FIPRESCI
FIPRESCI (the International Federation of Film Critics) has members in 60 countries worldwide. Founded in the late 1920s in France, Belgium and Italy, the Federation is represented at many of the major world film festivals, with juries awarding films according to the specific point of view of critics. FIPRESCI's charter is to promote film art and to encourage new and young cinema, with a special attention towards national cinemas all over the world. The very first "Prizes of the International Critics" were presented to David Lean's Brief Encounter and Georges Rouquier's Farrebique at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. As well, FIPRESCI decides every year the best European and the best international films. The Federation's website: www.fipresci.org
The ten films nominated for the FIPRESCI Award for first or second film by a filmmaker are:
- Boxing Day
- Clubland
- Daratt
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- Grbavica
- How Is Your Fish Today?
- Lucky Miles
- Playing the Victim
- Special
- Taxidermia
JURORS
Barbara Lorey de Lacharrière
Barbara Lorey de Lacharrière is a Paris-based freelance journalist for various leading German and Swiss newspapers and periodicals, specialising in cultural reporting and film criticism. She has curated special film programs in Europe and abroad, photography exhibitions in France and the USA, and is a program advisor for the Jakmel Festival.
Peter Krausz
Peter Krausz is Chair of the Australian Film Critics Association. He is host and producer of the Media Moves Cinema Scene radio show on Melbourne's 3CR. He writes regular film articles for Metro, Australian Screen Education and Independent Education and has recently been on the Documentary jury for the AFI Awards as well as program advising various festivals.
Krill Razlogov
Kirill Razlogov is a columnist at Moskovskaya Pravda (daily) and Kompania (weekly business review) in Russia, author and anchor of a weekly TV program Movie Cult, professor of film history and criticism, media and cultural studies at the State Film Institute, lecturer for film directors and script writers and the Institute for European culture in Moscow, Academic Secretary of the National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia.
