Manaki Brothers

JURIES

Jury Official Selection “Camera 300”

John Seale
President

John Seale is an Australian cinematographer, winner of the Academy Award, BAFTA, and the ASC Award for The English Patient (1996), known for his work on Witness (1985), Rain Man (1988), Dead Poets Society (1989), The Firm (1993), The American President (1995), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The perfect Storm (2000), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001), Cold Mountain (2003), and The Tourist (2010). He is also known for his collaboration with director George Miller on Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022), as well as numerous other achievements in cinematography.

Agnès Godard

Agnès Godard is an award-winning French cinematographer who began her career as a camera assistant on Paris,Texas (1984) and Wings of Desire (1987). She is a longtime collaborator with director Claire Denis on I Can’t Sleep (1994), Nénette and Boni (1996), Beau Travail (1999), Trouble Every Day (2001), The Intruder (2004), and Let the Sunshine In (2017), with numerous international accolades such as the César for Best Cinematography for Beau Travail and Angénieux ExcelLens in Cinematography Award at 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

Cevahir Şahin

Cevahir Şahin is a Turkish cinematographer and a frequent collaborator with Kürşat Üresin, with whom they won the Golden Camera 300 for About Dry Grasses (2023). They attracted the attention of Turkish critics with Cold of Kalandar (2015), which has won national and international acclaim, including the awards for Best Cinematography at the Istanbul Film Festival and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. They are also recognized for their work on Emanet (2016) and Life (2023).

Birgit Guðjónsdóttir

Birgit Guðjónsdóttir is an Icelandic cinematographer who was a member of the camera department of the films The Three Musketeers (1993), Good Bye Lenin! (2003), Jargo (2004), Bourne Supremacy (2004), Æeon Flux (2005). She is a cinematographer of the film Odd Fish (2004) and has many achievements in German film and television production.

Vladimir Blazevski

Vladimir Blazevski is a Macedonian director and screenwriter, who has directed Hi-Fi (1987), winner of the Golden Arena for Directing at the Pula Film Festival, The Boulevard of Revolution (1992), Punk’s Not Dead (2011), winner of the Best Film Award in the East of the West Competition at Karlovy Vary Film Festival and winner of the Audience Award at Sofia Film Festival, and The Year of the Monkey (2018). He is a screenwriter of Gypsy Magic (1997) and The Big Water (2004).

Jury of the European Lo-Cap Films Competition
and Documentary Films Competition

Kürşat Üresin
President

Kürşat Üresin is a Turkish cinematographer and a frequent collaborator with Cevahir Şahin, with whom he won the Golden Camera 300 for the film About Dry Grasses (2023). They attracted the attention of Turkish critics with Cold of Kalandar (2015), which has won national and international acclaim, including the awards for Best Cinematography at the Istanbul Film Festival and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. They are also recognized for their work on Emanet (2016) and Life (2023).

Jani Petteri Passi

Jani Petteri Passi is a Finnish cinematographer, screenwriter, and director. He is a two-time winner of the Golden Camera 300 for Best Cinematography for Compartment No. 6 (2021) and The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki (2016), and the director of the documentaries The Punk Syndrome (2012), which won the Audience Award at SXSW, and The Punk Voyage (2017). He has also worked on the TV series Chernobyl (2019) and Estonia (2023).

Núria Roldós

Núria Roldós is a Spanish cinematographer who began her career in the camera department in the 1980s and became Spain’s first feature film cinematographer in the 1990s. She is known for Peacefire (2008), There is Always Time (2009), Bullying (2009), and Live Twice, Love Once (2019). Roldos has also worked on numerous documentaries (award-winning The Return: Life After ISIS, among them) and TV series. She is the President of the Spanish Society of Cinematographers.

Jury of the Short Films Competition
and Student Films Competition

Nancy Schreiber
President

Nancy Schreiber is an award-winning American cinematographer with over fifty years of experience and winner of the ASC President’s Award. She is known for November (2004), which won the Cinematography Award at Sundance, Book of Shadows: The Blair Witch 2 (2000), and The Nines (2007). She has also worked on documentaries about Linda Ronstadt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marilyn Monroe, and Woody Allen.

Oona Menges

Oona Menges is a British cinematographer with over thirty years of experience. She has worked in the camera department around the world and is known as the cinematographer on The Host (2020) and Lola (2022).

Gjorgji Klincharov

Gjorgji Klincharov is a Macedonian cinematographer who has worked on numerous feature-length and short films. He is the camera operator of Amok (2016), Grandfather and Grandson (2019), The Comrade (2020), and The Walk (2023) and the cinematographer of Stella (2020), A Ton of Ice Cream (2022) and Concrete Time (2024).

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