FeKK 2024: Jury

Cătălin Cristuțiu has worked as an editor on over 90 feature films, shorts, and TV series. He has edited the entire works of Radu Jude, including the feature films Aferim!, which won the 2015 Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Director, and Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, winner of the 2021 Golden Bear. Other notable editing works include California Dreamin’ Endless (Cristian Nemescu, 2007 Prix Un Certain Regard), If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Florin Şerban, 2010 Silver Bear), and Blue Boy by Manuel Abramovich, which won the 2019 Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film). In recent years, he has been focusing on films that use editing as the central means of artistic expression. Cristuțiu also works as an editing advisor.

Igor Prassel is a freelance journalist who specialises in comics, animation, and movies. He was born in Koper in 1971 and received his journalism degree from the Faculty of Social Studies in Ljubljana. Since 2000, he has served as the Slovenian Cinematheque’s programme associate. He was the editor-in-chief of the Stripburger comics magazine (2002-2005), programme associate of various film (Sniff, Dokma, Kino Otok, VFX Ljubljana) and contemporary art festivals (Break 21, City of Women), a founding member of the Society of Slovenian Animated Film. Alongside Irena Čerčnik he co-curated the Slovenian Comics and Animated Film 1996–2006 exhibition at the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Celje (December 2006), he is author of the Filmography of Slovenian Animated Film 1952–2012 (published by the Slovenian Cinematheque, 2012), a member of numerous international selection and evaluation juries at various film festivals, a programme associate of the Animafest International Animated Film Festival in Zagreb (2008–2014), and director of the Slovenian Film Festival between 2013 and 2016. Since its foundation in 2004, he has been the programme director of the International Animateka Animated Film Festival (at the Društvo za oživljanje zgodbe 2 koluta society) and since 2017, the editor of the film programme and head of the programme department at the Slovenian Cinematheque.

Anne Gaschütz, festival organiser and programmer, grew up in Dresden, Germany, before she moved to England in 2002 and later studied Film in Wales. Upon returning to her hometown, she experienced all the stages in film production at the Dresden-based production company filoufilm. Since then, she has worked as a production assistant and production manager on numerous short film projects. She joined FILMFEST DRESDEN—International Short Film Festival in 2013 as part of the International Selection Committee, where she is responsible for the coordination of the festival as well as the forum Visegrád in Short(s). She became the festival’s co-director in July 2020. In 2021, she became a member of the Pardi di domani Selection Committee at the Locarno Film Festival. She is also one of the initiators of Talking Shorts, an online platform that focuses on short film criticism, and a member of the European Film Academy.

Aljoša Harlamov is a literary historian, editor, publicist, essayist, and critic. He has a PhD in Slovene language and literature from the Department of Slovene Studies at the Faculty of Arts. He has been an editor at AirBeletrina, editor-in-chief at Mentor and at Cankarjeva založba publishing house. Since 2018, he has been a co-author of the O.B.O.D. podcast on genre content along with Mito Gegič and Igor Harb. Together they have also written the genre glossary Pojmovnik žanra (2021).

Alen Golež is a philosopher and a translator, who is currently working on his MA in Sociology of Culture, researching irony, metamodernism, and the aesthetics of cuteness. Since 2022, he has been an editor of the film and television section on the online platform Koridor – Križišča umetnosti, for which he initially started to write literary and film criticism, which he now regularly publishes in Ekran magazine.

Jasmina Šepetavc is a film critic and a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Cultural and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. Her research interests include film and queer theory, popular music studies, and feminism. She writes for Slovenian and foreign journals (Ekran, Dialogi, Kino!, Družboslovne razprave, Studies in European Cinema). She is also on the editorial team of the Slovene Academy journal Družboslovne razprave, the academic journal Feminist Encounters, and the Slovene magazine for film and television Ekran. She is an active film critic, festival curator, and a member of the Fipresci.