Monika has over ten years industry experience in project development, casting, location scouting as well as producing shorts and features.

Most recently, she has produced a supernatural thriller short LOST ONES, written and directed by Andrew McVicar (COMPULSION), and an interactive feature length project HOUSE HACK (dir. Stephanie Zari), which was shot on location in Estonia and was released on streaming app Whatifi in 2021. She has also joined the producing team on the micro-budget directorial debut feature from Stephanie Zari, ZEBRA GIRL, having co-produced Zari’s short BEING KEEGAN, starring Stephen Graham.

Prior to that she worked for the award winning production company THIRD FILMS. Her credits with Third include Associate Producer on Duane Hopkins’ short film TWELFTH MAN, Assistant Producer/Additional Casting on LIGHT YEARS written and directed by BAFTA-winning Esther May Campbell, and Assistant Producer/Additional Casting on BYPASS, directed by Duane Hopkins.

Monika also production-managed shorts and features including Hope Dickson Leach’s iFeature THE LEVELLING for Wellington Films, and worked for Random Acts and BFI Film Academy, where she scouted emerging filmmaking talent, managed young artists’ development programmes and production of short experimental films for broadcast and the festival circuit.

She is currently in development on several documentary and drama projects under her company Friction Burn Pictures.

1. Addressing unconscious bias: basic awareness in the workplace

   ScreenSkills Test · Aug 2022

   ScreenSkills Funded

2. Coronavirus basic awareness on production training

   ScreenSkills Test · Aug 2022

   ScreenSkills Funded

3. Tackling harassment and bullying at work

   ScreenSkills Learning · Aug 2022

   ScreenSkills Funded

4. Demystifying unscripted TV production: London & South/South East

   ScreenSkills · Apr 2022

   ScreenSkills Funded

5. The guiding principles of departmental budgeting in high-end TV and film

   Mission Accomplished · Dec 2022

   ScreenSkills Funded

6. Digital Cities Virtual: Portfolios for Screen

   ScreenSkills · Feb 2021

   ScreenSkills Funded

7. Hiring non-UK animators in UK’s post-Brexit immigration system

   ScreenSkills · Mar 2021

   ScreenSkills Funded

8. IR35 changes: what you need to know

   The Production Guild · Feb 2021

   ScreenSkills Funded

9. Inclusive casting in unscripted TV with Mel Walden

   ScreenSkills · Dec 2020

   ScreenSkills Funded

10. ScreenSkills Safe Return to Set Seminars - Shooting during Covid-19: Pirates

    ScreenSkills · Nov 2020

    ScreenSkills Funded

• The guiding principles of departmental budgeting in high-end TV and film

  Screenskills Training Course · Mission Accomplished
  Issued 3 Jan 2023 · Expires 3 Jan 2025

• Guiding Principles of Departmental budgeting

  Screenskills Certificate · Screenskills
  Issued 1 Jan 2023 · Expires 1 Jan 2025

• Risk Management of Productions

  Production Safety Passport · First Option Safety Group
  Issued 26 Oct 2022 · Expires 26 Oct 2027

• Addressing unconscious bias: basic awareness in the workplace

  ScreenSkills Test
  Issued 9 Aug 2022 · Expires 9 Aug 2024

• Tackling harassment and bullying at work

  Screenskills Learning
  Issued 9 Aug 2022