JURY

AIS human rights film award

Marko Popovič

Born in 1975, he studied film and television direction at the Film Academy in Prague (FAMU), and the Faculty of Drama Arts (FDU) of the Belgrade University of Arts.

Popović conducted and contributed to various film workshops such as the EIUC documentary film workshop at the Venice Film Festival in 2006, HotDocs' DocLab workshop in 2007 in Toronto, the Zelig Academy (Italy) and Centre for Visual Communications Kvadrat (Belgrade).

He directed television documentaries, documentaries and short feature films. His films were shown and awarded at festivals in Sarajevo, Prague, Toronto, Linz, Paris, Kosice, Zagreb, Warsaw, Glasgow etc. In 2005, Popović established the Free Zone Belgrade Human Rights Film Festival and was Festival's programme manager for three years.

Marko Popović – filmography (selection)

1998 Species; 2002 Nestrpljivost – Ivan / Intolerance – Ivan; 2004 Strogo poverljivo / Top Secret; 2005 Smrt u Topcideru / Death at Topcider; 2007 Eho / Echo; 2007 Ime mi je broj, A Number Is My name; 2008 Sajmište – istorija jednog logora / Sajmiste – The History of the Camp

Sabina Živec

Born in 1979 in Šempeter pri Gorici, Živec is the Vice-chair of Amnesty International Slovenia. After finishing secondary school in Nova Gorica, she studied Russian and English at the Ljubljana Faculty of Arts.

She joined Amnesty International in 2004. Later she contributed to the organisation's work as a volunteer translator and in 2006 she was elected to the executive board for the first time. She works as a journalist and translator at the Slovenian Press Agency.

Maciej Nowicki

Born 1973 in Warsaw, he studied law and Polish philology at the Warsaw University. Since 1997 he has been working for the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Poland, within its legal and educational projects. Nowicki is co-founder (2001) and the Director of the Warsaw International Film Festival WATCH DOCS, Human Rights in Film, currently one the biggest human rights film festivals in Europe.

He is also co-founder and Vice-President of the Board of the Social Institute of Film foundation, dedicated to the promotion of engaged documentary filmmaking, especially in Central and Eastern Europe.

Apart from being a screenwriter of a documentary film on Polish transition towards democracy,
Nowicki served at several juries and participated in various panel debates on human rights and documentary films (e.g. One World in Prague, IFFR, Venice, docudays.ua, Nordisk Panorama).