Kingfisher Award (the Pespectives section) - International Jury

Klemen Dvornik

Film and TV director. Employed as reader at the TV Direction Department of the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television of the University of Ljubljana. Since December 2012, Dvornik has been President of the Slovenian Film Directors’ Association. As a filmmaker, he has won several awards, among others the Student Prešeren Award for his short TV-drama, Vojna Zvezdič, the Gong Creativity Award for his documentary film, Temuen-Priča, the Extraordinary Achievement Viktor Award for the Guard TV-series, and Audience Award at the 14^th Slovenian Film Festival for his debut feature film, Bread and Circusses.

Michael Pattison

A freelance writer and film critic from Gateshead, England. His work has been published by Sight & Sound, The Guardian, Film Comment, Little White Lies, Fandor and others. A participant in the critics’ academies at Locarno Film Festival 2013 and Rotterdam Film Festival 2014, Michael organised and led the inaugural Common Ground Critics Workshop, with ten young writers from the Visegrad and Balkan countries, at Dokufest 2014 in Prizren, Kosovo. He also contributed several essays to the forthcoming book Directory of World Cinema: Britain Volume 2.

Alexandra Strelková

The director of the National Cinematographic Centre of the Slovak Film Institute, in charge of Slovak film promotion. In 2002, she joined the Bratislava International Film Festival as programme coordinator and worked between 2003 and 2014 with the Programme Department at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In 2005, she joined the Slovak Film Institute as the Director of the Institute´s National Cinematographic Centre. She is member of the Slovak Film and Television Academy and the representative of the Slovak Film Institute in the European Film Promotion.