This year, the Filofest jury members will give out three awards, irrespective
of genre or length. The films which will be selected to participate in the
competition part of the festival will be competing for the following awards:
the award for best directing, the award for best screenplay, and the award
for best performance. All the awarded films will receive their awards at the
festival's closing ceremony. The main award for best film will be chosen by
the audience and the winning film will be awarded a sum of 100.000 SIT (417,29
Euro). Full details of how to vote for your favourite film will be posted
on our website.
Our selectors have chosen only the best films from more than 150 entries sent
to us from all around the world. The chosen films will be shown in the non-competition
part of the programme. This year's jury consists of five members: FILIP ROBAR
DORIN (President of the Jury), VESNA EMEĐI, VESNA MOLIČNIK, MAJA ŠEST and
ANTON TOMAŠIČ. The festival will also be showing films of jury members in
the accompanying part of the programme.
, President of the Jury
Born in 1940 in Bor, Serbia. Studied comparative literature and philosophy
at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, and film screenwriting, camera and
editing at the Columbia College in Chicago, where he also graduated in 1969.
At the beginning of the eighties, he founded an independent production house
"Film Alternatives" (later renamed to "Filmal Pro").
As a filmmaker he created around 30 short and medium-length documentary
and fiction films, and 12 feature films and video portraits of Slovenian
writers, musicians and painters. He received various awards at home and
abroad and was, from 1998 to 2003, the president of the Slovenian Film Fund.
He is also the author of numerous feature films and TV shows: Delights of
Language - Portrait of Milan Jesih (1998, TV short), Mass for the Executed
(1997, TV short), Stryptych (1995, TV), Rogenrol (1991, TV), Rams and Mammoths
(1985), Opre Roma (1983), Jon's Flight (1981, TV) and many others. In his
latest film, Aven Chavora (Come, children), he worked on the current and
painful issue - the sour relation of the Slovenian majority towards the
Romany community. The film will be screened at this year's Filofest.
Born in 1975 in Sremska Mitrovica in Vojvodina, Serbia. Is an undergraduate
student of informatics in organisations and management at the Faculty of Organisational
Sciences. She has been involved with organisation and direction in film and
television and has worked as a production manager and assistant director on
several film projects for the National Television (Vrtickarji 1999-2003, Gangl
2002, Naj ostane med nami 2001). She is also the author of numerous fiction
and documentary films, and shows (Življenje prestolnice, parts 5 and 6 2004,
Novi na sceni 2006). She is the cofounder of the production company "Luftmedia",
where she works on different multimedia (art and didactic) projects, both as
a director and a producer.
Born in 1973 in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia. Studied ethnology, cultural anthropology
and sociology of culture at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, and has been teaching
practical classes in visual anthropology at the Department for Ethnology and
Cultural Anthropology since 2002. She received the faculty Prešeren Award for
her thesis. She worked as a research assistant in the Audiovisual Laboratory
at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
She completed her master studies in 2001. She wrote a number of visual ethnographies
during her fieldwork in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Italy, Austria and Great
Britain. Her biggest projects include: Taste of the City (video installation),
Horizont zacetka (photographic exhibition), Final Flesh (TV advertisement, MTV
London), anthropological films: Fishing Tourists, Lezi baba: tradicionalna pita
izpod saca, Framing Experience.
Born in 1980 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Is an undergraduate student of comparative
literature and literary theory at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. Due to her
passion for film-making and art in general, she participated in the faculty
film workshop, where she was chosen to direct a short film Pagit based on her
script. The film was showed for the first time at Mini Kino at the Student Arena
Fair in 2005. A year later, it was screened in the competition part of the Grossmann
Festival in Ljutomer and GO Fest in Nova Gorica, where it received the award
for best Slovenian short fiction film. During a film workshop organised by the
film society Plan 9, she made her second short film, a horror entitled Strangers
in the Night, which she filmed and edited. The film will premiere at this year's
Filofest, but we will also screen her first short film Pagit.
Born in 1937 in Gradac, Bela Krajina, Slovenia. Graduated at the Academy for
Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. He has directed a number of
TV plays and three feature films: Cormorant (1986), A Real Pirate (1987) and
The Executioner's Fresco (1995). In 1977, he received the Prešeren Fund Award
for his TV play, The Return. His film Thirteen, starring Boris Cavazza, Olga
Kacjan, Mirjam Korbar, Barbara Lapajne, Gojmir Lešnjak, Marija Lojk and Lucka
Pockaj, will be shown at this year's Filofest.