THE JURIES 2006

JURY COMPETITION

Filippo Del Lucchese, born in 1969, studied Philosophy and Politics at Pisa University (Italy), Sussex University (UK) and Sorbonne (France). In 2002 he founded the review “Jura Gentium Cinema”, which specialised in cinema and globalisation, and was part of the larger transnational project “Jura gentium – Centre for International Law and Global Politics”. At present, he is a university lecturer and is conducting research into the concept of “monster” in history of art, cinema and political literature.  

Kristina Schulgin graduated in 1972 from the Finnish Film School. Since then she has made many documentary films and worked as director, editor and producer on a number of Finnish shorts and feature-length films, as well as fiction films and commercials. In 1989 she founded her own production company Kristalli-Filmi Ltd. In 1999-2003 she founded the documentary curriculum at UIAH (University of Art and Design Helsinki) as Professor of Documentary Directing. Since 2004 she has been the Artistic Director of DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival. She is also an active filmmaker and her next documentary film is in pre-production.      

Keith Shiri was born in Harare, Zimbabwe. She has lived in the UK since 1975 and has edited two books on African cinema. He is the founder director of Africa at the Pictures which programmes events on African cinema in the UK and Africa. He teaches “African cinema” and has served on a number of international film festival juries. He is a programme advisor to the Times London Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. He is also a member of the Jury of the Berlinale World Cinema Fund, which supports film projects from Africa, Asia and Latin America. During the last three years he has produced seminars on African Cinema for the International Forum for New Cinema in Berlin.   

Hubert von Spreti was born in Amberg and studied German literature and Drama in Munich, M. A. He has been working with Bavarian Television since 1972. In 1978 he co-founded KinoKino, a programme about movies which still enjoys popularity. He also worked as a reporter and critic for Bavarian Broadcasting as well as the Sueddeutsche Zeitung. In 1993 he became head of the Film and Teleclub department, where he is responsible for the production of feature and documentary films as well as being deputy programme manager. From 1999 to 2002 he was busy building up the German Broadcasting (ARD) offices in Los Angeles. Since July 2005 he also leads the Drehbuchwerkstatt München along with Prof. Andreas Gruber. 

Zsuzsa Zádori was born in 1967 in Budapest, Hungary. From 1985 to 1992 she studied Literature, Linguistics and Ethnography at the University of Debrecen. Since 1997 she has been working as audiovisual archivist, specialising in documentary films. She works at the Open Society Archives, organises film screenings and makes video installations for Cold War related exhibitions. In 2004 she launched tbe Verzio Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. Since then she has been Verzio’s festival director.    

JURY HORIZONS

Dr. Stefan Eisenhofer is an ethnologist and historian. Since 2001 he has been Head of the Africa Department of the State Museum of Ethnology, Munich. He is the co-founder and co-organiser amongst others of the “Days of the Ethnological Film”, of the concert series “Urban African Sounds” and of the “Ethnologischer Salon”. He teaches African Art and History at the Ethnology Institute of the Munich University and has been exhibition curator, amongst others for “Genocide Monument” and “Black Gods in Exile – Photographs by Pierre Fatumbi Verger”.  

Annette Rupp was born 1965 in Hessen, Germany. He studied Educational Science, German Language and Literature and Philosophy in Münster and Berlin specialising in Cultural Management. From 1997- 1998 she was teacher of “Project Management” at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 1998-2005 she produced documentaries and audiobooks at Ventana Film- und Fernsehproduktion in Berlin. Since July 2005 she has been a consultant for television and radio at the Arts Department of the Goethe Institute Munich.  

Dr. Stefan Schmaus, born in 1973, studied Law in Regensburg and Munich. Between 2000 and 2002 he was editor for the copyright and media law magazine “ZUM“. Between 2002 and 2005 he was initially legal advisor then Human Resources Director at the Goethe Institute Head Office in Munich. Since Winter 2005 he has been Managing Director of the Catholic Academy in Munich. The Academy is a forum for the open exchange of ideas between the Church and the World.

JURY NEUE FILME BAYERN  

Susan Gluth was born in 1968 in Hamburg. After finishing school she sojourned in Italy, then did commercial training in Hamburg. From 1990 onwards she worked as a photo assistant in advertisement, fashion and beauty, and was then an assistant on commercial productions. From 1995 to 2003 she studied at the MunichAcademy for Television and Film in the Documentary and Television Journalism Department. She has been working as a freelance filmmaker and camera operator since then. In 2003 she won the FFF-Documentary Talent Award for Nothing is certain, everything is in the imagination – according to Fellini.  

Josef Mayerhofer was born in 1980 in Vilsbiburg/Ndb. By the time he left school he had already directed several films. Since 2000 Mayerhofer has been a student at the MunichAcademy for Television and Film, in the Documentary and Television Journalism Department with a main focus on camera. He has participated in many productions mainly as a camera operator. He was, together with Petra Wallner, the winner of the FFF-Documentary Talent Award in 2005 for Portrait einer Rothaarigen.

Friedrich Steinhardt was born in 1961. During his studies of German Literature, Philosophy and Political Science in Munich, he worked as a freelance author, assistant director and executive producer, among others for WDR and Bavaria Film Munich. He completed his MA in 1992. He then obtained a scholarship from the Robert-Flaherty-Society at IFS International Film Seminars in New York and later became a research assistant at Diskurs Film Verlag, Munich. Since 1992 he has worked at Caligari Film, where he is an author and producer in charge of docu-soaps and series, such as Windstärke 8 (ARD), Naturgewalten (ZDF), Schätze der Erde (Pro- Sieben), Fußballfieber (KiKa) and many television and feature documentaries (Kanalschwimmer, Houwelandt). Since 1999 he has been director of the business segment for documentaries.