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Poland: Magdalena Łazarkiewicz |
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Graduated
in TV and film directing and drama. Director of seven feature films,
including Through the Touch (under Krzysztof Kieślowski’s
artistic supervision), The
Last Bell, Marriage of
Convenience and The Worlds’ End,
as well as six documentaries. Łazarkiewicz
has also made TV adaptations of eight theatre plays, a TV series
entitled Dreams to Come True, and a number of
programs on cultural issues for Polish Public TV. Among the
numerous awards she received for her productions are: the Grand Prix at
the Festival in Créteil,
France, and Special Jury
Prizes at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia,
Poland and the TV Film
Festival in Plovdiv,
Bulgaria.
Łazarkiewicz
has directed plays at the prestigious Słowacki Theatre in Kraków
(Cracaw) and the Studio Theatre in
Warsaw as well as an opera at
the Wielki Theatre in Łódź, Poland
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Switzerland: Filippo Lubiato |
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Seit 1985 habe
ich es mir zur Aufgabe gemacht, auf die möglichen Wirkungen von Medien
einzugehen.
Heute vermittle ich die Erkenntnisse vorwiegend Jugendlichen und gebe ihnen
mit dem Medium Video die Möglichkeit, ihre Ideen und ihre Person
zu entfalten.
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Spain: Josep Rota |
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Born in 1952 in Sabadell near
Barcelona. He began making S-8 movies in 1978. In 1980 he took the
beginners’ course at Centre Excursionista de Catalunya (CEC). Since
then, non professional film-making has been really a passion for him,
first as a documentary author, later for fiction films as well. One of his
films „ A tu amb certa tristesa”, was screened as part of the
Spanish selection at Unica 1989 in
Baden-Baden. His films has received several
awards in Spanish competitions in pariculiar in CEC (Barcelona), Calella , Navàs, Zalla,
Cuenca , etc.
He
is currently the director of „Certamen de Cinema i Vídeo Ciutat de
Sabadell”; he has been fourth member of the jury
for the selection of Spanish films for the UNICA Contest, and he
was a member of the jury in Unica 1999 in Lappeenranta
too.
He
goes on making documentary films, which is what he likes the best, but he
also enjoys a lot watching other authors’ works.
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Czech Republic: Ctirad Stipl |
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President of the Czech Film Amateur Federation (ČVU) and
editor-in-chief of the UNICA NEWS is 60 years old, married and has got two
daughters and one son. He passed The Polygraphic College in Prague and
worked as a graphic designer in various printing offices. He is an editor
of the magazine of the Czech UNICA Committee "Cas videa" (Video
Times) too. He was a secretary general of the preparative committee
on the 56th UNICA Congress in Hradec Králové (CZ) in 1994. He organises
the film makers in Mohelnice and the festival
"Mohelnice Film Song and Video Clip" above all since many years.
This competition has already got the 27th year's this year and an
international principal. Every year he also organised an amateur film show
on the occasion of the country and folk festival "The Mohelnice Stage
Coach" where about 5000 spectators takes part. He began to shoot his
own play-out films, documents, reportage and video clips in 1978. He and
his friend from the Union of Austrian Film and Video Amateurs, Hermann
Blaschke, have already organised 11year´s film and video comparative
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The Netherlands: Kees Tervoort |
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Born
in Velsen,
North West Netherlands,
on 21 October 1949.
He became a member of Videofilmers Velsen In 1984, when his wife was asked to
play the lead part in a production of the Velsen club and he has been making
films (preferably feature films) with much pleasure ever since. He has taken
part in many national and international festivals, even won several prizes and
five times had the honour of participating in UNICA with a film.
Via
NOVA (Netherlands Organisation of Audio-visual Non-professionals) he took part
in a film judging course, he is a regular member of the ‘travelling judging
panel’ in the NOVA-district North-Holland and has judged at many national and
international festivals. He has a preference for feature films and, in judging
these, he pays particular attention to the theme of these films.
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Belgium: Jef Van Gompel |
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Nickname 'Jef' preferred, born on Nov. 27th 1943, speech therapist,
works in the hospital Sint-Jan in Brugge,
producer of 80 films, among them 30 animations films,
6 films in the Belgium UNICA-programme:
1 GOLD-,1 SILVER- AND 2 BRONZE-MEDALS,
member of the BRUGSE AMATEURCINEASTS since 1969
member of the jury in many national and international filmfestivals... |
