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visual arts
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every June
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COMPETITION FEATURE LENGTH FILMS juries |
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 Jim
Quilty
Jim Quilty is a Beirut-based
Canadian journalist. He�s written about the
politics, arts and cultural production in the Middle
East for about a decade.
The film critic of Beirut�s Daily
Star newspaper, he�s also interested in what some
call the symbiosis between politics and cultural
production � both in the impact of politics in
conditioning the creative process and in how factors
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 RICHARD
KWIETNIOWSKI
Writer-director, born in London
to Anglo-Polish parents.
Educated at the University of
Kent at Canterbury, where he was awarded a
first-class
honours BA in English and
American Literature, and a PhD in Film Studies; and
at the
University of California at
Berkeley, where he was the first ever Visiting
Research
Scholar in film. He returned to
Britain to work in the independent film sector and
higher education, during which time he made a number
of internationally acclaimed short films including
Alfalfa and Flames of Passion. Subsequent work as a
director for British television won Royal Television
Society and D&AD (Gold and Best of Year) awards, and
a Prix Italia nomination. He has made two
internationally distributed feature-films: Love and
Death on Long Island, with John Hurt and Jason
Priestley, and Owning Mahowny, with Philip Seymour
Hoffman and Minnie Driver, with
the third slated for 2009. His films have received
awards from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Film
Festival, New York Film Critics Circle, US National
Board of Review, and BAFTA (British Academy of Film
and Television Arts). He regularly teaches directing
at a wide range of British film schools and beyond,
recently served as a Skillset consultant, and has
contributed to many European development initiatives
in screenwriting, including Scenario at London�s
Institut Francais, ScriptEast in Poland, and
Hungarian Film Week in Budapest. He recently served
on the jury of FadeIn in Hungary, the Ibiza Film
Festival, and the Balkan Fund at the Thessaloniki
Film Festival. His name is easier to pronounce than
it looks: Kfee-et-nee-ov-skee.
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 STERGIOS
NIZIRIS
Born in Lamia in 1967. He has a BSc
in Electrical Engineering (University of Patras,
Greece) and a MSc in Mathematics (IIT, Chicago,
USA). He studied Film Direction (Hadjikou School,
Athens, Greece) and Film Theory (Westminster
University, London, UK).
He�s currently
working as an executive producer in various projects
as well as writer/director/producer in his own films
.Among the films he has directed are: �Miracles on
Alexandra�s Avenue� in 1998, Wrong century in 2000
and �Like Chef, like God� in 2004.
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COMPETITION MEDIUM LENGTH FILMS
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 IRENA
TASKOVSKI
Originally from
Bosnia, Irena studied in Prague, graduating from the
Film Academy (FAMU). She has also studied at the Sam
Spiegel Film and TV School in Jerusalem and obtained
Master degree from National Film & TV School, London
UK.
Growing up in a
country whose social and political issues culminated
in war, and living in the post- communist Czech
Republic, were rich life experiences. Irena is left
with a fund of stories that she wants to bring to
the screen using the diversity of social and
cultural forms of the East and the West. Irena has
produced several short films and documentaries,
including multiple award winners Village B, dir.
Filip Remunda,( Best Documentary at Karlovy Vary in
2002) and Czech Dream directed by Vit Klusak and
Filip Remunda (Best Czech Documentary 2004 Jihlava
IDFF, FIRPESCI prize at IFF Ljubljana 2004, Best
Documentary San Francisco Film Fest Denmark 2004).
She has also
worked in development and financing in London based
production company Autonoumus (UK producers of
Bosnian film No Mans Land, D.Tanovic) after that
Irena worked in marketing and publicity department
of Tartan Films Distribution in London focusing on
independent foreign language films. Irena has
organized and programmed several film festivals
including a tribute to Stephen Frears at the 2001
Sarajevo Film Festival, Indies Film festival in
Prague 1999 and Festival of Czech Films in Bosnia
1998.
