08/08/2018 Mediterranean film festival
Jury for choosing the best feature documentary
Ines Tanović, Nevio Marasović and Vanesa Fernandez Guerra are the 19th MFF members of the jury for feature documentary film.
Ines Tanović is a film producer and director whose films won numerous awards and prizes. She has been the president of the Association of film workers of B&H for two mandates. Nevio Marasović is the director of awarded films ‘Goran’, Vis-À-Vis, 'The Show Must Go On'. His last film 'Comic Sans' won six Golden Arenas at this year’s Pula Film Festival. Vanesa Fernandez Guerra is the director of ZINEBI Festival – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao. With a PhD in Audio-visual Communications from the Universidad del País Vasco, she has taught classes and performed management duties there for the past fourteen years.
This jury will decide on the best film from the category of feature documentary film and will award the MFF Projector ‘Grand Prix – Jack Daniel’s’.
Ines Tanović was born in Sarajevo. She graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, department of dramaturgy. She has been a member of the Association of film workers of B&H since 1988. She wrote scripts for and directed 6 feature movies from 1986 to 2002. In 2004, she was given a Hubert Ball Fund reward for the script Entanglement. Ines was as at Berlinale Talent Campus 2006. and her project Decision was selected in Berlin Today Award 2011. In 2010 she directed the BH part of the feature omnibus Some Other Stories. The Film has been invited to more than 40 world festivals and won six international prizes. She is the author of the short feature film Starting Over, which was screened at 16 Sarajevo Film Festival short competition program 2010. She is the author of documentaries Exhibition, Living Monument, Coal Mine, Ghetto and A Day on The Drina, which was rewarded with Big Stamp at ZagrebDox. She is also the author of feature film Our Everyday Life, which had its premiere at SFF and won over 15 awards worldwide. The film was BH candidate for Oscars. Currently she is preparing her second feature film The Son, which she also wrote the script for. Together with the producer Alem Babić she manages Document Sarajevo production, which produces short, documentary, feature films, coproductions and TV programmes. She has been the president of the Association of film workers of B&H for two mandates.
Nevio Marasović graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Zagreb, department of film and televison directing. His first feature film The Show Must Go On (2010.), also his final work at the Academy, won a number of prizes at Pula Film Festival, including Breza Award for the best debutant and Oktavian Award for the best film in critics choice. His next film Vis-À-Vis (2013) Cineuropa portal included in the top five European titles in 2013. Goran (2016) was awarded at numerous international festivals. He filmed and directed the sitcom Instructor (2010), which he wrote the script for together with the actor Stjepan Perić. Apart from making films, Marasović is also professionally engaged in shooting commercials. Comic Sans is his fourth feature fiction film for which he won the Golden Arena at Pula Film Festival for the best directing, sound design, editing, supporting actress, leading actor and the Audience award.
Ines Tanović is a film producer and director whose films won numerous awards and prizes. She has been the president of the Association of film workers of B&H for two mandates. Nevio Marasović is the director of awarded films ‘Goran’, Vis-À-Vis, 'The Show Must Go On'. His last film 'Comic Sans' won six Golden Arenas at this year’s Pula Film Festival. Vanesa Fernandez Guerra is the director of ZINEBI Festival – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao. With a PhD in Audio-visual Communications from the Universidad del País Vasco, she has taught classes and performed management duties there for the past fourteen years.
This jury will decide on the best film from the category of feature documentary film and will award the MFF Projector ‘Grand Prix – Jack Daniel’s’.
Ines Tanović was born in Sarajevo. She graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, department of dramaturgy. She has been a member of the Association of film workers of B&H since 1988. She wrote scripts for and directed 6 feature movies from 1986 to 2002. In 2004, she was given a Hubert Ball Fund reward for the script Entanglement. Ines was as at Berlinale Talent Campus 2006. and her project Decision was selected in Berlin Today Award 2011. In 2010 she directed the BH part of the feature omnibus Some Other Stories. The Film has been invited to more than 40 world festivals and won six international prizes. She is the author of the short feature film Starting Over, which was screened at 16 Sarajevo Film Festival short competition program 2010. She is the author of documentaries Exhibition, Living Monument, Coal Mine, Ghetto and A Day on The Drina, which was rewarded with Big Stamp at ZagrebDox. She is also the author of feature film Our Everyday Life, which had its premiere at SFF and won over 15 awards worldwide. The film was BH candidate for Oscars. Currently she is preparing her second feature film The Son, which she also wrote the script for. Together with the producer Alem Babić she manages Document Sarajevo production, which produces short, documentary, feature films, coproductions and TV programmes. She has been the president of the Association of film workers of B&H for two mandates.
Nevio Marasović graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Zagreb, department of film and televison directing. His first feature film The Show Must Go On (2010.), also his final work at the Academy, won a number of prizes at Pula Film Festival, including Breza Award for the best debutant and Oktavian Award for the best film in critics choice. His next film Vis-À-Vis (2013) Cineuropa portal included in the top five European titles in 2013. Goran (2016) was awarded at numerous international festivals. He filmed and directed the sitcom Instructor (2010), which he wrote the script for together with the actor Stjepan Perić. Apart from making films, Marasović is also professionally engaged in shooting commercials. Comic Sans is his fourth feature fiction film for which he won the Golden Arena at Pula Film Festival for the best directing, sound design, editing, supporting actress, leading actor and the Audience award.
Vanesa Fernandez Guerra is the director of ZINEBI – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao. With a PhD in Audio-visual Communications from the Universidad del País Vasco, she has taught classes and performed management duties there for the past fourteen years at both degree and master’s level. She is currently a guest lecturer on the Master’s in Creative Documentary at UAB Barcelona, and on the Master’s in Contemporary, Technological and Performance Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts. She is the coordinator of the multidisciplinary project “Territorios y Fronteras Research on Documentary Film-making”. She was part of the research group at the Universidad del País Vasco. She has had research stays at the Film School and the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires and was a guest lecturer at the EITCV in San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba. Her line of research, books and other publications focus mainly on contemporary documentary film. She also freelances as a consultant for cinema projects. Also, she has sat on numerous assessment committees on the development and production of film projects and has been on expert panels at WIP forums, LABsand pitching sessions at different international festivals.
