Our Team
Ilja Stenberg
Project Manager
Ilja Stenberg joined B2B Doc in the Fall of 2021 and is working as a Project Manager since 2024. She is the former Head of Doc Lounge Stockholm and has been running a boutique hotel in Tbilisi, Georgia.
With a background in visual arts and sculpture, Ilja has a Bachelor degree in Culture Science from Stockholm University, with focus on Film and Project Management. She has been exploring various roles in the documentary industry, working with outreach, television productions and various film festivals, most recent being the Communications Manager of Nordisk Panorama Film Festival. Ilja is a project manager by nature, passionate about creating connections between people and driven by the love for documentary film.
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.
Heleen Gerritsen
Heleen studied Slavonic languages and economics in Amsterdam and St. Petersburg. She moved to Germany in 2003, where she completed a course in film production, and started freelancing as a documentary producer for various companies and broadcasters such as ARTE, ZDF, VPRO and SWR. Apart from that Heleen has curated film programmes (including for the Berlin international literature festival) and worked as a freelancer in world sales for documentaries.
In 2009 Heleen produced her first feature-length documentary and founded her own production company Serious Directions. From 2014 to 2016 she was festival director of the dokumentART european documentary film festival in Neubrandenburg. Since October 2017 Heleen has been at the helm of the goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, which is organised by the German Film Institute (DFF).
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.
Irina Gelashvili
Irina Gelashvili is the founder and producer of Radium Films, a production company uniting a group of talented individuals from Caucasus. Based in Tbilisi, she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the Georgian Theater and Film University.
Her journey has taken her to acclaimed markets and festivals like IDFA, CPH: DOX, Doc Lisboa, BelDocs, AJB, and more, where she pitched projects. Irina is dedicated to professional growth, participating in programs such as the B2B Doc, the Cinedoc mentorship, the Eave Change program in 2023, and EuroDoc 2023.
With her vast experience and unwavering dedication, Irina continues to leave a significant mark in the world of Georgian and Caucasian filmmaking.
Viktor Nordenskiöld
Viktor Nordenskiöld is an award winning Swedish director, producer and international news journalist. He has since 2001 made films for Swedish TV, his short Out of This World premiered at Berlinale (2014), his first released feature The Feminister premiered at CPH DOX (2019), the second Behind The Swedish Model at GIFF Gothenburg Film Festival and CPH:DOX (2022), and third Hemligheten at Tempo FF (2023).
He has a Master of Arts (MA) from Stockholm University of the Dramatic Arts (2017) and a Bachelor (BJ) in Journalism from The Netherlands and Denmark (1994).
He has been a Member of the Artistic Commission for Film at The Swedish Arts Grants Committee (2020-2023), also works with international TV-news and has been with B2B since 2014.
Natalia Imaz
Born in Spain but established in Germany since the late 90s, Natalia (she/her) holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication and boasts 25+ years of experience in film & TV. Today, Natalia focuses on international documentaries at the intersection of history, self-narration and social cartography.
Under her own label, parabellum film, Natalia works with a special interest on women filmmakers, first-time directors, and personal storytelling. Embracing 'small stories' and their interplay with broader sociopolitical contexts, her slate as creative producer often explores themes of identity, migration, memory, feminism and family dynamics. Currently, Natalia is involved in various projects helmed by women directors from countries including Turkey, Venezuela, Uganda, Moldova, India, the Dominican Republic, Georgia and more.
In addition to being a producer, Natalia also contributes to the documentary landscape in other capacities. As a freelance consultant, she has also acted as a jury member at international festivals as well as as a fund reviewer and pitch pre-selector, facilitating workshops and mentoring filmmaker delegations, moderating and curating industry sessions and panels, or speaking at different events A proud member of EWA – European Women’s Audiovisual Network, NdM – Neue deutsche Medienmacher*innen (New German Media Makers) and DAE - Documentary Association of Europe. Since November 2022 Natalia also serves in the executive board of DAE.