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| Timetable :: Programme :: Short Film Jurys |
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Short Film Jurys
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| INTERNATIONAL JURY The International Jury will adjudicate the Best International Short Award |
| Brigitta Burger-Utzer Brigitta Burger-Utzer was born in Vienna in 1960. She studied theatre sciences and art history. In 1990 she founded Sixpack Film and since then she has been the head of this unique and important organization for the distribution and sale of Austrian art films and videos. She has organised several film shows in Vienna, including 1991: Found Footage Ð films of found material, 1992: Unknown Territories Ð The American Avant Garde Film, 1993/1994: As She Likes It, 1994/1995: See The Rhythm, 1996: Humor in the Avant Garde, Filmart Takes Position: Alien / Nation, 1997: Variations on Poetry, 2001. Brigitta also co-edited Frank Film - The Film And Video Work of Robert Frank in 2003 (Scalo Publishing House). |
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Pelle Frédéric Pelle is an award-winning documentarist and short filmmaker. His films have screened worldwide and have garnered many honours including Official Selection at Cannes, the Grand Prix at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and at over twenty other international festivals for Pieces Of My Wife (Des Morceaux De Ma Femme, 2000). His other short films have all been selected for international festivals and also received many awards. |
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| Richard Raskin Richard Raskin teaches screenwriting and video production in the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has published a number of books including The Functional Analysis of Art (1982), Alain Resnais's Nuit et Brouillard (1987), Life is Like a Glass of Tea: Studies of Classic Jewish Jokes (1992) and The Art of the Short Fiction Film: A Shot-by-Shot Study of Nine Modern Classics (2002). His articles have appeared in such journals as Zeitschrift fŸr Kunstgeschichte, Film History, Folklore, Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing and Minerva: An Internet Journal of Philosophy. He organizes an international short film symposium every Spring, is the founder and editor of p.o.v. - A Danish Journal of Film Studies. |
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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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| David Pearce David Pearce was educated at Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand before moving to Sydney and a seventeen-year career in Information Technology. In 1984 he started Australian entertainment industry trade magazines Movie Trader and Video Trader. He edited these for 18-20 years. David joined Queerscreen as a board mem-ber in 1998 and remained on board until 2002 when appointed programmer for the Mardi Gras Film Festival and QueerDoc. He is a member of the Film Critics Circle of Australia and FIPRESCI, the international association of film critics. |
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| Ken Wardrop Ken Wardrop is co-founder of Dublin-based production company VENOMfilm. He specialised in documentary filmmaking at Ireland's National Film School, IADT-DL and won the O2 Student Film of the Year Award for two consecutive years. Ken has directed several awarding-winning short docs Dampened Spirits, Ouch, Useless Dog and Undressing My Mother. Undressing My Mother has won eleven awards, including the Irish Film & Television Award, the Jameson Award at Cork Film Festival 2004 and the Prix UIP at Tampere Film Festival 2005. It has screened in over forty festivals including International Critics' Week at Cannes Film Festival 2005. With VENOMfilm Ken is currently developing both short and feature projects. |
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| Michele Devlin Michele Devlin is the director of Belfast Film Festival. She holds a BA Honours degree in Media Studies from the University of Ulster. She began in community development working for a number of organisations including the Short Strand Community Centre. After a year working in Limerick Art College she returned to Belfast to work in the Arts and Training sectors joining Springvale Training Ltd's Media Department. She was central in the establishment of their highly successful practical course (City and Guilds) in Television and Video Competences. At this time she worked in a voluntary capacity to support the fledgling West Belfast Film Festival. Michele became the director of the Belfast Film Festival in 2000 when the event became citywide. |
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| MADE IN CORK JURY This Jury will adjudicate the Made In Cork Award |
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| Anna Niilekselä Anna Niilekselä was born and raised in Tampere, Finland. She has studied filmmaking at The European Film College in Denmark and has a BA in Media Production. Since 1999, Anna has been working for Tampere Film Festival in a variety of positions including Programme Coordinator. Anna is a member of the selection team for Tampere Film Festival 2005. |
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| Ian Kilroy Ian Kilroy is Arts Editor of the Irish Examiner. He was born in Galway in 1969 and is a writer and journalist. He completed an MA in journalism at DCU in 1999 and was awarded the first Veronica Guerin Scholarship for Journalism. His first play The Carnival King was staged in 2000 and toured all over Ireland. The short film Brood was based on one of Ian's poems. He has written for the Sunday Tribune, Magill Magazine, where he was Arts Editor, and the Irish Times. |
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| Norah Norton Norah Norton has worked as an Arts Manager and Visual Arts Curator in Ireland and the USA. She was the director of Temple Bar Gallery and Studios from 1996 to 2001 and of the National Sculpture Factory from 1993 to 1996. Norah has served on the boards of the National College of Art & Design and the Firestation Artists' Studios in Dublin. She is presently working as a freelance arts manager in Cork. |
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