After graduating from the Film Studies program at NATFA, Sofia in 2005, Mariana has been working as a film and cultural journalist for several years. Pursuing a career shift, in 2010 she moved to Amsterdam to continue her education in the field of film archiving and curatorship. As part of the educational program, she completed an internship at Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona working on two exhibition projects, and she is currently living in the Catalan capital focusing more on film festivals management and curating of content from Eastern Europe and the Balkans. She has already curated “Visiones Balcanicas”, the first Balkan focus within the Mecal Short and Animation Film Festival, Barcelona and “Bulgaria, the Invisible Europe”, a film cycle of Bulgarian cinema at Filmoteca de Catalunya and Filmoteca Española in Madrid. She is co-curating as well The Croation Focus for the upcoming edition of Mecal in March, 2016.