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Member of the UNICA Committee. Born in 1934 in Spain. He is an architect and a passionate amateur filmmaker. He started filmmaking in 1967 and has since made various features and animated movies and produced 64 short films. Most of them were made in close cooperation with Toni Garriga. He has been awarded various golden and silver medals at the UNICA Festivals and has received wide recognition at other independent film festivals.
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Member of UNICA Committee. Born in 1949 in Croatia. He is a grammar school teacher of the English language and literature. For more than thirty years now, he has been involved with non-professional filmmaking as the instructor for teenage filmmakers. So far his students have made more than 250 films and videos. He himself has also produced a number of works and has been a jury member at various film festivals (Czech Republic, Iran, Macedonia, Croatia). He is also the vice president of the Croatian Film Association. Since 1997, he has acted as the counselor in the Committee of UNICA. In 1993, he co-founded the Croatian international Minute Film Festival and has been the festival director ever since.
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Leszek Boguszewski
Poland |
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Born in 1945. He doesn’t even remember when his adventure with camera started. For the last 30 years, he has made many educational, commercial, as well as promotional films, which have gained 121 awards, among which, 35 prizes at international festivals. Since 1975, Boguszewski has been a film instructor in the SAWA film club. His students have so far produced 225 films, which have received 440 awards, among which, 94 at international contests. In the years 1990-2001, as many as 20 members of the club got admitted to various film schools such as PWSFTviT in Łódz, WRiT in Katowice or other educational centres abroad. Since 1997, Boguszewski has also been working for JJ TV studio. In 1981, he was awarded the UNICA Golden Medal for his life-time contribution.
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She has graduated in Theatre and Film Theory from the University of Stockholm, and holds a BA title in Photography and Film from Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland. She used to work as a freelance photographer for newspapers and magazines. In the years 1993-1999, she was an editor and researcher for a large number of TV productions, entertainment programmes, talk shows and game shows. Since 2001, she has been working for Botkyrka Mediecenter, where she is a project manager and the initiator of Vårrullen film festival (an influential Swedish film initiative with young filmmakers in the focus) as well as a lecturer and a tutor within media and moving images. In 2006, she initiated a new lobby group which aims to encourage young female filmmakers to make a name for themselves in the media and film industry.
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Film and TV director, graduate in film directing from the Film and Television University in Katowice and in electronic and information technology from the Warsaw University of Technology. He is an author of documentaries, music videos, series, TV programmes and TV performances. He has also directed numerous commercials, including the social ones. Together with Beata Hyczko, a screenwriter, they established the Autograf Film Studio - a private company, which has been successfully operating in the field of film and TV production since 1996. Autograf produces commercials, public interest advertising, documentaries, educational movies, music videos and TV broadcasts.
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Film director, screenwriter and producer. Born in 1956 in Łodz, Poland. Having graduated in film direction from the Moscow Institute of Cinematography in 1981, he started working as the Assistant Director to Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieslowski in the film studio „TOR”. Currently, he lectures at the Reportage Laboratory at the University of Warsaw. His best-known works are, Hear My Scream awarded the best European documentary prize, Felix, The State of Weightlessness and The Voice of Hope. His films were broadcast by numerous TV stations in Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan. He is also the director of various documentary radio plays such as: The Will, To Be In the Space or My Mountain, broadcast by BBC and public stations in Germany, Scandinavia and Benelux.
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Born on Jan 10, 1978 in Belgrade, Serbia, Vladan Petkovic is an independent film critic, journalist, translator, festival selector and producer. Since 2001, he has been working as a correspondent for territories of former Yugoslavia for Screen International and translator for Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian production and distribution companies. In 2005 he produced the short documentary Looking Away which had a healthy life on festival circuit. In 2007 he started writing for Cineuropa, MEDIA programme's website, as a correspondent for Slovenia and Croatia. He also reviews film for several regional media, and is currently the program curator of the International Short Film Festival Kratkofil in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His new documentary The Last Film Festival in the World is currently in production.
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Secretary-General of UNICA. Born in Netherlands in 1949. He started filmmaking in 1973. Back in the 1970’s he founded and became the president of a film club in his hometown Barneveld in the Netherlands. Later on, he got appointed the president of the regional administration of filmmakers and the treasurer of the Dutch Federation of Filmmakers NOVA, affiliated with UNICA. Since 2003 he has been holding the office of the Secretary-General of the UNICA organization. These significant official functions do not allow him to make his own films any more. Being a trained jury member, he is also a chartered civil engineer and a lawyer and as such works for the Dutch Ministry of Transport and Water management, where he is responsible for business economics within the National Institute for Water Management.
