Costanza Julia Bani

I am Assistant Professor in Film and Media Production at Stockholm University of the Arts and a freelance producer working internationally.

At Stockholm University of the Arts, besides teaching, I have a multidisciplinary research project about light and sound pollution: Circadia – Too Bright and Too Loud. The research supports my vision of contamination between art and science and allows me to deepen my praxis as impact producer to ignite societal change making ends meet from an artist’s / film- maker's, a scientist's and a distributor’s / exhibitor's perspective. The research will be initially developed with KTH and is actively advancing further involving other national and international institutions. It will create a research hub with an own outreach campaign, and a documentary / installation, produced separately with Fellonica Film.

Within my company, the educational institution and as a freelancer I plan to work with sustainable methods and productions in the arts (becoming a green-consultant in 2024). Not only when it comes to contain our impact during the productions, but also proposing content and eco-narratives, stories that deal with the environment.

My seminars include all stages of the realization of an audio-visual production from talent scouting to packaging and pitching to classic and alternative distribution, including legal aspects. My focus in teaching is to open up internationally and eliminate borders to let filmmakers unfold their stories with an international eye.

A paper on my ideas on instructional design, about learning and teaching documentary in the 21st century is part of the CILECT Documentary book.

I have been studying in Italy, UK and Germany – pursuing parallel an academic career and operating as a professional in the film industry, first as a scriptwriter and consultant, later focusing exclusively on production. I have a PhD in film studies, centering on drama-theory and trans-codifications and their relationship to the film industry‘s economics and politics. I have a diploma as a scriptwriter at the dffb (German Film and TV academy in Berlin) and as a creative producer at isff in Berlin (Institut für Schauspiel, Film und Fernsehen).

I am currently producing the feature debuts of Cristina Picchi and Jennifer Rainsford, as well as working on the new films by Erik Gandini, Måns Månsson, Milla Bergh and Nikola Lorenzin, all at different stages of development, production or postproduction.

I have participated in the Robert Bosch Stiftung mentorship programs in Romania and Bosnia-Herzegovina and for the Arab World. I was selected both for the documentary campus and dok-incubator. I am an EAVE graduate 2015, a selected participant of the Cannes producer's network 2104 and 2016, a TFL Alumna and Sundance Grantee 2019, a Circle Women Doc Accelerator partaker 2021.

For further enquires, feel free to contact me at my institutional email address: costanzajulia.bani@uniarts.se.