Taskovski Films

Overview

Taskovski Films is a London-based world sales and production company exclusively dedicated to independent documentary. Founded in 2003 by Irena Taskovski, the company operates from offices in London and Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), with a network spanning the UK, France, Spain, Ukraine, Croatia, and BiH. The company has 8 employees and approximately $237,000 in annual revenue. It selects a small number of films each year, building bespoke sales and distribution strategies for each title rather than operating a high-volume catalog.

The company acquires documentaries at major nonfiction festivals including IDFA, CPH:DOX, Visions du Reel, Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Berlinale (Panorama), and Thessaloniki. Its catalog spans arts and culture, history, society, politics, and environment, with a stated preference for "innovative, playful, and risky forms of filmmaking." For documentary filmmakers seeking international sales representation, Taskovski offers a specialist alternative to generalist sales agents who treat documentary as a secondary category.

What Taskovski Films Does

Taskovski Films operates across four integrated divisions:

• World Sales: International sales of completed documentaries to territorial buyers including broadcasters, streaming platforms, and theatrical distributors. The company attends IDFA, CPH:DOX, Cannes (Marche du Film), Berlinale (EFM), Visions du Reel, Sheffield DocFest, and other major documentary markets.
• Production and Co-Production: Taskovski co-produces select documentaries, providing development support and financing alongside its sales role.
• PR and Publicity: A dedicated PR agency division handles festival strategy and press campaigns for represented films.
• Education: The company runs Taskovski #docsconnect, a training and mentorship program for documentary filmmakers, plus film residencies and retreats.

This integrated model means a filmmaker represented by Taskovski can receive festival strategy, press outreach, and sales under one roof. The company develops unique strategies for each film, adapting to market conditions and pursuing partnerships with cultural, educational, and philanthropic institutions to extend the impact of issue-driven documentaries.

2026 Catalog and Recent Acquisitions

Taskovski's 2026 slate includes two world premiere documentaries:

• Materia Prima (Jens Schanze, Germany, 90 min) - world premiered at CPH:DOX 2026 in the Right Here, Right Now and F:ACT competition sections on March 12. An observational documentary shot over six years from 2020, examining a new gold rush sparked by the world's largest lithium deposits in the Bolivian Andes, where global interests collide with 500 years of colonial history. Produced by Mascha Film in co-production with Filmtank.
• We Have to Survive (Tomas Krupa, Slovakia/Austria/France, 102 min) - world premiered March 11, 2026 in the Open Horizons section at Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival. A Slovakian-French-Austrian co-production (Hailstone, YUZU Productions, Golden Girls Film) shot across the Outer Banks of the USA, the Mongolian desert, the underground town of Coober Pedy in Australia, and the icy shores of Greenland.

Notable Past Representations

Taskovski's catalog includes award-winning documentaries from the past two decades:

• Fauna (Pau Faus) - Best Director award at FICG Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara 2023
• Aitsa (Dane Dodds) - Grand Prize, International Competition at Parnu Filmifestival 2023
• In Ukraine (Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski) - Special Mention, Visions du Reel Film Festival
• The Golden Thread (Nishtha Jain) - world premiered at IDFA 2022, winner of CEI Central European Initiative Award at Trieste Film Festival 2023
• The Eclipse (Natasa Urban) - Best Documentary Award at CPH:DOX 2022, Special Mention at DokuFest Prizren 2022
• Love, Deutschmarks and Death (Cem Kaya) - Panorama Audience Award at Berlinale 2022, IndieMusic Award at Indie Lisboa 2022
• The Visitors (Veronika Liskova) - world premiered at Locarno International Film Festival 2022
• Another Spring (Mladen Kovacevic) - world premiered at Karlovy Vary 2022
• Radiograph of a Family (Firuzeh Khosrovani) - IDFA 2020 winner

The company has also represented work by Oscar nominees Petra Costa (Olmo and the Seagull), European Academy award winners Helena Trestikova and Audrius Stonys, multi-Peabody and two-time Emmy and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir, Cannes winner Radu Jude, and actors Tilda Swinton and Javier Bardem (in Sanctuary by Alvaro Longoria).

Geographic Specialization

Taskovski's regional focus covers Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet states, and Central Asia, representing films from countries including Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and the Balkans. The company also acquires documentaries from Western Europe and Latin America when the subject matter aligns with its editorial profile.

This geographic specialization gives Taskovski direct relationships with regional film funds, co-production partners, and festival programmers that generalist sales agents based in Paris or Berlin lack. For filmmakers from post-Soviet and Central Asian territories, this means representation by a company that understands the cultural, political, and production contexts shaping their work.

What Filmmakers Should Know

Taskovski Films does not operate an open submissions portal. The company acquires films through festival attendance, direct filmmaker outreach, and industry network referrals. Documentary filmmakers seeking representation should have a festival premiere or strong festival strategy in place before approaching the company. Taskovski's small team and selective acquisition approach (a small number of films per year) means each title receives individualized attention, but also that the company passes on the majority of submissions.

For filmmakers with issue-driven documentaries, Taskovski's partnerships with cultural, educational, and philanthropic institutions can extend a film's impact beyond theatrical and broadcast distribution into screening tours, educational markets, and NGO partnerships. This impact distribution model is a specific capability that pure commercial sales agents do not offer.

Filmmakers outside Taskovski's core geographic or thematic focus should consider whether their documentary aligns with the company's editorial profile before approaching. Taskovski's catalog is predominantly author-driven nonfiction with formal innovation, not conventional factual television or corporate documentary.

See Also

For how international sales agents fit into the documentary distribution chain, see Distribution Deals Explained. To model how international sales revenue contributes to a documentary's overall financing structure, use the Revenue Forecast Calculator. For Eastern European arthouse sales representation, see New Europe Film Sales in this directory.