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Jury of 17th Sarajevo Film Festival
Jury of the Competition Programme – Feature Film
ARI FOLMAN, President of the Jury
Director, Israel
Ari Folman, an Israeli director, is one of the world’s leading film authors.Ari Folman’s graduate film, COMFORTABLY NUMB (1991) documented his close friends taking cover on the verge of anxiety attacks during the first Gulf war while Iraqi missiles landed all over Tel Aviv. Film won the Israeli Academy award for Best Documentary. Between 1991-1996 Ari Folman directed documentary specials for TV. In 1996 he wrote and directed SAINT CLARA, a feature film based on a novel by the Czech author Pavel Kohout. The film won seven Israeli Academy awards, including Best Director and Best Film. SAINT CLARA opened Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama and won the People’s Choice Award. The film was screened throughout America and Europe to critical acclaim. Folman continued directing successful documentary series and took time off for his second feature in 2001 - MADE IN ISRAEL.
A successful attempt at documentary animation prompted Ari Folman to develop the unique format of WALTZ WITH BASHIR, which won numerous awards including Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, six Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay, and award of Los Angeles Film Critics Association for Best Animated Feature. Film was nominated for Academy Award in category of Best Foreign Language Film.
JURY MEMBERS
ALBERTO BARBERA
Director of the National Museum of Cinema, Italy
Born in Biella (Italy) in February 1950. Bachelor of Arts at Turin University in 1975, with a master’s degree in film history and criticism.
Alberto Barbera began his career in 1972 at A.I.A.C.E., the Italian Association of Art Film Theaters in Turin, and served as its President between 1977 and 1989.
From 1980 to 1983 he was the chief film critic of the daily La Gazzetta del Popolo. He has also written for a variety of newspapers (Città, La Stampa) and film magazines (Essai, Altro Cinema, Bianco e Nero, Cineforum).
In 1982, Barbera joined the Torino Film Festival, as press officer, then as General Secretary and member of the Selection Committee since 1984. From 1989 to 1998 he was the festival’s Director. He is also the author of numerous publications.
Barbera was the Director of the Venice Film Festival from 1999 to 2001. Since June 2004, he has been the Director of the National Museum of Cinema in Torino.
ZANA MARJANOVIĆ
Actress, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zana Marjanović is considered one of the most successful young actresses in BiH. She was born in 1983 in Sarajevo and graduated from the acting department of the Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts in 2006.
Zana Marjanović played one of the leads in IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY directed by Angelina Jolie, currently in post-production. She also delivered noted performances in SNOW by Aida Begić, which won the Grand Prix at the Semaine de la Critique, Cannes Film Festival 2008, and was nominated for the European Film Academy Discovery Award; SUMMER IN THE GOLDEN VALLEY by Srđan Vuletić, which won numerous awards including VPRO Tiger Award for Best Film, Moviezone award at the Rotterdam Film Festival, Special Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI award at the Sofia International Film Festival and Jury Prize at the Bermuda Film Festival.
In addition to film and TV, she is also active in theatre. She has delivered superb performances in numerous theatre projects and collaborated with some of the leading directors in BiH and the region.
MICHÈLE OHAYON
Director, producer, writer, USA
Michèle Ohayon is an award-winning director, writer and producer. She was born in Casablanca and raised in Israel. She graduated from the University of Tel Aviv (film and television). In 1984, she received the Israeli Best Film Award for PRESSURE. In 1987, she moved to Los Angeles, where she directed a succession of critically acclaimed dramatic and documentary features: IT WAS A WONDERFUL LIFE (1987), narrated by Jodie Foster with music by Melissa Etheridge, followed by the award-winning films COLORS STRAIGHT UP (1997), which was nominated for an Oscar for best documentary film, COWBOY DEL AMOR (2005). In 2007, Ohayon had completed work on a documentary STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME, which screened at the UN, and garnered the Audience Award at Sonoma Film Festival and the Yad Vashem Chairman Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
For her body of work, Michèle received the 1996 and the 1998 Artist’s Grant from the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and was recognized for her fiction writing in the Chesterfield Writing Competition 2000. S.O.S/STATE OF SECURITY, Michèle’s newest feature documentary, opened in the Berlin Film Festival. She has been a guest speaker/lecturer at various schools and colleges.
