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for the best short film Arto Halonen (Finland) is the founder and director of the DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival. He is the director of numerous films, including A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe (1998), Karmapa: A Voyage on the Roof of the World (1998), Karmapa: Two Ways of Divinity (1998), and The Stars’ Caravan (2000). He is the owner of the film production company, Art Films Production, Ltd., and participates in Elephant Films, a production cooperative. He has lectured at several film schools in Finland and, since 1 January 2001, serves as chairman of the Finnish Documentary Guild. |
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| Marek Hovorka (Czech Republic)
is co-founder and director of the Jihlava International Documentary Film
Festival. The festival began as a spontaneous student activity in 1997 and
has grown to become an important Central European film event. Currently,
Marek Hovorka is in the fifth year at the documentary department of the
Faculty of Film and Television (FAMU) in Prague. His films include Highway
(Dálnice, 1999), The Metamorphosis
of Angels into Parents, Retired People, and Cadavers (Proměny
andělů v rodiče, důchodce a mrtvoly, 2000), and Wachtman
– Freedom is Slavery (Wachtman, Svoboda je otroctví,
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| Ulla Jacobsen (Denmark) is the editor of DOX
Documentary Film Magazine, an international magazine that covers
all areas of the documentary genre, published by the European Documentary
Network (EDN). In addition to her role as editor of DOX, she is active in
other areas of the EDN. She has served as coordinator of the Nordisk Forum
for the Co-financing of Documentaries organized by Filmkontakt Nord and
worked closely with the MEDIA project DOCUMENTARY to assemble the first
edition of EDN’s European Documentary Television Programming Guide. She
holds a degree in film studies from the University of Copenhagen. |
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| Sirkka Moeller (Germany, UK) Sirkka
Möller has been working for film festivals across Europe since 1988. She
is currently the Festival Programmer at Sheffield International Documentary
Festival, a position she has held for two years. She began her work for
film festivals as a volunteer for the Days of The Independent Film in Augsburg,
Germany, where she later became a member of the festival’s selection committee.
From 1988 until 1996 she worked for the Days of the Independent Films and
its International Film Students Symposium and also for Augsburg Shortfilm
Weekend. Whilst studying Anthropology and Languages at Cologne University and the University of Iceland Sirkka worked for the Potsdam European Film Festival and the Nordic Panorama festivals in Reykjavik, Iceland, and Bergen, Norway. From 1997 until 2001 she was a member of the Programme Committee at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. In addition to her extensive experience of film festivals, Sirkka has also been working in subtitling, marketing and distribution. She is dedicated to helping young filmmakers and assists them by organising schemes and evaluating documentary film treatments. |
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Debra Zimmerman (USA) has been Executive Director of Women Make
Movies since 1983. During her tenure, WMM has grown into the largest distributor
of films and videotapes by and about women in North America. Zimmerman
has lectured on women's media and media distribution throughout the world,
has been a grants panelist for government and private foundations, and
served as a jury member for numerous festivals. She regularly lectures
at universities and colleges and has published numerous articles on independent
media distribution and women’s filmmaking. She currently sits on the Board
of the Foundation for Independent Video and Film (FIVF) and on the Advisory
Boards of the Boston Women's Film and Video Festival; the Long Island
Film Festival; the Northampton Film and Video Festival; the New York International
Children's Film Festival; DocuClub, NY; Frameline, San Francisco; and
Asian Cine-Vision, NY.
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