Jury of Anifilm 2013
International Competition of Feature Films
Amid Amidi / USA
Historian and award-winning author of numerous books about contemporary and classic animated filmmaking, including Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation, A Sketchy Past: The Art of Peter de Sève, The Art of Pixar Short Films, and The Art of Pixar: The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art from 25 Years of Animation. Amid Amidi is also the editor-in-chief of the influential animation industry website CartoonBrew.com.
Igor Prassel / SLO
Freelance journalist, animation film programmer and various festivals board member. He’s finishing his MA programme Media Studies at the Ljubljana Faculty for Graduate Social Sciences Studies. He was a long time co-editor of Stripburger, the only Slovene comics magazine. From 1992 he is running a monthly animation film program at the Slovenian Cinematheque. In 2011 and 2012 he served as a member of committees for the evaluation of short animated film production for CICLIC (France), La Poudriere (France – evaluation of student graduation films 2011/12) and Proimagenes (Colombia). From 2008 he collaborates with the World Festival of Animated Films Animafest Zagreb as programme adviser. He is a founding member of the Association of Slovenian Animation Film. From 2010 he is lecturing on the history and theory of animation film at the University in Nova Gorica. In 2012 the Slovenian Cinematheque published his book “The Filmography of Slovene Animated Film 1952 – 2012”. In 2004 he founded the International Animation Film Festival Animateka (www.animateka.si), where he is the artistic director.
Regina Pessoa / PT
Artist and animator. After graduating from Oporto’s Fine Art’s School in 1992 she started her career in animation film at Filmógrafo, a production company in Porto, where she collaborated on the animation of Abi Feijó’s films The Outlaws (1993), Fado Lusitano (1995) and Stowaway (2000) and was also co-author of Vicious Cycle” and Christmas Stars. In 1999, she directed her first solo film The Night awarded at several festivals. Her later film Tragic Story with Happy Ending (2005) earned many awards including grand prizes at the Festival d’Annecy and at the SICAF in Seoul. In 2012, she just finished Kali the little Vampire, which will be screened at our festival.
In all this films she has used different engraving techniques, from plaster to computer or as she likes to say: “from stone to Pixel.”
International Competition of Short Films & Czech-Slovak Student Films Competition
Alicja Jodko / PL
Philosopher by education, active in many creation areas, especially in animated film, visual poetry and graphic; author of several individual exhibitions; she is also engaged in the philosophy of art and she writes critical reviews.
She is co-founder of the photographic group „1984”, and one of the Entropia Gallery originators who runs it since 1986. The Entropia Gallery is a local government cultural organization financed by the city of Wroclaw, Poland. She is also the founder and artistic supervisor of the Children's Film Factory - a pioneering animation workshop for kids. Since 2006, she is an expert in the field of animation in the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and since 2008, a member of the Board of Directors of ASIFA Poland and the curator of the International Animation Day in Wroclaw.
Doc. MgA. Petr Koliha / CZ
Film and television director, producer and educator Petr Koliha is a graduate of the Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). In the past, he has worked as a director at Prague’s Divadlo na okraji and at its offshoot, the A-Studio; later he directed at the Činoherní studio in Ústí nad Labem. In 1989, he filmed his feature film debut, The Tender Barbarian. In 1989–2002, he taught at FAMU’s department of directing. In 1997, he filmed the feature film Bringing up Girls in Bohemia. He has been engaged in television work since his studies, and has acted as the programming director for TV Prima and subsequently for Czech Television. He was also the artistic director of the International Film Festival for Children and Youth in Zlín. Today he is executive director of Czech Television.
Stefano Scapolan / IT
Illustrator and background artist. Graduated in children´s book illustration from the Tourin European Institute of Design in Turin, Italy in 2008. He’s worked as a colorist and illustrator for several studios and in autumn 2009 he published his first children's book Vado all'asilo (I Go to Kindergarten). He has too part in making feature films in the Lanterna Magica studio in Turin, and this experience lead him into the animation world, and later to Ireland to join the backgrounds team of the feature film SantApprentice (2010) at the Academy Award Nominated studio Cartoon Saloon.
There he started a collaboration with Cartoon Saloon studio on a New Disney TV Series pilot and later on the feature film, based on the best-selling book of Tomi Ungerer, Moon Man (2012). At the moment, Stefano is involved in the production of a few animated film projects.