Find out more about the international team of professionals behind the European Women’s Audiovisual Network.
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.
Agatha Stern
Project Manager
Strasbourg
Agatha holds a Bachelor’s degree in Film & TV Production and a Master’s degree in Arts and Creative Industries Management. After gaining hands-on experience as a video and camera assistant, she spent four years at Eurimages as a Project Manager and Coordinator of the Gender Equality and Diversity & Inclusion strategies of the Fund. Now working as a consultant, she focuses on international co-productions and advancing gender equality and diversity within the film industry.
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.
Board Members
Graziella Bildesheim
(Italy)
President
Isabel Castro Martínez
(Spain)
Treasurer
Francine H. Raveney
(France)
Vice-President
Flaminia Graziadei
(UK)
Secretary
Madeleine Ekman
(Sweden)
Vice-President
Juliane Schulze
(Germany)
Deputy Treasurer
Iris Zappe-Heller
(Austria)
Board member
Melanie Hoyes
(UK)
Board Member
Honorary Board Members
Alessia Sonaglioni
Exec. Director 2016-2021
Zeynep Atakan
Former Vice President
Former President of the Board (2013-2018)
and Founding member
Isabel de Ocampo
Former President of the Board
Ada Solomon
(2018-2023)
Former President of the Board
Marit van den Elshout
(2023-2024)