JURY

VICIOUS CATS

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.

Christian Hallman

Member of the board and web producer/co-ordinator of the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation and it's website melies.org , the largest network of genre film festivals in the world, with members in 16 countries and with a joint audience of around 600 000 people. He is also a filmmaker with his own production company in Sweden and acts as Program Advisor to Lund Intl. Fantastic Film Festival, as well as serves on their board

SLAK'S VICIOUS CATS

Sašo Podgoršek

Since graduation from the Academy for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television in Ljubljana, he has been directing advertisements, music videos, dance films and feature films. He has received several national and international awards for films such as short But the Goat Survived, dance film Vertigo Bird and his second feature Sweet Dreams:

Magnus Paulsson

One of the founders of the Solid Entertainment production company. He has been freelancing for Swedish National Television and for several independent video production companies. He has also spent some quality time at MTV in London. He founded Fantastisk Filmfestival in Lund, Sweden and co-edited cult film magazine Magasin Defekt. One of the producers of Frostbiten that received special mention of the Jury at Grossmann 2007.

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.

NOISY CATS

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.

Dragan Vuković

Music journalist and editor of radio show Anatomija Zvuka on Radio Bosna 1. Organizer of music festivals, concerts and tours. As a DJ he performed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Sloenia, Italy, Germany, Hungary and France.