OFFICIAL COMPETITION JURY OF
27. INTERNATIONAL FILM CAMERA FESTIVAL
"MANAKI BROTHERS"
Fabio CIANCHETTI, Italy, cinematographer - president
FILMOGRAPHY (selected)
BONES/SENKI (2007, post-production);
IL FANTASMA DI CORLEONE (2006);
LA TERRA (2006);
LA TIGRE E LA NEVE (2005);
LA BESTIA NEL CUORE (2005);
VANIGLIA E CIOCCOLATO (2004);
THE DREAMERS (2003);
TEN MINUTES OLDER: THE CELLO (2002);
IL PIU BEL GIORNO DELLA MIA VITA (2002)
BENZINA (2001);
NOBEL (2001);
IL TRIONFO DELL’AMORE (2001);
FIGLI (2001);
L’AMORE PROBABILMENTE (2001);
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI E LA RAGIONE DI UN SOGNO (2001);
CANONE INVERSO-MAKING LOVE (2000);
IL DOLCE RUMORE DELLA VITA (1999);
BESIEGED (1998);
VIOLA BACIA TUTTI (1998);
LA LETTERA (1997);
NEL PROFONDO PAESE STRANIERO (1997);
BLUE LINE (1996);
TROPPO SOLE (1994);
I DIVERTIMENTI DELLA VITA PRIVATA (1992);
SABATO ITALIANO (1992);
L’AMORE NECESSARIO (1991);
AMORI IN CORSO (1989);
I CAMMELLI (1988);
A FIOR DI PELLE (1987);
SPOSI (1987);
COME DIRE…(1983).
Dr. Martin BLANEY, UK, Film critics - member
In 1990, he became the German correspondent for the British film trade magazine "Screen International" and has also worked as a regular contributor to "German Films Quarterly". In 2000, he left "Screen International" to become the Head of Press & PR at Road Movies Filmproduktion in Berlin, but returned to the magazine a year later.
In addition to his journalistic activities, he has served as the panel chairman for seminars and workshops at festivals in Berlin, Ghent, Strasbourg, Mannheim, Utrecht, London, Cottbus, Sarajevo, Luenen, Warsaw and Cluj as well as for the Berlinale Talent Campus. He has previously served on festival juries in Izmir, Amsterdam, Plzen, Berlin, Oldenburg, Palic (Serbia), Sfantu Gheorghe (Romania) and in the FIPRESCI Juries for Wiesbaden (GoEast), Warsaw International Filmfest and the Sofia International Film Festival. Dr. Blaney was also a jury member for this year's Swiss Film Awards and the Cinema for Peace Film Prize at the 2006 Berlinale.
Martin GSCHLACHT, Austria, Cinematographer - member
1991 Studied „Production“ and „Cinematography“ at the Vienna Film Academy;
1996 Finished the MA degree, and now he works as a freelance cinematographer;
1999 Producer and founder member of „coop 99 filmproduction“.
Films (selection)
Director: Antonin Svoboda
Feature Film, still in post-production.
TOAST (2006)
Director: Jessica Hausner
Installation who participated in Kunsthaus Graz.
DANIEL KÄFER - DIE SCHATTENUHR (2006)
Director: Julian Pölsler
Feature TV Film, based on a novel by Alfred Komarek.
SLUMMING (2006)
Director: Michael Glawogger
Feature Film. Participated in Competition Section at International Film Festival Berlin, 2006.
ZARIN (2005)
Director: Shirin Neshat
Installation. Exhibitions in New York, Berlin, Tokyo...
YOU BET YOUR LIFE/SPIELE LEBEN (2005)
Director: Antonin Svoboda
Feature Film. Participated at Film Festivals in San Sebastian, Toronto...
Won AAC award, for best cinematography category, 2005/2006.
ХОТЕЛ / HOTEL (2004)
Director: Jessica Hausner
Feature Film. Participated at Cannes 2004, in Sélection Officielle – Un Certain Regard;
Won “Bronze Camera” award at International Cinematographer Film Festival, Manaki Brothers 2004 and
“Großer Diagonale Preis” award for Best Austrian Feature Film 2005
ANTARES (2004)
Director: Götz Spielmann
Feature Film. Participated at Locarno Film Festival, Toronto...
FREE RADICALS/Böse Zellen (2003)
Director: Barbara Albert
Feature Film. Participated at Locarno Film Festival, Toronto, New York...
COLDFRONT (2003)
Director: Valentin Hitz
Feature Film. Participated at Film Festival in Saarbrücken
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE EYE / AM ANFANG WAR DER BLICK (2002)
Director: Bady Minck
Feature-Animation Film (collective with J. Palacz, M.Putz)
Participated at Cannes 2003, in Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
SPIEL IM MORGENGRAUEN (2001)
Director: Götz Spielmann
Feature TV Film, based on a novel by Arthur Schnitzler.
LOVELY RITA (2001)
Director: Jessica Hausner
Feature Film. Participated at Cannes in Sélection Officielle – Un Certain Regard.
VANESSA BEECROFT VB 45 (2001)
Director: Vanessa Beecroft
Installation „VB 45“. Opening Exhibition Kunsthalle Vienna
DOLCE VITA & Co (2000)
Director: Erhard Riedlsperger
TV Series
LUNA PAPA (1999)
Director: Bachtiar Khudoinazarov
Feature Film (collective with .D. Joksimovic, R. Pirumov)
Participated at Film Festival in Venice 1999, Out of competition
INTER-VIEW (1999)
Director: Jessica Hausner
Short Film. Participated at Cannes, in Sélection Officielle – Cinefondation and won Prix Special Du Jury.
