Jury (2009)
RONALD BERGAN
PRESIDENT
British fi lm scholar, a former Vice-President of FIPRESCI
(International Federation of Film Critics). During a number
of years in France, he lectured on literature, theatre and film
at the Sorbonne, the British Institute and the University of
Lille. He has organised various seasons at the National Film
Theatre in London, and has given talks there. He is a regular
contributor to a number of British national newspapers,
particularly The Guardian. He has read scripts for the European
Screen Fund and been consultant and writer on a number of
TV documentaries. He has been president of the FIPRESCI jury
at numerous fi lm festivals (Cannes, Montreal, Karlovy
Vary, Miami, Mar del Plata, Melbourne, Troia, Valencia,
Athens, Pusan, Lisbon). He has chaired and participated in
many symposia on the cinema all over the world. He has held
the Davidson Chair of Humanities at Florida International
University in Miami, where he taught Film History and Theory.
Biographies: The Coen Brothers (2000); Francis Coppola (1998); Eisenstein: A Life in Confl ict - (1997); Jean Renoir: Projections of Paradise (1992); Dustin Hoff man (1991); Anthony Perkins: A Haunted Life (1995); Katharine Hepburn - An Independent Woman (1996). Reference: The Bloomsbury Foreign Film Guide (1988); The Great Theatres of London (1987); The United Artists Story (1986)
NOVÁK EMIL
Cinematographer, director, photographer. Honored with
Balázs Béla Award. He graduated at the Budapest University
of Theatre and Film as a cinematographer. Until 1987 he
worked for MAFILM, after which he immigrated to Australia.
As a photographer he has had several exhibitions both in
Hungary and Australia. In 1994 he established the Museums of
Hungarians society and organized the fi rst Hungarian Filmweek
in Sydney. From 2004 he is a member of the Hungarian
National Film Offi ce Committee of Films. He is a founder and
organizer of the Golden Eye festival of the Cinematographer
Society. He was the president of the Hungarian Film Week
in 2009. His fi lms have won several international prizes and
awards.
FRITZ URSCHITZ
Photographer, director. He got in contact with the moving
image by his training in photography. He has always been a
passionate cinemagoer and his interest in how movies are
made intensifi ed rapidly. He joined the London Film School
and his graduation fi lm Sebastian and I was screened at
several festivals including Recontrez Henri Langlois in Portiers
and Premier Plan in Angers. Since then he has worked on
four feature fi lm screenplays. Beside his writing activities,
he works as a fi lm curator for the Austrian Cultural Forum in
London and is the co-founder of the production company Cine
Parallel.
SONJA LINDÉN
Independent fi lmmaker. Graduated from the UIAH in Helsinki.
Her graduation fi lm No Man Is An Island won many prizes in
festivals around the world. She has also a Master's degree in
Economics, has taken part in Philip Hoff man's Film Farm in
2004 and been in EURODOC-training 2007. Lindén has worked
as a producer, director and production manager in features,
documentaries and short fi lms in Finland. At the moment she
is working on her next documentary fi lm and also produces
fi lms by other directors.
SALOME KIKALEISHVILI
Editor and lecturer. Graduated from the Faculty of
Cinematography at the Tbilisi State University in 2000. In
2003-2004 she worked for the newspaper 24 Hours, covering
the events of contemporary cultural life and publishing articles
on cinema. Since 2003 she has been teaching Cinema History at
the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts. Since 2004 she has been
working with Tskheli Shokoladi magazine publishing articles
about Georgian and foreign fi lmmakers, creative personalities,
as well as interviews and critical essays on modern cinema.
She is the executive editor of the Cinema magazine reviewing
international fi lm festivals and the editor-in-chief at the
Dialogue magazine. She was FIPRESCI jury member at Berlin,
Setubal, Athens, Dhaka and Tbilisi International Film Festivals.
TÖRÖK FERENC
Hungarian director, a recipient of Béla Balázs and and Pro
Cultura Urbis Awards. Member of the European Film Academy.
