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The Main Jury selects the Best Film and Best Director Awards Jane Balfour (UK) is founder and director of the Jane Balfour Agency, which for over seventeen years served as a sales agent specializing in quality documentaries, short films, and Art House feature films. The agency was closed in 2000, and she now works as an independent consultant supporting the cause of independent documentary filmmaking. She is also curator of a collection of films, mostly the work of filmmakers with whom she has worked over the years, including D.A. Pennebaker, Alan Berliner, Sergey Dvortsevoy, and the Longbow Group. She has won several awards for her work and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival. |
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| Christian Frei (Switzerland) studied
Visual Media at the Department of Journalism and Communication at the University
of Fribourg and has worked as an independent director and producer since
1984. He works regularly for Swiss National Television SF DRS. His films
include Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel (1997), Kluge
Köpfe (1998), "Bollywood" im Alpenrausch
(2000), and War Photographer (2001). War
Photographer was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Award
in the 2002 Oscars and has received many awards from festivals throughout
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| Olga Sommerová
(Czech Republic) graduated in 1977 from the Prague Faculty of Film and Television
Studies, FAMU, where she has taught since 1991. From 1994-2002 she was head
of FAMU’s Documentary department. She has directed approximately 60 documentary
films, focusing mainly on social issues, women’s issues, relationships,
and portrayals of important personalities in the arts and in society. Her
films include Competition for the Year 2000 (1979);
Do You Like Smetana? (1989); Thou
Shall Love Thy Neighbor (1990); Máňa (1992,
co-directed by J.Špáta); Immortal Star of Božena Němcová
(1997); The Blessed Damned Poet Bohumil Hrabal
(1998); and What Women Dream Of (1999). |
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| Diane Weyermann (USA) is director
of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, which works to support
documentary filmmaking and independent artistic expression through a variety
of projects and initiatives. The Sundance International Documentary Fund
provides financial support to American and international documentary film
projects. The Program also works to support documentary filmmaking by showcasing
documentaries at the House of Docs at the Sundance Film Festival, through
labs and workshops, and through collaborative international documentary
projects. Prior to joining Sundance, Weyermann developed and directed the
Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Institute (OSI) New York. Now
part of the Sundance Institute, the Fund supports documentaries focused
on contemporary stories dealing with human rights, social justice, civil
liberties, and freedom of expression. Weyermann has produced and directed
several independent documentaries and holds an MFA in Film and a degree
in law. |
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Peter Wintonick (Canada) is an award-winning
film director, producer, and editor. His film credits include Manufacturing
Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992, co-directed with Mark
Achbar, the most successful documentary film in Canadian history); Cinema
Vérité: Defining the Moment (1999); and Seeing
is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News (2002, co-directed
with Katerina Cizek). He is co-founder of Necessary Illusions, which produces
independent documentary films on a wide range of social and cultural issues,
and is active in supporting independent filmmakers and their projects.
He writes extensively about film for several international publications
and is currently editor of Canada's National Film Magazine, POV.
In the mid-1990s he established the groundbreaking internet site for independent
film, The Virtual FilmFestival.
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