Nenad Puhovski

Croatia

One of the prominent personalities that helped shape modern Croatian documentary film, Nenad Puhovski completed the Faculty of Philosophy and the Academy of Dramatic Arts (ADU) in Zagreb. He has directed over 250 productions for stage, film and television, for which he received a number of national and international awards. Currently, he works as a Professor of Documentary Directing at ADU where he has taught and mentored young professionals from Europe, Asia, South America, the Near East, Africa, and USA.

In 1997 he founded Factum, a leading independent documentary production company in Croatia. Under his management, it has produced over 70 documentary films that were screened at more than seventy festivals. In 2005 he founded ZagrebDox, the largest international documentary film festival in the region; he has been its director ever since. Nenad is a member of the European Film Academy.

Juries 2016

Fiction Competition Jury

Canan Gerede

Turkey

Štěpán Hulík

Czech Republic

Documentary Competition Jury

Nenad Puhovski

Croatia

Shorts Competition Jury

Úna Feely

Ireland

Noud Heerkens

Netherlands

FIPRESCI Jury

Student Jury

Norbert Franko

Slovakia

Juraj Mydla

Slovakia

Adam Straka

Slovakia