Jury
INES TANOVIĆ
INES TANOVIĆ was born in Sarajevo in 1965. She graduated in dramaturgy at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. Since 1988 she has been a member of the Association of Filmmakers of BiH. In 1991, together with her father, Sejfudin Tanović, she founded the production company DOKUMENT in Sarajevo, which is now run by her and the producer Alem Babić. From 2014 to 2019 she was president of the Association of Filmmakers. She has worked as an editor for national and federal public broadcasters. In 2004 she was awarded by the Hubert Bals Fund for the screenplay of "Entanglement". She participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus 2006 and her project "Decision" was selected from 160 submissions from all over the world for the Berlin Today Award 2011. In 2010 she directed the Bosnian part of the long feature film omnibus SOME OTHER STORIES supported by EURIMAGES. She is the author of documentary films entitled EXHIBITION (shown at the SHORT EECKEN at the Cannes Festival 2009), LIVING MONUMENT (2012), COAL MINE (2012), GHETTO 59 (2013) and A DAY ON THE DRINA (2011), which won the Big Stamp Award for Best Film at the ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival 2012 and was shown as a competing documentary at the Sarajevo Film Festival 2012. Her second film SON had its premiere in the competition programme - feature film at the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival (2019).
Armin Ceric
Presenter and TV editor - born in 1976 in Freiburg, living in Berlin. Grew up with a Bosnian father and a German mother. Studied at the Berlin University of the Arts (Social and Business Communication & Liberal Arts with focus on painting and video). Since 2010 working as a trainer (e.g. for Pro7, Sat1 and Radio Bremen), freelance presenter and TV editor (e.g. "Mit 80 Jahren um die Welt" on ZDF, lettra.tv and arte creative).
Patrick Ritter
was born in Neu-Ulm in 1980, and studied Empirical cultural studies, sociology and English literature at the University of Tübingen after completing technical vocational training. In 2015 he moved to the Ruhr region for a voluntary service at Urbane Künste Ruhr and has since worked independently as a cultural manager and cultural scientist - among others for the RVR project Interkultur Ruhr, for the Zukunftsakademie NRW and as co-curator for an exhibition at the Kommunikationsmuseum Frankfurt. He served as a stand-in in the management team of the endstation.kino in Bochum for one year in 2019, subsequently continuing his independent work in the areas of climate & art, community projects, diversity & participation.
Movie Selectors
ELMA TATARAGIĆ
(1976) is a scriptwriter, professor and festival programmer. She graduated Dramaturgy at Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts and obtained her Master of Science degree and PhD in Film and Literature. She has been with Sarajevo Film Festival since it was founded in 1995, where she now works as selector for Competition Programs and CineLink Industry Days.
She co-wrote short film FIRST DEATH EXPERIENCE (2001) and wrote and produced short NORTH WENT MAD (2003), both directed by Aida Begić. She has produced and co-written the feature film SNOW (2008) also directed by A. Begić, shown in the Semaine de la critique at Cannes Film Festival 2008, where the film won the Grand Prix. The film has been shown at over 80 festivals and won over 30 international awards.
She has been teaching screenwriting at Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts since 2002, now as a professor and Dean for International collaborations and scientific-art research. She has been awarded Best Teacher at the Academy of Performing arts in 2008, 2011 and 2019. She was also awarded with “Ivica Matić” Association of Filmmakers Award in 2008 and 2016.
She is member of European Film Academy and has published two books on screenwriting and is also works as a script consultant.
In 2016 she has completed her short fiction film I REMEMBER, which was screened and awarded at numerous film festivals. The feature film WHEN THE DAY HAD NO NAME (2017) directed by Teona Mitevska which she has co-written premiered in Panorama Special at Berlinale 2017. GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNYA, written by Elma Tataragić and directed by Teona S. Mitevska, has premiered at Berlin Film Festival Competition in 2019, while the film STITCHES, directed by Serbian director Miroslav Terzić and written by Elma Tataragić has opened in Panorama section. Both films are currently touring film festivals and winning awards including the Best Screenplay Award for Elma at Las Palmas Film Festival in Spain. She’s currently developing two new feature films and a new short experimental film.
She was General Secretary of the Association of Filmmakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina in period 2001-2019 and in 2019 she is elected president of the Association. She is also head of all the programs in the Association of Filmmakers.
MELINA ALAGIĆ
was born in Čapljina (B&H) in 1985. She graduated dramaturgy from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, where she also completed her Master studies. She is BH Film Programme Coordinator and BH Student Film selector, European Film Challenge Coordinator for Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of the editors on BH Film catalogue and Database of BH Film. Between 2010 - 2013 she was working as a screenwriter for the Children and Youth Programme at BHT1. She was Drama Teaching Assistant at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. She is general secretary of the Association of Filmmakers.
ASJA KRSMANOVIĆ
was born in Sarajevo in 1988. She graduated dramaturgy from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. She worked as a dramaturg for numerous theatre plays, as well as some radio and television projects. Since 2011, she has been working as co-ordinator of the Competition, Competition Short and Focus Program at Sarajevo Film Festival, and since 2017 she has been running the Student Competition Program. She worked as an assistant director on several short films. She wrote screenplay for short film DAMAGED GOODS directed by Nermin Hamzagić.
