Jury 2010
Award winners :
Award for Best Documentary Film (Objectif d’Or): Last Train Home
by Chinese director, Fan Lixin.
Award for Best Development Content: There Once Was An Island
by New Zealander director, Briar March.
Award for Best Human Rights Content: Fighting The Silence
by Dutch directors Ilse & Femke van Velzen.
Special Jury Award: Agrarian Utopia
by Thai director, Uruphong Raksasad.
Public Jury Award: A Blooming Business
by Dutch filmmaker, Ton van Zantvoort
Jury President
Author-filmmaker, producer and comedian, Marion Hänsel has worked in a range of avant-garde theatres in Brussels before turning to a career in directing short and feature-length films. Self-taught and self-driven, she exports Belgium to the four corners of the continent. Elected as ‘Woman of the Year’ in Belgium in 1987, she is part of a generation of directors who helped to universalise Belgian cinema by addressing moving topics that concern everyone.
Members
Director, Hassan Zbib has been living in Paris since 1988. He has worked on different audiovisual projects (documentaries, television reports, short and feature-length films). His last documentary, ‘Creative Chaos’ is a return to his hometown in South Lebanon in the aftermath of the 2006 war where he finds a population faced by destruction. An immersion into a community bruised but surviving well, that of his own family.
Antonio Vigilante is the Director of the UN Office in Brussels and Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Previously, he has been in missions based in Egypt, Eastern Europe, New York, Barbados, Ethiopia, Honduras and Bolivia. He has supported awareness programmes through audiovisual projects and has been the author of newspaper articles and publications, featured in specialist reviews, on the stake of development. He has also been a stage actor, a translator of novels and plays, and author of children’s stories.
Founder in 1987 of “Noviy Kurs”, one of the first production studios for USSR independent films, Pavel Petchenkin is the president of the International Documentary Film Festival, “Flahertiana”, based in Perm, which he set up in 1995. He has directed a number of documentary films and received several awards from International festivals.
Safaa Fathy was born in Minia, Upper Egypt in 1958. She is the director of many films, including D’Ailleurs, Derrida. Inspired by her film, she then co-wrote with Jacques Derrida, one of the most studied of French philosophers, Tourner les mots, Au bord d’un film. She has also been author to many poetry collections in Arabic and has staged a dozen theatre plays.
Thérèse Loncke works for the Direction of Awareness Programmes in the Belgian Development Cooperation. Amongst other things, she is actively involved in the production of films and documentaries, radio and television broadcasts that tackle North-South relations and current development issues with a view to raising public awareness in Belgium.
From 1999 to 2006, Gie Goris was president of Open Doek, an International Cinema Festival in Turnhout (Belgium). From 2001 to 2006, he was a member of the advisory board of Africalia, a Not-for-Profit Organisation that promotes African art and culture. Since 2003, he has been working as editor-in-chief of the monthly, MO-Magazine. Areas of specialisation include South, West and Central Asia, the USA, Islam and the theme of ‘culture and identity’.
