Regional Jury

Organiser of film events, a specialist in film promotion, a university lecturer. President of the Board at the Krakow Film Foundation and the Head of Programme Department at the Krakow Film Festival. Before joining the festival, she worked in a film distribution company where she was responsible for film events and marketing. She runs the KFF Sales&Promotion agency which she established in 2005 to strengthen the international promotion of Polish documentary, animated and short films. She served as a jury member at many festivals, coordinated many projects connected to the film, and is also a lecturer in the film department at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University.

Steve Rickinson is a film, music, and media critic based in Bucharest, Romania by way of Brooklyn, NY and Amsterdam, NL. He is the day-to-day manager of operations and industry editor for Modern Times Review: The European Documentary Magazine and sits on the editorial board for Romania’s Films in Frame. He also heads editorial for Romania’s 24-7 online radio Black Rhino and its premiere underground nightclub Control. With an academic background from The New School for Public Engagement and University of Amsterdam, Steve has studied media with a focus on documentary film and activism extensively incorporating and promoting independent thought and ownership across activities. His early professional days were spent co-founding and running the New York City-based magazine Indiewood/Hollywoodn’t, while contributing on underground culture to international music publications like The Wire, Magnetic Magazine, Crack Magazine, Resident Advisor and more. These days Steve travels the international documentary and wider film festival circuit as an ambassador for Modern Times Review, which have included the 2020/2022 Ji.hlava IDFF Media & Documentary Seminar, participating on the jury for Romania’s Astra Film Festival, and contributing to IDF’s anniversary editorial collection.

Corina Schwingruber Ilić studied at the University of Arts in Basel, in Belgrade, and at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. She has shot a number of award-winning short docs. Her latest short All Inclusive (2018) was selected at over 250 festivals, such as Venice, Toronto and Sundance, and was honoured with a lot of festival awards. Her first feature documentary Dida (co-directed by Nikola Ilić, 2021) premiered at Visions du Réel in Nyon 2021 and won a Golden Dove at DOKLeipzig 2021 and ZagrebDox's Big Stamp, among many other awards. Corina is the co-founder of Pro Short (the Swiss association for short films) and a member of the Swiss Film Academy.