INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF FILM CRITICS (FIPRESCI)

Alena Sycheva
Russia
Film critic, program director, film expert, producer of animated films. Studied history, theory of cinema and film criticism. Worked as lecturer, instructor, coach, programmer, journalist, organized and lead own cinema club and cinema school. Author of more than 400 articles in mass media, popular science publications, encyclopedias. Program director and member of the jury of several Russian and international festivals, as well as member of the FIPRESCI Jury. Founder of the Paranoid animation studio (2019), which is developing original animated series for children and adults.

Vecdi Sayar
Turkey
Film critic, art director. Worked as scenographer at private and public theatres and art director in cinema and TV. Initiator of Istanbul International Film Festival, he worked as Artistic Director for more than 10 years. He was appointed as the Artistic Director at Expo 92, Sevilla and at Habitat Conference in Istanbul 1996, as the Counsellor of the Minister of Culture and then as the Counselor for Culture at Turkish Embassy in Paris. Created many international and interdisciplinary festivals in Turkey (Artistic Director) and realised Turkish Film Festivals at NFT London, MOMA New York, Cineteca Madrid, among others. Juror at national and international festivals and freelance chronicler for several dailys and film magazines.

Tassos Goudelis
Greece
Tasos Goudelis was born in Athens in 1949. He is a writer, a film critic and a director. He has written eight short story collections and a novel. He was awarded the National Literature Award and the Award of the literary magazine “Diavazo”. He is the coeditor of the cultural magazine TO DENTRO. He has written several books for film directors and many of his articles regarding cinema have been published in newspapers and magazines. He has taught History of Cinema and Screenwriting Techniques at Higher Educational Film Schools and Private Film Schools. He has directed four short films.

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GREEK FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION JURY

Dimitris Koliodimos
Yerasimos Vakros
Thodoros Soumas

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PANORAMA JURY

Antonis Boskoitis (Cinematographer, journalist)
Elisavet Chronopoulou (film director, writer, screenwriter)
Stathis Valoukos (writer, screenwriter)

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ATHINORAMA MAGAZINE READERS’ JURY