Juries

Each year the IFFR invites distiguished creative professionals to join the Juries to hand out various awards.

The Jury of the VPRO Tiger Awards Competition for first or second feature films consists of:

	Mr. Jafar Panahi (chair) (Iran) made short films for TV after completing his film studies and became assistant to Abbas Kiarostami, his mentor and source of inspiration. Characteristic of his work is his critical attitude towards class distinction, the position of minorities and the position of women in Iran. For this reason, his films are rarely seen in Iranian cinemas. The White Balloon won him the Caméra d’Or in Cannes for the best début film and The Circle (2000) won the Golden Lion in Venice. In 2006, Offside won both the Silver Bear and the grand jury prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
	Ms. Tiziana Finzi (Italy) studied architecture in Venice and film history in Trieste. From 1994 to 1998, she worked for the Venice Film Festival in the field of independents, début features and documentaries. In 1998, she became assistant director of the festival. She is involved as a consultant with various international film festivals and institutes and, since 1999, she has been the head of programming of the Cinéastes du présent, Compétition Vidéo and In Progress sections of the Locarno Film Festival, of which he has been deputy director since 2005. In addition, she works for a variety of institutions and magazines focusing on contemporary culture.
	Mr. Royston Tan (Singapore) attended a course at Temasek Polytechnic and was given many awards for his music videos and short films. A short documentary about youth culture formed the basis for his first feature 15, that was enthusiastically received in Venice and at Sundance. Tan’s third feature 881 was selected for the Pusan International Film Festival 2007; the film is having its European première during the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008.
	Mr. Rieks Hadders, (Netherlands) is the former adjunct director of the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. In addition he has (co-)produced films for e.g. Sharunas Bartas, Kees Hin and Miriam Kruishoop. Hadders is director of Mokum Film Distribution.
	Ms. Renata Litvinova (Russia) completed her study of scriptwriting in 1989 at the National Institute for Cinematography. As a scriptwriter, (co-)producer and actress, she became a cult figure in Russian art house cinema and also became known internationally through her acting in films by Kira Muratova, Peter Greenaway and Alexei Balabanov. As a director, she made her feature début with The Goddess.

The Jury of the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films consists of:
Ms. Moniek Toebosch, The Netherlands, visual artist
Ms. Katia Rossini, Belgium, curator of Brussels-based film theatre and film distributor Cinema Nova
Mr. Mike Hoolboom, Canada, artist working in film and video

The three winning short films will be announced on Monday January 28 and the winning features during IFFR 2008’s Awards Ceremony, to be held on Friday February 1. The three equal VPRO Tiger Awards come with Euro 15,000 by IFFR’s main sponsor, Dutch broadcaster VPRO; the three Tiger Awards for short films come with Euro 3,000 each.

The Dioraphte Award is an award € 10.000 for which all of the 22 Hubert Bals Fund supported films within the festival selection are eligible.

The Jury of the Dioraphte Award for one of the Hubert Bals Fund Films consists of:
Ms. Marianna Bhalotra, The Netherlands, former Hubert Bals Fund Manager
Ms. Amra Baksic Camo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo’s Cinelink Program Manager
Mr. Ho Yuhang, Malaysia, filmmaker

A jury of young adults gives out the € 1,000 MovieZone Award to promote the winning film in Dutch arthouse cinemas, and the audiences confer the KPN Audience Award upon their favorite.

There are two awards given out by film critics: the FIPRESCI Award is handed out by an international jury of film critics, and the Circle of Dutch Film Journalists gives away the KNF Award, which consists of free Dutch subtitling for the winning film to promote its theatrical distribution in The Netherlands.

Last but not least for the features, a jury from the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema bestows the NETPAC Award upon the best Asian feature film.

For the short films there are two types of awards. The Tiger Award Jury for the Short Film confers three prizes of € 3,000 in cash each to the best short films and the Prix UIP Rotterdam is given by a separate jury to the Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards.