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Astra Film Festival 2025 Jury
Romania Competition
Ana Vlad
Ana Vlad is a documentary filmmaker and lecturer at the National University of Theatre and Film ‘I.L. Caragiale’ in Bucharest.
Luciano Piazza
Luciano Piazza is an Argentine filmmaker and scholar based in the UK. He teaches documentary filmmaking at University College London and is the co-editor and co-curator of Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Experimental Cinema in Latin America.
Gabriela Iacob
Gabriela Iacob is the Head of Scripted Content Development at VOYO & PRO TV. She is part of the selection committee at Cinema Pendent L'Alternativa Barcelona and is a tutor for the new Mentoring Projects Alternativa Pro format. Throughout her career, she has been the Head of Development at MediaPro Pictures, Head of TV Development at Multimedia East, and has founded a storytelling studio in Barcelona. She has worked with both established and beginner screenwriters as a content developer, script doctor, and storytelling trainer, covering everything from TV series development to mentoring fiction, documentary, and/or hybrid projects.
Eastern Europe
Nedelcu Claudia Duca
Producer in the Film Department of Romanian Public Television, overseeing the editorial and financial management of feature films and documentaries, with extensive experience as a commissioning editor.
Helen de Witt
Helen de Witt is a curator, lecturer, and writer specializing in artists’ film, documentary, and independent cinema, currently teaching at University College London, Birkbeck, and the UK’s National Film and Television School.
New Voices
Ulrika Bandeira
Ulrika Bandeira is a curator, filmmaker, and cultural producer, currently serving as the Artistic Director of the Tempo Documentary Festival.
Doru Nițescu
Doru Nițescu is a film director, professor, and researcher, currently serving as Professor and PhD supervisor at UNATC, President of the university’s Senate, and Director of the CineMAiubit International Student Film Festival.
DocSchool
Almási Tamás
Almási Tamás is a Kossuth Prize and Béla Balázs Award-winning film director and professor emeritus at the University of Theatre and Film Arts.
Kryštof Burda
Kryštof Burda is a film producer and documentary professional, a graduate of FAMU’s Department of Production, with experience as an executive producer and post-production supervisor on feature films, documentaries, and television projects.
DocShort
Radu Toderici
Radu Toderici is a film critic, researcher, and lecturer at the Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
Riho Västrik
Riho Västrik is a documentary film producer and co-producer, a professor at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School in Tallinn, and co-owner of the production company Vesilind.
