Jury
International Jury
KOCSIS Ágnes - president
Ágnes Kocsis was born in Budapest in 1971. She majored at the Budapest University in Polish Language and Literature, Aesthetics, and Film Theory, then received a degree in film direction from the University of Theater and Film in Budapest. Her three short films have been screened at numerous festivals; A vírus (The Virus) shared third prize at the 59th Cannes Film Festival in the Cinéfondation section. Her first feature film Friss levegő (Fresh Air) was screened at the same edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Semaine de la critique, and was among the 4 films nominated for the Discovery Award of the European Film Academy in 2006. Fresh Air has played at more than 80 international film festivals to date, winning 14 prizes. Pál Adrienn, her second feature film, won the FIPRESCI award at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, in the section Un certain regard. The Hungarian premiere of Pál Adrienn was at Jameson CineFest in 2010. She received the Béla Balázs Award in 2011.
MURAY Gábor
Hungarian journalist, film critic, cultural editor of the daily Magyar Nemzet. "During the student years at the Budapest Pázmány Catholic University I studied Germanistics and communication, specialized in electronic media and film aesthetics. I got closer to the seventh art, as well. I attended to a filmclub-leader course at Ferenc Faludi Academy, and an art photo course under the direction of György Stalter. After a pedagogic traning in Hungary and the Czech Republic I spent some time with gastro-cultural media challenges on the net. Since 2003 I am a journalist and since 2010 the cultural editor of the Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet. Beside watching movies and making photos I am keen on cycling, canoeing, making trips on the countryside, and as a part of it, tasting quality wines. Last but not least, I am the guest of Jameson CineFest since its beginnings - course, with my dog, the festival veteran Cserge".
Krzysztof WIERZBICKI
Writer and director of more than sixty documentaries, like History of Norman Davies, Businessman and Clochard and The Last Examination, Polish artist Krzysztof Wierzbicki was born in 1942 in Malszyce. Studied English philology, film and sociology. Krzysztof was a long-time assistant and first assistant director to Krzysztof Kieślowski in almost all of his documentaries and also some features: Personnel, The Scar, The Calm, and Camera Buff. He was also assistant and first assistant director to eminent Polish directors, like Andrzej Wajda and Marcel Lozinski. He's portrait I'm So-So, a documentary on Krzysztof Kieślowski, won the Grand Prix Vue sur les Docs Marseille and the Best Documentary in Karlovy Vary and many other prizes.
International Animation-, Short- and Documentary Film Jury
Almási Tamás - president
Tamás Almási is one of the most well-known and most successful Hungarian documentary film directors. In 2010 he received the highest Hungarian artistic distinction, the Kossuth Prize. He graduated from the Academy of Theatre and Film Budapest as a film director in 1979. So far he has made more than forty full-length documentaries and some feature films, which have been screened at a number of highly prestigious festivals in Europe and overseas earning him numerous awards. His films have been broadcast in almost forty countries. He has also been teaching filmmaking at the University of Theatre and Film Budapest since 1999. He is currently a professor at this university. In 2005 he obtained his DLA (Doctor of Liberal Arts).
Christa Auderlitzky
Christa Auderlitzky studied Theatre-, Film- & Media Science at the University of Vienna. She is an Austrian film professional in programming and film distribution. Owner and founder of FILMDELIGHTS, based in Vienna, an innovative sales company for classical & web X.0 film distribution, programming and consulting. Since 2004 Christa is a lecturer at the Institute for Theatre-, Film- & Media Science at the University of Vienna. Between 2003 and 2008 she was the artistic director of the Austrian Film Gallery, and in 1993-2001 director of the Filmhaus Stöbergasse, and buyer for Polyfilm distribution.
Felméri Cecília
Cecília Felméri graduated at Sapientia University in Cluj Napoca (Kolozsvár), Romania. Master studies at I. L. Caragiale Film University in Bucharest. Her shorts, like Infinite minutes (short fiction, 2011), Mathias, Mathias (animated documentary, 2010), Cuckoo (short fiction, 2010) were in competition at Locarno IFF, Warsaw IFF, Mar del Plata IFF, DokLeipzig, Transilvania IFF, etc. She won more than 20 prizes with her shorts, as Best Romanian Film at Animest, Best Hungarian Short Film at Jameson CineFest in 2009, and the Most Promising Young Talent at Hungarian Film Week.
