Jury: FILM CRITICS CIRCLE OF INDIA AWARD
Internationally acclaimed film director, film critic, film scholar and writer.
MadhuEravankara is a film -maker, -scholar, and –critic, and former HoD of Film Studies at Malayalam University. He is a recipient of the President’s Gold Medal, the National Film Award, two State Film Awards, the Film Critics Award, the State Television Award, the International Documentary Film Award, the Greens Award for Environmental films, and the Kozhikodan Award for Best Book on Cinema. He is a member of the Malayalam Cine Technicians Association (MACTA), the founder president of the Documentary & Short Film Producers Association of Kerala (DOSPAK), and a former secretary of FIPRESCI-India.
Acclaimed film critic, author
S Viswanath is the co-author of ‘Random reflections: kaleidoscopic musings on Kannada cinema’, and a film critic with over 30 years of experience reviewing Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and English films. He officiates as the world cinema curator of the Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFES).
Award winning author, professor at Central University
Vijay Sharma is the author of 23 books, including 8 on cinema. She has written in all leading national Hindi magazines and reviewed books and films for Akashvani radio. She is presently a visiting professor at Central University, and Academic Staff College, and is on the verge of publishing 3 more books on cinema.
Jury: NEXT-GEN Award (STUDENT FILMS)
Executive Director of International Centre of films for children and young people.
ELHAM SHIRVANI, Executive Director of CIFEJ has worked as a teacher English teacher in children’s department of Iran Language Institute. Her article titled as” The Impact of E-learning on Motivational Strategies and English Learning” published in the Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research
Pragya Mishra is an English writer, columnist and film journalist who has written for India’s Prabhat Kiran daily newspaper for the past 14 years.
Director, graphic designer, animator and illustrator
His short animations were aired on CS broadcast and in-flight on international flights (ANA, All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd.). His short animations were also screened at international film festivals. His works cover many fields of computer graphics, including digital books for children.
A member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, Founder of the educationalproject «Children of Miss Peregrine»
The Head of the NGO “Kharkiv Association of Children’s Screen Arts «Dytiatko»”.Founder of the educationalproject «Children of Miss Peregrine».
The executive director of the DYTIATKO International Children’s Media Festival (2009-2022).The director of the Film and TV School “DYTIATKO” (2015-2018).
A member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.