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She has graduated in acting from the Academy of Theatre in Warsaw. Films which made her famous were: Ga, Ga – Chwała bohaterom, Train to Hollywood and Kingsajz. While working in the United States, Figura acted in Robert Altman's films The Player and Pret-a-Porter: Ready to Wear. She has also made notable TV appearances in Fatal Past and Red Shoe Diaries. The year 2004 marked her return to theatre. She also co-founded, together with her husband, the Artistic Vitamin Foundation, which supports Polish young artists. She has supported the Polish Federation of Independent Filmmakers („Up to 21“ and OFF/ON Festivals) since 2002. She believes the independent cinema to present a fresh look at the reality.
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Marjan Riahi, Founder & Manager of Short Film News (SFN) as the first
news network on documentaries and short films in Iran & Asia.
SFN had been the news sponsor of the following festivals and events:
- 6th Kish International Documentary Film Festival, Iran
- 2nd Kabul International Documentary and Short Films Festival, Afghanistan
- 1st Cinema Verite international Documentary Film Festival, Iran
- 24th Tehran International Short Film Festival, Iran
- 25th Tehran International Short Film Festival, Iran
- 6th FIKE Documentary and Short Film Festival, Portugal
- 7th FIKE Documentary and Short Film Festival, Portugal
- 8th FIKE Documentary and Short Film Festival, Portugal
- 2nd MOTELx- Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, Portugal
- 3rd Didar International Film Festival, Tajikistan
- Depict! '08 International Short Film Competition, UK
- 8th Yari Film Festival, Sweden
-7th Third Eye Asian Film Festival, India
-8th Third Eye Asian Film Festival, India
- 7th Irpen film festival, Ukraine
- International Film Festival ZOOM – ZBLIŻENIA 2009, Poland
- 7th Hull International Short Film Festival, UK
- Opolskie Lamy International Short Film Festival, Poland
- Graduated in Communications Science, Journalism branch from Islamic
Azad University.
- Graduated in Cinema Directing from Iranian Young Cinema Society (IYCS).
- Began her activities in Journalism on 1998 in Iranian newspapers and journals.
- Directing Eternal Mothers, a documentary about Iranian actresses in
2001; the film screened in several Iranian and International Festivals
and won the Best Short Documentary Award in Dubai Short Film Festival
in 2002.
- Producer of children short films.
- A member of International Federation of Journalists IFJ
- A member of Iran Journalists SENFI
- A member of Iranian Society of Film Critics & Writers
- A jury member in the 2nd Kabul International Documentary and Short
Film Festival in 2007. (Afghanistan)
- A jury member in 7th Third Eye Asian Film Festival in 2008 (India)
- A jury member in International ZOOM – ZBLIŻENIA Film Festival in 2009 (Poland)
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Joao Paulo Macedo
Portugal |
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João Paulo Macedo was born in 1968, in Braga (Portugal). Having finished his studies at the University of Évora, he started working as a cultural promoter, carrying out projects connected with music, theatre and cinema. He served on numerous festivals juries in Europe and South America. He also worked as a short films executive producer and a script adviser. Macedo is one of the co-founders of the Film Society at the University of Évora, the director of FIKE – Évora International Short Film Festival, and the editor-in-chief of CINEMA MAGAZINE. He used to be a member of the Advisory Council of ICA (Portuguese Cinema Institute), the president of FPCC – Portuguese Federation of Film Societies and its representative in the IFSS – International Federation of Film Societies. He also works as a programmer and a curator of Portuguese Cinema, cooperating with several film festivals, public television and other cultural institutions. Currently, he is the Artistic Director of MOSTRA LUSO-AMAZONICA (Manaus-Brazil).
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Georges Fondeur
Luxembourg |
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A barrister, he worked as the General Secretary of Luxembourg city. He is also a filmmaker and since 1972 he has been closely involved with independent cinema movement as well as CAL association (Cine-Amateurs Luxemburg). He is the author of more than 50 films awarded at national and international film festivals. He was the president of the National Independent Filmmakers Association FGDCA. In 2002, he was also appointed the director of the UNICA World Festival. He has served on juries at many international film festivals.
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Born in Germany in 1947. Yet, for some time he had settled in Belgium, where he worked as a TV cameraman and the president of the film club De Drake. He was also the director of the International Film Festival De Drake in Gent. He is frequently invited to be a juror at various international film festivals. Currently he lives in Germany. Conseiller of UNICA Committee, he is responsible for the patronage at the UNICA film festivals.