Graduated from the Budapest University of Theatre and Film
as fi lm director. His graduation fi lm Moszkva tér won the prize
for the Best First Film and also the People's Choice Prize at the
32nd Hungarian Film Week. In 2004 his second feature, Szezon
won the fi lm.hu award. His nex feature, Overnight, made in
2007, received the prize for Best Visual Design at the Hungarain
Film Week. Mr. Török is also known as theater director, most
recently for Géza Bereményi's and Krisztina Kovács' play
Apacsok, performed at the Budapest Radnóti Theatre. His most
recent work for TV is Koccanások, based on György Spiró's play.
ERIC RULLIAT
French actor. Graduated from the National Drama Academy in
Paris. He played in several theatrical plays, tv fi lms and feature
films. Selected features: Robin Hood Adventure (directed by:
Ridley Scott), La Frontiere de l'Aube / Frontier of Dawn (directed
by: Philippe Garrel); Les Amants Reguliers / Regular lovers
(directed by: Philippe Garrel); Sauvage Innocence (directed by:
Philippe Garrel); Psychotherapie / Psychotherapy (directed by:
Mathieu Frison).
Critics jury
SZALÓKY BÁLINT
Hungarian film critic and editor. Co-founder of the mozinet.hu and
the Mozinet Magazin, published monthly from 2004. Currently he
is also the second editor-in-chief at Mozinet Magazin. Assistant
editor of the books Grindhouse - A filmtörténet tiltott korszakai
and Zsánerben. His critics have been published in the nternational
DVD Magazin, in Filmcsillag, in the Mozi Nap section of the Budapesti
Nap. His critics are regularly appear in the Pesti Műsor.
BOYD VAN HOEIJ
Dutch fi lm critic and freelance arts writer. Currently a contributing
critic of U.S. trade paper Variety, for which he covers the major
European festivals. He is also the fi lm editor of both the Dutch and
English-language editions of Winq magazine and a contributor to
the annually published International Film Guide. Further credits
include U.S. independent fi lm website indieWIRE; Italian film
publication Nick; international fashion & interview magazine Nico,
and Filmkrant, the major Dutch-language publication on cinema.
VÁRADI JÚLIA
Hungarian journalist, media expert and universitiy professor.
A regular contributor of Klubrádió, Élet és Irodalom, Magyar
Narancs, Mozgó Világ and Kritika. Associate professor at the
Austrian Donau Universiteat Krems, Department of International
Journalism. Awards and prizes: Pulitzer Prize, prize of the "Volt",
Pro Cultura Urbis Award, several prizes for her radio works. Deputy
of the Nyilvánosság Klub, member of the Advisory Board at the
Fekete Doboz Alapítvány, member of the board of supervision
at C3 Kulturális és Kommunikációs Alapítvány, communications
manager of the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Ficc zsűri
HAUKE LANGE-FUCHS
German fi lm journalist and historian. The artistic director of the
children and youth programme and the retrospective of the Nordic
Film Lübeck since 1981. Additionally he is an active member the
Bundesverband Jugend & Film - the German Federation of Film
Societies for Children and Young People - and, since 2oo8, a member
of the Executive Committee of the FICC (International Federation
of Film Societies). Writer of many books and articles, mainly
on Scandinavian fi lm.
ORNELLA DE STEFANO
Italian engineer, cultural operator. She lives in Reggio Calabria. In
1994 she has started her activity as cultural operator in the local
cineclub Cesare Zavattini. For some years a member of the Italian
Federation Council, she has cooperated at the organization of the
1999-2005 editions of the International Festival of Film Societies.
Recently has conducted a course of cinema language for students
of a public secondary school.
BÁRDOS CSABA
Teacher from Hungary. Graduated at the Pécs University in English in
2004 (American and British literature and Culture), in 2008 graduated
at University ELTE of Budapest (Aesthetics of Motion Pictures
and Media).Worked at several grammar schools, organized
fi lm sessions, mostly on Hungarian fi lm history and contemporary
national and international genres. Nowadays Mr. Bárdos is a
teacher of Balassi Institute of Budapest (www.bbi.hu) for foreign
students studying Hungarian culture. Member of the board of the
Hungarian Federation of Film Societies since 2008. Member of the
FICC jury in Locarno in 2008.
