46th Karlovy Vary IFF
July 1 - July 9, 2011
Documentary Jury
Amir Bar-Lev, chairman
American producer and documentary film director. He studied briefly at FAMU in 1997. His film Fighter won the Special Jury Prize in Karlovy Vary’s documentary film section. My Kid Could Paint That premiered at Sundance and subsequently competed at Karlovy Vary. He produced the documentary Trouble the Water (2008), which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. His latest film is the biographical documentary The Tillman Story (2010).
Pietro Marcello
Italian documentary filmmaker. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples, where he also taught in a prison. He created the short films Carta and Scampia. The hour-long documentary Il passaggio della linea was premiered in the Orizzonti section at the Venice IFF and then screened at festivals all over the world. His feature-length debut The Mouth of the Wolf (La bocca del lupo) was screened in KVIFF’s documentary competition last year and won many awards at various festivals, including the Berlinale. His latest film, The Silence of Pelechian portrays Armenian director Artavazd Pelechian.
Freddy Olsson
Swedish producer and festival programmer. After studying at Lund University, he began his career in film and television working on a children’s series about a private investigator called Kant. Apart from producing films he has also worked with the Göteborg IFF, and is a programmer for the festival to this day. He has been interested in Central European films for many years. He is a producer on Lech Majewski’s film The Mill & the Cross, premiered at Sundance and presented this year in KVIFF’s Another View section.
Harri Römpötti
Finnish film critic. After his parents banned him from watching Hitchcock’s The Birds until he had reached the age of ten, he vowed to watch all kinds of movies once an adult. He has been a free-lance film journalist for more than 20 years, most frequently writing for the daily Helsingin Sanomat. Apart from film, he also writes about literature, music and television. As co-author he has just completed a book on contemporary Finnish comic strips.
Andrea Slováková
Slovak documentarist, teacher and script editor. A graduate of Charles University, she also studied documentary film at FAMU, where she made the portrait of mathematician Petr Vopěnka An Intent to Enrich the Bare Mechanistic World (2005), among others. She joined the board of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in 2003, where she continues as programmer for the experimental documentary section. She is chief editor of Respekt magazine’s bimonthly Dok.revue, she writes about film for various media, and lectures on the history and methods of documentary filmmaking at Masaryk University in Brno.
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