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INTERNATIONAL JURY
The International Jury will adjudicate the Best International
Short Award
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| Barbara Albert was born in Vienna in 1970. After studying
Directing and Scriptwriting at the Vienna Film School
from 1991 to 1995. Albert (also a writer, actor and co-founder
of the coop99 production company) quickly became a familiar
name with festivals worldwide. She captured the attention
of critics with her debut feature film Northern Skirts
(1999), a pop-fueled, realist peek at wayward young Austrians
that won accolades at the Venice and Vienna film festivals.
Her second feature film, Free Radicals (2003), has been
widely acclaimed and was nominated for the Fipresci award
at the London Film Festival. She has also written Auswege
(directed by Nina Kusturica) and The Struggle (directed
by Ruth Mader). Barbara is the subject of our special
focus programme this year. |
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| Simon Fitzmaurice has been directing film and theatre
since 1998 and last year graduated with first class honours
from a Masters Degree in Film Production and Theory. A
published poet and short- story writer, Simon holds a
Masters Degree in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, as
well as a Higher Diploma in Education. Simon has been
shortlisted for The Sunday Tribune and Hennessy Literary
Awards for New Irish Writing in the category of First
Fiction and is currently working on his first feature-length
script and directing commercials for televi-sion. Simon's
fifth short film Full Circle won the Jameson Award for
Best Irish Short Film at Cork Film Festival 2003 and the
Best Short Film at the Belfast Film Festival 2004. |
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| Megan O'Neill is Director of Acquisitions for the acclaimed
Atom Films, a leading entertainment provider of short
film content via internet, television, broadband services,
and mobile devices. Prior to joining Atom Films, she was
the co-founder of Forefront Films, a ten-year-old distributor
of award-winning shorts worldwide. In 1998, she co-produced
Forefront's first feature film, Relax...It's Just Sex,
which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and has
been released in over 15 countries worldwide. Megan has
been a panelist or juror at numerous festivals, including
Aspen Shorts-fest, the Sundance Film Festival and the
Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival. She has been in
the film business since 1988. |
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NATIONAL JURY
The National Jury will adjudicate the Jameson Short
Film Award for Best Irish Short and the Claire Lynch Award.
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| Catherine Haskins holds a BA in Film and Television
and has worked extensively in the world of film for the
past ten years. She has been Cinema Programmer with the
City Screen group and Cambridge Film Festival and Cinema
Manager with Clapham Picturehouse. For the past two years
she has held the position of Head of Theatrical Sales
with Metrodome Distribution and has directed the release
of such successful titles as Spellbound, Donnie Darko
and Monster. |
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| Méabh O'Donovan started off her 12 years in London
working as a producer, but has concentrated her career
in the film & television industry in the areas of sales,
marketing and promotion, most notably for CNN International
and Jane Balfour Films. In 1999 Méabh moved to
Sheffield and set up Short Circuit, a project specifically
aimed at placing short films into cinema distribution.
At this time Méabh was also Head of Marketing for
Yorkshire Media Production Agency. From the Short Circuit
project stage, the concept has expanded and in August
2002, Méabh, along with Kate Gerova established
Short Circuit Films Ltd. The company covers all aspects
of short film promotion and sales as well as bespoke distribution
training seminars. |
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| Ali Robertson is Artistic Director of the Woodford Bourne
Cork Midsummer Festival. He was Artistic Director of the
Granary Theatre, Cork from 1999 - 2002, where he founded
and ran the Cork Fringe Festival. In Cork he has directed
many theatre produc-tions including The Double Bass, Oleanna,
The Lover, Parrots' Voices and The Bald Prima Donna (which
toured to UK, Germany and America) and produced over thirty
more, including Bedbound,...touched... and the Irish premiere
of Beautiful Thing. In London he ran the Canal Café
Theatre and the Grace Theatre and produced the short film
Tattoo. |
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