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Jeanne Glass was born in the United States, but having spent several years in Africa with her husband, she finally settled in Provence, France. Now a retired teacher of film studies in a French high school, she in charge of a video club in Salon-de-Provence. Her club participates actively in the National competition of the French Federation. Moreover, Jeanne is the president of the Mediterranean Region of the French Federation and she regularly conducts training courses for future jury members. She served as a jury member at UNICA Festivals in Bourges, France (1995), Luxembourg (2002) and Veitshöchheim, Germany (2004). In 2005, she received the UNICA medal from the French Film and Video Federation.
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President of UNICA. A banker by profession, Max Hansli has been involved with film for the last 45 years. He is the author of numerous films often awarded at the national and international contests. Since 1974, he has been a member of the UNICA Committee and since 1993, he has held the position of the President of the World Film Union, UNICA. Juror at many international film festivals and a great mastermind of the cinema movement.
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Rainer Hasselbarth
Germany |
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He has been involved with independent film industry since 1964. In 1972, he founded Ars Cinema Berlin Club. He has so far contributed to over 50 films produced collectively within the club, 9 of which have been awarded at UNICA Film Festivals. At present, he is the president of the "Ars Cinema Berlin" film club and the organizer of the "Ein Fenster zum Osten" Film Festival in Berlin.
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Graduate in the History of Art from the Warsaw University and in Scriptwriting from the National Film School in Łódź. She is an author of commercial and social spots. Frequently awarded for her commercial campaigns, she has even received the „Titan“ Award at the International Advertising Festival „Crackfilm“. Since 1996, together with Tomasz Drozdowicz, they have run the ‘Autograf’ Film Studio. She also works as a film and TV producer for the Polish Public Television. Beata has equally written scripts for numerous educational programmes, tv shows and series. In 2006, she made her debut feature film, Fur directed by Tomasz Drozdowicz.
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Born in 1941 in Rakvere, Estonia. He finished Tallinn Music School (violin) and graduated in philosophy from the Leningrad State University. In the years 1973-1991 Järvine was the Chairman of the Estonian Film Amateurs Central Club and in 1991 he got appointed the Chairman of the Estonian Film Amateurs Union. He co-organized the UNICA festival in 1986 and became the president of the Organization Committee at the 2001 UNICA festival. His films, About the History of Estonian Book and Pavel Gorjunov`s Film-portrait, were often awarded at various regional and international festivals. Järvine has so far published four books about the history of the Estonian film amateurs movement. In 2005, he also published a study of the history of Baltic States.
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Ursula Krauchi
Switzerland |
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She has regularly participated in UNICA World Film Festivals for 30 years now. She has been an organizer of film contests and a juror at film festivals taking place in Switzerland. She has also contributed to many films directed by her father, Max Hansli.
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Graduate in journalism from the Warsaw University. In 1982-1986, he was a programmer at the Polish Public Television. In the years 1986-1992, he was the editor-in-chief of the film production company “Czołówka” and a member of the Cinematography Committee. In 1992, he became both the director of the School of Documentary Film Directing and the director of the Film Studio at the Polish Army House. In 1999-2000 he worked for the tv channel Bayerischer Rundfunk. He has made many programmes for television and directed numerous documentaries. Among his artistic output we can enumerate over a hundred works touching upon society, nature and cultural heritage. He has been awarded and widely acclaimed at numerous international film festivals.
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Jean Claude Lejosne
France |
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Member of UNICA Committee. Professor in linguistic studies at the Mets University, France. Fluent in dozens of languages, since 1973, he has been an interpreter at UNICA’s world congresses and contests. He is an active observer of independent cinematography and a diehard promoter of the art. He also takes part in the development of independent cinema movement and often acts as an independent cinema expert.
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PhD in physics, in the years 1970-1998 he carried out research concerning industrial solutions. Later, he took up making films about optical physiology. Since 2001, he has been working in the field of multimedia publicity as an independent cinema curator at the international level. Already since high school he has been active as a lyric poet, an art propagator and an experimental and travel filmmaker. He has participated in many international film festivals, also in the capacity of a juror.
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He has graduated from the National Theater Academy in Warsaw (acting), and completed postgraduate studies in journalism at the University of Warsaw. He also studied directing at ESEC in Paris. He has played in dozens of plays and several films and television series, among which we can find, Le Grand Mome - a series for the French television channel TF1, the role of Smolensky in the American television miniseries Cain and Abel, the role of Pierre in the long-running Polish television series, Klan, as well as the role of Wiktor in yet another Polish television series, Sprawa na Dziś. He has also made several documentaries for Polish television, including, Burza mózgów, Język Filmu and Próba. He has directed the play Merlin Mongoł and has written two books: Zabić Prezydenta and Szelest Warg. He is frequently called upon to be a jury member at international amateur film festivals. He established the first private acting school in Poland (1991-2000). He is currently working on an acting textbook.
