06/08/2021 Mediterranean film festival
We present the jury that chooses the best feature documentary of 22. MFF
Dafne Jemeršić, Srđan Šarenac and Tiha Gudac are the members of the jury at the 22 Mediterranean Film Festival for the feature-length documentary competition.
Dafne Jemeršić is an actress, independent editor, screenwriter and director. She has worked on many internationally awarded short and feature films, and directed and edited several TV shows, series, trailers and music videos. Srđan Šarenac has been directing and writing scripts for more than twenty years, and his documentary ‘Village without Women’ was screened at 65 film festivals and won 14 awards. Tiha Gudac is a director, screenwriter and producer. For directing her new feature documentary film ‘Wire’ she was awarded with FIPRESCI award.
The jury in this composition chooses the Grand Prix of the 22 MFF among the ten films in the competition
DAFNE JEMERŠIĆ
Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Dafne Jemeršić studied acting at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. In the following years, as actress, she worked with various directors in national theatres and film productions. After studying editing in Prague she moved to Ljubljana, Slovenia, from where she collaborates with many European artists. As an independent film editor, she has edited many internationally awarded short and feature films, TV shows, series, trailers and music videos.At Slovenian Film Festival in 2005 she won the Vesna Award for Best Editing and in 2006 - Viktor Award for best documentary - What Are You Going to Do When You Get Out of Here? Her first feature film Reality won the award Best of the Fest at Radar Film Festival in Hamburg. She has also participated as a screenwriter in the TV series Kud puklo da puklo and Na granici.Earlier this year, she adapted Miha Mazzini's novel - Stars Are Calling, and wrote the screenplay for a feature film, which she will also direct.
SRĐAN ŠARENAC
He has been directing and writing scripts for TV and film for more than twenty years. He has made a number of short films, documentaries, documentary series and commercials. He started work on his first feature film The Rescued at Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam, for which script he won the screen writing residency at Moulin D'Ande in 2006. His documentary Village without Women was screened at 65 film festivals and won 14 awards. He also receved “Ivica Matić” Award from the Association of Filmmakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
TIHA GUDAC
Director, screenwriter and producer from Zagreb. She graduated in Production at the Academy of Dramatic Arts and Economics at the University of Zagreb. In the past fifteen years she has independently produced award winning short feature films and a large number of commercial videos and has worked in different positions with crews of feature, animated and documentary films and film festivals. She has taught at colleges and high schools in Croatia and abroad as a guest lecturer in the field of production and directing of audiovisual forms. She has worked on several documentary series for Croatian Radio Television as a director, screenwriter and executive producer. With her directing debut Naked she won the Heart of Sarajevo for the best documentary film and a number of international prizes. For directing her new feature documentary film Wire she was awarded with FIPRESCI award. As an independent film worker, she is a member of the Croatian Freelance Artists Association, The Croatian Film Directors’ Guild and the Filmmakers Association of Croatia. She lives and works in Zagreb.