http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/13thFestival/toolbar_menu/internatinal13 Sun, 19 May 2024 10:39:43 GMT /skins/default/en/15festival/ch01_newsfeed_logo.gif http://old.irandocfest.ir/ 100 70 en Copyright© Irandocfest.ir, all rights reserved Sun, 19 May 2024 10:39:43 GMT International Juries 60 http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/7487/mehrdad-oskouei Born: 1969/ Tehran Education: MFA in film directing from the Department of Film and Theater of Tehran University of Fine Arts  He is an Iranian filmmaker, producer, photographer, and researcher. His films have been screened at numerous festivals both at home and abroad to great critical acclaim, making him one of the major Iranian documentary makers. In 2010 Oskouei received the Dutch Prince Claus Award for his achievements. He is a founding member of the Institute of Anthropology and Culture and has sat on over 100 international film festival juries as well as being a cultural ambassador for the United Nation’s humanitarian committee UCHA. He is on the boards of Iranian Short Film Association, Documentary Filmmakers of Iran, The National Iranian Photographers Association, member of European Documentary Network EDN, and International Documentary Association IDA. He also teaches at film schools around Iran and is active in the Tehran Arts and Culture Association.     ]]> International Juries Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:49:41 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/7487/mehrdad-oskouei http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/7486/karol-piekarczyk Karol Piekarczyk is one of the three creators of the Millennium Docs Against Gravity programme, the biggest documentary film festival in Poland and one of the most prominent ones in Europe. He is also the Head of Film Distribution at Against Gravity, which distributes art-house and documentary cinema. He graduated in Film Studies and Sociology from the University of Glasgow. For over a decade he has been involved with documentary cinema. He started working at the WATCH DOCS festival in Warsaw, subsequently becoming the Programming Director at the Document International Human Rights in Film Festival in Glasgow. He is the author of the introduction to the Setting up Film Festivals Handbook, published by the Human Rights Film Network   ]]> International Juries Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:31:07 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/7486/karol-piekarczyk http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/7485/zlatinka-rousseva Zlatinka Rousseva is experienced documentary filmmaker, film producer and Art director of the International Millenium Film Festival in Brusels. She is born in Bulgaria and graduate in film directing. In 1986, she co-established a film production company, Diogène in Belgium which works with TV channels, humanitarian organisations such as MSF, UN and European’s programs. Her films, “Death in Bali”, “Portrait of a man in power”, “Hunting for wolves”, “The secret Dairy of Zinaïda Gippius”, “The Green Oranges of Liberia”, “Virtuosi from nowhere”, “Against the Stream”, “Seuthes the Immortal” have been presented and awarded at many international festivals. The themes of memory and the preservation of real values in situations of crisis lie at the basis of her work. In 2009 she co-organised the Millenium Film Festival, the most important international documentary film festival in Brussels.     ]]> International Juries Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:25:38 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/7485/zlatinka-rousseva http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/7484/raed-faridzadeh Raed Faridzadeh was born in Mashhad, Iran. He studied Economics and German Litrature at Tehran University and Comparative Literature at University of Vienna. Faridzadeh made his PhD in Philosophy and Literature and wrote his thesis on Metaphor and philosophical Hermeneutics: A Comparative Study in Western and Islamic Tradition, under Supervision of Prof. Hans Feger at Free University of Berlin. He was a senior researcher at German-Asian Graduate Group of Humanities in Berlin. Since 2012 Faridzadeh has been teaching philosophy and German literature as a member of faculty of Humanities at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran. He was director of Central Library, Archive Center and Univ. Press of Shahid Beheshti University. Faridzadeh is now Head of International Affairs of Farabi Cinema Foundation and General Secretary of International Council of Iranian Cinema. ]]> International Juries Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:17:02 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/7484/raed-faridzadeh http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/7483/veton-nurkollari Veton Nurkollari is Artistic Director of DokuFest, Kosovo's largest documentary and short film festival, which he co-founded in 2002 with a group of friends. He is also one of the curators of DokuPhoto, an annual showcase of documentary photography that runs alongside film festival. Veton is a member of the selection committee of Cinema Eye Honors, a New York City based organization that recognizes and honors exemplary craft in nonfiction filmmaking and is also one of the founding board members of The Albanian Cinema Project.Veton regularly curates film programs for various film festivals and is currently involved in mentorship of several young filmmakers from Kosovo within “Heritage Space” project.   Veton Nurkollari is a member of European Cultural Parliament and European Film Academy.   ]]> International Juries Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:07:53 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/7483/veton-nurkollari http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/7482/meng-xie Meng Xie is a Beijing-based film producer and curator. His producing credits include Sundance award-winning film Free and Easy by Geng Jun, Ash by Li Xiaofeng and acclaimed documentary High Tech, Low Life by Steve Maing and he was the film curator at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art from 2009-2014. He founded Rediance to produce, finance and represent finest arthouse films internationally. Rediance’s current lineups include Berlinale winning film An Elephant Sitting Still, Rotterdam Tiger award film The Widowed Witch, IDFA opening film Kabul, City in the Wind and Locarno winning filmThe Science of Fictions. Financing/co-production projects include Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria, Miguel Gomes' Savagery, Anthony Chen’s Wet Season and Krabi, 2562 co-directed by Ben Rivers and Anocha Suwichakornpong.  ]]> International Juries Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:44:19 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/7482/meng-xie