LIVE-STREAMED FINAL JURY SESSION 2024

For the eleventh year in a row, an award will be bestowed on the best film from our Official Selection: the GdA Director’s Award. Joanna Hogg will head a jury that this year consists of ten former participants in the 27 Times Cinema program inaugurated by the European Parliament in 2010. The jury sessions will be coordinated by Karel Och, Artistic Director of the Karlovy Vary Festival. As is the Giornate custom, the final jury deliberations are live-streamed so that our audiences and filmmakers can share the thrill of the verdict. On Friday, September 6th, at 10 am.

THE TEN JURORS
David Bakum (Germany) was a member of the 2022 jury. He is a curator and organizer of the program for the XPOSED Queer Film Festival in Berlin. He is also a co-founder of a Jewish-Muslim film collective based in Berlin.
Victor Courgeon (France) was a member of the 2019 jury. He works for the Cinéma Le Méliès in Montreuil as head of public relations and communications.
Maarja Hinoalla (Estonia) was a member of the 2015 jury. She is a freelance journalist and film critic. She works for the National Film Archives of Estonia, for the first seven years as curator and programmer, and since 2022, head of acquisitions.
Dimosthenis Kontes (Greece) was a member of the 2018 jury. He is head of sales and materials coordinator for Pluto Film.
Amalia Mititelu (Romania) was a member of the 2020 jury. She works as an assistant or else directly as set designer and art director of short films, commercials, and TV series filmed in Romania by Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+.
Saulė Savanevičiūtė (Lithuania) was a member of the 2022 jury. She coordinates the programs of the European Film Forum Scanorama. She also contributes articles to the leading national media organizations.
Esmée van Loon (the Netherlands) was a member of the 2017 jury. She works for the arthouse cinema LantarenVenster in Rotterdam. She screens and selects films and curates film showcases and special events.
Gregor Valentovic (Slovakia) was a member of the 2015 jury. He is a filmmaker.
Isabella Weber (Italy) was a member of 27 Times Cinema 2010 program. She is a development executive at Kino Produzioni and a freelance story editor. She collaborates with the Torino Film Lab.
Chris Zahariev (Bulgaria) was a member of the 2020 jury. He is a screenwriter and director at his own production company, Razkaz. He is working on his first film.