Tonia Mishiali is a director/producer, member of the European Film Academy and the Hellenic Film Academy, Oxbelly fellow and Berlinale Talents alumna. She has acted as creative advisor at Rawi Screenwriters Lab and juror at the film festivals of Karlovy Vary, Thessaloniki and Tirana among others. Her films have been presented at major markets (TFL Midpoint, FFF, coco, Sofia Meetings, Meetings on the Bridge, European Genre Forum, Eastern Promises, Euroconnection) and selected at prestigious festivals including Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Cairo, Palm Springs, Clermont Ferrand, Cinemed Montpellier, PÖFF, Seattle, Cork, Transilvania, Sofia, Santa Barbara, and Sydney at which she was presented as 1 of Europe’s 10 most outstanding women directors. Her film PAUSE was awarded the FIPRESCI among others and received rave reviews from THR and LA Times, while it was listed 1 of “20 most daring films of 2019” by Rotten Tomatoes. Its screenplay is listed in the core collection of the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It was released theatrically in the USA and Europe, and streamed on Amazon Prime and HBO Europe. She is now developing several projects under her production label Bark Like A Cat Films, including two feature films that she will direct.