FESTIVALOVÁ POROTA
Didier Trarieux-Lumière
(Francie)
The chairman of this year’s festival will be Didier Trarieux-Lumière, french producer and scriptwriter who has film in his blood.
Didier Trarieux-Lumière was born in Lyon, France, the capital city of Cinéma. His mother was the daughter of Henri Lumiére, son of Auguste Lumiére. He is married, and has two boys together with his wife, Edouard (20) and Antoine (15). Edouard is studying Sound Engineering. Antoine is still in school.
After spending five years in the French Army he became an IT consultant, until 2010. He retired from his consulting business at the age of 60 and founded LumiereBro, a movie production company. Today, he is working on a film adaptation of a biography of his most honored military officer, Général Marcel Bigeard. He wrote the script, did 30 hours of interviews with the former Bigeard Boys, and will produce a documentary film on him from these materials.
During the 11th International Student Film Festival in Písek he will give a talk on one of the less known inventions created by the Lumiére Brothers.
Carol Ann Poole
(Velká Británie)
Carol Ann Poole was head of the department in film, television and media at the Edge Hill university in Great Britain for twelve years. She was also the head of the art department at the Edge Hill university in the year 2000. From 1980 to 1990 she started concentrating on textbook guidlines and inbalances in education. At the same time she developed a program for educating women and media at a college level. For the last thirty years she has been working on develepmont in film, animation, communication and media education.
She has frequently sat as a member of juries in international film festivals such as in Hong Kong and in the Polish city Lodž. She was a consultant for a number of films and television programs in universities. She was aslo involved in the partnership between BBC and the Edge Hill university. Today she is a member of the North West Universities advisory panel for Culture, Media and Sport.
David Ondříček
(Česká republika)
David Ondříček graduated from FAMU in 1992 in the department of documentary film. After working on a number of documentary films and television shows he debuted with the film Šeptej (1996). It became the second most visited film in the Czech Republic during 1996 and was nominated for a Tiger Award at the IFF in Rotterdam. It also won a Promotional Award at the Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema.
In 1999 David Ondříček founded his own production company Lucky Man. The following year he and his company presented the film Loners (Samotáři, 2000) which was successful not only at home but abroad as well. The film was nominated in nine categories at the Czech Lion awards and won two of these awards.
Not even did his third film - Jedna ruka netleská (2003) – go unnoticed. It was nominated in three categories of the Czech Lion awards. At the international competitive festival Worldfest it placed second in the category of narrative film. The movie also won a silver medal at the Houston International Festival in the category of independent narrative film. His next success was the film Grandhotel (2006) which was chosen in the Panorama section of the Berlinale and out of seven nominations he had once again won two awards at the Czech Lion awards. Currently we can look forward to his upcoming film Ve stínu.
Oskari Sipola
(Finsko)
Oskari Sipola is an emerging director from Finland. After winning the Grand Prix in Písek last year, his first feature film was distributed theatrically in Finland this spring. He will graduate with a Master of Arts in Film Directing this fall and is currently developing his second feature film.
During last year’s festival anniversary he won the Grand Prix with his film Wings and Teeth (Siivet ja hampaat, 2009) and was offered a seat in this year’s jury. Films that are worth seeing from his vast selection of student works are August (Elokuu, 2011), Yours the Rest of My Life (Lopun elämääni sinun, 2010) or Our Little Brother (Pikkuveli, 2009).
Eric da Costa
(Francie)
Eric da Costa is a french actor and producer who originally comes from Binche in Belgium. Currently he lives in Paris. From 1992- 94 he studied at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons in Belgium.
He also played at the theater Théâtre Macterckaya in Moscow and in the Italian Teatro del Vicolo.Yet his acting career is not based on one area of expertise and that is why we can find Eric da Costa not only in theater but in films, television shows and television serials as well (Familie, Affarie de Famillie).
Some of his more recent films are The Director, the Officer, and the Immigrant from 2009. The film represents a New Nave of dramas with mysterious elements. The theme of the movie is focusd on the imigrational relationships in today’s France. Eric da Costa portrayed one of the main roles in this film. His filmography contains more than twenty films.