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Member of UNICA Committee. Born in Milan in 1933. He has always been a cinema enthusiast and guided by his passion, in 1961, he joined the Merano’s Cineclub, a member of FEDIC (the Italian Federation of Cineclubs). He is now the president of the Super 8 & Video Club Merano. So far he has made 44 documentary and fiction films, presented at various competitions and broadcast on national and foreign television. In 1989, Mandolesi was named the Ambassador of European film at the Eurofilmfestival. The very same year, he was elected the Vice president of FEDIC. 1994 marked Mandolesi’s election to the Committee of UNICA. Since 2003, he has also been the president of FILMVIDEO International Short Film Festival in Montecatini (Italy). His works are available at the FEDIC, IAC and UNICA film libraries.
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Graduated in Polish Studies from the University of Warsaw. Since 1977, he has been involved with the National Film Library. In the years 1978-1983, he was the Artistic Director of „Iluzjon“ cinema and since 1986, he has been the director of the National Film Library. He is the coauthor of the curriculum of the postgraduate studies at the Art Institute, PAN. Author of various programmes and catalogues and an organizer of a wide range of festivals and film reviews taking place in the „Iluzjon“ cinema. He coauthors the „Polish Feature Film Lexicon“ and „Warsaw in Polish Feature Film“ TV programme. He is also a member of the Polish Filmmakers Association.
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Born on the 1st of January, 1972, in Wrocław. He studied physics at Wrocław University and cinematography at the National Film School in Łódź. As a director of photography and a cameraman he produces various feature films, documentaries, theatre performances for television, short films and commercials. He has been often awarded for his work as a cinematographer.
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Agnieszka Prokopowicz
Poland |
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She was brought up by the cinema - Polish Cinema of Moral Anxiety, post-war comedy TV-series, as well as the European cinema of 1950s-60s and the contemporary film. From the very outset of her carrier in journalism, she has been writing about film, especially the independent cinema, which, according to her, emerges out of the authors’ inner need. She has participated in many film festivals and served on numerous festival juries. She helped to organize those events, wrote about them, and once she even starred in an independent production. She loves the moment when the lights go down in a cinema and she gets immersed in the images, which sometimes remind her of her own life and sometimes transport her into a different reality. Cinema is magic! She strongly believes we should do our best to let everyone feel it.
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Member of UNICA Committee. He has graduated in philosophy and cultural science from the University of Poznań. A film amateur and a filmmaker, he has produced 18 movies, mostly documentaries centered around medical issues. He is an animator of independent film movement – in the late 50‘s he was one of the initiators of the establishment of the Federation of Amateur Film Clubs (presently the Federation of Independent Filmmakers). He has organized many film festivals, National Film Competition OKFA in 1960 and UNICA Festival in 1975, among others. Since 1979, he has served on numerous juries at various national and international film festivals. An expert on independent film industry in Poland and worldwide, he authors many publications concerning independent filmmaking.
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Born in Zell am See, Austria in 1947. He has owned a camera since 1968 and in 1975 he first came across the Verband der Österr Filmamateure (Austrian association of amateur filmmakers). Since 1978, he has been the chairman of the amateur photographers in Linz and in 1988 he founded the regional video competition „Oberösterreich im Film“ – Upper Austria in film (1988). He is also the organizer of the largest International film festival in Austria – „Festival der Nationen“ (International Competition for non commercial Film and Video) in Ebensee. „Nations Festival”, annually receiving 500 applications from all over the world, has come to be one of the most significant amateur film competitions worldwide. Erich is also the founder of the cultural association „Europäisches Videoarchiv“ – European Video Archive (E.V.A) and a member of the VÖFA committee as a coordinator for competitions. Since 1977, he has also tried to pass his knowledge on in the form of many workshops and courses given at schools and institutions for adult education. He is often called upon to act as a consultant for film competitions organized by other institutions. His efforts in the field of non commercial filming were recognized by the Silver decoration of honour of the province of Upper Austria (Silbernen Ehrenzeichen des Landes) awarded in 1977.
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Director. He studied at the Radio and TV Department at the Silesian University in Katowice. Since 1991, he has worked for Polish TV stations as a director and scriptwriter of TV programmes, concerts, documentaries, reportages as well as video clips. Among his most significant works, we can name: Adventure Hunters – reality show involving children’s acting (TVP1); The City of Dreams – the Meetings (TVP1); documentaries Poland Will Be as We Are and Drummer (TVP1); The Gates of Madness, based on Dostoyevsky’s work; The Shadows, a short feature after his own script and The Spring to Come (second director). He has also made films on the filmmaking process of pictures such as Pan Tadeusz by Wajda, In Desert and Wilderness by G. Hood, or The Hexer by M. Brodzki. He can also boast having directed numerous video clips for Polish leading singers such as Kayah, Lady Pank, Renata Przemyk or Beata Kozidrak.
