When the Wind Blows

Iva Tkalec, Anna Savchenko
(Belgium, Croatia)

Through personal stories of people working in the wind industry, the audience is getting to know all about the energy and climate crisis Europe is facing and what is needed to get over it. In France, Spain, and Poland, nine individuals illuminate Europe’s struggle with energy shortages and climate imperatives. With the wind industry rapidly expanding, the continent faces a pressing need for skilled workers – 170,000 positions over seven years. Yet, challenges loom: from skill shortages to retraining workers from declining sectors like coal mining. As Europe navigates the green transition, diversity and inclusivity in the workforce emerge as crucial components for a just and sustainable future.

Iva Tkalec, documentary film producer, has been in the film industry since 2007. She started in PAKT Media (Zagreb, Croatia), where she worked as a casting director on numerous TV commercials and on international film productions. Since 2012 she worked as a producer or executive producer with established Croatian documentary production companies on many different projects, among them: documentary TV series Direkt, produced by Fade In for Croatan National Television - HRT, feature length documentary Sick by Hrvoje Mabić or My Life Without Air by Bojana Burnać. In 2014 she moved to Brussels, Belgium where she worked in Off World production company, she focused on international co-productions such as the documentary series Borderline and since 2018 in Playtime Films (BE) she is working as a producer on several international documentary projects. In autumn of 2023 she moved back to Croatia, she is working on co-productions between Belgium and Croatia.

Anna Savchenko studied documentary film directing at DocNomads international masters. Originally from Belarus, she lives and works in Belgium and Spain. Her main interest is creative documentaries, hybrid and experimental cinema. She works as both director and editor. Her feature documentary 72 Hours in post-production won FIFDH Geneva 2021 Impact Day Award, Czech TV co-production award at East Doc Market 2021 and European Women’s Audiovisual Network talent award during Dok Leipzig co production market in 2019, as well as Best Work in Progress: Central & Eastern Europe at Sunny Side Doc in 2021. She directed and edited various awarded documentaries and documentary series.