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International Screen Acting Workshop 2025 | The casting directors’ decisions

Introducing the participants and scholarship winner of 2025

One of our key aims is to promote international talent on the world stage and to make them visible to Casting Directors.
Therefore, we are very happy about our long-term partnership with the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, one of Europe’s leading film schools.

The Filmakademie has been hosting the International Screen Acting Workshop since 2016. A highly attractive programme that gives young aspiring actors and actresses the tools they need to gain an international foothold. Experienced professionals from around the world provide lectures on a range of topics from acting, coaching, casting, self-marketing and networking to the globalisation of the film industry.

As the partner of the programme, etalenta provided the selection process in which 13 had to prevail out of hundreds of submissions. A jury of renowned, international Casting Directors made their choices on etalenta.

Congratulations to the participants, who qualified for the programme:

Maximilian van Ack
(Netherlands)

Violet Braeckman
(Belgium)

Coen Bril
(Netherlands)

Laura Delebarre
(France)

Jelena Laban
(Montenegro)

Ahmed Saeed
(Bahrain)

Iva L. Simic
(Croatia)

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Alex Stama
(Romania)

Ivona Tomiek
(Croatia)

The winner of the etalenta scholarship 2025 is
Lazar Djurdjevic (Montenegro)

We would like to thank the fantastic Casting Directors for their time and dedication during the selection process:

Piotr Bartuszek

Piotr Bartuszek
(Poland)

Nina Haun

Nina Haun
(Germany)

Sophie Kingston-Smith

Sophie Kingston-Smith
(UK)

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Faye Timby-Taylor
(UK)