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Born in 1953. He has been involved with amateur film for the last forty years and has since founded numerous film clubs. He studied communication, political sciences and philosophy at the University of Salzburg, the title of his MA thesis being: „Amateur film in Austria, on the basis of my personal experience“. Franz worked as a video class assistant at the Salzburg Summer Academy For Screen and Art and was a scientific assistant at the Videostudios at the University of Salzburg. His research focused on the „Evaluation of semi-professional film and video productions“. Franz has been a jury member at various international independent film festivals. He is the originator and the organizer of the annual Cine Science Symposiums Forum Eschenau. He has also co-authored the historical study „From Döbler to DV-Cam, the Ergonomics of amateur film“.
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Member of UNICA Committee. Born in Switzerland in 1929. Owner of an audiovisual and computer company, he is also an amateur filmmaker widely recognized all over Switzerland. Schober still being actively engaged with the independent film industry, his film Sound Trees was awarded the Gold Medal at UNICA Film Festival in Korea in 2006. He is responsible for the UNICA film archive, boasting over 1000 works.
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Zuzana Skoludova
Slovakia |
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She completed her studies of philosophy and aesthetics in 1978 with a doctoral thesis entitled: „Basic issues of aesthetics in cinematography”. Then, she worked at the Slovak Film Institute and contributed to the development of professional cinema in Slovakia. Since 1991, she has been working at the Cultural Institute as a specialist in nonprofessional filmmaking and is currently in charge of all the Slovakian amateur filmmaking coordination. She organizers numerous events (national contests, seminars, workshops, etc) for amateur filmmakers. She has equally served on juries at various contests and festivals.
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Ctirad Štipl (Radek)
Czech Republic |
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Born in 1943 in Czech Republic, the president of the Czech Film Amateur Federation (CVU). He is the editor-in-chief of the UNICA NEWS and an editor of the magazine of the Czech UNICA Committee, VIDEO Hobby. He worked as a graphic designer in various printing offices. He was the secretary-general of the organizing committee at the 56th UNICA Congress in Hradec Králové in 1994. He works with filmmakers in Mohelnice and organises the „Film Song and Video Clip“ festival there. Celebrating its 30th edition this year, the festival has already acquired an international dimension. Moreover, every year, Ctirad Štipl organises an amateur film show at the folk festival, namely the „Mohelnice Stage Coach“, which can boast about 5,000 spectators. Since 1978, he has made his own feature, documentary and reportage films as well as video clips. Together with Hermann Blaschke from the Union of Austrian Film and Video Amateurs, he has already organized 14 highly successful Film and Video Comparative Country Shows of Austrian and Czech film amateurs.
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Born in 1933 in Austria. Member of UNICA committee, he graduated in electronic studies. For over 40 years, he worked as an East Market Executive for an optical company from Germany. He has traveled around the world, China and New Zeeland being among the countries he has visited. An enthusiastic filmmaker, for the last 8 years he has been the chairman of the Austrian Film Federation.
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He lives in Belgium, where until 2004 he worked as a speech therapist in the Saint Jan hospital. Now, he is one of the most active animation filmmakers in Belgium. During the 37 years of his film career he produced over 80 animated films, which received numerous awards at national and international film festivals. He is also a respectable film juror regularly called upon both national and international festivals.
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Dave Watterson
Great Britain |
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Dave Watterson is a lifelong film enthusiast. For ten years he was General Secretary of the British Federation of Film Societies and is still involved with film appreciation groups. He was Treasurer and Webmaster of IAC - the Film & Video Institute, the federation of movie making groups in Britain. For more than 25 years he has been judging film at national and international level. He has been a juror at all the main British festivals for non-commercial film, at UNICA, at the Festival of Nations, at De Drake Fiction Festival and the Croatian Minute Movie Festival. He started his career as a teacher but for twenty years has been the author of user guides for computer programmers.
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Since 1988, she has been the director and producer of the family film studio „Zaifilm“. In 1999, she was appointed the deputy president of the Russian Amateur Filmmakers Society. She has contributed to the organization of such film festivals in Saint-Petersburg as „White nights“, „Animator“ or „History and culture“. She has also been the programming director of a TV Company.