In 2004 Irena
worked as scout for Easter European films for Venice
Film Festival Biennale. Based in London, Irena is
currently managing Taskovski Films Ltd Production
and Sales Company, developing a number of projects
that are intended to be made as creative
international co-productions. In Taskovski Films
sales slate are some of the following award winning
films: Shutka Book of Records by Sasa Manic, Source
by Martin Marecek, Gravehopping by Jan Cvitkovic
etc.
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 ANETA
LESNIKOVSKA
After finishing
her third year at the University of Kiril and
Metodij in former Yugoslavia (department History of
Art and Archaeology), Aneta Lesnikovska goes to
Holland and graduates at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy
in Amsterdam, depart�ment audiovisual art. In
her graduation year she is accepted as an exchange
student at the Cooper Union, department film and
video, in New York. Short after her graduation she
gets actively involved in the Euro�pean video art
scene, having numerous expositions of her video and
new media installations. Among others, her work was
exposed in Dubrovnik, Chicago, Budapest, Amsterdam
and New York. Most re�cently her project Confession
room was exposed in the Stedelijk Museum of Modern
Art in Amsterdam.
After focusing on developing her writing and film
directing skills she was accepted as one of the 9
participants at the Master class �The Future of the
small screen� at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2002.
With her first script Does it hurt? First Balkan
Dogma she was selected, together with participants
of 6 other projects in Europe, to take part at the
North by Northwest/East of Eden 2005 scenario/production
workshop (part of the EU MEDIA program).
Does it hurt? First Balkan Dogma is her first feature
film. It was nominated for a Tiger Award at the
International Film Festival in Rotterdam, January
2007, and won the Special Jury Award for innovative
filmmaking at the Bermuda International Film
Festival, March 2007. The film was in competition at
major festivals around the world (Buenos Aires,
Taipei, Barcelona, Brussels, Bratislava, Wroclaw,
Utrecht, Sofia, Ankara, Durban, Seattle, Tallin,
Trenchenice etc).
After the successful presentation of her first
feature film, in 2007/20008 Lesnikovska graduated at
the Binger Film Lab scenario developing program. The
same year she got the Nipkow Berlin stipendium to do
the research for her new feature film Loud.
She is currently working on finalizing the scenario
for Loud and as the creative director of the Digital
Film Lab at the ArtEZ Institute for the Arts in
Holland.
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 YANNIS
MYLOPOULOS
Professor
Yannis Mylopoulos
was born in 1958
in Thessaloniki. He is the Head of the
Division of Hydraulics & Environmental Engineering,
Dept. of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is
appointed as the Chairman of the Educational
Committee for European Issues of Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, (2006-today). He
graduated the Dept. of Civil Engineering, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, in 1982.
He has got his PhD
diploma from the same University in 1987. Before the
start of his academic carrier in 1990, he had worked
in the General Secretariat of Research and
Technology, as well as in the Directorate of Water
and Natural Resources of the Ministry of Development
in Athens, (1989-1990). He has been involved in the
following research areas: Sustainable Development
for the Environment, Environmetal Policy, Integrated
Water Resources Management & Engineering and
Sustainable Water Policy.
He has supervised
as a Research Coordinator many research projects
financed by Greek or European institutions. He
worked as a visiting professor in York University,
Toronto, Canada, (1994-1995), in Stevens Institute
of Technology, USA, (1995 and 2006-2007) and in the
State University of South Carolina, (1997). In 1997
he visited a lot Canadian Universities as a holder
of the Academic Fellowship of the Canadian
Government.
He has been acting
as research project evaluator in the General
Directorate of Research, European Committee, since
1996. He is a member of many scientific
organizations and Committees. He has published more
than 100 scientific articles in international and
national journals and Conference Proceedings. He was
Secretary General (2002-2003) and Chairman
(2003-2007) of the Professors� Association in
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He writes
articles and columns every week in 2 Greek
newspapers, (TA NEA & AGELIOFOROS)
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COMPETITION SHORT
LENGTH
& GREEK FILMS
juries |
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 ELENA
GIUFFRIDA
Born
in Bologna, Italy.