Michèle is a founding board member of Cinewomen. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures, the Writers Guild and the Producer’s Guild of America, as well as the International Documentary Association. In addition, Michele directed numerous TV shows and music videos, and has her own production company. She serves on juries of various festivals, including Berlin, Tel Aviv and Sarajevo. 
RAZVAN RADULESCU
Scriptwriter and director, Romania
Razvan Radulescu is one of the most productive Romanian scriptwriters. He is the representative of the so-called post-revolution film in Romania and is part of the most successful generation of Romanian filmmakers, whose films marked the international film scene over the past decade.
He studied at the School of Philology and the Music Academy of the University of Bucharest.
His literary debut was a collection of anthologies entitled Family Portrait, published in 1985. His 1997 novel The Life and Deeds of Elijah Cazane won the Best Debut Prize by the Romanian Writers Guild. He has collaborated with numerous successful directors such as Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, Alexandru Baicuom, Radu Muntean, Constantin Popescu… He also wrote scripts for numerous successful films such as: STUFF AND DOUGH (1999), GOODS AND MONEY (2001), NIKI ARDELEAN, COLONEL IN RESERVE (2001), FEED FOR SMALL FRY (2004), OFFSET (2004), THE DEATH OF MR LĂZĂRESCU (2005) directed by Cristi Puiu; and THE PAPER WILL BE BLUE (2005), BOOGIE (2008) and TUESDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS (2009) directed by Radu Muntean, PRINCIPLES OF LIFE by Constantin Popescu (2009), and he co-directed FIRST OF ALL together with Melissa de Raaf, and was the script advisor for 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS by Cristian Mungiu (2007).
Jury of the Competition Programme – Documentary Film
LUCIANO BARISONE
Director of Visions du Réel Festival, Switzerland
Film-club host, journalist and film critic for specialist magazines ("Filmcritica", "Cineforum", "Duellanti") and newspapers ("La Stampa", "Il Manifesto"), he founded the magazine "Panoramiques", which he directs. He has written monographs on Catherine Breillat, Robert Guédiguian, Clint Eastwood, Naomi Kawase, Nicolas Philibert, Les Films d'Ici and Sydney Pollack. Since 1997, he has collaborated at numerous international film festivals, including the Locarno International Film Festival and the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica of Venice. In 2002, he founded the Alba Infinity Festival, for which he has acted as artistic director until 2007. Since 2008 he is artistic director at Festival dei Popoli in Florence. In April 2010 he has been nominated director of Visions du Réel in Nyon. He has acted as member of the jury at Cannes (Caméra d'or 1997), Marseille (Fid, 2000), Valladolid (Seminci, 2003), Buenos Aires (Bafici, 2004), Lisbon (DocLisboa2004), Pamplona (Punto de Vista, 2008), Tel Aviv (DocAviv, 2008), Paris (Cinéma du Réel, 2009), Yerevan (Golden Apricot International Film Festival, 2010), Toronto (Hot Docs).
BILJANA GARVANLIEVA
Freelance author and director, Macedonia
Biljana Garvanlieva was born in Skopje, Macedonia in 1973. After studying dramaturgy in Skopje, in 1999 she received a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to study theater and film at the Free University of Berlin (Freien Universität Berlin). She currently lives and works in Berlin as a freelance author and director of documentary films. In 2006 she directed her first documentary for the TV network 3sat entitled MACEDONIAN DREAM: A GIRL AND HER ACCORDION, which has won several awards, including the Golden Lola German Short Film Award. In 2009 she followed up her previous success with TOBACCO GIRL, which has received numerous awards for its direction, including nomination for the German Short Film Award Golden Lola and Juliane Bartel German Media Award. In 2010, Garvanlieva was awarded the Heart of Sarajevo prize for Best Documentary at the 16th Sarajevo Film Festival, for her documentary film THE SEAMSTRESSES.
