EWA Network - The Team

Executive Team

Alexia Muiños Ruiz

Director

Barcelona

Born in La Coruña, she received with a distinction her Master Degree in Chemistry and studied at the Conservatory of Music before leaving for Barcelona where she graduated in Film Studies and completed her training in New York City. For the past years, she has been working in several facets of the Film / Advertising Industry as director/actress/producer and founded her production company. Her debut feature film is Noche Transfigurada. Her committment to gender equality started by joining Spanish women's networks. She joined EWA team in 2013 to be in charge of the management of the EWA Network web platform, communications and the members community, then director of programmes and she is currently EWA Network's Executive Director.

barcelona@ewawomen.com

Rumena Ivanova

Business Development

Strasbourg

Rumena Ivanova studied Film Studies and Social and Cultural Anthropology in Berlin (Freie Universität) and Paris (EHESS). She has professional experience in film production, distribution, and sales, and is fluent in English, German, and French.

An alumna of the Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris and former member of the Atelier Network, Rumena most recently worked as a Project Manager at Eurimages. Since October 2025, she has joined the European Women’s Audiovisual Network (EWA) as a Business Developer and Project Manager.

Her background also includes experience in event and festival organization: she worked with German Films during the 20th and 21st editions of the German-French Film Meeting, and organized the Bulgarian Film Festival in Paris.

Honorary President

Isabel Coixet

EWA network is proud to have as its President the highly successful, award-winning Spanish director Isabel Coixet. Her powerful filmography includes : "My life without me" (2003), "The secret life of words" (2005), "Elegy" (2008), "Map of the sounds of Tokyo" (2009) and "Yesterday never ends" (2012), which was screened in the Panorama Special section in Berlin 2013. Isabel Coixet was a member of the Camera d’Or jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and her film "Nobody wants the night" opened the Berlinale in 2015.