06/08/2018 Mediterranean film festival
Jury for the short documentary competition
Mirko Pivčević, Simon Panay and Dragan Komadina are the 19 MFF jury members for the short documentary competition.Mirko Pivčević is a film and TV cinematographer. As the director of photography he has recorded a great number of music videos, commercials, feature films and documentaries. Simon Panay is the director of the documentary ‘Nobody Dies Here’ that won the award for the best short documentary at 18th Mediterranean Film Festival. Dragan Komadina is a dramaturge, drama writer, drama teacher and screenwriter. He is assistant professor at Department of Dramatic Arts at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, and an artistic consultant at the Croatian National Theatre in Mostar.
This jury will decide on the best film from the category of short documentary film and will award the MFF Projector ‘Best Short’.
Mirko Pivčević is academic film and TV cinematographer. As the director of photography he has recorded a great number of music videos, commercials, feature films and documentaries. He has been teaching at the Art Academy in Split since 2007. He has won numerous awards in the country and abroad for the best camera, among others 4 Golden Arenas at the Pula Film Festival. He is a member of the Croatian Association of Film Artists and H.F.S. Croatian Association of Film Cinematographers.
Simon Panay is 25-year-old director. In 2012, he went to Africa to shoot his first documentary film: Tontines, une affaire de femmes and in 2014 his second documentary Waiting for the (t)rain . His latest documentary short, Nobody Dies Here, shot in an illegal gold mine in Africa, was selected for 290 Film Festivals and received 93 awards. In 2014, he received the Most Talented Young Director of the Year prize from the prestigious ARP organisation. He is currently working on his first fiction feature, Day 26.
Dragan Komadina was born in Mostar in 1974. He is a dramaturge, drama writer, drama teacher and screenwriter. He is the author of a series of drama texts (Flat Plate, Drang nach Westen, Dust Killer, Let’s have coffee ...) that were premiered in the theatres in Sarajevo, Zenica and Mostar. As a playwright he has collaborated with many directors (Dino Mustafić, Selma Spahić, Scott Fielding, Lajla Kaikčija, Ivan Leo Lemo). For his literary and dramatic work in the theatre, he has been awarded at numerous domestic festivals (Jajce Theatre Plays, BH Theatre Festival in Zenica and Brcko Theatre Meetings). He directed and wrote the screenplay for several documentaries, one of which must be specially mentioned – the one about the poet and academician Veselko Koroman, this year's Croatian nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is a professor at the Department of Dramatic Arts at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, and an artistic consultant at the Croatian National Theatre in Mostar.
Dragan Komadina was born in Mostar in 1974. He is a dramaturge, drama writer, drama teacher and screenwriter. He is the author of a series of drama texts (Flat Plate, Drang nach Westen, Dust Killer, Let’s have coffee ...) that were premiered in the theatres in Sarajevo, Zenica and Mostar. As a playwright he has collaborated with many directors (Dino Mustafić, Selma Spahić, Scott Fielding, Lajla Kaikčija, Ivan Leo Lemo). For his literary and dramatic work in the theatre, he has been awarded at numerous domestic festivals (Jajce Theatre Plays, BH Theatre Festival in Zenica and Brcko Theatre Meetings). He directed and wrote the screenplay for several documentaries, one of which must be specially mentioned – the one about the poet and academician Veselko Koroman, this year's Croatian nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is a professor at the Department of Dramatic Arts at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, and an artistic consultant at the Croatian National Theatre in Mostar.
