INA SOTIROVA is a filmmaker, TEDx speaker and media professional with 15 years of
storytelling experience. She wrote, directed and edited award-winning short films
freedom2dance (doc, 2012) and Agwe (animation, 2018), among others. Ina specialised
in documentary filmmaking at Columbia University and won the 2012 Du-Pont / Judy F.
Crichton Award for visual storytelling. Her fiction debut, Agwe, was a 2018 winner of JAFTA
Propella and took second place for Best Caribbean Short at KingstOOn 2019. Ina is also an
alumna of the Jamaican Film Lab and Jihlava Academy Creative Lab, and won the
Investor’s Choice Award at the inaugural Kingston Creative Pitch Forward with Mango
Magic, her family feature film in development. A citizen of the world born in Bulgaria, she
moved to Kingston in 2015, where she also teaches and mentors inner-city youths at the
UWI Community Film Project and budding filmmakers and visual artists at Edna Manley
School. Ina has a keen interest and appreciation for humankind’s cultural, spiritual and
artistic heritage and expression. A believer in the power of stories, she aspires to create
work that can open the doors of perception and completely change the way we
understand the world and our role in it.