Jury
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Boyana Buchvarova
Boyana Buchvarova is a Sofia-based production designer who has over 15 years of experience in film, TV, theatre, and events. She is also an Assistant Professor at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) “Krastyo Sarafov”. -
Darco Masnec
Darko is an associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, within the Department of Animated Film. In addition, he is a member of the advisory board for MyWorld in Bristol and is a part the festival council of Animafest – the World Festival of Animated Film in Zagreb. -
Katarzyna Surmacz
Katarzyna Surmacz – Director of the Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival (Krakow, Poland). She is currently the Festival Director of Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival. -
Laurence Boyce
Laurence Boyce is an award winning film journalist, a member of FIPRESCI, the London Critics Circle, the European Film Academy and BAFTA. He is currently the chairman of the board of the Short Film Conference, a network of short film organisations from across the globe. -
Léonore Mercier
Léonore Mercier is a filmmaker, composer, and sound artist who creates immersive audiovisual works exploring perception and sensory connections. Her latest film, Sauvage, was selected for the César Awards and awarded at several festivals, including InthePalace, Fipadoc, and Makedox, -
Mario Radev
Mario Radev is a bulgarian visual artist and filmmaker based in London. He works as a director, animator, visual performer and educator. -
Mark Brennan
Mark Brennan is a Festival Strategist & Liaison at the internationally renowned Festival Formula, an agency specialising in festival strategy for short films. -
Matei Branea
Bucharest born and based visual artist: animation film director, comics author and illustrator. His comics and illustrations were published and exhibited nationally and internationally from Tokyo to New York, trough Berlin, London, Paris and of course, Bucharest. -
Michael Hannigan
Michael Hannigan is the co-founder and co-director of the IndieCork Film Festival, Ireland’s largest festival for short films. He has served on the boards of Irish Screen, the Irish Film Institute and the Federation of Irish Film Societies. -
Momchil Grozdanov
Momchil Grozdanov studied in High School of Stage and Film Design. Graduated BA and MA in Animation Directing in New Bulgarian University. Animator and director more than 25 years of experience in animation. -
Nikola Vukčević
Nikola Vukcevic is prominent Montenegrin film director, theatre director and university professor of Film directing, Head of departement of FILM AND MEDIA at the national Faculty of dramatiuc Arts at University of Montenegro (UCG). -
Per Fikse
Per Fikse is the Director of Minimalen Short Film Festival in Trondheim, Norway, from 1999 to date, a festival he has programmed for since 1994. -
Peter Zemek
Peter is the curator at IndieCork Film festival focusing on international shorts and international features. He is also the co-creator and director of Visegrad Film Festival since 2016, which currently features as a guest programme at IndieCork Film Festival. -
Philip Ilson
Philip Ilson is the Artistic Director of the London Short Film Festival, which he co-founded in 2004, after running the Halloween Society film club for 10 years previously since 1994. -
Radostina Neykova
Radostina Neykova is a Bulgarian director, animator, children’s book illustrator, and academic. She serves as Professor and Program Director of the Animation department, as well as Program Director of the Faculty “Production and post-production” at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) “Krastyo Sarafov”. -
Sandy Lieberson
Sandy Lieberson has been a major figure in the film industry in Europe and America since the 1960s, having acted as agent for among others, Sergio Leone, Peter Sellers, Richard Harris, Lindsay Anderson and the Rolling Stones. -
Soňa Morgenthalová
Soňa Morgenthalová has a background in film theory and cultural management. She worked with Bong Joon Ho's crew during the filming of Snowpiercer in the Czech Republic and contributed to numerous international films and series through a Prague-based casting agency. -
Vítězslav Chovanec
Vítězslav joined the team of Czech Film Center in 2017. He graduated from Film and Audiovisual Culture Studies at Masaryk University in Brno. At the CFC, Vítězslav is responsible for promotion of Czech documentary and short films abroad and consults festival strategies of upcoming films as well.
