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 JOHN BOORMAN - President
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Film Director
Epsom, UK, 1933. He began his career as an editor in television, while at the same time working as a journalist. From 1956 to the present, from the modernist musical Catch Us If You Can to the spy adventure The Tailor of Panama, he has made fourteen feature films. Working between Europe and the US, he has experimented ceaselessly with all film genres, while, from Deliverance (1972) onwards, he has produced his films himself. Considered one of Europe's leading directors, his film The General won the Award for Best Direction at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
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PAVEL PAWLIKOWSKI
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Film Director
Warsaw, 1957. A distinguished documentary filmmaker, his filmography includes the award-winning Dostoevsky's Travels and From Moscow to Pietushki. His first feature film, The Stringer (1997), was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, while his second, The Last Resort (2000), won numerous awards, among which the BAFTA Film Award, as well as the Golden Alexander, the Best Actor and Best Actress Award, and the FIPRESCI Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2000.
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NURI BILGE CEYLAN
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Film Director
Istanbul, 1959. His first short film, Koza, was a competition entry at Cannes, in 1995, while his first feature film, Kasaba (1998), won the Calighari Award at the Berlin Film Festival. His feature film May Clouds (2000), which was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, won the FIPRESCI Award at the European Film Awards, as well as numerous awards and distinctions at international film festivals.
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YANNIS KOKKOS
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Stage Director, set and costume designer
Athens, 1944. Since 1963 he has lived in Paris, where he studied set designing. He has designed the sets and costumes for a great number of stage and opera productions, and worked for many years with the director Antoine Vitez. In 1987 he directed his first play and, since then, as a stage director/set designer, he has alternated between the theater, opera, and other kinds of shows. In 1998, he received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lyrical Spectacle for the staging of La Clemence de Titus, as director and set and costumes designer.
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ÅDUARDO ANTÉN (QUINTÉN)
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Film Critic and Theorist
Buenos Aires, 1951. He studied mathematics and worked as a math teacher as well as a football referee - only two of the many different jobs he did before becoming a film critic. In 1991 he co-founded "El Amante/Cine", a film monthly which has become one of the most enduring magazines of its type in Latin America. He is the Director of the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival.
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SOTI TRIANTAFYLLOU
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Writer, journalist, translator, film critic
Athens, 1957. She studied pharmaceutics at the Physics and Mathematics School of Athens, film in Paris, history of American cities in New York, and French literature at Athens University. She translates from four different languages, and also works as a reader.
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ANA SOFRENOVIC
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Actress
Belgrade. She studied at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. In 1992, she began working in Yugoslavia as a professional actress in the theater, film and television. Since 1999 she has been living and working in London. As a singer she has collaborated with leading jazz musicians and with some of the best composers of film music in Yugoslavia. Her filmography includes films by Purisa Djordjevic, Goran Paskaljevic and Ljubisa Samardzic.
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