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Axel Timo Purr
Member – Germany
Axel Timo Purr
Member – Germany
Axel Timo Purr is editor of “Artechock Filmmagazin”, one of the oldest German online film journals. After field research in East Africa on modern (anti-) witchcraft movements, the informal sector and global economic influences on individual biographies, he has been writing on Africa-, Asian-, literature- and film-related topics for Artechock, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the NZZ since 2001 and was a member of various juries (VDFK, FIPRESCI, Cinema Programme Award).
Alexandros Kostopoulos
Member – Greece
Alexandros Kostopoulos
Member – Greece
Alexandros Kostopoulos was born in Athens, Greece. He studied Filmmaking, and Information Sciences & Multimedia Technology. His short film "First Swim" was screened in international film festivals. He filmed the TV documentaries “Speed of Light” and "Touching the intangible", produced by the Greek broadcaster. His animated short film “Zebra's Island”, produced by the Greek Film Center and the Greek broadcaster, is at production stage. He participated in several script and pitching labs (Torino Film Lab, Mediterranean Film Institute, In The Palace Filmer Forge Pitch, EKOME Storytelling, Drama Pitching Mini Talent Lab, Olympia Creative Ideas, Mecal). He is tutor of the film workshops “From Comic Books, to Directing” and "Using Musical Films to Teach Expressive Arts".
Elena Rubashevska
Member – Ukraine
Elena Rubashevska
Member – Ukraine
Elena Rubashevskaja a journalist and film critic, FIPRESCI Editor-in-Chief. She worked as a director and screenwriter, creating media content for non-governmental organizations and socially responsible businesses such as WWF, OSCE, and UN, with a special focus on projects related to the East of Ukraine. As an editor, she ran the website kinoukraine.com. Author of a series of video lectures and a book dedicated to Ukrainian cinema. She is also a program coordinator of the OKO International Ethnographic Film Festival, which takes place in the Ukrainian region of Bessarabia. After the outbreak of war in Ukraine in 2022, she became a part of the Energa CAMERIMAGE International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography (Poland).
LISTEN TO THE Event Speakers
Elena Rubashevska
Member – Ukraine
Elena Rubashevska
Member – Ukraine
Elena Rubashevskaja a journalist and film critic, FIPRESCI Editor-in-Chief. She worked as a director and screenwriter, creating media content for non-governmental organizations and socially responsible businesses such as WWF, OSCE, and UN, with a special focus on projects related to the East of Ukraine. As an editor, she ran the website kinoukraine.com. Author of a series of video lectures and a book dedicated to Ukrainian cinema. She is also a program coordinator of the OKO International Ethnographic Film Festival, which takes place in the Ukrainian region of Bessarabia. After the outbreak of war in Ukraine in 2022, she became a part of the Energa CAMERIMAGE International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography (Poland).
Axel Timo Purr
Member – Germany
Axel Timo Purr
Member – Germany
Axel Timo Purr is editor of “Artechock Filmmagazin”, one of the oldest German online film journals. After field research in East Africa on modern (anti-) witchcraft movements, the informal sector and global economic influences on individual biographies, he has been writing on Africa-, Asian-, literature- and film-related topics for Artechock, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the NZZ since 2001 and was a member of various juries (VDFK, FIPRESCI, Cinema Programme Award).
Dr. Arsen Arakelyan
Member - Armenia
Dr. Arsen Arakelyan
Member - Armenia
Dr. Arsen Arakelyan an Armenian Independent filmmaker and producer, graduated from the Yerevan State Pedagogical Institute, faculty of "culture", department of feature film director; completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of Arts; in 2003 he defended the scientific title of Candidate of Art History of the National Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor in Art History. He is the author, director and producer of many documentaries, feature films and television films that participated in many film festivals and received awards. He is also a lecturer in directing at the Yerevan State Pedagogical Institute; lecturer and director of RAU TV at the Russian-Armenian University; lecturer at the Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinematography. In 2019, the manual "Conversations after lectures" was published, one of the authors of which is Arsen Arakelyan.
Alexandros Kostopoulos
Member – Greece
Alexandros Kostopoulos
Member – Greece
Alexandros Kostopoulos was born in Athens, Greece. He studied Filmmaking, and Information Sciences & Multimedia Technology. His short film "First Swim" was screened in international film festivals. He filmed the TV documentaries “Speed of Light” and "Touching the intangible", produced by the Greek broadcaster. His animated short film “Zebra's Island”, produced by the Greek Film Center and the Greek broadcaster, is at production stage. He participated in several script and pitching labs (Torino Film Lab, Mediterranean Film Institute, In The Palace Filmer Forge Pitch, EKOME Storytelling, Drama Pitching Mini Talent Lab, Olympia Creative Ideas, Mecal). He is tutor of the film workshops “From Comic Books, to Directing” and "Using Musical Films to Teach Expressive Arts".
Jon Jost
President – USA
Jon Jost
President – USA
Jon Jost was born in Chicago on May 16, 1943, of a military family, Jon Jost grew up in Georgia, Kansas, Japan, Italy, Germany and Virginia. Expelled from college in 1962, he began making 16mm films in January, 1963. He is self-taught. He has made 45 feature length films on celluloid, 16 and 35mm, and digital media, all of which he has conceived, written, photographed, directed and edited; most of these he also produced. He has made more than 60 short works. His work has been been given retrospectives around the world, from MoMA NYC to Berlin. He lives presently in Kolkata.
Alexandros Kostopoulos
Member – Greece
Alexandros Kostopoulos
Member – Greece
Alexandros Kostopoulos was born in Athens, Greece. He studied Filmmaking, and Information Sciences & Multimedia Technology. His short film "First Swim" was screened in international film festivals. He filmed the TV documentaries “Speed of Light” and "Touching the intangible", produced by the Greek broadcaster. His animated short film “Zebra's Island”, produced by the Greek Film Center and the Greek broadcaster, is at production stage. He participated in several script and pitching labs (Torino Film Lab, Mediterranean Film Institute, In The Palace Filmer Forge Pitch, EKOME Storytelling, Drama Pitching Mini Talent Lab, Olympia Creative Ideas, Mecal). He is tutor of the film workshops “From Comic Books, to Directing” and "Using Musical Films to Teach Expressive Arts".
Elena Rubashevska
Member – Ukraine
Elena Rubashevska
Member – Ukraine
Elena Rubashevskaja a journalist and film critic, FIPRESCI Editor-in-Chief. She worked as a director and screenwriter, creating media content for non-governmental organizations and socially responsible businesses such as WWF, OSCE, and UN, with a special focus on projects related to the East of Ukraine. As an editor, she ran the website kinoukraine.com. Author of a series of video lectures and a book dedicated to Ukrainian cinema. She is also a program coordinator of the OKO International Ethnographic Film Festival, which takes place in the Ukrainian region of Bessarabia. After the outbreak of war in Ukraine in 2022, she became a part of the Energa CAMERIMAGE International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography (Poland).
Axel Timo Purr
Member – Germany
Axel Timo Purr
Member – Germany
Axel Timo Purr is editor of “Artechock Filmmagazin”, one of the oldest German online film journals. After field research in East Africa on modern (anti-) witchcraft movements, the informal sector and global economic influences on individual biographies, he has been writing on Africa-, Asian-, literature- and film-related topics for Artechock, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the NZZ since 2001 and was a member of various juries (VDFK, FIPRESCI, Cinema Programme Award).