Jury

  • LINDA OLSZEWSKI

    LINDA OLSZEWSKI

     Linda Olszewski is one of the most passionate and knowledgeable people in the short film industry.
  • MADLEN CHOLAKOVA

    MADLEN CHOLAKOVA

     Madlen Cholakova is an actress, theatre educator and journalist. Since 2003 she resided permanently in New York, USA.
  • MAJA NOVAKOVIC

    MAJA NOVAKOVIC

     Maja Novaković is an Art History Master's holder and Ph.D. candidate studying Sergei Parajanov's poetics of heritage.
  • Manuela Cernat

    Manuela Cernat

     She is a major representative of the Romanian academic society and an important Romanian cultural ambassador. Film historian and writer, journalist and essayist, author of scripts for cinema and TV documentary films, she is member of the Romanian Writers Union
  • Margarida Moz

    Margarida Moz

     WITH A MASTER’S DEGREE IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, MARGARIDA MOZ HAS BEEN WORKING IN DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION AND FOR SEVERAL FILM FESTIVALS IN PORTUGAL IN THE LAST 15 YEARS. CURRENTLY SHE IS A PROGRAMMER FOR SHORT FILMS IN INDIELISBOA INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, PORTUGAL.
  • Marian Crisan

    Marian Crisan

     MARIAN RECEIVED HIS BACHELOR DEGREE IN FILM AND TV DIRECTING AT UNATC BUCHAREST IN 1999. HE DIRECTED THE SHORT FILMS FAMILY PORTRAIT - 2006, AMATEUR - 2007 AND MEGATRON - 2008. THE LATTER, MEGATRON, WON THE “PALME D’OR” FOR BEST SHORT FILM AT THE 2008 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL, 61TH EDITION.
  • Marin Damyanov

    Marin Damyanov

     He is a cinema writer and novelist who manifests mainly in the field of crime genres. Marin Damyanov has PhD in Dramaturgy with a thesis on “Use of Modern Psychological Theories of the Un conscious in Dramatic Texts”
  • Marta Bayarri

    Marta Bayarri

     Marta Bayarri is an actress, writer and director based in Barcelona. She has a long career as an actress in theater, musical theater, film and television.
  • Martin Iliev

    Martin Iliev

     He is a Bulgarian screenwriter and film director, also member of the Balkan photo collective BULB
  • MARTIN MARKOV

    MARTIN MARKOV

     Martin graduates at The National Academy of Fine Arts – BA in Illustration and an MA in Directing at the National Acadamy of Theatre and Film Arts.
  • NIKOLA PIOVESAN

    NIKOLA PIOVESAN

     As a filmmaker, he won more than 100 awards in hundreds of festivals worldwide (including the prestigious Italian Silver Ribbon and many Oscar Qualifying festivals), writing and directing short films, animations, documentaries and music videos. He’s also a teacher of Film Language and Screenwriting.
  • Ognjen Petković

    Ognjen Petković

     He graduated acting at Academy of Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia in 2008. He finished his PhD in Audiovisual Arts, artistic field - film directing, at Novi Sad Academy in 2021.
  • Ognyan Kovachev

    Ognyan Kovachev

     Associate Professor of Comparative Literary History and Founding Co-director of the MA “Literature, Cinema and Visual Culture” Master’s Degree Program at the Faculty of Slavic Studies of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.