SELECTION COMMITTEE

Darko Ković

Born in Niš in 1969. Obtained his BA from the Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Department of Camera. During professional work spanning more than 30 years, he ventured as a cinematographer, editor, director and producer in all television and film forms and genres – from documentary to short feature films, from music videos to commercials and media campaigns. In the last ten years, he has taken part in the organisation and work of the jury at the international film festivals in Košice, Slovakia and Izmit, Turkey.

Dragana Latinović

Born in Kikinda in 1979. In 2003 she made her first short film Portrait of Slavko a graduate work at the Academy of Art in Novi Sad, awarded as the best short film in the RTV show Veni Video Vici. After a run at numerous festivals, she made the first short documentary Brothers´ Dance, awarded many times and declared a cult film in the former Yugoslavia countries. In 2008, she completed directing at the Visual Communication/Film and Video Department at the Academy of Arts in Hamburg, in the class of Professor Gerd Roscher and director Wim Wenders. In the same year, she continued her MA studies in European Media Science at the University of Potsdam. She has been a long-term associate of the Cultural Center Novi Sad, the European and Independent Film Festival Euro-In-Film, and the Genre Film Festival Cineways in Wolfsburg. In 2017, she founded Clear Cut Films in Berlin, focusing on international co-production of auteur films. In 2019, along with Dr. Michael Flintrop, she founded Fenomena Film Production, which specialized in documentaries about renowned Hollywood directors. 

Igor M. Toholj

Born in 1968 in Belgrade, where he obtained his BA in film and TV editing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. Auteur of over 20 experimental and documentary films, screened and awarded at festivals in the country and worldwide. Member of AFUN, UFUS and the Association DOK Serbia. Goethe Institute (Berlinale for film experts) and Dante Alighieri University grant recipient. Founder of the Zero film production company. Participated in the work of the jury and as a program selector at numerous Serbian and international festivals. Publishes texts on the aesthetics, criticism and history of film. Since 1994 he has been working as the editor of the Students’ City Cultural Center film program.

Ivan Velisavljević 

Obtained his BA from the University of Belgrade with a degree in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory and Dramaturgy from the University of Arts Belgrade. Obtained his MA in Comparative Literature (with a thesis in film studies) from the University of Zagreb. He is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade and works as a media archive curator at the Students’ City Cultural Center in Belgrade. Author of The Best Serbian films of the 21st Century (2019, with Đ. Bajić and Z. Janković) and A Critic’s Guide to Serbian Film (2018, with same co-authors), editor of the book New Frames: Marginalized Values of Serbian Film (2008, with D. Ognjanović) and a special issue of the Gradac magazine, dedicated to unusual bodies/disabilities in culture and society (2012).