This year, the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), comprising distinguished film critics, presents two awards: one to the Best Documentary of the International Competition for Best Feature Length Documentary Program and one to a Greek film that participates in the International Program. The members of this year’s committee are: Marina Kostova (North Macedonia), Aspasia Lykourgioti (Greece), and Dieter Wieczorek (Germany).
Marina Kostova
Marina Kostova is an award-winning journalist, one of the leading film critics and reporters in the Republic of North Macedonia. She is a founding member and Deputy Editor in Chief of SDK.MK digital newsroom. She is the president of the North Macedonian Section of International Federation of Film Critics – FIPRESCI. She edited the books Manchevski Monograph and Rain - The World About Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain, as well as the CD-ROM Macedonia in the New York Times Archives, having also published a hybrid collection of short stories titled Language is a Strange Beast. She has worked on research in films, and is a member of the team authoring the first online Media Literacy Dictionary in North Macedonia. She has participated in FIPRESCI juries at a large number of film festivals (Venice, Sarajevo, Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Viennale, Oberhausen, Chemnitz, Mannheim, Cluj-Napoca, Luxembourg among others).
Marina Kostova is an award-winning journalist, one of the leading film critics and reporters in the Republic of North Macedonia. She is a founding member and Deputy Editor in Chief of SDK.MK digital newsroom. She is the president of the North Macedonian Section of International Federation of Film Critics – FIPRESCI. She edited the books Manchevski Monograph and Rain - The World About Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain, as well as the CD-ROM Macedonia in the New York Times Archives, having also published a hybrid collection of short stories titled Language is a Strange Beast. She has worked on research in films, and is a member of the team authoring the first online Media Literacy Dictionary in North Macedonia. She has participated in FIPRESCI juries at a large number of film festivals (Venice, Sarajevo, Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Viennale, Oberhausen, Chemnitz, Mannheim, Cluj-Napoca, Luxembourg among others).
Aspasia Lykourgioti
Aspasia Lykourgioti was born in 1986, in Patras. She graduated from the Department of Theaters Studies of the University of Patras and had her Master’s Degree majoring in Acting at the School of Drama of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has conducted a PhD in Greek Cinema and Film Acting, and is working in tertiary education. She writes for the theater and cinema. She is a member of the Greek Association of Film Critics and the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). She has published articles in magazines, both scientific and of other fields, books and congresses minutes. She is also the author of two books, on the contemporary tendencies of film acting and Sarah Kane’s theater, respectively.
Aspasia Lykourgioti was born in 1986, in Patras. She graduated from the Department of Theaters Studies of the University of Patras and had her Master’s Degree majoring in Acting at the School of Drama of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has conducted a PhD in Greek Cinema and Film Acting, and is working in tertiary education. She writes for the theater and cinema. She is a member of the Greek Association of Film Critics and the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). She has published articles in magazines, both scientific and of other fields, books and congresses minutes. She is also the author of two books, on the contemporary tendencies of film acting and Sarah Kane’s theater, respectively.
Dieter Wieczorek
Dieter Wieczorek initially worked as a free contemporary art and culture critic and later on as film critic. He has published articles in European journals and newspapers. In 2012 he founded the Interference - International independent Journal of Film and Festival Reviews, where he is still chief editor. In 2003 he founded the Festival international Signes de Nuit in Paris, with competition programs for short, experimental (Cinema-in-Transgression) and documentaries, apart from focus programs and retrospectives. The Festival is actually performed in Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Bangkok, Tucuman (Argentina) and Urbino (Italy).
Dieter Wieczorek initially worked as a free contemporary art and culture critic and later on as film critic. He has published articles in European journals and newspapers. In 2012 he founded the Interference - International independent Journal of Film and Festival Reviews, where he is still chief editor. In 2003 he founded the Festival international Signes de Nuit in Paris, with competition programs for short, experimental (Cinema-in-Transgression) and documentaries, apart from focus programs and retrospectives. The Festival is actually performed in Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Bangkok, Tucuman (Argentina) and Urbino (Italy).