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Barbara Zimmermann
Germany |
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Born in 1950, she was trained to be a gold smith. She is a freelance writer and has published several books. Together with her husband Bernhard she has made numerous films, some of which have gained international recognition. Her preferred categories are documentary and reportage. Since 1980, she has been working as a freelance journalist for the BDFA magazine “film + video”. She is also a member of the Association of German Writers (VS), the Federation of German Film Authors (BDFA) as well as the World Film Union (UNICA). Since 1999, she has been responsible for “international competitions” at BDFA. Since 2002, she has carried out various projects in libraries and schools, among others “art and culture in schools” and “all around books”. She is a film passionate and a keen traveler with an optimistic view to the future.
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Noémi Aponyi is a PhD student at the Film Theory and History Faculty of the Szeged University. A critic, and a film programmer at the MEDIAWAVE International Film and Music Festival, she has made several films, one of which won the 1st prize at the Student Film Festival. She also used to write for the Népszabadság Magazine.
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Laurence Boyce is a film critic and curator. He was born in Leeds in 1979. He graduated from the Film and Literature Department of the University of Warwick. In 1999 he began work as a programmer and moderator for the Leeds International Film Festival, the largest regional festival in the UK, where he curated many programmes, including the short film strands and the UK Film Week. In 2007 he became the director of GLIMMER: The Hull International Short Film Festival. He is also an award winning film journalist who currently writes for publications such as /Film & Festivals Magazine /and /Netribution.co.uk . /He is a member of Fipresci (The International Federation of Film Critics) and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
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An independent filmmaker, he is mostly focused on experimental and documentary cinema. Since 2002, he has made 10 short movies and has considerably contributed to the "YK&oD" art project (combining music, cinema and art activities). Since 2003, he has also been the main organizer of the Irpen Film Festival, which has its followers in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. The festival’s motto is "True art is far from commerce! Create for yourself and share with others".
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Born in 1952. For the last 25 years, he has been closely involved with cinema film distribution, as well as promotion of documentary and educational features. Since 1995, he has been actively engaged with various TV projects concerning cooperation with cable TV stations all over Poland. He is the co-founder of Kino Polska TV station, where he is responsible for the programming and purchase of TV license.
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He graduated in law from the University of Warsaw and finished Leon Schiller’s National Film School in Łódź. He has worked as a film and tv producer, a manager and a businessman. In 1986-89, he was responsible for film production at Zodiak Film Studio, in 1989-93 he was the managing director of Film Polski and in 1993-96 he worked as the managing director of Warner Bros Poland. In 1997, he was appointed a member of the Polish Filmmakers Association and the president of the Hollywood Video company and in 2002, he became a member of Polish Press Agency board. In 1994-96, he held the presidential post at the supervisory board of the Foundation of Protection of Audiovisual Production. He is the founder of the Polish Managers and the University of Warsaw Law Graduates Asssociations. In 1990-97, he served on the jury of “The Manager of the Year“ competition, he is also a member of Rzeczpospolita supervisory board. He has been awarded the Golden Cross of Merit.
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Graduate from the University of Warsaw. A documentary filmmaker. He made his debut as a director in 1989 with Cichociemni, documentary feature exploring the life stories of the Home Army parachutists. He has also made Soldiers without Empire, a documentary about the Soviet Army troops’ withdrawal from Poland. He authors more than 30 documentary features, produced for TVP1, TVP 2 or TV SWF/ARD, numerous educational films for The Ministry of Education, instructional videos for the Ministry of Defence, as well as promotional films. In 1992-2002, he worked as an advisory expert for the Polish Film Production Agency, assessing documentary films projects applying for subsidies from the Ministry of Culture. His latest works are documentaries, Women and War and Elżbieta Zawacka.
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Graduated from Design in the University of Havana. He arrives to film through video art. His films have won important awards in International Film Festivals, including the Silver Zenith for Best First Feature in the “28th Montreal Film Festival” fro the film “Tres veces dos” in which he directed one of the segments. He has directed to feature films. His first feature, “The silly age” (“La edad de la peseta”) nominated for an Goya Award from the Spanish Academy, premiered in the Discovery section in the Toronto International Film Festival and enjoyed a succesful career in festivals all over the world. His second film, “Omertá”, recently concluded, won the Best Screenplay Award in the XXVII International Film Festival (Havana 2005). He has directed documentaries, tv spots and video clips, and has collaborated in other projects as Producer, Editor and Cameraman.
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Monika Czepielewska
Poland |
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Born in 1982 in Nowa Ruda. She graduated with Masters degree in Polish studies from the University of Wroclaw, defending a Masters thesis on the position of independent and off cinema in Polish contemporary mass culture. Currently a PhD student in film at the University of Wroclaw; she frequents as well postgraduate studies in Leon Shiller’s National Film School in Lódź. For five years she has been the Director of KAN Amateur and Independent Film Festival in Wroclaw. A couple of year ago she started to patricipate in making student short films and feature debuts. In spare time she takes photographs and plumbs the mysteries of off cinema.
