Katherine is Executive Director at the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival, Canada's largest environmental media arts organization that promotes film as both a cinematic art form and a meaningful tool for social change. She has worked extensively in the arts sector as a producer in film, theatre and visual arts including the UK-based Cape Farewell - The cultural response to climate change as Development Director for Carbon 14: Climate is Culture in partnership with ROM Contemporary Culture. Katherine has an MA in Communication and Cultural Studies with a research focus on fresh water as both a commodity and a human right through the historical narrative of Toronto’s R.C. Harris Filtration Plant.
Jury 2019
Jury of the International Film Review
F3 Média
Natalia started her career in film development and production in 2004 and moved into TV distribution in 2011 when she began working for Digital Rights Group (DRG). After 3 years with DRG, Natalia made the move to All3Media International where she became Format Sales Executive looking after CEE and the Middle East working on projects like Gogglebox and Undercover Boss. In 2015 she moved to the position of Director of Sales for CEE, Russia & CIS at FremantleMedia International looking after brands like Jamie Oliver, Got Talent and new content such as the Young Pope. In 2017, Natalia set up F3 Media, a boutique consultancy firm specializing in distribution to Central & Eastern Europe. The mission is to represent high quality programming across the factual, film and format genres which we are passionate about.
Senior Programme Manager, BBC Studios Poland
Joanna Rathe is working in the television industry for over 14 years. She has been acquiring factual content for thematic channels in Poland. Currently, she holds the position of Senior Programme Manager at BBC Studios Poland. She is also Director of International Mountain Film Competition during Mountain Film Meetings in Zakopane, Poland.
More than 30 years he has been directing movies and writing scripts in animation and action genres too. Ha has made five full-night ficton movie, around 150 episodes of TV series, commercials, videos, documentary and informative films, moreover he wrote more than one hundred scripts. He worked all of the big Hungarian animation studios, the Hungarian Television, one Australian, two American, one South-Korean, one Taiwan, one Indian and one Arabic Studio. The only Hungarian director who won EMMY prize. He teaches in the University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest, in the Animation Course of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. Ferenc works at the Hungarian Media Mecenatúra Program and he is the member of the Hungarian Film Academy, furthermore he is the member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.
Cosmos Factory Filmproduktion
Journalist, author and director of more than fifty international TV documentaries, producer, developer and author of dozens of nonfiction formats and series. Since 2014 lectures at the University of Applied Sciences, Vienna. Lecture on basics of script writing and filmproduction. Since 2005 lectures at the Dept. of Antropholgy, University of Vienna, seminar on documentary filming and production. 1993 co founder and executive producer of Cosmos Factory Filmproduktion in Vienna. Since 1990 various articles for magazines and books focusing on scientific topics. Since 1989 scriptwriter and director. 1988-1996 freelance producer at the Austrian Broadcast Company ORF at the department for education and science. Since 1976 freelancer at various dailies and magazines, writer and photographer. 1974 to 1990 freelancer at the Austrian daily “Kurier”, working in the graphics and layout department, later author for a variety of department.
As Head of Infotainment Portfolio, László Gáspár is responsible for the programming and acquisition strategy of AMC Networks Central Europe’s factual channels, among them Spektrum, one of Hungary’s leading documentary channel. With 14 years of marketing background in various industries - among them filmmaking and television – László took over the programming duties of Spektrum in 2012. Since then he has been working on building a strong library of nature and wildlife, history, science and technology programmes, which he acquires from the world’s biggest content providers and distributors. He is also active in developing Spektrum TV’s local productions and thus he is involved in many productions of Hungarian filmmakers.
Jury of the Carpathian basin Film Review
is an exemplary member of the Hungarian scientific education community. After doing reseach work for 15 years as a geologist his main pursuit became scientific education. He was director of TIT Stúdió – an Agency of Natural Sciences – for 16 years and then for more than a decade Editor in Chief of the Sciece Department of the Hungarian Television. He published 25 books. Various television channels currently broadcast more than 70 of his ducumentaries
Television journalist, leading editor of public media until 2016. She edited several public television programmes during her career in the past 25 years, she supervised Channel M2 for kids as an intendant and she was managing editor of the new Petőfi TV from its beginning. She also participated in the launch of several artistic and scientific-educational series as a cultural producer.
Organiser of Pusztaszer Film Reviews
Between 2005 and 2011 as the mayor of Pusztaszer he was one of the main organisers of the Csizmazia György Nature Film Festival, Pusztaszer, Hungary. The profession remember of its feeling nostalgically. To keep this memory alive Pusztaszer Council regularly offers special award for the most talent young artist in the International Nature Film Festvial, Gödöllő. The Csizmazia György Nature Film Festival is thougth as the ancestor of the International Nature Film Festvial, Gödöllő. However, he does not have nature photography or filmmaking past, but because of his son, Bence and the Csizmazia György Nature Film Festival, he has taking an active part in the Hungarian nature filmmaking and photography for two decades.
Operator
He has been in every continent – including the Antarctic - with the Hungarian Television camera. He has taken part in a wide variety of programs such as programs for children and art programs as operator. Live commentations of musical informatives, TV games and national events. (Mazsola film was his diploma work.) After meeting Pál Rockenbauer he specialised to nature film making. From 30 years he has been making only these programs. As director-operator he made 300 small movies. His most well-known film is the "Másfélmillió lépés Magyarországon" series (One and a half million steps in Hungary). Tamás ha won the Hungarian Heridity prize. Three years ago he has retired, only holds lectures in clubs, libraries trying to bring the focus to the nature, its conservation and to the fresh water. With his son he is the founder of the Pál Rockenbauer prize.
Editor, filmcritic
For 10 years he was the colleague, filmcritic and reading editor of the Heti Válasz (Weekly Answer) newspaper. His writings appeared in the Magyar Konyha (Hungarian Kitchen) gastronomy and the Szív (Heart) Jesuit magazine, moreover in the Kommentár newspaper. He is the profession of films for the Duna and the M5 cultural channel. György is the editor of several documentary films and script-writer. He won the Art Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Art. Since 2018 he is the literary colleague of the National Theatre.
Teacher, ELTE
Dr. Zoltán Kőváry is clinical psychologist, and has bachelor of art diploma in Hungarian language and literature. He is a docent in the ELTE PPK Clinical Psychology and Addictology Department. His first diploma was about Géza Csáth in the Hungarian language course of the Szeged University, Hungary. After that, he studied psychology in the University of Debrecen, later clinical psychology in Budapest.
He has worked for years in the psycology, drogambulance, pedagogy and lifecouching advisory office. For many years he tought in the University of Szeged. After Szeged, he moved to the ELTE University, Budapest in 2015. He made his PhD in the Psycology Doctorial School of the University of Pécs. His research field was about the outstanding creativity with the method of the psychobiography. He publishes regularly national and international newspapers, his book chapters sold in Hungary and in the USA. He published two independent volumes, furthermore he frequently holds scientific and informative lectures.
For more than a decade she has been working for the Hungarian public service media as a festival manager. During her career, she has managed the international participation and promotion of many Hungarian productions including fiction, documentary and nature films, as well. She has contributed to the international successes of several nature films and has a wide range of experience in the field of nature and science film festivals. Currently, she is the International Director of the Hungarian Paralympic Committee.
