Austrian screenwriter and director Sebastian Meisse was named jury president at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival. Its jury will include screenwriter and producer Lucila Hajijalilovic, screenwriter and director Antoneta Alamat Kusianovic, actor Milan Maric and international co-producer and senior consultant Katriel Shore.
May founded the Viennese production company Freibeuter Film before the premiere of his famous first feature film Still Life at the San Sebastian International Film Festival and has won numerous awards. His later works include the documentary Exit and Great Freedom, the latter of which won the Cannes Jury Prize for “Certain Views” and also won the Sarajevo Heart Award for Best Picture and Best Actor (George Friedrich) .
Hajijalilovich’s debut mini-film, La Bouche De Jean-Pierre, premiered at Cannes in 1996 with Un Certain Regard, and subsequent titles that made it to the International Film Festival include Innocence, Evolution and the his latest film, Earwig.
Croatian Alamat Kusijanovic caused a stir in Cannes last year with the premiere of his first feature, Murina, which came out on Monday. The title, co-produced by Martin Scorsese, won the Golden Camera Award for Best First Feature.
Serbian actor Maric has starred in such films as: The Man Who Uphold the Gavril Principle, The Good Wife, Sinest, Dovlatov and Toma. He won the best young actor award at the 40th Moscow International Film Festival for his role in Dovlatov.
Israeli producer Score has been making films for over 25 years and has made over 150 films and TV shows. He is the CEO of the Israel Film Fund and his films have won four Oscar nominations in the Foreign Film category, as well as the Golden and Silver Lion in Venice and the Bear at the Berlinale.
“I have always had a personal connection with the Sarajevo Film Festival and it is a great honor for me to be on the jury this year,” said Meize. “Sarajevo is a special place and the unique founding spirit of the festival is present everywhere here. It is a deeply humanistic belief that cinema can do what politics cannot: bring people together.
Source: Deadline
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