{"id":28902,"date":"2021-05-21T21:40:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T19:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krakowfilmfestival.pl\/?p=28902"},"modified":"2021-05-21T21:53:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T19:53:47","slug":"the-jury-of-the-61st-krakow-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krakowfilmfestival.pl\/en\/the-jury-of-the-61st-krakow-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jury of the 61st Krakow Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The films of the 61<\/b>st<\/b> edition of the Krakow Film Festival will be evaluated by the juries consisting of outstanding filmmakers from around the world, representatives of international festivals and the world of culture, as well as the award-winners of the Krakow Film Festival. The meetings will be chaired by Anca Damian, Mark Cousins, Jan P. Matuszy\u0144ski. <\/b><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

At this year’s Krakow Film Festival, 170 films will be shown, including 100 international and Polish premieres. The jury (including FIPRESCI) will evaluate documentary, short and animated films in three competitions: two international ones and the national one. The winners will receive awards with a total value of over PLN 250 000.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chairperson of the Jury of the international documentary film competition is Mark Cousins (UK)<\/b> – director, film critic, cinema enthusiast. Cousins has hosted television shows about the film, was a university lecturer and a long-standing art director of the Edinburgh Film Festival. His most famous 15-hour project, “The Story of Film. An Odyssey” tells the history of over 120 years of international cinema. Cousins is the winner of the European Film Award for 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The documentary film jury also includes Margreth Olin <\/b>(Norway) – documentary film director, incl. the co-author of “The Self-Portrait”, awarded at the 60th KFF, Radu Ciorniciuc <\/b>(Romania) – director, cameraman and investigative journalist, his film “Acasa, My Home” got the award for the best documentary film at the 60th KFF, Peter Kerekes<\/b> (Slovakia) – director, screenwriter, producer and consultant, Anna Wydra <\/b>(Poland) – producer, the founder and the CEO of the Otter Films – a Warsaw-based production company focusing on artistic feature films and documentary films.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n