Ben Ross

 

 

 

 

  

  

 

K.U.Mohanan

 

 

 

 

  

 

Mikala Krogh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Shane Smith

 

 

 

 

Jörg Wagner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Othman Karim

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Nordic Documentary Film Jury 

  

Ben Ross

Ben currently heads the acquisitions department of joiningthedots.tv, an online channel devoted to single documentary films. He has worked in a variety of roles on a number of film and television projects, most recently Associate Producing a short fiction film shot in London and New York.  When not viewing documentaries  Ben likes to swim, cook, garden and play tenor saxophone badly. 

 

 

K.U. Mohanan

Kozhukandathil Uthamanthil Mohanan (K.U.Mohanan or Mohanan), born in 1960 in a small town called Payyanur in Kerala, the southern tip of India, studied cinema at The Film and Television Institute of India. Since 1987 Mohanan has been working as a cinematographer/DoP on various projects, including documentaries, T V commercials and main steam 'Bollywood' movies, in India and neighboring Asian countries. He is currently based in Mumbai.

 

Mikala Krogh

Mikala Krogh, born in 1973, graduated from Den Danske Filmskole in 2001. She has directed a number of documentaries and was one of the directors for the film "Beth's Diary" which got the honorary mention in Nordisk Panorama 2006.

 

 

 

 

The Nordic Short Film Jury

 

Shane Smith

Shane Smith is the Director of Programming for Channel Zero Inc, an independent Canadian broadcaster and owner of the digital TV channels Movieola- The Short Film Channel and Silver Screen Classics. Prior to this he was Director of the Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto. Shane has spoken, juried and curated at film festivals all over the world, and in 2006 he joined the Short Film Programming team for the Sundance Film Festival.    

 

Jörg Wagner

Jörg Wagner was born in 1967 in Stuttgart, Germany. After his graduation in Audiovisual Mediadesign he worked as a projectionist and presented various shortfilm events and live comedy shows. In 1995 he started working for the Hamburg Short Film Agency, where he was Head of Distribution from 1997 to 2002. His own shortfilms (e.g. Forklift Driver Klaus, Motodrom) have screened at over 250 film festivals and won over 30 awards.

 

Othman Karim

Othman Karim, born in Kampala Uganda in 1968, got his education  in Film and TV Production from Brooks Institute of Photography Santa Barbara CA, USA. Graduated with honors in 1991 followed by employment at Steven Spielbergs production company Amblin Entertainment before producing and directing his own films. In Sweden Othman has primarily directed Short films and documentaries. Othman had his feature film debut in fall of 2005as writer and director of ABOUT SARA starring Linda Zilliacus and Alexander Skarsgård. The film won the Grand Prix for Best Film at the 28th International Moscow Film Festival 2006.

 

The SF New Talent Award - Jury

Jarkko Hentula - Juonifilm, Finland
Ulf SYnnerholm - Happy Life/SF, Sweden
Line Sandsmark - SF norge AS, Norway
Karoline Leth - SF Film, Denmark