Costanza Julia Bani

Costanza Julia Bani is a German-Italian filmmaker and academic working internationally. She is Associate Professor in Film and Media production at the Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) and Researcher at the Division for Media Technology and Interaction Design at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).

Beside teaching, she has artistic research and multimedia projects focusing on environmental issues and the redefinition of the role of the producer as a full-fledged artist.

In her vision the contamination and interactions between arts, sciences, creative technologies, immersivity, stakeholders and policymakers are necessary and allow her to deepen her praxis as an impact producer to favour societal change making ends meet from an artist’s, scientist’s and a distributor’s / exhibitor’s perspective together with investor’s and governmental interests. 

In her role as Researcher at KTH, she develops both some of her artistic research and audio-visual projects and NAVET's international network. She fundraises to create innovative research hubs: international programs bridging arts, sciences and creative technologies to society.

Her work involves national and international institutions and aims to expand documentary formats and create installations for uncommon venues and exhibition spaces, that will be produced separately with Fellonica Film. Fellonica Film has several projects in the field of eco-narratives and climate related issue driven films: https://www.fellonicafilm.com/projects

All projects have the aim to be not only distributed but become a tool and vehicle to link the communities involved and their stakeholders to legislative bodies and consider the issues depicted and “co-habited” from a different perspective and help understand the collective needs and wishes of the environment and territory. Her motto is from world-making to place-making to law-making. Creating worlds through artistic practice to facilitate processes that lead to new laws.

She’s an EAVE graduate, Cannes producer's network participant, a TFL Alumna, Sundance Grantee and Circle Doc Accelerator partaker. She’s been working with directors like Cristina Picchi and Jennifer Rainsford, as well as with Erik Gandini, Yasmin van Dorp and Nikola Lorenzin. Recent productions include: Darkness Matters (flatscreen and installation, 2024 and fulldome + VR version released in summer 2026); After Work - Erik Gandini (premiere in competition CPH:DOX 2023, as associate); Heart of an Astronaut - Jennifer Rainsford (premiere in competition Visions du Reel 2023); All of Our Hearts are connected through Exploding Stars - Jennifer Rainsford (premiere Visions du Reel 2022, as associate); Duduk - Eva Volkmann (aka Bitter Apricot 2019); Little Black Dress - Adolfo Conti (2017) The Forgotten Army - Signe Astrup (2016); Constructing Sochi - Steffi Wurster (2013); Der Kampf um die Freiheit - Thomas Amman (2013); Max Beckmann - Michael Trabitzsch (2012); Rushes - Clemens von Wedemeyer (2012).