RoDay Shorts Jury
Georgi Milenov Angelov
Georgi Milenov Angelov was born on the 20th of February 1986. After graduating high school in Varna in 2005, he flirted with jazz music and economic sciences, but his biggest love turned out to be the film world: in 2009 he started his studies in this field at the New Bulgarian University, focusing on film directing and scriptwriting.
Between 2008 - 2009 he worked as assistant director for SIA Advertising, at the Big Brother 4 show. From 2009 he started collaborating with the National AIDS Programme as a consultant, helping the organisation with their media advertising campaigns and designing some of the animations for these campaigns.
Georgi Milenov Angelov wrote and directed several promos and the short films Colours and Adagio. He also wrote the script for the short film White.
Adrian Titieni
Adrian Titieni, born on the 6th of June 1963, graduated in 1988 from The National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC), Bucharest, and in 2003 he received a PhD at the same university, in Directing and Editing for Film and TV.
For two years (1993-1994), he worked for TVR as an editor in the education and Science Department. At the moment he is a university lecturer and head of gThe Art of the Actorh department at UNATC.
He starred in many films, among which The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu, Angling, Broken Youth etc. He was cast in the award winning shorts Waves and The Cage. He also a renowned theatre actor.
Emre Akay
Emre Akay was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1978. He wanted to be an archeologist until the age of 11 (because of Indiana Jones), a professional tennis player until 13, a rock star until 18 and a photographer up till 20. He directed his first short film, Proxemique, in 2001, while trying to figure out how a Scamera works.
His first feature film, A Film By Tugra Kaftancioglu,was co-directed with Hasan Yalaz in 2003 with a budget just over 1000$. The film was theatrically released in 2008. In 2010, it was voted the 2nd all-time most popular film amongst those screened at the Istanbul Independent Film Festivals through 2001-2010.
Akay has directed short films, music videos and commercials, including the acclaimed short A Small Truth that premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival and won the Film Critics Association Award in Turkey. Red Alert is his fourth and latest short film.