DAVID RIEFF
Journalist and author, USA
David Rieff is a New York-based journalist and author. During the 1990’s he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi,Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and Central Asia. Now a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, he has written extensively about Iraq, and, more recently, about Latin America. He is the author of eight books, including SLAUGHTERHOUSE: BOSNIA AND THE FAILURE OF THE WEST and A BED FOR THE NIGHT: HUMANITARIANISM IN CRISIS. His memoir, SWIMMING IN A SEA OF DEATH, appeared in January 2008. Based in New York City, Rieff is currently working on a book about the global food crisis.
Jury of the Competition Film - Short Film
President of the Jury
MILCHO MANCHEVSKI
director, Macedonia
Milco Mancevski wrote and directed the feature films BEFORE THE RAIN (1994), DUST (2001), SHADOWS (2007) and MOTHERS (2011).
BEFORE THE RAIN won an Academy-Award nomination and thirty awards, including Golden Lion for Best Film in Venice, Independent Spirit, FIPRESCI, UNESCO, best film of the year in Argentina, Italy, Sweden, Turkey, and other awards in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, etc.
The New York Times included BEFORE THE RAIN on its list of the best 1,000 films ever made.
DUST was the opening-night film of the Venice Film Festival. Both SHADOWS and MOTHERS were the Macedonian Academy Awards entries, with MOTHERS screening in the Panorama section of Berlinale 2011.
Manchevski’s films have screened at more than a hundred festivals, and have been distributed in close to 50 countries (theatrically, TV, cable and video).
Manchevski won awards for best experimental film (for 1.73) and best MTV video (for Tennessee, which The Rolling Stone placed on the list of the 100 best videos ever).
He has published fiction, essays and op-ed pieces in New American Writing, La Repubblica, Corriere Della Sera, Sineast, The Guardian, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Pravda, etc.
He has lectured at a number of universities, cinematheques, art museums and art institutes, most notably as a Head of the Directing Studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film program.
Jury Members
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BERJON
Artistic Director Semaine de la Critique, France
Previously actor and theater director (Topor, Ionesco…), Jean-Christophe Berjon was a teacher at the performing school Le Cours Florent (Paris) before becoming one of its supervisors from 1998 to 2000.
Meanwhile, he had been the editor of Les Fiches du Cinéma and L’Annuel du Cinéma from 1997 to 2005. He collaborates with several publications (Avant-Scène Cinéma, Virgin Hebdo, Télérama…) and has been part of radio and TV shows such as Le Cercle on Canal + TV channel since 2005.
He directed a documentary about Mexican cinema, produced in 2008 by Canal+. Former General Secretary of the French Union of Film Critics, he became the Semaine de la Critique’s Artistic Director from 2004 till 2011.
In addition, he was the Artistic Director of the Biarritz Latin American Film Festival from 2008 till 2010, and an International Assessor for the Morelia Film Festival (Mexico) since 2005.
ERZEN SHKOLOLLI
Artist, Kosovo
Erzen Shkololli was born in Pejë, Kosovo, in 1976 and lives and works in Prishtina. Through his work, Shkololli strives to re-enact traditional ceremonies and utilize local rituals and folklore to draw attention to socio-political situations, while insinuating contemporary symbols and disillusion.
Shkololli is also well known as an active mediator and organizer of the inter- and intra-cultural dialogue between Kosovo and the international art world, as well as within Kosovo itself. Since 2003 he has been a member of the European Cultural Parliament.
Shkololli’s work has appeared in exhibitions at significant European museums such as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern in London and MUMOK, Vienna.
He was awarded the DAAD Fellowship in Berlin 2008/09 and Premio Michetti Prize of the Fondazion Michetti di Francavilla al Mare in 2001.
Shkolollli has been commissioned to create new works for the Folkestone Triennial 2011 curated by Andrea Schliekerone, as part of the most ambitious public art projects ever to be presented in the UK.