Lives and works in Trieste. Graduated
from the University of Trieste in Film History with
a thesis on the Trieste Film Festival and the film
productions from Central Eastern European countries.
She has been
working for the Trieste Film Festival since 1998 in
various positions and recently has been appointed
Deputy President of the Association Alpe Adria
Cinema running the festival.
She directs a
regional competition taking place in Trieste every
year before the Festival, dedicated to videos and
films shot either in the region or made by local
film directors, therefore creating a strong
connection between the International Festival and
the local productions.
She is now in the
Selection Committee for the International
Competitions of the Trieste Film Festival and in
2009 she conceived the Eastweek project. Film
masters, new talents, devoted to the creation of a
link between the Film Schools and Academies of
Eastern Europe.
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 EVANTHIA
TSANTILA
Born in
Thessaloniki, she has been living and working in
Berlin since 1998. In 1997 she graduated from the
D�sseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied
under Jannis Kounellis.
The same year she organized and
curated a workshop with Jannis Kounellis and 32
students from the Kunstakademie D�sseldorf and the
Art School of Thessaloniki.
In 1999 she
represented Greece in the 48th Venice
Biennale. She has participated in solo and group
shows in Greece, Germany, Italy, Russia,
Switzerland, France, Czech Republic, Georgia,
Armenia, Uzbekistan, etc, in institutions like the
State Museum of Contemporary Art and the Center of
Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, National Museum of
Contemporary Art Athens, Macedonian Museum of
Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, MUAR-Schucev Museum
of Architecture Moscow, Martin Gropius Bau Berlin,
KW Kunstwerke Berlin, K�nstlerhaus
Bethanien Berlin, Kunstmuseum Thun, etc.
In 2006 she has been awarded the HKF
-Berlin Cultural Capital German Award- and in
collaboration with the Volksb�hne Theatre she
presented The Silence, a multimedia installation.
Her work investigates that which
remains after continuous transformations from one
medium to the other. Using other practices in her
installations like architecture, film, video,
photography, theatre, literature, performance and
combining them with traditional ones like drawing
and painting, aims to earn the distance of fine art
from these practices, to elucidate and specify the
autonomous status of the work of art, to elucidate
its solitude.
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 CHRISTOS
GEORGIOU
Christos Georgiou
(Director/ Writer/ Producer) was born in London U.K.
in 1966 by Cypriot parents. He grew up and
completed his basic education in Cyprus. He received
his bachelor�s degree from the University of Warwick
in the U.K. After his graduation in 1989 he
worked for a number of television and production
companies in the U.K, Cyprus and Greece.
In 1993 he
completed his Master of Arts in Film Production,
Direction at Leeds Metropolitan University in the
U.K. I
n 1994 he was
awarded a scholarship by the E.U. to study direction
at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. His
first feature film �Under the Stars� won the PRIX de
MONTREAL for Best First Feature film in 2001. �Small
Crime� is his second feature film.
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 AFRODITI
ATHANASOPOULOU
She
was born in Thebes and lives in
Rhodes. She has been a distinguished graduate of the
University of Crete (1989) and holds a M.Sc. (1992)
and a Ph.D. (1999) in Modern Greek Literature.
.She
has taught Modern Greek Literature at the
Universities of Padova (5 years), Patras (2 years)
and at the Hellenic Open University (1 year).
In the last five years (2003-2008)
she worked as a specialised collaborator at the
�Laboratory of History and Social Sciences� of the
Department of Primary Education at the University of
the Aegean. She has participated in many scientific
congresses and workshops held in Greece and abroad
and she has published several essays on various
subjects and authors of Modern Greek Literature.
Her actual scientific interests are
oriented in the cross-disciplinary approach of
Literature and History. She is interested in all
kinds of human creativity with a special preference
in fine arts: literature, cinema, theatre, sculpture
and painting, as well as applied arts: architecture,
decoration, industrial design ecc. She occasionally
publishes her own writings in local periodicals.
Her web site is
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