Competition

2004 CIDF JURY

Jury Chair

MICHAEL RABIGER recently retired from his position as Professor of Film at Columbia College Chicago, whose documentary center is named after him. Mr. Rabiger worked as an assistant editor in the UKs Pinewood and Shepperton Studios, including under directors Raoul Walsh and Tony Richardson. Since 1962, he has worked in the field of documentary filmmaking, and, from 1972 to 2001 taught filmmaking at Columbia College. He is director of dozens of films, and author of books including DIRECTING THE DOCUMENTARY and DIRECTING: FILM TECHNIQUES AND AESTHETICS. In 2003, the International Documentary Association honored him with its Preservation and Scholarship Award.

Jury Member

ALLY DERKS is Director of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, of which she was a founder in 1988. She studied Dutch literature, film, and theatre at the University of Utrecht. She is director of the Jan Vrijman Fund, which supports documentary filmmakers in developing countries, as well as a member of the advisory committee for Amsterdam's Amnesty International Film Festival, and chairperson of DocWorkers, a documentary sales company.

Jury Member

ANDRZEJ FIDYK (b. 1953) has written and directed over forty documentaries for Polish and British television. Since 1996, he has been head of the Documentary Film Section of Channel one, Polish Public Television (TVP). There, he has produced nearly 300 films. He has also created the unprecedented series, Time for Documentary, which airs weekly in prime time. He has received numerous awards at festivals around the world, including in Strasbourg and San Francisco.

Jury Member

VIACHESLAV TELNOV (b. 1958) is Producer and Director of St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio, Russia. In the Leningrad era, he studied at the Polytechnic Institute and the Financial Economic Institute. He worked in the fields of optics and metallurgy, then moved into filmmaking, including a twelve year stint at Lenfilm. Since 1999, he has led St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio, producing about twenty films and videos per year.