Jury 2020

A. Sreeker Prasad

A. Sreekar Prasad was born in 1963 in Chennai. He graduated in English literature from the University of Madras. He comes from the illustrious family of LV Prasad, who is a Dadasaheb Phalke Award Winner. He learned editing from his father Akkineni Sanjeevi. Sreekar Prasad is a leading film editor of India, and he has many laurels to his name. He has edited nearly 500 films in different languages. He has worked with recognized directors like Mani Ratnam, Raghavendra Rao, Murugadoss, Santosh Sivan, Vasanth etc. and has worked on prestigious films like Vanaprastham, Dil Chahta Hai, Alai Paayuthe, Thupaaki, Illa, Kaminey, Okkadu, Annamayya and Talvar. He has won numerous awards, including 8 National Awards, 7 State Awards, 2 International Awards – for Firaaq (2008) and With You Without You (2012) and 3 Filmfare awards – for Dil Chahta Hai (2001), Firaaq (2008) and Talvar (2015). He was included in the Limca Book of Records as People of the Year for his wide contribution to Indian cinema in several languages in 2013 (on the occasion of 100 years of Indian Cinema). Prasad also holds the record for films edited in the greatest number of languages in the Limca Book of Records. He has edited films from 17 languages so far.

Andrej Kosak

Andrej Kosak was born in 1965 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has graduated from the Film Academy in Ljubljana. After ten years of a successful TV career where he has directed more than 500 TV emissions in all kinds of fields, he directed his debut feature film 'Outsider' (1997), which broke all domestic box office records pulling almost 5% of the population in the cinema. 'Outsider' was the first film that brought the Slovenian audience back to the cinema. It was distributed in all countries of the former Yugoslavia, won several international awards and was the Slovenian entry for Oscars in 1997. His second film, 'Headnoise' was adapted from a book by the most prominent living Slovenian writer Drago Jancar, and scripted by the internationally acclaimed Dejan Dukovski. 'Headnoise' was the first official co-production between Slovenia and Croatia and was the Slovenian entry for Oscars in 2002.

Antonio La Camera

Antonio La Camera (Castrovillari, 1990) is an Italian director, screenwriter, editor and artistic director. After graduating with honours in Cinema and Visual Arts at the Roma Tre University, he attended courses in directing and screenwriting at the Sentieri Selvaggi film school in Rome. Subsequently, he was admitted to the High Specialization Course in Film Direction 'Fare Cinema' directed by Maestro Marco Bellocchio and held by the Manetti Bros.
His short films 'Carne e Polvere', 'Il Sogno del Vecchio', 'Nel Ritrovo del Silenzio' have been screened at over 100 international and national festivals, including the British Film Institute Future Film Festival (UK), Braunschweig Film Festival (Germany), Ischia Film Festival (Italy), Fabriano Film Fest (Italy), Al-Nahj International Short film Festival (Iraq), CinemAmbiente - Enrivomental Film Festival (Italy), Terre di Cinema - International Cinematographers Days (Italy), and he was among the directors of short films that represented Italy at the RIFF - Russia-Italy Film Festival (Russia).
He has won significant awards such as the award for best director at the Pázmány Film Festival organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Budapest and the prize for the best international short film at the Hak-is Short Film Festival. He is the artistic director of the short film distribution company Gargantua Film Distribution, and the founder and creative director of the Castrovillari Film Festival.

Goran Radovanovic

Goran Radovanović was born in Belgrade in 1957. He graduated in art history from Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy in 1982. Between 1977 and 1980 he sojourned in Munich on a scholarship awarded by the Goethe Institute. After his return to Belgrade, he worked as a writer and director for both feature and documentary films.
He is a member of the European Film Academy, Berlin and Film Artists Association of Serbia. He also worked as a guest professor at EICTV (International Film and Television School), San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba, VGIK; Moscow, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA, ESAP – Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Portugal, DFFB, Berlin, Germany. He acted as a tutor at workshops organized at numerous film festivals by EDN (European Documentary Network). He has written and directed many films such as Hitna pomoć (2009), OTPOR: The Fight to Save Serbia (2001), Terasa (1991), Voigtlaender (1896), Vizantija 1988, Second Circle (1998). Also, his films were screened and awarded at numerous film festivals worldwide. A Goran Radovanović retrospective of documentary films took place in Barcelona (2006), Mexico City (2007), Havana (2010), Vienna (2011).

