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Jury Members
Beri Shalmashi
Beri graduated from the Film and TV Academy of the Netherlands as a screenwriter in 2008. She has directed and produced many award winning documentaries and short films. She has also led workshops to Kurdish and Arab filmmakers in Southern Kurdistan, Iraq. In 2008 she won the ECHO Award for best bicultural student in Dutch higher education and was awarded summer sessions at UCLA in Los Angeles. Recently, film magazine SKRIEN named her as one of the top-ten young film talents in the Netherlands. Currently she is working on a number of projects including a feature length film.
Havi Ibrahim
Havi Ibrahim is a Kurd from the Duhok province of South Kurdistan who currently resides in the UK. He studied Fine Art at the Duhok Institute of Fine Art, and graduated in contemporary fine art in England, then continued his BA (Hons) in TV and Film Design at the University of Lincoln in England. He has worked in many areas of the arts as well as in the media, including work as the Arts Editor for Dicle Magazine, and he is a member of the Union of Kurdish Writers in Duhok. He is the co-director of the The Legend of Kawa the Blacksmith (a mid-length animated film).
Nazmi Kirik
Nazmi Kırık was born in Diyarbakir where he trained in theatre and dance at the Mesopotamia Cultural Centre (MKM). His cinema career started with his role in "Journey To Sun" directed by Yesim Ustaoglu in 1999. The film won the “Peace Award" and the "Blue Angel Award" at Berlinale that same year. Nazmi has also acted in "Photograph" by Kazım Öz and "A Little Bit of Freedom" by Yüksel Yavuz which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. He played the leading role in "Kilometre Zero" directed by Hiner Saleem in 2005, for which Nazmi was nominated as Best Actor at Cannes 2006. He had his first directing experience with his film "Identity" in 2006.
Shawkat Amin Korki
Shawkat is a Kurdish film director originally from Zakho in South Kurdistan Iraq. In 1975 his family fled to Iran as a result of Saddams regime and he finally returned in 1999. He has worked in Theatre, TV and Cinema productions over the years in both Iran and Iraq. In 2002 he organised the First Kurdish Short Film Festival. His own first feature film “Crossing the Dust” opened our 5th festival in 2007 and went on to show in many international festivals and receive many awards. He has just completed his second feature film “Kick Off” which will be screened in next years festival.
Tim Kennedy
Tim is an independent scholar living in Oxford. He received his MA in Film Studies from the University of Reading in 2002, and was awarded his PhD in 2007 with a dissertation comparing the representation in film of Armenian, Kurdish, and Palestinian national identity. His publications include articles on Palestinian film in Film Quarterly (Summer, 2006), on Soviet Armenian cinema in the Journal of Armenian Studies (Fall, 2006), and a chapter on the films of Yılmaz Güney in Kürt Sineması (Kurdish Cinema) (2009). Tim Kennedy has founded a research project on the topic of ‘Cinema and Nationhood’ which is available to all scholars on the website www.cinenation.net.
