ŽIURI

Jury

Tue Steen Müller 

A specialist in documentary film, Tue Steen Müller was born in 1947. For more than 20 years, he has worked at the Danish Film Board with documentary and short films – as a press secretary, a head of distribution and information, and as a commissioning editor.  He writes articles for national and international newspapers and magazines and is a co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord and Documentary of the EU.

He has given courses and seminars on documentary film in more than 40 countries. In 2004 he was awarded the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. He was a director of EDN (European Documentary Network) from 1996 when it was established until 2005 when he received EDN Life Achievement Award. 

Since 2006 he has worked as a freelance consultant on Danish and European documentary matters. He teaches at the documentary film school Zelig in Bolzano, Italy and is a Head of Studies at the European training programme Storydoc. He is a programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DoxBox in Damascus and DOKLeipzig. Together with a documentary film consultant Allan Berg Nielsen he writes a blog at www.filmkommentaren.dk.

Nino Kirtadzé 

Actor and director Nino Kirtadzé was born in 1968 in Tbilisi. After graduating with a degree in literature she worked as a consultant to the President of the Republic of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze and wrote articles on the war in Chechnya and other armed conflicts in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

She began her career in filmmaking in 1991 when her script for a full-length feature film Monday received an award for best screenplay from the Georgian Union of Cinematographers. Her lead role in a Chef in love, a film by Nana Djordjadze, marks the beginning of her acting career. The film was selected for Cannes in 1996 and nominated for an Oscar. 

Since 1997 Nino Kirtadzé has lived in France, where she has worked with Peter Brook, Jean-Pierre Ameris, Philippe Monnier, Claude Goretta and Olivier Langlois. In 1999 she moved on to the documentary. Nino Kirtadzé’s films have won international acclaim and numerous prestigious awards at festivals worldwide, including World Cinema Best Director Prize at Sundance for her Durakovo-village of fools (2008) which was shown in Lithuania in 2009. 

Irena Taskovski

Originally from Bosnia, Irena Taskovski studied in Prague, graduating from the Film Academy (FAMU). She has also studied at the Sam Spiegel Film and TV School in Jerusalem and obtained a Master degree from the National Film & TV School in London, UK (NFTS).  After her studies she started her carrier working at famous production houses such as Autonomous and Tartan Films. Irena Taskovski has founded and is the creative director of Taskovski Films, an independent production company responsible for award winning films such as Village B. (“Obec B.”, dir. Filip Remunda, 2002) and Czech Dream (“Ceský sen”, dir. Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda, 2004). 

Irena Taskovski lectures at the FAMU in Prague and the NFTS in London and tutors at the Prague Institute of Documentary Film. She also gives lectures for professionals about marketing, promotional strategies and distribution.  I. Taskovski has organised and programmed several film festivals in Europe. In 2004 she worked as a scout for Easter European films for the Venice Film Festival at the Biennale. She was also a jury member at several European film festivals. In 2007 Irena founded a Film Institute in Banjaluka (Bosnia and Herzegovina). In 2008, acting as its artistic director she launched the Banjaluka International Film Festival.