elena pachner sarno is a filmmaker whose works, spanning documentary, narrative and experimental films, have been exhibited and won prizes around the world. 

She creates films and videos, performances and installations. Her works are the fruit of complex co-creative processes maximising inventive storytelling through play and radical imagination. Elena is a queer and feminist activist and her productions work towards radical social and cultural change.

elena lives in Livorno and Barcelona. She has extensive film industry experience, has long researched Playfulness in Film and Art as a PhD candidate (Sydney and Amsterdam),  obtained a BA in Theatre Studies (Bologna, 1992) and a Master in Performance Art and Public Space (Rome, 2021).