Vera Robić-Škarica has been a successful secretary of the Croatian Film Association (HFS) for over thirty years, where she has also worked as a producer and with strong commitment, in terms of program and technically, she first supported the film review and later the festival in Široki Brijeg, which today is called the Mediterranean Film Festival. Sara Fgaier is an Italian director, editor and researcher who has won a large number of film awards, and is a member of the European Film Academy. Marijana Mikulic is a famous Croatian theatre, film and television actress who became known to the wider audiences after appearing in numerous Croatian telenovelas.

The jury in this composition chooses the best author in the category of short documentary film and awards the MFF projector 'Best Short'.

Vera Robić-Škarica has been a successful secretary of the Croatian Film Association (HFS) for over thirty years and transformed this institution from a small association into an organization of more than forty film associations. Since 2000, she has also worked as a producer of more than 100 short feature films, experimental, documentary and animated films that have been awarded at numerous world festivals. HFS has also become the most important Croatian publisher of film journalism in Vera Robić-Škarica’s mandate. She encouraged the revitalisation of the network of broadcasters, advocated the introduction of media culture in regular elementary and high school education and encouraged the expansion of film art in all segments of cultural and social creativity in Croatia. Since 1999, she has participated in the initiation of the School of Media Culture, which, according to the recommendation of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, gives a valuable contribution to the development of media, especially film culture, within the teaching of Croatian language and literature in Croatian schools. Today, the school is named the School of Media Culture Dr Ante Peterlić. She was also the president of the Croatian Film Association. She is the winner of the Great Gold Arena 2012 for the film Letter to my Father, directed by Damir Čučić. She is also the winner of UNICA's award for the overall contribution to the film in 2017. Twenty years ago, with strong commitment, in terms of program and technically, she first supported the film review and later the festival in Široki Brijeg, which is today named Mediterranean Film Festival. Vera Robić-Škarica is one of the most deserving for the festival has grown into the most respectable documentary film festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Sara Fgaier was born in La Spezia in 1982. She graduated in History and Film Studies from the University of Bologna. In 2005 she studied at the Fare Cinema Film and Theatre School, directed by Marco Bellocchio and she began collaborating with Pietro Marcello. She was first assistant director on the documentary Il Passaggio Delle Linea (2007); first assistant director, film editor and archive researcher on the film The Mouth of the Wolf (2009), winner at the 27th Turin Film Festival, at the Berlin Film Festival and about twenty other awards in the long path between the international festivals in which it participated. She edited the documentary The Silence of Pelesjan (2011). She also edited the documentary The Train to Moscow (2013) by Federico Ferrone and Michele Manzolini and she collaborated on the editing of the film Sacro Gra by Gianfroco Rosi, winner of the Golden Lion at the 70th Venice Film Festival in 2013. In 2012 she won the film section for the Rolex 'Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative', working for a year under the guidance of editor, sound designer and director, Walter Murch.

Marijana Mikulić is famous Croatian theatre, film and television actress. In her hometown Široki Brijeg she completed elementary and high school, but also secondary musical school, theory department. In 2003 she enrolled in the Academy of Dramatic Arts. This actress has played numerous theatre roles, and had her film debut in the film Transmania directed by Sara Hribar. After that, she cooperated with Filip Šovagović in the film Visoka modna napetost, in Hana Jušić’s Ne gledaj mi u pjat, and in Cristian Milić's film Mrtve ribe plivaju na leđima. Marijana also starred in Antun Vrdoljak's film General, and she also played a prominent role in the first Croatian futuristic documentary 2068 directed by Roberto Bubalo. She became known to wider audiences after starring in numerous Croatian soap operas such as Obični ljudi, Ponos Ratkajevih, Zkon ljubavi, Kud puklo da puklo and Prava žena. Besides soap operas she played in TV drama series Počivali u miru and sitcoms Stipe u gostima and Glas naroda.