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SHORT RIGA INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY
LAURENCE BOYCE (Estonia) is originally from the UK though now mostly lives in Estonia. He is an award winning journalist who writes for numerous publications and is a regular correspondent for Screen International, is the Baltic Correspondent for Cineuropa and the editor of Cineuropa Shorts. He also regularly writes for Estonian newspapers including SIRP and Eesti Ekspress. He also works for Sleepwalkers Short Film Festival in Tallinn, where he is the programme director, as well as for the Black Nights Film Festival and the Leeds International Film Festival. He is a member of BAFTA, FIPRESCI, the London Critics Circle and the European Film Academy.
PĒTERIS KRILOVS (Latvia) is a film and stage director, and a brilliant pedagogue, professor at the Latvian Academy of Culture. He began working in film in the 1960s as a director’s assistant, and made his first feature as a director in 1977. Pēteris Krilovs has also had a few movie roles as an actor, but lately his award-winning documentaries “Klucis. The Deconstruction of an Artist” (2008) and “Obliging Collaborators” (2014) have been in spotlight.
JUKKA-PEKKA LAAKSO (Finland) is the festival director of Tampere Film Festival. He has been involved with the selection and programming since 2000. As a festival director he shares the responsibility to strategic planning and programming with a co-director. Jukka-Pekka Laakso acts also as the executive director for Pirkanmaa Film Centre, a local film centre in Tampere. The film centre is a non-profit organisation that runs an art-house cinema, distributes films in Finland and works extensively with media education. Jukka-Pekka Laakso is also a member of the National Film Council of Finland and European Film Academy.