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Poet, writer, film critic and drama teacher, born in Cuba in 1941. Living in Puerto Rico since 1964 where has worked part time as a film critic for local newspapers and magazines. Columnist for all local newspapers. Radio and TV producer. Founded The Film Foundation in 2002 and created CINEFIESTA the following year. CINEFIESTA is actually the most important short film festival in the Caribbean and one of the more prestigious in Latin America with a record participation of 1542 short films from 95 countries around the world in its 2008 edition. Winning films in CINEFIESTA has won awards and distinctions in Clermont Ferrand, Bilbao, Sundance, Berlin, Venice, Brussels, Cork and others. Also have been Oscar’s nominees for the past three years. The Film Foundation has an extensive educational program for young film makers in Puerto Rico and is sponsored by government and private entities.
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Sylwia Motyl-Cinkowska
Poland |
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Graduated in Cultural Studies from the University of Wroclaw – major in Theatre Studies (1996). She has organized many cultural events and worked as a promotion specialist. Since 2005 she’s been the director of Osiedlowy Dom Kultury (the Local Community Center) in Jelenia Góra and the director of “ZOOM-ZBLIŻENIA” International Film Festival.
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Fidelis Duker is a trained television and Film Producer with academic training from the following broadcast institutions: Television College Jos Nigeria, Nigerian Institute of Journalism, and Yaba college of Technology, TV 25 BBC Training School UK, Deutche Welle Akademie, Berlin, Germany. Two time national President of the Director Guild of Nigeria from 2003-2004 and 2005-2007, he has numerous Television and Film Production to his credit. He is Producer and Director of IMAGES, ELDORADO and KIDS ALONE, the first TV Reality show for children in Africa. Both shows are Nigeria’s most popular TV Series. He has also received many awards, both locally and internationally, for film direction and merits in the field of TV and film. He also pioneered the Independent Film Festival Circuit in Nigeria with the creation of the Abuja International Film Festival, which today is the No.1 independent film festival in Nigeria.
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Attila Gáspárik was born in 1964. He graduated from the “Szentgyörgyi István” Theatre Institute of Tirgu-Mures and later he took his doctoral degree in Methodology of Actor Training. He has been the Vice-President of Romanian National Audiovisual Council. Currently he is the Rector of the University of Theatre in Tirgu Mures. He is an actor, a scriptwriter, a reporter and artistic director of the ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival. “Transylvania belongs to Romania, the country that gave Bela Lugosi, alias Drakula and Johnny Weissmuller, alias Trazan to the world. Fortunately, as a child I saw the films directed by Kawalerowicz, Wajda, Polanski, Zanussi.
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Tomasz Schimscheiner
Poland |
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In the years 1985-1989, he studied acting at the Ludwik Solski Academy of Dramatic Arts in Cracow. He acted in many theatre plays, feature films and TV productions, working with the directors such as Kazimierz Kutz, Jerzy Stuhr, Juliusz.Machulski and many others. He is collaborating with Ludowy Theater from Cracow. Filmography: 2009 “Hoax”, 2008 “How much does a Trojan Horse weigh?”, 2006 “The Vastness of Justice”, 2005 ”An Angel in Love”, 2004 “The Heart of the Mountains”, 2004 “Goralenvolk”, 2003 “Society”, 2002 “Angel in Cracow”, 2000 “Big Animal”, 1995 “Colonel Kwiatkowski”, 1994 “ Death as a Slice of Bread”, 1994 “A Legend of the Tatra Mountains”, 1994 “Reverted”. In 2008 he portrayed Leo in the play “Leading Ladies” by the American playwright Ken Ludwig.
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Jolanta Macenowicz
Poland |
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For many years involved in the independent film movement, a founder of several amateur film clubs in Jelenia Góra, Wrocław and Warsaw. The initiator and, for many years, the main organizer of “Młodzi i Film” Film Festival in Koszalin. She leads workshops for teenagers and their teachers who run amateur film clubs. She founded a 2-year Youth Film Academy within the People’s University in Rozalin. She holds international film reviews in Poland and abroad. She has also finished cinematography courses. Currently, Jolanta Macenowicz works as a vice-director of The Polish Soldier’s House and supports the local Film and Doccumentary Film Studio. She is also the organizer of the National Review of Amateur Films made by the Polish Army, OPFA.
