PRINCÌPÎ AWARD JURY
Eva Giolo (b.1991, Brussels) is an artist working in film, video, and installation. Her work places particular focus on the female experience, employing experimental and documentary strategies to explore themes of intimacy, permanence and memory, along with the analysis of language and semiotics.
Her films, installations and other projects have been widely exhibited at festivals, museums and galleries internationally, including Sadie Coles HQ, Harlan Levey Project, WIELS centre for Contemporary Art, MAXXI–National Museum of 21st Century Art, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Palazzo Strozzi, Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata Buenos Aires, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Kunsthalle Wien, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Media City Film Festival, Viennale, FIDMarseille, Courtisane Film Festiva, Cinéma du Réel and Punto de Vista among others.
Her film Flowers blooming in our throats (2020) had been nominated for The European film award and awarded the Top Prize at THIS IS SHORT 2021, a collaborative online event co-presented by the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Vienna Short Film Festival, and other European organizations.
She is the recipient of a VAF Wildcard Prize (2016), the Cedric Willemen Award (2019) and special recognition from Vordemberge – Gildewart Foundation Award (2020). Giolo is a laureate from HISK (2018-2020) and a former art resident at SeMA NANJI (2020), the year-long film–writing residency Conversation #4 (CVB, GSARA and Beursschouwburg), CASTRO studio program (2021), WIELS (2021), RU Unlimited New York and Fogo Island Arts (2022).
MICHELLE CAREY
Michelle Carey is a Berlin-based film programmer, working with the IFF Rotterdam, Talent Press at the Berlinale Talents, New York FF and SXSW Sydney. She is a co-founder of The Red Balloon Alliance, dedicated to providing family-friendly solutions at film festivals. Previously she has worked for Directors’ Fortnight, Senses of Cinema and the Melbourne IFF, where she was Artistic Director for 8 years. She is a recipient of a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government.
TSVETA DOBREVA
Born in Bulgaria, Tsveta Dobreva studied film and cultural management in Germany (Bochum) and France (Paris and Montpellier). In Germany, she worked for the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010, before moving to the Goethe-Institut in Paris in 2014, where she is responsible for European and international projects. Between 2015 and 2018, she was deputy director and head of programming at the Goethe-Institut in Marseille. Since December 2018, she has joined the FIDMarseille as General Secretary. Since April 2022, she has been Director of FIDMarseille.