- Juries
Concorso Pardi di domani
Presiding over the Pardi di domani section, reserved for short subjects by directors who have yet to make a full-length feature, will be Indu Shrikent, film critic and director of the Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema (India), who will be judging entries in the national and international competition along with the Georgian director Bakur Bakuradze (Shultes, 2008; The Hunter, 2011 ), Israeli director and film critic Tom Shoval (Petach Tikva, 2007), Swiss producer Luc Toutounghi (Peter & the Wolf, 2006; The Lost Town of Switez, 2011) and the French filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski (Dear Prudence, 2010).
Indu Shrikent
President of the jury - film critic and filmmaker , India
Born in 1948 in India, Indu Shrikent graduated with a major in English literature. In 1993, she joined Cinemaya, The Asian Film Quarterly, a journal devoted to Asian cinema, where she became deputy editor. One of the founder members of NETPAC India, Indu Shrikent promoted Asian cinema extensively in India by organizing film appreciation courses, screenplay workshops, and film weeks on Asian countries culminating in 1999 with the launch of the Cinefan Festival in New Delhi. Indu Shrikent has been co-director of the Cinefan Film Festival since its inception in 1999 and has contributed to the steady growth of the festival. At present she is the Festival Director of Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema.
Bakur Bakuradze
Filmmaker, Georgia/Russia
Born 1969 in Tbilisi, Bakur Bakuradze studied at Moscow’s prestigious film school VGIK under Marlen Khutsiev and graduated in 1998. In 2007, Moscow, his 35-minute film, won the main prize in the short film competition at the Russian film festival Kinotavr in Sochi and the film was subsequently screened at numerous international festivals. His first feature, Shultes (2008), was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes and won the Grand Prix at the Kinotavr festival and at the Molodist International Film Festival in Kiev. His second feature The Hunter (2011) screened this year in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.
Tom Shoval
Filmmaker and film critic, Israel
Tom Shoval was born in 1981 in Israel. He graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in 2007. Two of his short films, The Hungry Heart (2005) and Shred of Hope (2007), played at film festivals around the world, winning numerous prizes, such as the Pisticci Award for Best Film at the Lucania Film Festival in Italy, Asian New Force at the Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, the New Talent Award of the Hamptons International Film Festival New York, and many more. He is one of the founders of the Baboon Group, a collective of directors coming together to create short films and rejecting government support in order to achieve creative freedom. Youth, his first feature film, is an Israeli, German, and French co-production. Shooting will commence at the beginning of 2012.
Luc Toutounghi
Producer, Switzerland
Luc Toutounghi is responsible for the production team and the artistic decision for feature and short animation films of Se-ma-for Studio (Poland) and Archangel Film Group (Switzerland). He was one of the executive producers of the 2008 Academy Award Oscar winner for best short animation Peter and the Wolf(2006) by Suzie Templeton. In 2010 with Zbigniew Zmudzki he produced the short animated film Danny Boy (2010) by Marek Skrobecki, winner of many international prizes. His latest co-production, The Lost Town of Switez (2010) by Kamil Polak, had its world premiere at the Berlinale in 2011 and won Best First Film at the last Annecy International Film Festival. His other productions The Last Thakur (2008) by Sadik Ahmed, a spaghetti western style film entirely shot in Bangladesh.
Rebecca Zlotowski
Filmmaker, France
Born in 1980, Rebecca Zlotowski lives in Paris. A former student at the Ecole normale supérieure and laureate of the highly selective French literature agrégation, she joined the scriptwriting department at the Fémis film school where she co-wrote with Cyprien Vial the short film Dans le rang (2006), which received the SACD award at the 2006 Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes. Then she collaborated with photographer Antoine d’Agata on Aka Ana(2008), a feature film presented at Locarno in 2008, and co-wrote Teddy Lussi Modeste's first feature film, Jimmy Riviere (2011). Her debut feature, Belle Epine(2010), premiered at Cannes in 2010 in competition at the Semaine de la Critique and won the Prix Louis Delluc.
