GRAND PRIX JURY

Gordon Quinn (USA)

President and founding member of Kartemquin Films, Gordon Quinn has been making documentaries for 40 years. His recent producing credits include such award winning and highly acclaimed films as Hoop Dreams, Vietnam, Long Time Coming, Golub, 5 Girls, Refrigerator Mothers and Stevie for which he also won the Cinematography Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Most recently, Gordon executive produced The New Americans and directed the Palestinian segment of this award winning, intimate, seven-hour series that chronicles the journey taken by new immigrants to this country and the obstacles they face once they have arrived. He is currently directing a film on delayed posttraumatic stress syndrome, Prisoner of Her Past, and producing two films that deal with the human consequences of stem cell and genetic medicine.

Silvio Fischbein (Argentina)

Silvio Fischbein was born in Buenos Aires in 1949. He received a degree in Architecture from the University of Buenos Aires. He has made more than forty short movies and five feature films and has taken part in numerous juries and seminars in Europe and Latin America. Until 2006, he served as Director of Audiovisual Studies at the University of Buenos Aires, where he continues to teach. He is also a professor at the National University of The Centre of The Province of Buenos Aires. He is the founder of the Audiovisual Factory, an academic program about the reflection of audiovisual education as well as the director of Tandil Cine, a festival of Argentine Cinema.

Krzysztof Kopczynski (Poland)

Krzysztof Kopczynski was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1959. He holds a PhD in Humanities from the University of Warsaw, Poland. He is the owner of the film production company Eureka Media. As a producer and scriptwriter he has made more than 100 documentary films and TV programs receiving the award for the best Polish producer at the Cracow Film Festival in 2006. He has filmed in Europe, Russia, India, Afghanistan, the United States and Argentina. He is a professor at the University of Warsaw in the Literature, Film and Media Department, the author and editor of several books and head of "Future of Media”International Association.

Masha Novikova (The Netherlands)

Masha Novikova was born in 1956 in Moscow, USSR. Shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall she came to the Netherlands to study film directing, cinematography and screenwriting. Later she worked as an executive producer for Dutch television. In April 2000, just after Grozny’s total destruction, she worked on Leo de Boer’s documentary Train to Grozny. In 2002, she continued to work in Grozny on Jos de Putter’s The Damned and the Sacred . Her latest feature documentary is Between Heaven and Earth, which she co-directed with Frank van den Engel. Her filmography includes the 2007 CIDF Opening Night film In Memoriam Alexander Litvinenko and Three Comrades.

Zhou Hao (China)

Zhou Hao has worked as a photographer for the Photography Department of Xinhua News Agency (National News Agency of China) and the Southern Weekly (the most influential weekly newspaper). He began making documentaries in 2001 and his debut video, Hou Jie Township, won the Black Pottery Award(Best New Professional Reward)at the Yunnan Multi-culture Visual Festival. Hou Jie Township was also in the Shanghai Biennial in 2004 and the Guangzhou Triennial in 2005. His latest documentary, Senior Year, won the Humanitarian Award for Best Documentary at the Hong Kong International Festival in 2006.