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Barr Potter has been in the entertainment industry for over 30 years as a writer, producer, studio executive and consultant. He is the founder and CEO of Tripod Entertainment, Inc., which is involved in financing, developing and producing motion pictures (such as "War of the Dead", which he co-wrote with the director). Tripod recently acquired options on the national best-selling non-fiction book "LOON - A Marine Story" and the vampire novel “Pretty When She Dies”. Mr. Potter has completed the script for each one, which he will also produce. Prior to Tripod, Mr. Potter was the Chairman and CEO of Largo Entertainment, Inc., a leading independent foreign sales company involved in the financing, acquisition, production and worldwide distribution of major feature films such as “G.I. Jane” and “White Squall” (both directed by Ridley Scott), “Mulholland Falls” (directed by Lee Tamahori and produced by Dick Zanuck), “Vampires” (directed by John Carpenter), and “Affliction” (written and directed by Paul Schrader, which earned James Coburn an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and a nomination for Nick Nolte as Best Actor). In 2009, Mr. Potter served as a member of the inaugural competition jury for the 14th Vilnius International Film Festival. Mr. Potter is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has served for many years on the committee that screens and selects the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Ms. Sastry has spent over 12 years in various entertainment-related activities. She is the Founder of South Movie Scenes, a monthly English-language film magazine exclusively dedicated to the South Indian Film Industry, which gave the Industry its first-ever global platform. The magazine was applauded by the British Council, which presented Ms. Sastry with the award for Young Screen Entrepreneur-India 2008-09. Ms. Sastry represented India at the International Young Screen Entrepreneur Programme held in London during October, 2008. She was a panelist at the Round Table discussion held on the Indian Cinema at Lyon International Film Festival in Lyon, France in November 2008. Ms. Sastry was also a member of the jury for the Vilnius International Film Festival in 2009. At the VIFF she also served as the curator for a special showcase of Indian Films that was organized by the festival. Ms. Sastry has been an Assistant Director on three (3) short films. One called “”Bindi” has been released. She is currently writing a commissioned book on the Actresses of the South Indian Film Industry, and she hosts an internet chat show based on the personalities in the book.
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Roman Gutek (born in 1958) studied management as well as anthropology of cinema. He created the Warsaw International Film Festival in 1985 and directed it until 1992. In 1994, he established GUTEK FILM Ltd., which is presently one of the leading art house film distributors in Poland. The company has released more than 250 films by directors such as: Lars von Trier, Mike Leigh, Pedro Almodovar, Peter Greenaway, Jim Jarmusch, Wong Kar-Wai, David Lynch, Francoise Ozon, as well as young innovative film-makers from around the world. GUTEK FILM has been managing the MURANOW cinema in Warsaw, which belongs to the EUROPA CINEMA network, since 1994. The cinema predominantly screens European titles, but also art house films from all over the world. It is also the home of festivals, retrospectives and film education for young people. In 2004, the cinema was honoured with Europa Cinemas Award for the high quality of the Muranow programming. For the last 9 years Gutek has been the director of ERA NEW HORIZONS International Film Festival in Wroclaw, which presents over 250 titles from all over the world every year. The festival attracted 127.000 viewers in 2008 only. In 2004, he was awarded France's Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French government for promoting and distributing French films in Poland. In 2008 the Hungarian government awarded Gutek the Hungarian Republic's Order of Merit, Chevalier Cross, for his work on promoting Hungarian films in Poland. Since 2005, Roman Gutek has been a member of the board of the Polish Film Institute.
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Cezary Harasimowicz
Poland |
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One of the most prominent Polish screenwriters. Actor, playwright, and a writer. His scripts have been made into eight feature films, TV series including „Przeprowadzki” and the third season of „Extradition”, as well as TV plays.
He used to be the literary director of a film studio. He has also written three novels and had a column in a popular magazine, where his short stories were regularly published. A genuinely versatile man, he hosted a talk-show and has produced numerous radio dramas and staged 3 plays. A member of the European Film Academy, he also lectures on playwriting.
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Mathias J. Blochwitz
Germany |
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Born in 1949, he grew up in Berlin. Educated to become a photographer and film technician. From 1972 to 1976 he also studied directing at the Higher School of Film and Television. He has been working as a director in Berlin's theatres and on TV since 1978. From 1992 on he has directed and produced many theatre shows for German TV programmes ARD and ZDF ("Lola Blau" by Georg Kreisler, among other things). He also made films for his own production company. For many years he has been a lecturer at various film schools, as well as he was elected Jury member at diverse film festivals and competitions in Germany and abroad. In November 2009 he received a special mention for his film „Grenzdurchbuch 89” at the Warsaw festival „The Art of the Document”.
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