GRAND PRIX JURY

ROBB MOSS [USA]
Robb Moss is an independent non-fiction filmmaker whose recent film, “The Same River Twice”, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, followed by more than 25 festivals worldwide. Winner of the 2003 CIDF Audience Award, nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit Award, the film played theatrically in more than seventy cities across North America. He has twice won NEA/AFI grants for personal work, a NEH grant to film rituals in West Africa, and, as a cinematographer, has shot films in Turkey, Greece, Ethiopia, Japan, Liberia, Gambia, and Nicaragua. His works as a director include “Absence” (1981), “Riverdogs” (1982), “Africa Revisited” (1983), “A Day on Three Oyster Boats” (1988), “What’s It Like Here?” (1989), “The Tourist” (1991), “Lessons From Thin Air” (1997), and have been shown at the festivals around the world. Elected by the national membership three times to the board of directors, he is the former Board Chair and President of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers. He has won the Joseph R. Levenson Award for undergraduate teaching at Harvard University, where he has thought for the past fifteen years.

PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI [UNITED KINGDOM]
Pawel Pawlikowski was born in 1957 in Warsaw, Poland, and has resided in the UK since 1977; now based in Oxford. He obtained a first class degree in French and German from University of London and graduated from the National Film and Television School; an Honorary Doctor of Portsmouth University. He teaches at the London Film School and the National Film and Television School. His feature films “The Last Resort” (2001) and “My Summer of Love” (2004) have brought him numerous awards, including BAFTA for the most promising new directing talent in British cinema, and then for the Best British Film. His poetic documentaries, including “From Moscow to Pietushki” (1990), “Dostoevsky’s Travels” (1991), “Serbian Epics” (1992), “Tripping with Zhirinovsky” (1995), and the short fiction “Twockers” (1998) have earned him the highest critical accolades. He is the winner of Royal Television Society Awards, a Prix Italia, the Grierson Award, an Emmy International and a Felix (European Film Academy Award).

BRUCE SINOFSKY [USA]
Award-winning filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky began his career at Maysles Films, working under the legendary non-fiction filmmaking team of David and Albert Maysles. He was the Senior Editor at Maysles Films, working on commercials as well as features. In 1991, Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger formed their own production and theatrical distribution company, Creative Thinking International Ltd. Their first collaboration under the CTI banner, which they jointly produced, directed and edited, was “Brother’s Keeper”, a winner of numerous prizes, including the 1992 Best Documentary by the Directors Guild of America, the New York Film Critics Circle, and Sundance Film Festival Audience Award. Their internationally-acclaimed and awarded films include “The Begging Game” (1995), “Paradise Lost; The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills” (1996), “Revelations: Paradise Lost 2” (2000), to mention just a few. Their most recent film “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster” has been placed on over thirty critics “Top Ten” lists and won Independent Spirit Award for the 2004 best documentary. It also received the CIDF Audience Award, was nominated as the 2004 best documentary by the International Documentary Association, the Broadcast Film Critics’ Association, and the others. Bruce is currently developing a number of new documentary projects, including “Paradise Lost 3” for HBO and a film abut Chicago’s legendary Steppenwolf Theatre Company for “American Masters”.

JUAN FRANCISCO URRUSTI [MEXICO]
Born in Mexico City. Documentary Filmmaker and teacher. He studied filmmaking at the London International Film School. He has directed about 13 documentaries of various lengths and formats, most of which are about living Mexican Indian cultures. Among these are “Of Witches and Healers”, “Mara’ Acame”, “A Long Journey to Guadalupe”,
“By Cross and Sword”, and “Tepu”. Since 1989 he teaches documentary production and directing at the Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica in Mexico City, where he is ao-organizer of the biannual “Sights” documentary conferences. Since 2000, he has been in charge of the Mexico City Board of Tourism Film Office (formerly The Mexico City Film Commission). He has imparted documentary workshops in Argentina, Brazil, and Spain. Juror in documentary film festivals around the world

MIROLJUB VUCKOVIC [SERBIA & MONTENEGRO]
Miroljub Vuckovic was born in 1952. General Manager of the Film Institute Belgrade since 1995. Program Director of FEST – the Belgrade International Film Festival since 1997. Chairman of the South East European Cinema Network – SEE CN, est. 2000, with the aim to encourage and support cooperation in the field of cinema in the region. From 1979 engaged in various research and projects of the Film Institute, as retrospectives of the Yugoslav films in Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and Cinematheque Royale in Brussels. Promoter of foreign films in Yugoslavia. Film critic and author of the monthly TV program Cinema Art (1995-1998). Author of a number of interviews – TV portraits,
He has published popular articles and film essays in various local and foreign press. Adviser to numerous international film festival, he has curated film programs in Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, Sochi, Florence, and Vienna.