International Jury
 
 
 
 

 Bretislav Pojar

Born: 1923, Susice, Czech
Learned animation at Pragfilm Studio. At the end of the second World War, he was one of the founders of Jiri Trnka animation studio, with whom he made his first films. Over the years, his reputation grew and he picked up many awards at film festivals around the world, including Locarno, Cannes, Annecy, Chicago, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Zagreb, Barcelona, and Buenos Aires.
In 1969, the National Film Board of Canada invited him for the first time to animate "Psychocratie", an invitation often repeated over the years. It yielded "Balablok" (1972), "E" (1981, with Francine Desbien's collaboration) and "Nightangel" (1986, co-directed with Jacques Drouin).
UN and National Film Board of Canada commissioned to him to make cell animations. He experimented with transparencies decorated in low relief with puppet figures. This is a combination of cell animation and puppets, unique to him. In the "Right from the Heart" collection, (part 3) he co-directed "Narco Blues" with lvan Vit.
 

 Sayoko Kinoshita

Vice President of ASIFA
Born in Tokyo, Sayoko Kinoshita graduated from the Plastic Arts department of Women's College of Fine Arts in 1966. Kinoshita planned and directed animation and designed the characters and lightings for several TV programs from 1976 through 1981. As for the educational activities. Kinoshita has not only been giving lectures at art universities and colleges since the early 80's, but also has been teaching animation to the audio-visual professionals of more than 30 developing countries and organizing animation workshops for children.
In 1985, she founded the first international competitive international animation festival in Asia (Hiroshima). This festival is endorsed by ASIFA (administration registered in Annecy, France), held biennially. Kinoshita has been working as the Festival Director since its first edition, the 9th edition will be held in August 2002.
Also, during 1986-1994, she annually organized the non-competitive animation international festival in Itabashi District, Tokyo. At this festival, she emphasized the program on short animation, one country each year.
On the other hand, Kinoshita has been coordinating animation programs for film festival and art museums of various countries since the early 80's. In 1986, she was a founder of the International Animation Library (IAL).
 

 Nelson Shin

President of ASIFA – Korea
After graduating from the College of Fine Arts in 1960, he workded for a daily newspaper in Seoul ad a political cartoonist. After going to USA, he worked for DePatie-Freleng Enterprises from 1973 to 1979 and handled so many shows as an animator during this period with Friz Freleng, Bob McKimson and many other main veins of Warner Brothers. From 1980 to 1988 in Marvel Productions, he directed and produced "The Transformers of the Movie" and over 100 of the TV series as a line-producer.
In 1985 he established AKOM production company in Seoul, Korea. In many TV series, some of his works won the Emmy Award many times from 1987 through 1999.
He is currently publishing "ANIMATOON", a bi-monthly animation journal and taking many roles as a committee member in many Korean animation festivals. In 1996 he organized ASIFA Korea and still holds position of the president. In addition to his numerous jobs, today he concentrates on teaching students in Hong-ik University in Seoul.
 

 Tiziana Loschi

After obtaining a Master's degree in Political Sciences, Tiziana Loschi worked in the public sector for fifteen years before joining Cica in 1996. As Company Secretary she assisted the Managing Director, Jean-Luc Xiberras, in Annecy and Mifa Festivals, which became annual in 1997.
From 1998 Tiziana was entrusted the operational management of the association. Apart from the general day to day management duties, this post requires making sure that all projects are aimed at developing the knowledge and influence of animation in its artistic dimentsion.
Tiziana is personally involved in projects such as making up programmes for other events, according to the country and public concerned; choosing the subjects for the conferences organized in Annecy which generate constructive debates for development and give new angles to creators for their creative expression and organizing the creative Focus, Animation and Multimedia Job Fair, whose special concept is to reunite creators, deciders and training establishments. As the direct link between the different protagonists in the world of animation (institutional professional, public), Tiziana puts the Cica and events it organizes at the creator's service for the promotion, development and circulation of their art.
 

 Hamid Navim

Born: 1943, Tehran, Iran
Studied painting at the High School of Fine Arts in Tehran and continued his studies to take a masters degree in graphics from the University of Fine Arts in Braunschwieg, Germany. He also studied film design, production abd animation films direction at Hochschule der Kunste (University of Fine Arts) in Berlin.
Navim worked as a director of German documentaries and advertising films at Deutsche Dokumentar und Werbe Film and founded the Zentrum fur Film und Grafik (Center for Film, Photography and Graphics) at FU (Free University) in Berlin. He is the key animator of the feature film Agaton Sax, the first full-animated feature film in Sweden at Team-Film A.B. As an animation teacher he has taught at the Postgraduate School of Farabi University, IRIB TV College and Tehran University in Iran while directing and producing animated films in IRIB TV Channel 1.
Founding Navim Film Studio in Tehran, Film Folket association and Scanimation Production Company in Sweden, directing and producing films at Hunnar Film in Bombay (India), New Vision and Medesign Company (Sweden) and making more than 40 short films is the main part of his career as a filmmaker.
Navim's last film, Regal the Golden Bear won awards at Chicago and Mill Valley Film Festivals and nominated for Guldbagge (Golden Ram) 2000, the most respected award in Sweden. He is also a member of the Director Boarding of Kaleidoscope in Sweden.