Documentary Jury
Heino Deckert, chairman
German producer and managing director of ma.ja.de. productions. He has produced over 50 award-winning documentaries, working with filmmakers such as Hartmut Bitomsky, Thomas Heise, and Sergei Loznitsa. He coproduced Loznitsa’s feature debut My Joy, screened in competition at this year’s Cannes festival and included in the Open Eyes section at KVIFF 2010. He also heads up Deckert Distribution, which specializes in documentary films. In 1995 he founded d.net, an informal union of six European producers. He lectures on the production and distribution of documentaries for EDN and Ex Oriente.
Ronald Bergan
British film historian, critic, and lecturer. He holds a PhD in English literature and is a regular contributor to The Guardian. As a longtime member and former vice president of FIPRESCI, he has presided over many juries comprising film journalists. He taught film history and theory at Florida International University in Miami, and has written a number of books, including Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict and Jean Renoir: Projections of Paradise. His Eyewitness Guide to Film has been published in eight languages.
Rebecca Cammisa
American documentary filmmaker. The feature documentary Which Way Home, which she produced and directed, had its European premiere at last year’s Karlovy Vary festival and was nominated for an Oscar and an Independent Spirit Award. In 2002 she codirected and coproduced (with Rob Fruchtman) the documentary Sister Helen, which took Best Documentary at Chicago and Nashville and won the Documentary Directing Award at Sundance. She was awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship and took Grand Prize from the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards.
Alena Činčerová
Czech documentary filmmaker, a graduate in documentary direction from Prague’s Film Academy (FAMU). She has made over a hundred multimedia programs and documentaries primarily for Czech Television, often focusing on anti-drug issues and domestic violence. She created the documentary epic Peasants, shot over 11 years, on the powerful relationship between people and the soil. In 2006 she re-launched, on both screen and stage, Kinoautomat (1967), the world’s first interactive film, originally created by her director father Raduz Činčera.
Dimitris Kerkinos
Greek Festival programmer, writer, and teacher. He studied film at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, receiving a PhD from the department of social anthropology at the University of the Aegean. Since 1999 he has coordinated retrospectives and tributes to national film industries and directors for the Thessaloniki IFF and the Thessaloniki documentary festival; he has been programmer and coordinator of the Balkan Survey section at the TIFF as of 2002. He has published critical texts on cinema and ethnographic documentaries, and in 2004–2008 he lectured in visual anthropology
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