FESTIVAL JURY

Elena Hristodulidu Elena Christodoulidou studied History followed by History of Art and Archaeology at the University Charles de Gaulle Lille III in France, where she has gained the status of a masters degree graduate in History and then in History of Art and Archaeology (2 nd Master). In 1994 she published the historical study «Iakovos Diassorinos: An Early Visionary of the Greek National Revolution». From 1996 to 1999 she was presenting a specialized programme on cinema at the Cyprus State Television (RIK). At the same time she has published cinema reviews and criticisms in «Simerini» newspaper and elsewhere. Since 1994 she has been working at the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture as responsible for the Cinema Affairs sector. In the Ministry of Education and Culture she is currently entitled Educational Officer, Grade A'. She is also a member of the European Film Academy . She is currently working on her doctoral thesis.

Milena Marković - Milena Markovic was born in Zemun, on April 9, 1974. She has completed her education at Primary and High School in Belgrade.
In June 1998, in Belgrade, she graduated from the Faculty of Drama Arts, at the Dramaturgy Department, having presented her drama titled "Pavilions, or Where I am going to, where I am coming from and what’s for dinner." In December 2001 she won the Special Prize for the drama "Pavilions" at the Vienna Theatre m.b.h.
In April 2001 was premiere of the “Pavilions" at the Yugoslav Dramatic Theatre in Belgrade, directed by Alisa Stojanovic. In the same year, in June, the "Pavilions" was placed on the repertoire of the National Theatre in Skoplje, directed by Srdjan Janicijevic. In June 2002, Jaka Ivanc received his degree from the Faculty of Dramatic Art in Ljubljana, Department of the Theatrical Directing, with the drama "Pavilions".
In October 2002, at the Vienna Theatre, was the premiere of the same drama, directed by Zijah Sokolovic.

The anthology of poems titled "The Dog which has eaten the sun" was published by Flavio Rigonat, at Belgrade in April 2001. The anthology came out in three editions.
Milena Markovic's drama," God had mercy on us -the Tracks" took part in the summer residence of the Royal Court Theatre in London in the period from July to August 2002.
The opening night of the "Tracks" was in Belgrade, in November 2002, at the Yugoslav Dramatic Theatre, directed by Slobodan Unkovski.
Next year, in May, the same drama was played in the Polish town, Poznan, directed by Rafal Sabara.

In November 2002, Ms Markovic participated in the reading of poetry in public, with her Anthology of poems, at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. The same Anthology is expected to be translated and published in Sweden in the near future. In October 2003, was published the second Anthology of Ms Markovic's poems under the title “The Truth is in the heath”. The publisher was LOM Flavio Rigonat.
In June, 2004, drama "The Tracks" took part at the festival "Sterijino pozorje" in Novi Sad, directed by Rafael Sabara and was awarded a Special Prize for text.

At the end of June, 2004, her drama "The Tracks", in the performance of Yugoslav Dramatic Theatre, took part at the Festival of Modern Drama in Weisbaden. In the same year it was published in the German theatrical journal "Theater Heute".

In September 2004, Ms Markovic participated in the project "SWITCH", the exchange between the Nordic and Balkans' countries, the reading of poetry in Stockholm and Gothenburg

In the period from December 2004 to January 2005, she wrote a screenplay and participated in shooting of a short documentary film "The Miners' Opera", in the Serbian town Bor, directed by Oleg Novkovic.

On February 11, 2005 was the opening night of her new drama "The Wood Glitters" at the SCHAUSPIELHAUS theatre in Zurich.
In November, 2005 was the premiere of her drama "The Tracks" in Aachen, Germany.
In October 2005, she won the prize "Borislav Mihajlovic Mihiz" for her dramatic creative work related to the drama "The Ship for Dolls".
The book of Milena Markovic's dramas is in a stage of preparation for publishing.
She wrote a script for the film „Tomorrow Morning“ directed by Oleg Novkovic.

Karpo Godina - Karpo Godina was born in Skopje in 1943, the son of Viktor Aćimović, photographer, journalist, revolutionary and bohemian and Milena Godina, actress. In the sixties he studied film direction at the Ljubljana Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, where he currently teaches as professor of film direction and camera. His first long feature film was "The Raft Of The Medusa" followed by "Red Boogie", feature film (1982) and "Artificial Paradise", feature film (1990). These three movies were presented on almost all major film festivals world wide: Cannes, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sidney, Melbourne, Toronto, Edinburgh, Istanbul, San Francisco, Rotterdam, Strasbourg and many others. As a director of photography he did 21 long feature films, 26 short films, 12 TV dramas. As an editor he edited 5 long feature films 16 short films 11TV dramas and 7amateur films. As a DoP he is a member of IMAGO-European association DoP-London. IMAGO's jury selected his film "The Raft Of The Medusa" as the most prominent film for the year 1980. In 1999 he directed a documentary film "The Story of Mr. P.F". where he also written the scenario.

Nenad Dukić - He has been writing and talking on film since 1983 in numerous local and foreign newspapers, magazines and media: "Filmograf", "Hollywood Reporter", "Moving Pictures", Radio Belgrade, BBC, Berlin Radio RBB... He has been publishing his texts on the theory of acting in magazines "Scena", "Polja", "Filmograf". He gave lectures on film (2000) at the New York William Paterson University and Washington George Mason University . He was the President of the Yugoslav Film Critics Association (1988-1996) and during two terms FIPRESCI (Film Critics International Federation) Vice-President (1993-1997). He is the programmer of numerous international film festivals ( Berlin , Venice , Cannes , San Sebastian , Montreal , New Delhi , Copenhagen ). He was President and the critique jury member at the leading world festivals and the FEST Art Director. He has graduated Production and mastered Theory and History from the Belgrade Faculty of Drama Arts

Sajoko Kinošita - Born in Tokyo , Sayoko Kinoshita graduated from the Plastic Arts Department of Women's College of Fine Arts in 1966. After working with Mushi Productions for two years, she joined Studio Lotus in 1969, and since then, she has been working energetically for various fields related to animation as well as to films in general including documentary and fiction. Kinoshita planned and directed animation as well as designed the characters and lightings for several TV programs. As for the independent animation shorts and commercial works which were made together with her partner Renzo Kinoshita, she mainly managed the planning, script, animation and producing. Her representative shorts include "Made in Japan"('72), "Japonese"('77), "Pica Don"('78), "The Last Air Raid - Kumagaya"('93) and “Ryukyu Okoku – Made in Okinawa”(2004). Most of her works received international awards as well as prizes at various international film festivals, including the Grand Prize at New York Int'l Film Festival, and have been invited by various film festivals continuously around the world.