The jury of the international competition
Aldo Audisio
Aldo Audisio was the director of the Museo Nazionale della Montagna in Turin from 1978 to 2018; he was among those who conceived and was then coordinator of the IAMF International Alliance for Mountain Film from 2000 and 2018 and of the IMMA International Mountain Museums Alliance from 2015 to 2018. Currently he is on the board of the Trento Film Festival.
He has led a wide-ranging course of action for making known and promoting mountain culture through the Museomontagna and a network of world-wide contacts. He has organized about 700 temporary exhibitions in Italy and throughout the world, as well as events, shows, research missions and other various activities, without neglecting two complete refurbishments and re-hangings of the Museum. His work focusing on mountain film centred on many diverse projects such as exploring its iconography; researching Luis Trenker and Bergfilm; compiling the first dictionary of mountain film, which boasts 4000 titles; restoring the film Terre Magellaniche (by A. M. De Agostini, 1933), presented with live musical accompaniment in twenty-nine events in Europe and North and South America.
He set up the Museum’s Historic Film Library and has collaborated, in various guises, on productions with many European TV broadcasters, as well as the Museomontagna’s own productions. He has personally taken part (also several times) in twenty-one IAMF Festivals, out of twenty-four. He has been a member, and often the president, of more than fifteen Festival juries.
Oana Ghiocel
Oana is an independent producer, consultant, editor and filmmaker specializing in documentary features and shorts. Her main focus is on science, adventure and nature films, as well as human driven stories especially underserved communities and unexplored subject matter. She has produced three feature documentaries and over a dozen shorts, and now has in production two other feature docs.
Oana has a background in storytelling, documentary and film production. She holds a Master of Arts from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, in Documentary film production as well as degrees in screenwriting and editing. She has screened her work around the world in United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. Her films have been seen by more than two million people to date. She has successfully collaborated with scientists and experts from the BBC, National Geographic, Discovery, History Channel among a few. She is a member/ collaborator of the International Documentary Association, the European Documentary Network and other professional associations. She is anAmbassador for Forests Without Frontiers, a UK based non- profit organization aiming to replant huge areas of forests in Transylvania.
Bjorn Reinhardt
German documentary director who lives from 2002 Romania/Maramureş
Independent documentary filmmaker, photographer,founder of the „Maramureş Filmarchive“, makes more than 60 documentary films, participation in many international film festivals, Winner of numerous international awards, debut as a writer with the novel „Limes“ and the photo/shortstory book „Maramureş“ published in Romania