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COMPETITION FEATURE LENGTH FILMS juries |
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ANGELIKI
ANTONIOU
Born in Athens.
She studied Architecture, in
which she holds a degree in Greece and film
direction at the DFFB (German Film and Television
Academy in Berlin).
She works as scriptwriter and
director in Greece and in Germany. In 2006 she
taught film direction at the Film School of
University in Thessaloniki. She lives in Athens and
in Berlin.
She has directed feature films,
short films and documentaries. Her films have been
distributed in several European countries and have
been awarded in numerous international festivals.
Her last film �Eduart� participated in more than 40
film festivals and received 18 awards (Greece,
France, USA and England) and as well excellent
revues. Eduart was Greece's submission for an Oscar
Nomination for Best Foreign Film 2008.
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Nic
Balthazar
Nic Balthazar was born in Ghent, Belgium (1964).
After graduating (he has several college degrees and speaks seven
languages), he started to work for Radio and Television, where he became
a popular face on tv, presenting several shows.
He is also a writer, freelance journalist, columnist,
tv and theater director. In 2007, he directed his first feature film,
Ben X, based on his book. Ben X won several international awards and was
sold to more than 40 countries. Ben X was also Belgium�s entry for the
Academy Awards 2007.
Nic Balthazar has been an ecological activist ever
since he presented �Ideefix�, the first ecological game show on European
television (in 1987!). In 2008 he produced wrote and directed the short
�The Big Ask�, a cautionary clip about global warming. The follow-up,
called �The Big Ask Again, Dance for the Climate�, in which no less than
12.000 people danced in a mass choreography to the music of U2, was
translated in 30 languages, in the international campaign leading up to
the Copenhagen Summit.
The global dance �cinemanifestation� on
www.dancefortheclimate.org
has already gathered more than 24.000 dancers from different parts of
the globe. Meanwhile he is preparing a documentary about climate change
and the dangers of worldwide meat-overconsumption, while preparing his
next fiction film �Team Mario�, based upon the story of the first man to
ever make use of the euthanasia law in Belgium, the second country in
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GEORGE
OVASHVILI
Director, producer and screenwriter. In 1996 he
completed his studies at the Institute of Film and
Theatre in Tbilisi, Georgia.
In 2006
he graduated from the Film Academy in New York at
Universal Studios in Hollywood. He has directed
several short films, fiction films and
documentaries.
His
film �The other bank� participated in many festivals
worldwide and won numerous awards (Best Film, Best
Director, Best Screenplay, etc.). He has
participated several times as a jury member in
several International Film Festivals.
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COMPETITION MEDIUM LENGTH FILMS
juries |
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DIMITRIS
INDARES
Born in Patras in
April, 1964. He studied political science and
international relations at Panteios University in
Athens and film directing at the Stavrakou School.
Upon completing his studies in 1987 he worked as
assistant director in the films of
Pantelis Voulgaris,
Nikos Perakis, Frida Liappa, Diagoras Chronopoulos
and as a production manager for the film �Lefteris
Dimakopoulos� by Choursoglou Pericles.
From
1987 until today, he has directed several feature
films and documentaries.
His
film �Totally Married� won the Best Script Award at
the 44th International Thessaloniki Film Festival,
the Platinum Award for Best Comedy at Houston
International Film Festival, the Best Music Award at
Valencia Film Festival and the Best Supporting Actor
Award by the
Hellenic Ministry of Culture Cinema Awards in 2003.
He has also
directed video clips and more than 120 commercials.
He is now preparing his next feature
film �Mam�.
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CHRISTOS
ZOURAS
Christos
Zouras is the Secretary General and acts as the
director of Organization Earth, a newly formed Greek
NGO whose mission is the promotion of collective
intelligence through education.
He is also the Vice President of
Arcturos environmental NGO which deals with the
protection of biodiversity and especially with large
carnivores. He is the President of the Quality of
Life Council for the Hellenic Society for the
Protection of the Environment and the Cultural
Heritage (NGO).
He has also experience in Public
Private Partnerships working with Ernst & Young
consultancy firm. He is a member of the IENE
Committee (Infra Eco Network Europe).
For the period 2008-9, he was
appointed as a Permanent Member of the National
Hellenic Council of Country Planning & Sustainable
Development. He holds a masters degree in public
administration & NGO governance from Bocconi
University - Milan Italy.
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COMPETITION
SHORT
LENGTH
& GREEK FILMS
juries |
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ANASTASSIA
ZEPPOY
Anastassia Zeppou
was born and raised in Athens,
Greece.
She graduated from
the Theology Department of the Religious Studies
School of the University of Athens. She has taken
postgraduate courses studying Comparative Religious
Studies, Philosophy and Religion Psychology and
Christian Anthropology.
She has attended
and participated in seminars for Literature Theory,
Poetry, History of Philosophy and Aesthetics. She
lives at present in Rhodes, Greece and works as an
educator at the local Direction of Secondary
Education.
Her book
presentations, essays, portraitures, texts and poems
have been publicized in theological and literary
journals in Athens and Rhodes. She is an active
member of the Film Club of Rhodes �Theassis�
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 HASSE
WESTER
Hasse was born in Harnosand 1957
in the north of Sweden. He has been studying
behavioural science at the University of Stockholm
and Film production at Skurups folkhogskola in
Sweden. Hasse has been working with film and
TV-production since 1992.
He has been working as an editor
for the National Swedish Television for more than 10
years, and he has filmed and produced reportage and
documentaries for Television. His film The Golden
Beach has been screened at several international
film festivals in Europe, Kanada and India, and it
got first prize at The Rodos International Film &
Visual Arts Festival in 2009.
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MARCO
GAUDENZI
Was born in Pesaro
in 1949.
He graduated in
architecture from the University of Rome in 1976,
with a thesis entitled:
�A residential complex for
the elderly in Pesaro�.
Since 1976, he has created some 150 design projects
for all areas of civil and industrial building,
including the building of an experimental theatre in
Pontedera.
Since 1987, he has
been the creator and art director of Tonelli,
bringing in designers such as Isao Hosoe, De Pas,
D�Urbino, Lomazzi and Luigi Serafini. In the design
field, he works on occasional, non-specific projects
that have seen him collaborate with Tonelli in the
furniture industry, MFFM in the jewellery sector,
and Benelli for hunting rifles.
As part of an
overall research project into mobility, which he
carried out in conjunction with Isao Hosoe, he
created �Fluida�, a �bag� bicycle. |
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