13/08/2012 Mediterranean film festival
We present the Jury of the 13th MFF: Jovan Marjanović, Doron Tsabari and Zdenko Jurilj
The members of the jury of the 13th Mediterranean Film Festival are Jovan Marjanović, the member of the Sarajevo Film Festival Council in charge of relations with film industry and one of the councillors for Torino Film Lab, Doron Tsabari, film director, producer and journalist from Israel and Zdenko Jurilj, journalist and director from Bosnia and Herzegovina. This jury awards the MFF projector Grand Prix - Jack Daniel's and the second special prize, while the audience has the responsibility for the third MFF projector.


Jovan Marjanović (B.Sc.Law, mr.sc.) started his engagement in the realm of cinematography in 1999 at Sarajevo Film Festival as technical and program coordinator. From 2003 till 2007 he was Manager Execcutive of CineLink Coproduction market, presently a member of the Sarajevo Film Festival Council in charge of relations with film industry. He has produced a number of awarded documentary, short and feature films. From 2006 he has been the national representative of B&H in the Management Board of the European Council for support to the European Cinematography coproduction – Eurimages. One of the councellors for Torino Film Lab, the film fund related to Torino Film Festival. In 2008 gained the Master of Sciences degree in management with specialization for film industry at Cass Business School City  of London University, Great Britain. Employed as higher assistant at Academy of Scene Arts in Sarajevo, production and management branch. Member of the Management board of Cinematography Fundation since 2011.


Doron Tsabari is a film director, producer and journalist from Israel. Educated at Tel Aviv University, Film Production division from 1988 till 1992. During the studies and after it he was working as an editor in «Tel Aviv» magazine and «Hadashot» agency. The founder and the first President of Israeli Documentarists Forum. The founder and a member of Managing Board of Tali, professional organization of Israeli Scriptwriters. Active in several Film Associations and is a Management Board member of Public RTV Service in Israel. Lecturer at several Film Schools, from Sam Spiegel and Maaleh to the University with Film and Art Department in Sapir and Beit Berl. Directed a number of documentaries and TV films. Also an actor and a producer, awarded as director at Jerusalem Film Festival, won several awards of Israeli Film Academy. Competed in official international selections with several films. Last year's winner of 12th Mediterranean Film Festival with the film Revolution 101.


Zdenko Jurilj is a journalist and a director who has been working in the media realm of the country and region for 17 years. During the last ten years he has been working as a journalist-reporter for the «Večernji list» newspapers. In his journalist career he has been covering a large number of relevant events significant for the situation in the region of former Yugoslavia and south-eastern Europe. Wrote the screenplays and directed three documentaries. In 2001 the scriptwriter for the film «Spori jahači» (Easy riders), and in 2010 directed his debut documentary «Let iznad minskog polja» (One flew over the mine fields). The film deals with a group of deminers in the mine fields, who, after finishing their shift in the mine field  enjoy an equaly dangerous adrenaline sport – kite flying (paragliding). He presented his director's skills at the film «3 dana» (3 days), the second documentary in which he skillfully keeps the audience concentrated and attentive for 80 minutes. The film is about blocking a formation of JNA tanks in Polog village (on the road from Mostar to Široki Brijeg) before the very beginning of the war. Fond of short forms, he does not shun trips to film amateurism. Permanent cooperator of Mediterranean Film Festival in the field of promotion and artistic councelling.






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