Jury
for Feature and Short Feature Films
Martin Schweighofer, Managing Director Austrian Film Commission
Ludmila Cvikova, Program Director of the International Film Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands
Adrian Sitaru, Director and producer
Martin Schweighofer is born in Vienna. Studied journalism and drama at the
University of Vienna. From 1980 to 1993 was film critic and arts editor for Austrian periodicals. He
is a co-founder of the theatre company Theater im Kopf, Founder and director of
the film festival Diagonale (1993-1996), initiator of a pan-European film
promotion organization that subsequently developed into European Film Promotion
(EFP), member of the European Film Academy and Board of Directors of the
Austrian Film Institute and CEO of the Austrian Film Commission (AFC).
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Ludmila Cvikova was born in Czechoslovakia. After her linguistic studies at
Bratislava's Comenius University she had worked at the Polish Cultural Centre
for a few years. Having moved to the Netherlands in the beginning of the
90-ies, she had picked up her new studies at the University of Amsterdam and
had worked at the famous student arthouse cinema Kriterion in
Amsterdam. During her Kriterion work and studies she already started to
work occassionally for IFFR (International Film Festival in Rotterdam) and
since 1997 she has been one of the programmers here (Eastern Europe,
post-Soviet territories, the Balkan region, Iran, Turkey, Greece and the Middle
East). She is one of the members of the Hubert Bals Fund committee and scouts
for new projects also for the CineMart market.
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Adrian Sitaru is a Romanian director, producer and actor, born in 1971. in the
Transylvanian town of Deva. He studied computer science at the Technical
University of Timisoara and film directing at the Bucharest Media University.
Lives and works in Romania. He is the author of several short films, of which
'Valuri' ('Waves', 2007), the most well-known, has received numerous prizes,
The Heart of Sarajevo for the best short feature among many others. His first
feature film 'Pescuit sportiv'
('Hooked', 2009.) is screend at many international festivals. He
received the Special Jury Award at the 2008 Thessaloniki Film Festival. In
2010, his latest short film, 'Colivia' ('The Cage') won the DAAD Short Film
Award at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. Now, Adrian Sitaru is
preparing his second feature 'From Love with Best Intentions'.
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Documentary film jury
Marina Andree Škop , Director
Sergej Kreso, Journalist and Director
Gaby Babić, Director of goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film in Wiesbaden
Marina Andree Škop was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1973. She graduated
editing from the Academy of Drama Art in Zagreb. With her colleague Darija
Kulenović Gudan she founded a production company Studio dim. Marina has
directed more than 30 music video clips, 50 TV commercials and numerous
corporate films. She works as a director and producer. ‘Sevdah’, screened out
of the competition at the last year's Zagreb Film Festival, is her first
feature documentary.
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Sergej Kreso was born in Sarajevo in 1963. After studying journalism at the Faculty of
Political Science he worked as Sarajevo Radio Television reporter and youth
program editor for Doboj radio station. Next to his journalistic work, Sergej
played in a series of rock bands (La Banda, Scabia, Festival, Torpedos, Gino
Banana, Elvis J. Kurtovic). In 2004 he filmed his documentary debut, 'The
Symphony of a Street Player' ('Simfonija za uličnog svirača'), screened at various
international festivals (Zagreb Film Festival, DokMa, BCI Berlin). 'Graffiti
Street', screend at the documentary film competition of the 5th Zagreb Film
Festival, is his second film. He shoot another documentary 'Jack, the Balkans
& I' in 2008. Sergej still plays his music, today as member of Mala Vita
band.
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Gaby Babić was born in Germany in 1976. She obtained her Master's degree in
Political Science and Theory of Theater, Film and Media. She studied in
Frankfurt and Paris. She taught at German universities in Konstanz and
Paderborn. As a film curator, she worked for various festivals and cultural
institutions (including Goethe Institut Sarajevo, Oberhausen Short Film
Festival and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt). She is the director of
goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film in Wiesbaden.
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Checkers jury
Uroš Živanović, director
Mirko Pivčević, director of photography
Hüseyin Tabak, director
Uroš Živanović was born in Rijeka in 1981. He is a graduate of Anthropology and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. He publishes film reviews in the Croatian Film Chronicles. His first film ‘Cold Front’ (2009), the winner of the Golden Pram for Best Croatian film at last year's ZFF Checkers Selection, is based on his own script, awarded on Palunko workshop.
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Mirko Pivčević, born 1975 in Split, is an award-winning Croatian cinematographer.
Pivčević's career began in the late 1990s, with a series of short documentary
films and music videos. His first feature film was 'Alone' ('Sami', 2001),
which won him his first Golden Arena for Best Cinematography award at the 2001
Pula Film Festival, the Croatian national film awards festival. His next
feature film was 'A Wonderful Night in Split', a 2004 critically acclaimed
black-and-white film directed by Arsen Anton Ostojić, which earned him his
second Golden Arena and a nomination for the Golden Frog Award at the
Camerimage cinematography film festival. Pivčević graduated from the Zagreb
Academy of Drama Arts in 2007, submitting 'A Wonderful Night in Split' as his
graduation work, and that same year he won his third Golden Arena for the World
War II film 'The Living and the Dead' ('Živi i mrtvi'). His next project was Antonio
Nuić's drama film 'Donkey' ('Kenjac') which earned him his fourth Golden Arena
in 2009.
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Hüseyin Tabak is born 1981 in Germany. His origin is Kurdish from Turkey. He started to
work in the film industry in Hamburg, he was production volunteer on the film
set. Studies Directing at the Filmacademy in Vienna. Filmography: 'Cheeese'
(2008, fiction, winner of the Golden pram for the best short feature film at
the 6th Zagreb Film Festival) 'Ausnahmezustand' (2007, documentary). 'Kick
Off', in documentary competition of this yea's Zagreb Film Festival, is his
first long feature documentary.
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