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With 25+ years of experience in film & TV, producer Natalia Imaz (she/her) focuses on international documentaries at the intersection of history, self-narration and social cartography. With her company parabellum film she produces with a special interest for women filmmakers, first-time directors, and personal storytelling. Often embracing "small stories" and their interplay with broader sociopolitical contexts, her producing work explores themes of identity, migration, memory and family dynamics. Her current slate spans multiple continents, with projects by directors from Georgia, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, India, Uganda, and other regions, dealing with urgent contemporary issues from indigenous land rights and reproductive justice to trans stories, activism, and anti-authoritarianism. Additionally she freelances in different roles across the documentary ecosystem: facilitating workshops, as festival jury member, industry selector and fund reader, panel curator, moderator/speaker and consultant. In this way, she has lent her expertise to events and organizations such as IDFA Forum, DOK Leipzig Industry, the Institute of Documentary Film in Prague, Cork International Film Festival, DAE, B2B Doc Network, Docs By The Sea, Her Docs Forum in Poland, Doc Society BFI Fund, the Goethe Institute in Exile / DAE Filmmaker Delegation Program, Pitch the Doc, maecenia Stiftung, or the EFM Toolbox program of Berlinale.  A member of DAE (Documentary Association of Europe), IDA (International Documentary Association), EWA (European Women's Audiovisual Network) and NdM (New German Media Makers), Natalia currently serves both in the executive board of DAE and as chairperson in the board of B2B Doc (Baltic to Black Sea Documentary Network). She also volunteers her time to mentoring young filmmakers, for example through the year-long Fresh Producer Support Award which she gives out at Docs By The Sea in Indonesia - in its current inaugural edition, Natalia is supporting Malaysian up-and-coming producer Kuma Rajendran and his documentary project „Araro Ariraro“.