Jury 2019

Born in Vienna, she studied in Vienna and London and graduated with a Ph.D. phil.. Besides she worked as a film critic and columnist, before she started to play in theater and in front of the camera. She also completed a two-year guest study at the DFFB and numerous trainings (directing, acting and screenplay at the European Film Academy). In 2005 she founded Independent Artists Filmproduktion (Berlin). In her first project “Die Fremde” she acted as producer, author and director. The film has won 47 national and international awards and has been screened at more than 140 international and national film festivals in 50 countries, including the 83rd Academy Awards as a German entry in the category “Best Foreign Language Film. “Zwischen Welten” (2013) is Fee Aladag’s second feature film (production, screenplay, director), which was filmed at original locations in Kunduz and Mazar-i-Sharif Afghanistan as well as in Germany. The world premiere was in competition at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, was screened on 50 further international film festivals and won numerous prizes. 2016 Feo Aladag produced “Der Andere” for ZDF, for which Feo Aladag wrote the screenplay again. It was filmed in Niger, West Africa and Berlin and celebrated its premiere in October 2016 at the International Hof Film Festival.

From 1983-89 Klaus Hansen was the owner of the company Luna in Copenhagen. Afterwards he graduated in law in 1990. For the coming years he was a member of various institutions representing international producers. Currently, Klaus Hansen is chairman of FilmFyn – a regional film fund in Denmark, which realizes feature films, documentaries, television films and video games. For many years Hansen has been working for producers, especially European ones, to represent and represent their interests on an international level and in Brussels.

Thomas Frickel works professionally in film since the mid-seventies, mainly as screenwriter, director and producer of numerous short and feature-length documentary films for cinema and television, including “Der Kinomann”, “Der Störenfried – Ermittlungen Oskar Brüsewitz”, “Deckname Dennis”, “Die Mondverschwörung” and lately “Wunder der Wirklichkeit”. He received awards at the German and Hessian Film Awards.

Since 1986, Frickel, in his function as chairman and managing director of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm / AG DOK (association for independent film in Germany with the largest amount of members), has been active in various film and cultural policy functions, for example on the board of directors of the Film Funding Agency FFA, on the advisory board of VG Bild-Kunst, as a delegate of the exploitation company of film and TV producers (VFF) as well as the social security for self-employed artists. For several years he was spokesman for the section Film / Media of the German Cultural Council. Frickel was also a co-founder and, until 1999, board member of the European Documentary Network EDN.

Mijou Kovacs was born in Vienna, by a French mother and an Austrian father. She grew up bilingually in Vienna and Paris. After completing her baccalaureate at the Lycée Français in Vienna, she went to the Max Reinhardt Seminar for her training, where she was discovered by Klaus Maria Brandauer in the second year of studies and brought to Josefstadt for a Shakespeare. She made her breakthrough with the play on Sigmund Freud “Berggasse 19″, alongside Curd Jürgens, in the role of Elizabeth von Ritter, his first patient, when he switched from hypnosis to analysis.

This was followed by leading roles in „der Schwierige“ by Hofmannsthal, „der Einsame Weg” by Arthur Schnitzler, the Roxane in „Cyrano de Bergerac“ the “Jeanne dArc au bûcher” in the great hall of the Konzerthaus in Vienna, in the Oratorio by Paul Claudel and Honegger.

Furthermore, film roles followed in three languages ​​- English, French, Italian.

• “Marie Stuart” with Caroline Harris as Elizabeth
• “The man who lived at the Ritz” with Joss Ackland
• “The Great Escape” with Christopher Reeve in me Jud Hirsch
• “Le lieutenant du diable” with Ian Charleson and Helmut Griem
• “Le Fil Rouge” by Boris Vian with Jean Pierre Leaud and Alexandra Stewart, in Cinecitta (Rome)
• As Empress Elizabeth in „der Thronfolger“
• “L’été 36” in the film by Yves Robert with Christian Clavier in Paris,
• “La vérité en face” with Claude Rich and Danielle Darrieux,
• Plus TV series such as “Ringstraßenpalais” and various „Tatorte.

Then she moved on to the great female characters she brought to the stage by literature, always with renowned musicians such as Franz Bartolomey or Walter Auer, preferably in the Glass Hall of the Muskverein

• “Anna Karenina” by Tolstoi
• “Fräulein Else“ by Arthur Schnitzler
• “Frédéric Chopin and Georges Sand” as author, also played in the Festival of Salzburg and in Jerusalem
• Also as author “Soirée Romantique” about Baudelaire, Rimbaud et Victor Hugo in French and in German
• “Abelard et Héloïse” (French and German, also the dramaturgy based on the well-known novel by Christiane Singer “Une Passion”)
• “Maria Stuart” and “Marie Antoinette” by Stefan Zweig
• Finally the “ILIAS” by Homer, with original instruments

Then she dedicated herself to the documentary film where she directed, scripted and directed.

• Like “Der Engel im Meer”, a film about the famous Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, the Cathedral in the Sea (World Heritage), co-production with BR / WDR, Telluxfilm, several times in Germany, also on 3Sat and ORF3,
• Most recently for the ORF “Der Rockerpriester Guy Gilbert” with Marcus Marschalek. French version: “Le Mousquetaire de Dieu“. Portrait of a charismatic priest living in Paris and Haute-Provence, with an extraordinary project for young people who come from prison and are considered lost.
• 3 parts film about “Marie Grubbe” by Jens Peter Jacobsen, where she played this leading role from 16 to 80 years, a Danish heroine from the 17th century. There is a DVD of it (Amazon), as well as one of the “Berggasse 19” (the best of Josefstadt).

She is currently working on her first feature film, as an idea, author and director.

Loredana Rehekampff studied Media Studies and Media Management at the University of Cologne, which she completed with a diploma degree. After professional stops in Germany, e.g. at X Filme Creative Pool (“Liebesleben”, “Alter und Schönheit”), Studio Babelsberg (“The International”, “Inglourious Basterds”), Herbstfilm (“Deutschland 09”) and Dor Film Cologne, she moved to Vienna in 2010 and has worked on various films and series in the production department until 2013 (“360”, “Das finstere Tal”, “Atmen”, “Spuren des Bösen”). Between 2013 and 2014, she was a film & series editor at ORF and then producer at Aichholzer Filmproduktion. Since 2017 she also works as consulting producer at the animation studio arx anima. In addition, she was part of numerous international producing and screenwriting workshops. Loredana Rehekampff is an EAVE and ProPro graduate and has been a member of the Austrian Film Institute’s commission since 2017.

In 2017, she founded Samsara Filmproduktion together with Andreas Schmied.

Born 1982 in Bosnia-Herzegovina. With his family he came to Vienna in 1992 as a war refugee. Ervin studied Conceptual Art and Contextual Painting until 2011 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He completed his bachelor’s degree in 2015 at Film Academy Vienna (with Michael Haneke). Among other films, his documentary “Drina” (Homesickness) was released in 2018.