RATRACE (1998)
Director: Valentin Hitz
Feature Film. Participated at Festivals in San Francisco, Silver Spire Award (u.a.)
IN PREPARATION
Director: Shirin Neshat
FOR A MOMENT, FREEDOM
Director: Arash
Srdjan KARANOVIĆ, Serbia, Director - member
FEATURE FILMS
2003 LOVING GLANCES/SJAJ U OČIMA
Venice 60 Competition. Also at Toronto, San Francisco, Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro, Chicago, Montpellier, Sofia, Athens and many other international festivals. It won six prizes in different categories.
1991 VIRGINA/VIRDZINA
Best film of the year (Critic's choice) in former Yugoslavia 1991, Grand-Prix Valencia, Prix Special-La Baule, Among 10 best European films (FELIX), FELIX for Best Supporting Actress. Also at London, San Francisco, Jerusalem, Belgrade, Rio de Janeiro, Montpellier, Bratislava, New York, Washington DC, Rotterdam, Karlove Vary and Goteborg international film festivals.
1988 A FILM WITH NO NAME/ZA SADA BEZ DOBROG NASLOVA
First prize, "Golden Tulip"- Istanbul Film Festival. Also at Montreal, Jerusalem, Vancouver, London, Sydney, San Francisco, New Delhi, etc film festivals.
1985 HARD TO SWALLOW/JAGODE U GRLU
Venice, Montreal, Montpellier, Munich, Chicago, Jerusalem, etc.
1983 SOMETHING IN-BETWEEN/NESTO IZMEDJU
Grand Prix-Valencia, Prix Special-Bastia. Best Direction-Pula. Also at Cannes, Montreal and Cairo Festivals.
1980 PETRIA'S WREATH/PETRIJIN VENAC
Yugoslav film of the year, Best film-Pula, Venice Festival. Critic's choice- Best Yugoslav film of the year, Distributed in US by New Yorker Films. Also at La Rochel, Montpellier, etc.
1978 THE FRAGRANCE OF WILD FLOWERS/MIRIS POLJSKOG CVEĆA
FIPRESCI prize-Cannes, Best Director-Pula, distributed in US by New Yorker Films. Also at Locarno, La Rochel, etc.
1972 SOCIAL GAME/DRUŠTVENA IGRA
Best First Film-Pula, Cannes Festival 1973. Roterdam, La Roshel, Montpellier film festivals.
TELEVISION
1967-1997 Directed and wrote 75 documentary films, over 20 commercials (done for agencies "Borba", "Delo", "Saatchi & Saatchi") and 9 educational films.
1981-88 Producer of documentaries by film students of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU) for Belgrade TV Studio.
1975 RECKLESS YEARS/GRLOM U JAGODE
Fictional series of ten one hour episodes for Belgrade TV Studio. Broadcast on all major ex-Yugoslav network stations. Considered Yugoslavia's best and most popular series ever. Best Screenplay and Best Director - Portorose. Also at Monte Carlo festival.
1974 LOOK AT ME UNFAITHFUL WOMAN/POGLEDAJ ME NEVERNICE
TV feature film. Considered as one of ten best in entire TV production in former Yugoslavia.
WRITING
1967-1999 He wrote or co-wrote screenplays for all his documentary and fiction films and TV series. He also co-wrote screenplays for Rajko Grlic's films IF IT KILLS ME and BRAVO MAESTRO.
1998 He wrote a book A DIARY OF A MOVIE (VIRGINA 1981-1991) which was published in by Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.
PROFESSOR OF FILM
1997 - Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade (Yugoslavia)1994-96 Boston University (USA)
1992-94 Wesleyan University (USA)
1989-92 Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Beograd (Yugoslavia)
1989 - New York University & Brooklyn College of CUNY.(USA)
INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATIONS/CREDENTIALS (among others)
Film Encyclopedia, Ephraim Katz, Harper Perennial 1994;
Dictionnaire du Cinema, Larousse, 1986;
Faber Companion to Foreign Films, R. Bergan & R. Karney 1992;
A History of Narrative Film, David A. Cook, 1996;
Liberated Cinema, Daniel J. Goulding, 1985
etc.
INTERNATIONAL JURIES
Karlove Vary, 2000;Troia, Portugal (President), 1995;
Bratislava (President), 1994;
Istanbul, 1990;
Montreal, 1985.
Vladimir BLAŽEVSKI, Macedonia, Director - member,
Born in 1955 in Skopje. Graduated film directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 1978. After the studies, he has been professionally engaged in film and television. He has made seven documentaries, a dozen commercial documentaries, several commercials, over 250 TV broadcasts in various profiles and lengths (signed TV documentaries, reportages, educational and scientific series, live transmissions, and so on), as well as two features.
He has won several prizes, the most important of which are: Golden Arena for direction of the film HI-FI at Pula Film Festival in 1987, Golden Medal at the Salerno International Film Festival for the film REVOLUTION BOULEVARD, First Prize at the Documentary Films Festival in Duisburg for the film CHINESE MARKET. Since 1994 he has been working as professor in history of film and theory of film at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje.
FILMOGRAPHY
2005: MISS B&H (feature film), writer;2003: THE BIG WATER (feature), writer;
2003: HOW BREAD IS BORN (feature documentary), director;
2002: A DOZEN STORIES ABOUT WINE (feature documentary), director;
2001: CHINESE MARKET (feature documentary), director;
1997: GYPSY MAGIC (feature), writer;
1992: REVOLUTION BOULEVARD (feature), director and writer;
1987: HI-FI (feature), director.