Organisers of the Sarajevo Film Festival have on Wednesday revealed the names of the jury members for this year’s Competition Programme for Short Film - film directors Stefan Djordjevic, from Serbia, Thanasis Neofotistos, from Greece, and Bosnian director, screenwriter and producer, Ines Tanovic.
Djordjevic was born in 1987 in Bor, Eastern Serbia, and directed the amateur film “Crap”, which was the inspiration for the film “Tilva Ros” by Nikola Lezaic, in which Stefan plays one of the two main roles. The film won Heart of Sarajevo award for the best film in 2010, and was nominated for the European Discovery Award by the European Film Academy.
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He completed his BA and MA at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Camera department. His graduation film was a short fiction film “A handful of stones”, which was screened on many international film festivals and had its international premiere at the ACID programme of Cannes Film Festival. He wrote and directed a short fiction film “The last image of father“, awarded at many film festivals: Locarno FF, Sarajevo FF, Zagreb FF, Auteur FF Belgrade and more.
Thanasis Neofotistos is a Film Director, Writer & Architect from Greece. He is a Berlinale & Sarajevo Talents alumnus and since recently Head Programmer of Student Competition of 43rd Drama Int. Short Film Festival.
His short film, “Patision Avenue” (2018), premiered at 75th Venice Film Festival, won 3 awards at 41st Clermont-Ferrand 2019 (Jury, Canal+, EFA) and was a 2019 Festival-Hit with more than 100 film festival selections. “Route-3”, his latest film, world-premiered at 44th TIFF Toronto 2019 and then again in 42nd Clermont-Ferrand 2020. “Greek school prayer” (2014) was his successful thesis (best Greek short film of 2014, over 50 IFF), and “Sparkling Candles” (9’-2019) is his LGBTQI+ super cute queer short film that premiered at the legendary 43rd Frameline IFF.
Ines Tanovic, born in 1965 in Sarajevo, is a graduate of the Dramaturgy Department of Sarajevo’s Academy of Performing Arts and has been a member and former president of the Association of Filmmakers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is currently the acting general manager of the Sarajevo Film Centre.
She was awarded by the Hubert Bals Fund for the script for “Entanglement” in 2004 and two years later attended the Berlinale Talent Campus. Her project “Decision” was selected among 160 entries from all over the world for the Berlin Today Award 2011.
In 2010, she directed the Bosnian part of the long feature omnibus “Some Other Stories” (co-produced by BiH, Serbia, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Ireland, supported by EURIMAGES) which was invited to more than 40 international festivals and earned six international awards.
She is the author of a short film titled “Starting Over”, screened in the short film competition section of the 16th Sarajevo Film Festival in 2010. The film has been shown at many international festivals. Her film ”Our Everyday Life” has been shown at more than 45 international film festivals and has earned 15 awards. It was selected as Bosnia’s entry for the 2015 Academy Awards.
The 26th Sarajevo Film Festival will begin on August 14 and will last for seven days.
