EXPERT JURY

Ana Anđelić, actress

Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Graduated from the Academy of Arts, Banja Luka in 2004. The same year, she became a permanent member of the Children’s Theatre of the Republic of Srpska. She played in over thirty premieres in her home theatre while working with acclaimed European directors. She professionally collaborated with the National Theatre of the Republic of Srpska. She has played in many plays, which are recognised as the best ones at various international festivals. Besides those awards, they’ve also won prizes for best collective actors' play and animation. She won the best acting award at the “Lut Fest“ international festival 2012. Alongside theatrical, she also gained some television and film experience.

Boris Čakširan, costume designer, choreographer, painter and director

Belgrade, Serbia

Along with his extensive work in the field of theatre, movie and television costume design, he founded an ERGstatus dance theatre in 1998, Belgrade, where he works as an art director. Since 1996 he has been a guest of Israel’s MASPA (school for Modern Dance), as well as he is at the Universities of Haifa, Tel Aviv and at Rubin’s Academy for Music and Dance in Jerusalem. From 1995 to the year 2002, he led a program for independent projects at the International Festival of modern dance in Poland and drama workshops in Italy. As a choreographer, he did over 30 choreographies on land and abroad, with more than 15 of them done as an all-night show.

He collaborated with the biggest costume-making companies in the world. He is a member and a founder of many artistic associations where he also held presidential functions. He represented our country at the biggest world gatherings in the areas of inclusion of people with disabilities through dance, art in healing and artistic work with traumatised young people and war veterans (Duke University, USA, in 1996 and Kennedy Centre, Washington D.C., in 2012). He is the founder of the world association IIAN (International Inclusive Arts Network), and he also worked as an art director for the Festival of socially engaged theatre, „Out of the Frame “, in Belgrade.

Boris has won many prizes and awards in the area of costume design and modern dance. He won a Crystal Prism in 1995 (the Yugoslav equivalent of the American Oscar), for costume design in the movie „ Premeditated Murder “. Boris has also been a winner of many other awards, such as Belgrade TV’s annual best costume award in 1991, 1994, and 1995, as well as ULUPUDUS's annual award for complete art in 1994 and 1996. He is also a 1996 recipient of the АrtsLink Residence scholarship in Illusion Theatre, Minneapolis and the GOH Productions scholarship in New York, USA. For his work in the area of costume design, he won a UBUS (Association of Ballet Artists of Serbia) medallion in May of 2000. For costumes in our most famous TV shows, he won multiple Golden Antenna awards at the FEDIS Festival. In the work field of theatre for children and youth he also won many prizes for the overall design of the play as a whole and participated in numerous international conferences and festivals as a workshop tutor and lecturer.

Gosia Dębska, director, dramaturge, theatre pedagogue

Gliwice, Poland

Her work as a director started when her school exam won The Young Directors Forum – the biggest Polish festival for young directors. Modern puppetry and post-dramatic construction, as well as a sense of humor and empathy not only for the characters but also for the audience, became important in her work. Every project that she does, either for children or adults, mixes hard topics with light humor with an emphasis on empathy during the creating process and also on stage. She explores different fields of theatre: an opera for children, a modern dance performance for teenagers, diversity and living with disabilities, a dance/graphic piece for 3-year-olds with music by Bach, and a feminist manifesto for adult audiences that explored textures and movement. In every performance, she focuses on visual aspects and creating beautiful images. She works with theatres for young audiences, puppet theatres, state dramatic theatres and independent stages.