György Báron

György Báron is a professor at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, and is president of the Hungarian Society of Film Critics within FIPRESCI. Since the 1970s he has published more than a thousand reviews, essays and studies, both in Hungarian and other languages. He has made educational documentaries for various television channels, put together radio programmes on film topics, and is the staff critic of the weekly Élet és Irodalom and the author of the books Hollywood and Marienbad and Descent to the Underworld.
He has previously served as a Jury Member at the following festivals: 12th Palm Springs International Film Festival, 14th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, 14th Seville European Film Festival, 18th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, 20th Europa Cinema International Film Festival, 21st Istanbul Film Festival, 21st Montreal World Film Festival, 29th Cairo International Film Festival, 3rd goEast Film Festival, 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 5th Abu Dhabi Film Festival, 61st Venice Film Festival, 6th Dubai International Film Festival, 9th Jameson Cinefest Miskolc International Film Festival.

Luong Dinh Dung

Luong Dinh Dung was born in 1973, Vietnam. He is a director, producer, and scriptwriter. In 2010, he completed his Master of Fine Arts at the Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema. He is currently a Film Advisor and a member of the international programming team of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. He has published an action novel named 'The Ownerless Girls', a collection of poems and short stories 'Towards The Sun', and another collection of poems 'My moon is still square'. His debut feature film 'Father and Son' was Vietnam's official entry in the Foreign Language film category at the 90th Oscars. It has been screened in many countries such as India, United States, Canada, Italy, Estonia, Thailand, Uruguay, Iran, Spain, Saudi Arabia, etc. 'Father and Son' has also won many awards, such as the Best Asian Film Award at the 36th Fajr International Film Festival in Iran (FIFF), Best Screenplay and the Silver Lotus at the 20th Vietnam Film Festival, and Best Foreign Feature Award at the 26th Arizona International Film Festival.

Mania Akbari

Mania Akbari (b. Tehran, 1974) is an internationally acclaimed artist and filmmaker. Her provocative, revolutionary and radical films were recently the subject of retrospectives at the BFI, London (2013), the DFI, Denmark (2014), Oldenburg International Film Festival, Germany (2014), Cyprus Film Festival (2014) and Nottingham Contemporary UK (2018). Her films have screened at festivals around the world and have received numerous awards including the German Independence Honorary Award, Oldenberg (2014), Best Film, Digital Section, Venice Film Festival (2004), Nantes Special Public Award Best Film (2007), Best Director and Best film at the Kerala Film Festival (2007), Best Film and Best Actress, Barcelona Film Festival (2007). Akbari was exiled from Iran and currently lives and works in London, a theme addressed in 'Life May Be' (2014), co-directed with Mark Cousins. This film was released at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (2014) and Asia Pacific Film Festival (2014). Akbari's latest film 'A Moon For My Father', made in collaboration with the British artist Douglas White, premiered at CPH:DOX where it won the NEW:VISION Award 2019. The film also received a FIPRESCI International Critics Award at the Flying Broom Festival, Ankara.

Suman Mukhopadhyay

Suman Mukhopadhyay has directed seven full-length feature films: Nazarband (2020); Asamapta (2017); Shesher Kobita(2014); Kangal Malsat, (2013); Mahanagar@Kolkata (2009); Chaturanga (2008) and Herbert (2005), which won the National Award for Best Regional Film that year. Suman is one of India's leading theatre directors and has done productions ranging from European drama to major adaptations of Bengali masterpieces and productions of Indian plays. He has participated and won awards in various national and international theatre and film festivals including Busan, Montreal, Dubai, Munich, San Francisco, Seattle, and Kerala. Suman has also made a number of documentaries, TV series, short films and cine-plays. His major plays are Teesta Paarer Brittanto, Mephisto, King Lear. He was conferred with a script development award from Motion Picture Association and Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Brisbane in 2017. Recently, his film Nazarband (Captive) had its world premiere at Busan International Film Festival 2020.

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