Jury for the IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary

Gena Teodosievska is a journalist, film critic, theoretician, festival programmer, media expert, and producer. As a commissioning editor she played a vital role in promoting creative documentary productions and co-productions at the National Public Service Broadcaster MKRTV since 2003. In 2008 she was appointed documentary program selector at the ICFF “Manaki Brothers” in Bitola, where she served as Artistic Director and Director between 2016 and 2020. In the 1980s she started producing pioneering video artworks by Macedonian and ex-Yugoslavian filmmakers and video artists, and was one of the founders and organizers of the first international video art workshop in Ohrid, North Macedonia in 1989. She was executive producer of the experimental film The Judge (dir. Zaneta Vangeli), screened at the 2001 Venice Film Festival. She’s a member of selection committees for festivals in North Macedonia and abroad, works as an expert on script development, and writes film criticism and essays. 

Mila Schlingemann works for Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam as senior programmer. She is responsible for all new releases and related special programming, which include special events with filmmakers and artists, side programming of debuting filmmakers, and iconic classic cinema. Mila completed Media Studies and has since been working as a programmer for several cultural institutions in Amsterdam, including Flemish arts center De Brakke Grond, legendary music venue Paradiso, as well as different cinemas and film organizations in Amsterdam. Thirteen years ago, she was appointed Head of Programming at Eye and currently she works as senior programmer and acquisitor of new releases. Eye stores, restores and presents film from classics, blockbusters, and early avant-garde films to the very latest VR experiments. In 2018 Schlingemann brought Carne y Arena, the internationally acclaimed immersive exhibition and VR work on immigrants in the US made by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritú, to the Netherlands.

Martiros M. Vartanov is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and the founder of the Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival DOC LA. He established the Parajanov-Vartanov Institute in Hollywood and worked with Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation on the restoration of Sergei Parajanov’s film The Color of Pomegranates. With UCLA, he has recently restored Mikhail Vartanov’s film The Last Spring, thanks to the support of Francis Ford Coppola and rock band System of a Down. He is currently working on his autobiographical book Boy with a Movie Camera.