Jury of 16^th SFF

• Competition Programme - Feature Film

• Competition Programme - Short Film

• Competition Programme - Documentaries

• EFA Nominee Jury

Jury of Short Film Nominee Sarajevo for the European Film Awards 2010


FRANK W. ALBERS
Executive Director, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany

Frank W. Albers was born in Bremen, Germany. While studying German and Scandinavian literature, and cultural sciences, he worked part-time for prestigious Berlin Film Festival. After coming back from Central America where he did a comprehensive linguistic research, Albers started working for TV Production Company in Berlin, where he worked on very popular serials such as SCHREINEMAKERS LIVE, ILONA CHRISTEN, and TAFF. He also worked as the director of the Goethe Institute in Reykjavík. He joined the team of respectable Robert Bosch Foundation in 2001. As a programme manager for arts and culture Albers has to his credit the establishment and development of the Co-production Prize for young filmmakers from Germany and Eastern Europe. The Robert Bosch Foundation is one of the main partners of the Sarajevo Talent Campus.


CHRISTINE DOLLHOFER
Crossing Europe Film Festival Director, Austria

Christine Dollhofer is one of the most prominent figures of Austrian film industry. Since 1990, when she entered the world of film and film festivals, she made a significant contribution to development of European cinematography. From 1992 to 1997, she was artistic and executive director of Viennese art house cinema Filmcasino. As artistic director of Austrian film festival Diagonale, from 1997 to 2004, she offered to the Festival’s audience a series of original, impressive, and surprising films from all over Europe. In 2004, Dollhofer established the Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz, which soon became one of the most important film events in the region. She is a member of the management of Sixpack Film Company, and is working as a consultant for a distribution company Filmladen in Vienna.


VLADIMIR PERIŠIĆ
Director, Serbia

Young Serbian director Vladimir Perišić graduated in film directing from French Academy “La Femis” in Paris. At last year’s Sarajevo Film Festival, his first feature film ORDINARY PEOPLE, of which the screenplay is also by Perišić, won the Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Feature Film, and the FIPRESCI Award. After the SFF, this film achieved considerable success at number of film festivals such as Cottbus Film Festival, Trieste Film Festival, Miami Film Festival... Perišić’s filmography also includes several short films, and a documentary REALITATVIRTUST. His graduation film DREMANO OKO, was included in the student film selection Cinefondation at 2003 Cannes Film Festival.