FIPRESCI Jury
Namrata Joshi
Namrata Joshi is Senior Assistant Editor and film critic with Outlook newsmagazine. She is the winner of India’s National Award for Best Film Critic for 2004.
She has been a member of the FIPRESCI critics’ jury at the Cairo International Film Festival, November 2009, Moscow International Film Festival, June 2007 and International Film Festival of Kerala, December 2005. She has been on the selection committee for Indian panorama section at the International Film Festival of India, Goa, 2008.
She has written monographs on actresses Nutan and Mumtaz for a series Women in Indian Film edited by Nasreen Munni Kabir for Zubaan Publishing, 2008.
Mike Naafs
Mike Naafs studied film at the University of Amsterdam where he was also the chief editor for the student film magazine. After graduating he worked for a number of film festival newspapers and magazines. Currently he is a columnist for De Filmkrant.
Andrei Creţulescu
Born on the 22nd of October 1974. He began working for HBO Romania in 1999 - since 2006 he’s consultant for the acquisition of Romanian films; in 2009 he was appointed Creative Manager. He was published in magazines like VIP, Art&Roll, Sunete, Apropo, REPUBLIK, Time Out Bucureşti, Dilema Veche, Observator Cultural, KinoKultura, Esquire etc. Between 2004 and 2010 he was a film columnist for the HBO Film Magazine.
Member of the jury for various film festivals - DaKino, Anonimul, Iaşi, Braşov IFF. Short feature competition selector for the Anonimul festival - 2nd edition/2005. Short feature competition selector for DaKino - the 17th edition/2007.
Since 2008, he’s been the Artistic Director of the Bucharest International Film Festival. Since 2005 he’s been a member of the HBO/TIFF National Script Contest.
Member of the Romanian Film Critics’ Association.