Heritage Space selects mentors for each edition of the open call to provide guidance to beneficiaries, addressing potential issues and opportunities that arise during project implementation. Successful mentorship requires active engagement and a positive, respectful dialogue between all parties. Mentors offer honest feedback, carefully planned sessions, and advice on realistic goal-setting, research, information access, and networking with relevant individuals or institutions. They may also provide advice on project promotion, dissemination, and communication strategies.

Our mentors for this edition are:

Kaltrina Krasniqi

A Kosovo-based film director and researcher, founder of Vera Films - a film production company, founding member of Kosovo Oral History Initiative - a digital archive of personal stories and co-founder of café-library Dit! e Nat!. Her debut feature film ‘Vera Dreams of the Sea’ premiered in the 78th Venice Film Festival and among many recognitions was awarded Tokyo International Film Festival Grand Prix 2021 and Ingmar Bergman Award at Gothenburg Film Festival 2022. She is currently working on her second feature ‘Bleach’.

Piro Rexhepi

Writes on decoloniality, Islam and sexuality in the Balkans. He holds a PhD in Politics from University of Strathclyde and is the author of recently published White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route with Duke University Press.