INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION
SERGIO FANT
(b.1971) SERGIO FANT is an Italian film programmer, working mainly in the fields of shorts, experimental cinema, artists’ film and video, and documentary. He (almost) never has enough of watching, showing and sharing films. After graduating in Film Studies and working as a film archivist at the Bologna Cinematheque, he went on conceiving, curating and selecting programs for several Italian festivals and venues, and is since 2010 the short film programmer of the VENICE Film Festival's ORIZZONTI sidebar. He holds a weekly column on documentary films on the Italian news-magazine Internazionale, and recently co-founded the innovative film distribution platform CineAgenzia.
MARZENA MOSKAL
(b.1983, Warsaw) MARZENA MOSKAL is a programmer and festival organizer, specialized in Eastern European cinema, member of the Selection Committee for the Quinzaine des Realisateurs - Cannes 2010 and 2011, coordinator of the Warsaw International Film Festival and, since 2010, co-organisator of the Festival of Polish Cinema in Paris.
HILKE DOERING
(b. 1966) raised in Germany and Switzerland, HILKE DOERING studied sociology in Bielefeld (Germany) and Paris (France). Hilke Doering has been with the International Short Film Festival OBERHAUSEN since 1995 in different positions. She has been responsible for the distribution as well as the Childrens and Youth program, for the video library and the market. Since 1996 she is the Head of the International Competition and has represented the festival in international organizations. She has been a jury member in a couple of international festivals and has curated film programs for festivals in different parts of the world.
JUHANI ALANEN
(b. 1956, Finland) JUHANI ALANEN studied at the University of Tampere and has worked at the TAMPERE International Short Film Festival for more than 25 years on various duties. Nowadays he is the Executive Director of the festival. Juhani Alanen has been a member of the selection committee of TAMPERE International Short Film Festival for 10 years. He has curated short film programs for TAMPERE and presented programs of Finnish short films at various film festivals. He has also been a member of the jury at different short film festivals.
ANNA ABRAHAMS
(Oslo, 1963) ANNA ABRAHAMS is presently Project Leader Programming at the EYE FILM INSTITUTE NETHERLANDS. Prior to this she was the Director of Filmbank, the main collector, exhibitor and distributor of contemporary Dutch experimental film, founded in 2001 by key Dutch experimental filmmakers and curators like Anna Abrahams, Peter Van Hoof, Cyrus Frisch and others. She studied film studies and art history at the University of Amsterdam. She also works as a director and editor of films concerning cultural and social subjects for the independent production foundation Rongwrong, which she founded with her partner filmmaker Jan Frederik Groot in 1989. Her films have been screened and awarded in prestigious film festivals all over the world like Rotterdam, Montreal, Marseille, Indielisboa, Jihlava, Huesca etc. Abrahams has lectured at art academies in The Hague, Rotterdam, Tilburg, Maastricht, Utrecht and Amsterdam, and was author and editor for several magazines on film, television and architecture and also (co) author of a number of books on avant-guard film. Presently she also teaches film at the Royal Art Academy in The Hague.
ROXANA CALINESCU
ROXANA CALINESCU works, since 2006, as Cinema Expert at the Romanian Cultural Institute, where she coordinates the popular Cinema Evening at the Romanian Cultural Institute, event aimed to promote young Romanian filmmakers, and she is also curator and coordinator of the European Film Festival, event organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute. Prior to this, after graduating from the Philology Department of the Bucharest University, she worked for five years in advertising and in 2005, she was editor-in-chief of the TV guide of Cotidianul newspaper. As a film journalist she writes on cinema at the weekly cultural newspaper Dilema Veche. She has also organized film festivals with focus on Ireland and the nordic countries.
MIGUEL VALVERDE
(b.1971) MIGUEL VALVERDE is one of the directors and programmers of INDIELISBOA - International Independent Film Festival Lisbon, which he helped to create in 2003. He taught Scriptwriting for Comics, Illustration and Animation Film at the University of Fine Arts in Lisbon and Screenwriting for Fiction Films in Nextart School and currently teaches Copyright Law in Restart, School of Creativity and New Technologies Lisbon. He was jury of several film festivals, namely in Uppsala Short Film Festival (Sweden), Cork Film Festival (Ireland), Archipelago – Festival Internazionale di Cortometraggi (Rome, Italy), Brest Short Film Festival (France), Mecal Short Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain). He took part in the ICAM juries for the Production of Short and Medium Animation Films and he is also a permanent member of ICA's commission that decides over the subventions to the national film industry. Participated as panelist in several national and international seminars about short films, film promotion and organization of film festivals. In 2010, he produced his first film, "A Man at the Balcony", by Gonçalo Robalo.
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