Awards
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Kingfisher, international jury award presented by the general sponsor, Telekom Slovenije, d.d., to the best film of the Perspectives section.
Kingfisher Jury
Zdravko Duša graduated in English and comparative literature from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. After holding posts at ČGP Delo and Studio Marketing Delo, he worked as a fiction and humanities editor for the Cankarjeva založba publishing company for three decades. As a translator, he mainly devoted himself to late-twentieth-century American and English drama, whilst also translating some important novels from that period into Slovenian. As well as leading Pokaži jezik, a series of workshops on screenwriting, for a number of years, he promoted the publishing of renowned authors’ books on screenwriting. His credits as a script- and dialogue writer or walk-on actor include documentaries, feature films, and TV series. Zdravko Duša’s short story, Pa ravno tako je bilo, inspired Oroslan (2019), a film by Matjaž Ivanišin.
Marina Gumzi studied dramaturgy, theatre studies and film production in Ljubljana, Berlin and Paris. Since 2013 serving as director of Nosorogi Institute (Playing Men, 2017; Zgodbe iz kostanjevih gozdov, 2019), a research-oriented micro-scale production house, she also works as its producer and screenwriter. Between 2019 and 2020 she was member of the Next Wave postgraduate programme's first research group, which enabled her to study new models of film distribution and contemporary trends in AV media production and curatorial practices.
Literary comparatist and professor of philosophy Ženja Leiler was a long-time journalist, critic and editor of the newspaper Delo. Her work as a journalist and critic is related to the fields of cultural policy, society, film, literature and theatre. She outlined the conceptual design of Pogledi, a biweekly focusing on art, culture and society, and served as its editor-in-chief between 2010 and 2013. She received the Jurčič Prize for her journalistic achievements. She was Director-General of the Ministry of Culture's Media Directorate and actively supervised the drafting of film and media legislation. She is the author of the book of essays Zapisi in zapiki, which was nominated for the Rožanc Award, and has co-curated the exhibition Ivan Cankar and Europe – Between Shakespeare and Kafka. - Best Short Film Award Jury
- Slovenian Art Cinema Association Jury
