35th FIFF announces jury panel for NETPAC section

Members of the jury panel for the NETPAC section of the 35th edition of the Fajr International Film Festival have been announced.

The organizers recently released the jury list which includes Anne Demy-Geroe, Rolando B. Tolentino, and Houshang Golmakani.

Démy-Geroe is a film programmer and scholar with a PhD in the area of Iranian cinema. She lectures on Asia Pacific Cinema at Griffith Film School and is a co-Director of the Iranian Film Festival Australia.

She is a Vice President of NETPAC, the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema, and involved with the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

Tolentino is faculty of University of the Philippines Film Institute and former dean of the UP College of Mass Communication.

He is a member of the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino (Filipino Film Critics Group), Congress of Teachers and Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND-UP), and Altermidya (People’s Alternative Media Network).

Born in Gorgan in 1954, Golmakani is an Iranian journalist, film critic and director. He is one of the three founders of the Iranian magazine of ‘Film’, the oldest post-revolutionary film magazine in Iran.

Also a writer and a director, he has directed documentary, written books about cinema and translated screenplays.

Established in 1982, the Fajr International Film Festival celebrates cultural exchange, displays creative achievements of highly acclaimed cineastes and pays tribute to local and international films.

Since its establishment, the Fajr International Film Festival has played a vital role in the development of the Iranian Cinema.

Supervised by Iran’s Ministry of Culture, the festival hosts veteran directors and new filmmakers from Iran and across the world every year.

The 35th International Fajr Film Festival is scheduled to take place in the country’s capital of Tehran from April 21 through 28, 2017.

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