Evropské BOO
Aleks Dimitrijevic
Aleks Dimitrijevic is Festival Director of the London Short Film Festival. She previously led six editions of the BFI Future Film Festival, the UK’s largest festival for young screen creatives. With over 18 years’ experience in programming, audience development and cultural leadership, she has also headed The Smalls Film Festival and worked with Sheffield Doc/Fest, BFI London Film Festival, LOCO London Comedy Film Festival and London Film Week. Before transitioning into the film industry, Aleks worked in advertising, producing content for some of the biggest global brands, including L’Oréal, Mercedes-Benz, Bacardi, Unilever and Barclaycard. Aleks is a Trustee of GlobalGirl Media UK and Carousel.
Daniel Lundquist
Daniel Lundquist works as the head of programming at BUFF Malmö Film Festival in Sweden. The first edition of the festival was arranged in 1984 and it has since grown to become one of the leading children’s and youth film festivals in the world. In addition to working with the festival’s content, he also works with buying films for the distribution company TUFF. Daniel has a background in various parts of the cultural world and has worked with projects in music, theatre and art, among other things. He graduated in arts administration in 2001. For several years he worked in various positions at the Swedish Film Institute and the City of Malmö Culture Department, before starting at BUFF in 2009.
Pantelis Panteloglou
Pantelis Panteloglou was born in Athens in 1976. He studied Social Anthropology at Panteion University, where he also did postgraduate studies. He has worked in the wider cultural and audiovisual field since the beginning of 2000, in various creative, technical and administrative positions. Since the beginning of 2024 he is the artistic director of Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, where he has been working part-time since 2011 and full-time since 2018. As of 2023 he is president of the European Children's Film Association (ECFA) for a five-year term.
Česko-německé BOO
Julia Fleißig
During her studies of film, romance languages and literature and business administration, Julia opened a renowned, awarded arthouse cinema that she ran for six years. She has been working in different projects at the DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum in Frankfurt since 2006. Before becoming director of LUCAS – International Festival for Young Film Lovers in 2017 she was head of the film education project SchulKinoWochen Hessen for five years. For Julia, cinema is the original and genuine place for films and she loves to keep film culture alive and vivid.
Amrei Keul
Amrei Keul is co-director of the International Short Film Week Regensburg (Germany). She studied German and Romance languages and initially worked in theater and exhibition production. Since 2018, she has worked for various film festivals, including Alcine (Alcalá de Henares, Spain) and the Five Lakes Film Festival (Starnberg, Germany), as well as guest curator for Interfilm Berlin. In 2022, she took over the artistic and managing direction in Regensburg, together with Gabriel Fieger. Since 2024, she has also been a member of the board of AG Kurzfilm, the German Short Film Association.
Adéla Komrzý
Adéla Komrzý studied History of Arts at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the Charles University and graduated from Documentary Directing at the FAMU (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague). In 2018, she participated in a prestigious internship at the Filmuni Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, and she was selected for Berlinale. Her BA graduation film Teaching War from the Czech Journal cycle was awarded with the main Andrej “Nikolaj” Stankovič Prize. Her film Viva Video, Video Viva about Czech video art pioneers was nominated for the Pavel Koutecký Award. Her last films, Intensive Life Unit and Art Talent Show, were awarded numerous prizes including the Czech Lion Award, the Czech Film Critics’ Award, the Pavel Koutecký Award and various international film festival prizes.
Eva Váchová
Eva Váchová, a FAMU graduate and co-founder of the production company Bratři with Pavel Vácha, debuted as producer with Adam Koloman Rybanský’s Somewhere Over the Chemtrails (Berlinale Panorama 2022). In 2023 she produced She Came at Night, which premiered in Karlovy Vary and won multiple Czech Film Critics’ Awards as well as Czech Lions. She specializes in intelligent comedies rooted in the Czech cinematic tradition.