Cécile Vacheret(President)

After studies in political sciences, audiovisual law, history, Cécile Vacheret enters the prestigious La Femis school to study film production. She has since worked in film production and distribution collaboration with, among others, François Ozon, Philippe Faucon, and Thomas Salvador. She is a founder of the production company Sedna films and has produced about forty films – features, documentaries, shorts, including Les rencontres d’après minuit (2013) by Yann Gonzalez selected at the Critics’ Week in Cannes, Contre ton cœur (2018) by Teresa Villaverde, a French-Portuguese collaboration, selected in the main competition of Berlin Film Festival, as well as films of Victor Dekyver, Jean Sebastien Chauvin, Vincent Dieutre, Mathieu Hippeau.

Agnese Làposi

Born in 1995 in Lugano, Agnese Làposi was brought up in Ticino, Switzerland. She graduated in film directing from L’École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2019. Two of her short films Alma in the Herd and Zu Dritt (co-directed with Benjamin Bucher), have been selected at numerous international film festivals (Palm Springs, Premiers plans in Angers, Oberhausen, IDFA, Doclisboa, Visions du Réel in Nyon). Hers last short film Son dernier La Patience des vignes, shot as a part of her Masters degree in documentary filmmaking in Lussas, premiered Etats Généraux du Documentaire in 2021.

Petar Mitrić

Petar Mitrić was born in 1974 in the city of Subotica, Serbia. After studying literature, he decides to dedicate his work to independent filmmaking. Programmer at European Film Festival Palić (2004-2017), he founded the Young Spirit of Europe section dedicated to brave and daring authors with unique poetics and style. In 2017 he founded production and distribution agency NO WAVE FILMS in order to help create a more diverse space for young directors in the Balkans. Since 2021 he works as acquisitions manager for London-based world sales Taskovski Films Ltd. As a jury member, Petar Mitrić has been invited at numerous film festivals including Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo, Crossing Europe in Linz and Director’s Fortnight in Cannes.