Best Short Film Award - International Jury

Paola Bristot

Professor of Contemporary Art Expression, and Theory and Analysis of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. She is a curator of visual art exhibitions, like the recent ‘Graphicnovel.it’ (in Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris, Hamburg; Torre Massimiliana, Venice and Visionario – Centro per le Arti Visive, Udine, 2011/12) and collaborated with Coconino Press publishing house. She is the President of the Vivacomix association and the art director for the Piccolo Festival dell’Animazione, in Udine, Pordenone, Gorizia and Trieste. She curated, with Andrea Martignoni, the anthology of contemporary animated short film, Animazioni 3 (2010).

Matevž Jerman

Film critic publishing in various media and Programme Assistant at the Slovenian Cinematheque. He is Director of the Slovenian section of the International Short Film Festival K3, curator of Video on the Beach, short independent film programme within the scope of the Isola Cinema Festival, and coordinator of the Slovenian Film Festival accompanying film programme. He has co-founded the Society for Short Film Promotion, Kraken, which fosters the growth of independent Slovenian production and overall development of short film. Jerman has written and directed several shorts, music videos and commercials.

Vladan Petković

Belgrade-based freelance journalist, film critic, translator and festival programmer, holding a BA in Culture Management at Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts. He is the Balkan correspondent for Screen International and Cineuropa.org, and regularly writes film reviews, industry news, interviews and festival reports for several international websites and magazines. He is the programme director of International Film Festival Kratkofil Plus in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a programmer for Cinema City Film Festival Novi Sad, and programme advisor to numerous film festivals, including Motovun, Linz Crossing Europe, Skopje, Palić and others.