Documentary Film Jury

Michael Glawogger, Director, Screenwriter and Cinematographer
Hana Kulhánková, director of One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
Miroslav Sikavica, Director

Michael Glawogger is a director, writer and cinematographer and his work in each of these roles displays a broad spectrum. Glawogger was born in Graz, Austria, in 1959. He is a traveling filmmaker. Not only does he literally journey around the world for his documentaries, he also moves back and forth between forms and genres, between photography and writing, between gentler and more forceful tones. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute and the Vienna Film Academy and has since worked as a director, writer, and cinematographer in Vienna, Bangkok, and Znojmo. His recent works range from the literary adaptation Kill Daddy Good Night (2009) and the quirky comedies Slugs (2004) and Contact High (2009) to his essayist documentaries Whore's Glory (2011), Megacities (2009) and Workingman's Death (2004).

Hana Kulhánková is a director of the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, which is currently the biggest human rights film festival in the world. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno with a degree in English and American studies. She has worked for other film festivals (Mezipatra, Febiofest) as a programmer and has taught history of American avant-garde film as well as gender and queer theory and is active in LGBT advocacy. Since 2005, she has worked for the People in Need organization.

Miroslav Sikavica is a film and TV director from Zagreb. He obtained a degree in Comparative Literature and Croatian Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and a degree in Film and TV Directing from the Academy of Dramatic Art. His filmography includes: The Cloud (2011), Od 6 mjeseci do 3 godine (2010), Direkt: Čardak ni na nebu ni na zemlji (2009), Direkt: Lopta, cipela, Coca-Cola (2008) Mrs. Before (2007), Direkt: C2H5OH (2006), Kako miriše nebo (2003), Pad (2002). The Cloud, his award-winning first feature-length documentary, premiered at last year's Zagreb Film Festival.