However even working for big shots she has a soft spot for the independent cinema and develops feature and documentary screenplays with producers and directors from that part of the movie business.
Gunnar Andersson
Vice Chairperson
Gunnar joined the board of Baltic to Black Sea Documentary Network in 2021. He is a development cooperation professional with over two decades working experience of public administration, democracy and human rights programmes in Asia, Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe. Gunnar has also served on the Boards of several significant Swedish civil society organisations.
Brigid O’Shea
Brigid O’Shea has lived and worked in Germany and Europe since 2005. She started her career at the Berlin International Film Festival, where she worked for various departments including Berlinale Talents, Berlinale Co-Production Market and the EFM. She was the coordinator of the DOK Industry Programme from 2010 and was appointed head of DOK Industry in late 2014. She left this post in 2021 to establish the Documentary Association of Europe, to usher in a new generation of professionals and advocate on a pan-European level for documentary filmmakers. She has previously freelanced for many documentary institutions in Europe and also for production companies. She tutors across the globe on international co-financing and pitching as well as festival strategies and cultural management. She moderates and curates discussions and programmes on non-fiction filmmaking as an internationally-respected consultant with a wide and diverse network. Currently she serves on the advisory boards of B2B Doc and DMZ Docs.
Malcolm Dixelius
Malcolm is a restless, creative person who loves good stories with an international reach. He draws from a long career that covers twenty odd years of journalism, half of that time spent in the Soviet Union and Russia as a correspondent for Swedish Radio and Television; then twenty five years of documentary filmmaking and TV production for the Swedish and international market in a variety of genres – all of that mixed up with writing, translations, lecturing, editing, tutoring and mentoring.
Malcolm thinks of himself as a master of learning from mistakes. He made so many of them in his first ten years of being a filmmaker that his first international success (“CCCP Hockey”) came as an unexpected surprise. After that he has won international awards as a producer for Homeward Bound, A Bitter Taste of Freedom and Women with Cows. Lately he is less engaged in production and more occupied with helping other people make fewer mistakes, or even turn mistakes into successful projects.
Viktor Nordenskiöld
Viktor Nordenskiöld Director / Producer / Editor of 10+ documentaries; current feature THE FEMINISTER, award-winning short OUT OF THIS WORLD (Berlinale selection), National Geographic series MISSION: SAVE THE OCEAN. Before setting off on his own focusing on documentaries, he worked many years as a foreign news reporter at Swedish Television. He has filmed in some fifty countries around the world and is specially interested in identity, international relations, human rights and xenophobia. Seven years ago, he founded the production company FreetownFilms. Studied journalism (BJ) in Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. Master of Arts degree (MA) at the Stockholm University of the Dramatic Arts.