Jury DOK.horizonte 2024


The VIKTOR DOK.horizonte is sponsored by the Petra Kelly Foundation and endowed with 5,000 euros. Nominated are films that focus on countries with unstable structures.

 

Liuying Cao

Co-Founder and Head of International Sales of Midnight Blur Films and Parallax Films; Festival Coordinator

Cao Liuying is the co-founder of the Chinese production company Midnight Blur Films and the international sales agency Parallax Film. In 2013, she co-founded the film critic platform DeepFocus, which now boasts over 500,000 followers across the Chinese-speaking territories. Among the films she produced are VANISHING DAYS (Berlinale) and YANAGAWA (Tallinn). Cao Liuying also serves as co-director of the Red Lotus Asian Film Festival in Vienna, selecting committee member of the Shanghai International Film Festival, and Industry Consultant of First Cut Lab.

 

 

Helga Grigoryeva

Freelance producer, cultural manager, and consultant

As a producer, Helga Grigoryeva collaborated with several Russian independent film festivals (Artdocfest, Tomorrow, BEAT, EcoCup). From 2020 to 2024 she worked as an Acquisition Manager and Head of Festivals at Antipode sales company. Since 2022 she has been based in Germany implementing research projects on decolonial topics, consulting the Russian speaking community in exile and collaborating with different festivals and institutions, such as Berlin Critics’ Week, goEast, and German Films.




 

Enikő Gyureskó

Managing Director of the Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

Enikő Gyureskó has been working for VERZIÓ since 2016. She is responsible for the festival development strategy, supervision of the festival team, fundraising, partnerships and year-round programs. Since 2020 she has been assisting the KineDok Hungary team with rights clearance. Additionally, she is a board-member of the Hungarian Documentary Association MADOKE.