Awards & Jury

FLEMISH COMPETITION JURY

Birgitte Weinberger - Festival Director, Odense Film Festival, Denmark Veerle Baetens - Actor and Director, Belgium Michiel Philippaerts - Programmer and short film Coordinator, Film Fest Gent / Editor, Kortfilm.be, Belgium Jeffrey Bowers - Head Curator, Vimeo, VS Julie Rousson - Programmer and Coordinator Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France

FLEMISH COMPETITION: FICTION

JURY AWARD

Facilities donated by Camalot worth €12.500. The Flemish Jury Award is Academy Award® Qualifying.

AUDIENCE AWARD

Canvas purchase prize of €2.000. Facilities donated by Sondr and A Sound worth €5.000.

AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT

€1.500, donated by SABAM.

AWARD FOR BEST ACTING PERFORMANCE

€1.000, donated by PlayRight+.

AWARD FOR THE BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

€1.000, donated by Camalot.

FLEMISH COMPETITION: ANIMATION

AUDIENCE AWARD

Canvas purchase prize of €2.000.

FLEMISH COMPETITION: DOCUMENTARY

JURY AWARD

Facilities donated by Camalot worth €7.500.

AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT

La Guarimba Award: a film residence of 10 days in Calabria, South-Italy.

JURY EUROPEAN COMPETITION

Martin Strange-hansen - Director, Denmark Lauma Kaudzite - Coordinator and Manager, European Short Pitch / SFC / RIGA IFF, Latvia Olha Zhurba - Director, Ukraine

EUROPEAN COMPETITION

JURY AWARD

€1.000 donated by Kortfilmfestival Leuven. European Film Award nomination. Academy Award® Qualifying (only Live-Action Fiction).

PEER AWARD

The filmmakers from the European Competition choose their favourite. The winning filmmaker will have a seat on the jury of Kortfilmfestival Leuven 2023.

AUDIENCE AWARD

Dalton purchase prize of €1.000.

PITCH YOUR SCRIPT AWARD

2 x €5.000 facilities donated by Camalot.

PRESS AWARD

€500 donated by UBFP and UFK.

HUMO AWARD

Dalton purchase prize of €500.

VAF WILDCARDS

The winners will be chosen by the VAF jury. - Wildcard Fiction: €60.000 - Wildcard Animation: €60.000 - Wildcard Documentary: €40.000 - Wildcard FilmLab: €40.000 - Wildcard Scenario: €6.000

Martin Strange-Hansen

Martin Strange-Hansen is a graduate from The National Danish Film school, a Danish director and scriptwriter. In 2003 he won an Oscar with his short film This Charming Man and this year, he was a nominee in the same category with his new short film On my mind. Martin is former president and vice president of the Association of Danish Film Directors and Head of Programme at Odense International Film Festival. Martin is involved in Denmark as Commisioning Editor at Filmworkshop Copenhagen.

Lauma Kaudzīte

Recently appointed as the managing director of Short Film Conference, Lauma is also coordinator of European Short Pitch, as well as the short film programme manager at Riga International Film Festival. Additionally, she is a coordinator at Latvian Animation Association and manages industry events in Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS in Latvia.

Olha Zurba

Olha Zhurba is a Ukrainian filmmaker. She has more than ten years experience in the audiovisual sector. Her first short fiction film Dad's Sneakers (2021) premiered at Locarno FF and was later awarded at many international festivals, including Kortfilmfestival Leuven. Outside (2022) is her feature length documentary which premiered at CPH:DOX and HOT DOCS and recently got the Willy Brandt Documentary Film Award for Freedom and Human Rights at Human Rights Berlin FF.

Birgitte Weinberger

Birgitte Weinberger holds a Master of Arts and is a former singer. She is a member of several boards, has participated as a jury member at many short film festivals, serves as a censor at Southern University of Denmark and she is a much sought-after keynote speaker. Her current function is the administrative and artistic director at Odense International Film Festival, Denmark's sole Oscar- and EFA-qualifying short film festival.

Veerle Baetens

Veerle Baetens delivered her first awarded performance in 2008 as the main character of television show Sara (the Flemish version of Ugly Betty). Her international breakthrough came with The Broken Circle Breakdown by Felix Van Groeningen, for which she won several awards at the European Film Awards. Since then, she has starred in several French features and series. In 2017, she co-wrote the Belgian series Tabula Rasa and also played the leading role in Duelles by Olivier Masset-Depasse. Currently, she is working on her first feature film When it Melts, due in theatres next year.

Michiel Philippaerts

Michiel Philippaerts is programmer and short film coordinator for Film Fest Gent since 2019, having participated in two editions as a general programme assistant. He was involved in curating and organising several local film festivals in Ghent and was a jury member of the Dutch-Belgian Visser-Neerlandia Prize for Scenario in 2018, 2019 and 2021. As a film critic, he writes for Kortfilm.be and Talking Shorts. In 2021, Michiel became a member of the short film committee of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF).

Jeffrey Bowers

Jeffrey Bowers is head of curation at Vimeo, where he leads the team selecting Staff Picks. In the past, he has programmed films for Tribeca Film Festival, Hamptons Film Festival and Rooftop Films, as well as created and ran VICE media's short film column, ‘I'm Short, Not Stupid’. Bowers has served on juries around the world including Berlinale and SXSW, given presentations about short films at Cannes, Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival and more.

Julie Rousson

Julie Rousson holds a master's degree in cultural project production, with a master’s thesis about the impact of internet and numeric revolution on the short film industry. She is also a member of the international competition selection committee and coordinates the Pop-Up & #SHORT programme dedicated to new fiction models, the industry events at the Short Film Market (including co-production forum Euro Connection) and the relation with administrative institutions. Lastly, she is a board member of the Short Film Conference.