07/08/2019 Mediterranean film festival
The Jury for the best feature documentary
Alen Drljević,  Alejandro Diaz Castano and Dževdet Tuzlić are the members of the jury of the 20th Mediterranean Film Festival for the feature documentary competition.

Alen Drljević is a B&H director whose films have won numerous awards. He has participated at IDFA, the world's most significant documentary film festival and was awarded at the Karlovy Vary for his first feature film 'Men Never Cry'. Alejandro Diaz Castano is a film journalist and director of the Gijon International Film Festival. Dzevdet Tuzlic, a B&H journalist and editor of the BHTV Culture Program, where he hosts ‘Dimension more’ magazine.

The jury in this composition chooses the best author in the category of feature documentary film and awards the MFF projector 'Grand Prix' – sponsored by Podravka.

Alen Drljević was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo in 2005. His diploma work, the short fiction film Prva plata (Paycheck) was nominated for a European Film Academy Award. His documentary feature debut Karneval (Carnival) was selected by IDFA 2006, in its 'First Appearance' and 'Movies that Matter' competitions. His fiction feature debut film Muškarci ne plaču (Men don’t cry) premiered at Karlovy Vary IFF 2017 and won Special Jury Award & Europa Cinemas Label Award.

Alejandro Díaz Castaño was born in Asturias in 1979. Since 2017 he has been the Director of the Gijon International Film Festival (FICX), where he had already worked as a programmer in 2010 and 2011. He also served as Head of Programming for the Seville European Film Festival from 2012 to 2016. As a film journalist he is a member of FIPRESCI and has been a regular contributor to Spanish monthlies Caimán - Cuadernos de Cine (formerly Cahiers du Cinéma – Spain) and Rockdelux. He has also collaborated in several collective books on cinema and in 2015 he published his first solo book, Olvidos vergonzosos. The following year he wrote and directed the short film The Escape, which screened at San Sebastian, BAFICI, Uruguay and Malaga. He has also been a jury member at international events such as BAFICI, Edinburgh IFF, Crossing Europe Linz, Vila do Conde IFF, Cinélatino Toulouse or Las Palmas IFF, among many others.     

Dževdet Tuzlić was born on August 3, 1955 in Kotor Varoš. He finished high school in Banja Luka and graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo, Journalism Department. His first professional job was at the second channel of the Radio Sarajevo, where he established the 'Third Dimension' program in 1981, which lasted for 11 years. At the same time he was a correspondent of the second program of the Radio Belgrade, 'Jedinstvo' from Priština, ‘Oko’ from Zagreb, 'Youth Newspapers' from Belgrade, Radio Kopar and Radio Ljubljana and magazine ‘Danas’ from Zagreb. At the end of 2001 he was appointed Editor in the Culture Program and in 2003 the editor-in-chief of the Cultural and Entertainment Program of FTV. In 2007, he moved to BHT, to the position of Editor of the Culture Program, when he established the 'Dimension More' magazine.






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