Kumjana Novakova, originally born in Yugoslavia, has worked in the field of film and arts since 2006. In 2006 she co-founded the Pravo Ljudski Film Festival in Sarajevo, and acts as its chief curator and director. She was leading the Film Department of the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Skopje as a Film Curator for 3 years.
Currently she is an associated professor at Master of Film of the Netherlands Film Academy, while pursuing her PhD in Contemporary Arts and Media in Belgrade. She has formerly taught at the Non-fiction department of ESCAC, Barcelona, and at the Béla Tarr's film.factory in Sarajevo.
As an author, her research lays between cinema and contemporary video art.
Kumjana currently lives between Sarajevo and Skopje, North Macedonia.