JURIES

VICIOUS CAT

Dinko Tucaković

Director, writer, film theorist and critic. He wrote for all main Yugoslav magazines and also for Positiff and Sight And Sound. He has worked as a selector for several national film festivals. He was a member of the FIPRESCI juries in Annecy , Vienna and Cannes.
His films have been screened at numerous national and international film festivals, at which he has also won several prizes. He was Chair of the Board and selector of the Belgrade International Film Festival from 1997 to 2002. Since 1989 he is the programming director of Yugoslav Film Archives. He also gives lectures at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and BK Academy and is the founder of the Belgrade-based Dunav Film School.

 

 

Phillip Bergson

Already as a student he founded the Oxford Film Festival. On BBC Radio he has scripted and presented many programmes on cinema as well as regularly interviewed film-makers. He has programmed or assisted many international festivals (IMAGFIC in Madrid, Valencia Cine Jove, Las Palmas, Ashdod, Festroia, Islantilla). He is a visiting lecturer at the PCFE Film School in Prague and has served on FIPRESCI and other juries in Cannes, Berlin, Haifa, Leipzig, Lecce, Thessaloniki, Karlovy Vary, Bratislava, Cottbus, Pula, Mlada Boleslav and Znojmo.He does not smoke, but drinks Slovenian slivovitz and white wines very gladly.

 

 

 

 

Lars Nilsen

He has been programmer at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas in Austin Texas since 2004. He is also the head of repertory programming at Fantastic Fest, the largest genre fim festival in the USA which takes place at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, which was also declared the best cinema in the US by Entertainment Weekly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SLAK'S VICIOUS CAT AND MELIES D'OR NOMINATION

Alin Ludu Dumbravă

Graduate of the Bucharest Theater and Film Academy, 1994 in screenwriting and film criticism and of the European Film College Ebeltoft, Denmark, 1996. After 12 years of experience in television (writer-producer for HBO Romania, film program analyst on PRO TV), he is now a freelance film critic, writer and screenwriter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aleš Blatnik

Publicist and entrepreneur. Author of books Digital Film Revolution and Attack of the Radioactive Films. Ex-co-editor of film magazine Oskar. Producer of low-budget independent film »Friday Night« (2000). Co-founder of some of the most well-known Slovenian web portals, such as largest Slovenian classified ads system Bolha.com and event announcement portal Napovednik.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nenad Bekvalac

Film critic and actor. He graduated dramaturgy at Dramatic Arts Academy in Belgrade. Besides publishing articles in numerous media and acting in films (TT Syndrome, Made in Serbia) as well as in theatre, he is also host of cult show Shock Corridor which deals with all kinds of film shock and is present in multiple media.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOISY CAT

Igor Vidmar

Journalist, activist and concert organizer. In 1981 he founded the legendary Novi Rock Festival. He organized literally hundreds of concerts. Momentarily he is one of the authors of the Drugi Val show at Radio Slovenia and a long-time collaborator of TV show Studio City.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Igor Bašin

Rock journalist and music critic. Member of the band Štirje pravi dedci. Author of the book Novi Rock. Together with Igor Vidmar and Janez Golič author and host of the radio show Drugi Val. One of the authors of the documentary on Pankrti, the first winner of the Noisy Cat award at Grossmann 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jure Longyka

Radio host, announcer, journalist and music editor. At Radio Student he created and hosted popular shows Oldies Goldies Chart and Unplugged. From 1997 on he is at Radio Slovenia hosting Telstar and Unplugged shows. Music advisor for two Slovenian feature films.