Maike Mia Höhne (Germania)

Studies of visual communication in Hamburg, Germany and Havana, Cuba. Working on film in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Brussels, Belgium. Her short films are represented by the Arsenal - Institute for film & videoart, Berlin and the shortfilmagency, Hamburg. In 2007 birth of Ava and since 2007 curator of the Berlinale Shorts at the Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. Also working as a curator in other cinematic clusters. Currently preparing a photobook on the difference in gaze, a short and a feature film. Lives in Hamburg and Berlin, Germany.

Bernard Payen (Franta)

He created the online journal ‘Objectif Cinéma’ (ten years ago), which combines film criticism with in-depth-analysis and interviews. He's the head of publishing operations of the French Cinematheque and the coordinator of the Short Film Commission of the Cannes Film Festival’s International Critics’ Week.

 

Andrei Gorzo (Romania)

Andrei Gorzo studied film history and film theory at Bucharest's National University of Drama and Film and at NYU's (New York University's) Tisch School of the Arts. He is now a film critic for several Romanian publications (including "Dilema Veche", the most widely read cultural weekly in Romania), as well as an assistant professor of Cinema Studies at the National University of Drama and Film. Gorzo publishes extensively in cultural reviews and magazines and delivers lectures on variety of film topics. He is also the Creative Director of the NexT International Film Festival in Bucharest.

 

Anne Delseth (Elvetia)

Anne Delseth (1980) studied journalism. She began working at the
Fribourg International Film Festival in 2000 at first as a volunteer during the time she completed her MA studies. After that she worked for sales, trigon-film and for production, Box Productions and Saga Productions. As of 2007 she has been serving as festival programmer and is in addition in charge for the short film sections and for the professional platform Forum@FIFF

Jöns Jönsson (Suedia)

Jöns Jönsson was born 1981 in Stockholm. In 2002 he started his studies of Cultural Sciences at the LundsUniversitet in Sweden. Since 2006 Joens Joensson studies film directing at the HFF in Potsdam-Babelsberg. His filmography includes three short films:“What´s My Name” (2006), “Der Stein hat ein Gedächtnis - Stones Have A Memory” (2007) and “Havet - The Sea”(2008). The film has been screened in the competition of the Berlin International Film Festival and won the main prize of the first edition of the Timishort Film Festival.