Biography director/producer

Milena Kaneva, born in Rousse, Bulgaria studied
acting at the Sofia Theater and Film Academy.
She moved to Italy in 1987, before the fall
of the Berlin Wall and began a career as a journalist
and producer with the news agency WTN, later APTN.
She has shot reports in Eastern Europe, Africa,
South America and Asia. Her exclusive interview
with Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize laureate
kept under house arrest by the military dictatorship in Burma,
connected her to that country forever. In 2000 she produced
her first long-form documentary, "The Initiation" about
female genital mutilation in Mali, and won first prize
at the Festival of Due Mondi. Her shooting career started
in 1997 when she covered the terrible massacre of
the Sem Terra in Eldorado dos Carajas in Brasil.
Kaneva wrote, produced, and shot Total Denial.
It is the result of five years of hard work in the jungles
of Burma and the US Courts.