Juries 2020
Fabian Driehorst
Born 1982 in Gifhorn Germany, is a producer of documentary and animated films, living in Hamburg. In 2012 he founded the studio Fabian&Fred with Frédéric Schuld (Author, Director). For his films he won production grants such as AFAC, Doha Film Institute, Jihlava Film Fund and the Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and scholarships for development by Wim Wenders Stiftung and Gerd Ruge. His films were selected in over 800 festivals, received several awards and were nominated e.g. for the German Short Film Award (Lola). Fabian is board member of AG Animationsfilm, the german animation association. 2019 he was awarded the VFF Documentary Production Award at DOK.fest Munich. He participated in the training programs Berlinale Talents 2016, Documentary Campus Masterclass 2018, AniDox 2019 and ACE Producers Animation 2020.
Natalia Berezovaya
Russian animated films director.
Member of Russian Union of Cinematographers. Winner of international awards: the World Festival of Animation Films (Varna, Bulgaria), the Big Cartoon Festival, Multivision International Festival of Animated Arts, the Open Russian Festival of Animated Arts, etc. Author of Mountain of Gems series by Pilot studio. Artistic manager and main director of Feerinki animated series.
Asya Umarova
Russian artist. writer, films director.
Russia Filmmaker, director, prose writer and artist. Member of the Union of Russian Writers. Winner and participant of international, national and regional competitions in literature, animation and visual arts. Received Ministry of Culture scholarship (2013, 2016, 2019). Her 2016 debut film War. Linen from the Past won VKRATZE! Days of German and Russian short films (Volgograd). For three years, participated in various school and university projects as a director of animated films screened in Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Germany and other countries. Actively engages in social projects since 2012, gives workshops on drawing, animation and writing skills for children and youth, including children with special needs. Participant and winner of VKRATZE! 2014.
Vita Gudilina
Leader of Otrazheniye film school for teenagers (Malakhovka, Moscow Region). Editing director of RTVI international Russian-language TV network and Magnum film studio. Teacher of VKRATZE! 2019 filmmaking workshops for teenagers.
Tamara Bocharova
Russian filmmaker, screenwriter. By first education – a journalist.
Russia Filmmaker, director, screenwriter. For many years, worked on television making documentaries and TV series (VID, Channel One, RTR, NTV, Kultura, Perets, Pyatnitsa!). Screenwriter and director of more than 20 television documentaries and feature films. Director of Spring is Coming short film – contestant and winner of Russian and international festivals. Participant of “Happiness is…” project by Disney (2019). Editor, script-doctor and lecturer of Moscow Film School, teaching drama theory and practice to aspiring film and television screenwriters. As a screenwriter, works with Marmot-Film studio (led by V. Todorosvsky) and IVI platform. Participant and winner of VKRATZE! 2018.