Sarajevo Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2011
IGOR ČAMO
Sound designer, composer, B&H
Igor Čamo was born 1970 in Sarajevo. Since 1992 he worked as composer for television and producer, arranger and programmer for different music projects. Since 1997 he has works as sound designer. In 1998 he started his collaboration with SCCA/pro.ba.
He was the sound designer on numerous TV programs, documentaries, and fiction films. Igor was the sound designer for Berlin Golden Bear winner GRBAVICA by Jasmila Žbanić, and sound designer and composer for a a feature film SNOW by Aida Begić.
His selected projects are BELVEDERE by Ahmed Imamović, ON THE PATH by Jasmila Žbanić, NIGHTGUARDS by Namik Kabil, SHOPPING by Alen Drljević, THE WAKE by Timur Makarević, INTERROGATION by Namik Kabil, WHAT DO I KNOW by Šejla Kamerić and Timur Makarević, MUM AND DAD by Faruk Lončarević, GRBAVICA by Jasmila Žbanić, BORDERLINE LOVERS by Miroslav Mandić, IMAGES FROM THE CORNER by Jasmila Žbanić, NORTH WENT MAD by Aida Begić, FIRST DEATH EXPERIENCE by Aida Begić, RED RUBBER BOOTS by Jasmila Žbanić.
ZVONIMIR JURIĆ
Director, screenwriter, Croatia
Zvonimir Jurić was born in 1971 in Osijek, Croatia. He graduated film and TV directing in 1999 at The Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb.
He is a director and screenwriter of feature film THE BLACKS, developed at Cinelink 2006 and EAVE 2007., that won awards for best director best direction, best supporting role, best sound design (Pula Film Festival); FIPRESCI award and Best directing award (Cottbus Film Festival); Grand Prix (Ljubljana International Film Festival); Grand Prix (Auteurs Film Festival Belgrade); Duna TV award (Cinepecs Film Festival).
Jurić’s short film ŽUTI MJESEC/YELLOW MOON won Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Short Film in 2010. He also won several Grand Prix: Sarajevo Film festival 2010, Drahma Festival (Greece) 2010, Vukovar Film Festival (Croatia); and Mario Ventura Award for best screenplay in Setubal (Portugal).
His feature film THE ONE WHO WILL STAY UNNOTICED won the Breza Award for best debut film at the Pula Film Festival.
Juric is the director and writer of documentary films THE SKY BELOW OSIJEK (Oktavijan – critics award for best film at Dani hrvatskog filma and Grand Prix at the same festival); JURIĆ: TVRĐAVA 1999 (Best Documentary Film at Motovun Film Festival (Croatia); THE BLACKS RESISTED, CAN I? (Best editing at Dani hrvatskog filma).
CAROLINE LIBRESCO
Producer, USA
Caroline Libresco is feature film programmer for the Sundance Film Festival, where she coordinates the World Cinema program. Prior to joining Sundance, she was a programming and communications specialist for the Independent Television Service (ITVS).
She was also associate director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, senior publicist for the San Francisco International Film Festival and development director at U.C. Berkeley and the Library Foundation of San Francisco. She co-wrote and produced the gritty independent feature FANCIíS PERSUASION (directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld).
She also produced BARRIER DEVICE, an award-winning featurette starring Sandra Oh and the ITVS-funded feature documentary, SUNSET STORY, which won the Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival. She is currently developing a documentary on the life and times of Detroit activist, Grace Lee Boggs. Caroline holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, an M.A. in History of Religion from Harvard and an M.F.A. from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
She has served on juries at Silverdocs and the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, and on the funding panel for IFPís Radziwill Documentary Fund.
CICAE Jury
JON BARRENECHEA
General Manager of The Duke of York’s Picturehouse in Brighton, UK
RUTA BOGUZAITE
Director of cinema PASAKA, Lithuania
FRANCESCO CLERICI
Responsable of the educational projects of Barz and Hippo, director, Italy
CINEUROPA Jury
IVAN CORBISIER
Director - Brussels Film Festival, Belgium
