JURY 2012

Jury President

Zbigniew Żmudzki
president Se-Ma-For Film Studio, Oscar winner for the film „Peter and the Wolf” (film`s co-producer), director of the international animated film festival Se-ma-for Film Festival, Lead of the Film Working Group of the Program Committee of the Polish Tourfilm Academy

Jury Members

Tomasz Rudomino
art historian, journalist, filmmaker and explorer. Traveling around the world with his camera and camcorder, he has made over 300 TV productions and documentaries. He was an editor-in-chief of the “Kobieta i Życie” weekly and “Sztuka Polska” monthly. He published his articles in “Kultura” and “Polityka”. He has authored the Little Lexicon of Modern Art, a TV series Explorer (TVP 1 in 1998-2010), and many films, including “Sapieha książę buszu” and “Jestem babką polskiego kina”. He was a board member of the Polish Television. Currently, he lives and works in Paris. He is a director of the Polish Tourist Information Center.

Krzysztof Masiuk
a native highlander, explorer, sailor, passionate photographer; professionally an environmentalist; secretary of the National Ecological Council; lover of Polish mountains; devoted to the Bieszczady and Beskidy mountains, which he has wandered inch by inch with his backpack. He has authored numerous photo reports of the Caribbean, Seychelles, Cyclades, Aeolian Islands, and Spitsbergen among others. He has won many international and domestic awards. His latest project “Zakochaj się w Polsce nocą” (Fall in Love with Poland at Night) shows the beauty of Polish cities and towns seen at night.

Spomenka Saraga
Born in Zagreb, Croatia. Her home street was the same as JADRAN FILM´s (called European Hollywood at the time). She watched film making since she was a little girl, she met many actors and directors from the country and abroad, mostly Americans. After appearing as an extra in one movie, while studing she continue to work in JADRAN FILM on different position,. She had been permanently employed in JADRAN FILM for 28 years – at first as a bussines secretary, and finally as a Head of distribution department. For all the time she was also involved in making documentary and tourist films, the format she actually likes best.
After 30 years of working in film industry, she founded her own company BALDUČI FILM Ltd. which started successfully with several documentary films winning 15 international awards during the first two years of existence (Silver Screan Awards in LA, Das golden Stadttor in Berlin, The best Camera Awards in Romania, The best Original Score Awards in Veliko Gradište, Mention Grand Prix Cifft in Vienna, The best Tourism film in Croatia, and several more) Besides producing, she is also involved lately in directing, mostly of tourism films.
Is present time as Festival Director she works in organisation on a new project - ZAGREB TOURFILM FESTIVAL in Croatia.

Paweł Lewandowski
director of the Marketing Instruments Department and a vice- president of Polish Tourism Organization, german market specialist (for many years director of Polish Tourism Information Centre in Berlin), vice- president of Polish Tourism Chamber.

Paweł Betley
a graduate of the Warsaw Music Academy, Department of Orchestral Instruments (1988); his spouse graduated from the Department of Sound Directing. In 1991 together with his wife he was a founder of the Radio Zet studio. They both started working on films in their own Ztudio in 1996. They have made several hundreds of advertising films, documentaries, promotional productions, TV programs and theater performances, as well as several feature films. They specialize in music and sound design. Apart from filmmaking, the couple also engage in phonographic and concert activities.

Artur Białachowski
director, operator, editor, photographer, president of the Muuwi Film Studio, founder and director of Spa TV, winner at the 1st FilmAT Festival (formerly International Tourfilm Festival), Polish Tourfilm Academy Member


Jury for TOURIST OWL

Andrzej Danowski
director of the PTTK Center for Natural Photography in Łódź

Prof. dr hab. Anna Wieczorkiewicz
Institut of of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw

Dr Sławomir Sikora
Institut of of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw

Prof. dr hab. Bogdan Włodarczyk
Director of Institute of Urban Geography and Tourism, University of Łódź





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