Nikolaj Nikitin

Nikolaj Nikitin (born 1974), currently Head of Studies of SOFA – School of Film
Advancement and Artistic Director of the Prague International Film Festival is an
internationally established independent Curator, Lecturer and Media Expert.
After heading the film magazine SCHNITT for 15 years, he implemented the very first editing festival FILMPLUS, was18 years the BERLINALE’S foreign delegate, panel member of the LUX price as well as Artistic Director of the European Film Festival Palic and currently of Prague IFF.
Nikitin’s production experience was the highly acclaimed episodic film LOST AND FOUND
(2005), which brought together six very gifted directors (Jasmila Zbanic, Stefan Arsenijevic, Kornel Mundruczo, Cristian Mungiu etc.) who then won the most important festival prices.
Nikolaj also teaches film and cultural management around the world and served on many
international festival and coproduction juries and panels. He lives in Berlin and is member of EFA, FIPRESCI as well as a General Assembly member of CINEUROPA.