7th MJFF Jury Announcement
Vadim Perelman Heads the Jury of the 7th Moscow Jewish Film Festival.
Canadian-American director, screenwriter, and producer Vadim Perelman will head the Jury of the Festival in 2021.
Perelman’s filmmaking debut, House of Sand and Fog, received three Academy Award Nominations. He won TEFI Award for his television show Adultery. Perelman’s film Persian Lessons had its world premiere at the 70th Berlin Film Festival and received high praise from both critics and the audiences.
Among those who became part of the Main Competition Jury are Kathryn Bernheimer, American film expert, writer, and founder of the Boulder Jewish Film Festival; Sasha Galitsky, Russian-Israeli artist, writer, creator of the Silver Age Art Museum; Neil Friedman, founder of Menemsha Films, the largest distributor of Jewish films in the world, and the Jewish streaming service ChaiFlick; Renata Santoro, Head of programming at Giornate degli Autori, an independent film festival section held in association with Venice Film Festival; Sergei Gilev, Russian actor (Chiki, Nuuccha); and Nelly Yaralova, General producer of 1-2-3 Production, founder and owner of the Stardust Talent Agency.
Short narrative features will be evaluated by the following Jury: Konstantin Kropotkin, journalist, writer, author of the #sodomiumora project; Yevgeny Stakhovsky, Russian radio and TV host, and writer (Reading, Brain, Philosophy, Literary Nobel); Ukrainian theatre and film director Ivan Orlenko; and Russian stand up comedian, resident at the Stand-Up Club #1, participant at Comedy Battle and 22 Comics Kirill Selegey.
Documentary Film Competition will be judged by Roman Super, reporter, author, and producer of the films With Closed Windows, This Is Edik, Sakharov: Two Lives; Alena Popova, member of the Expert Council on Safety at the Civic Chamber of Moscow, candidate for the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation for Volunteering, founder of the You Are Not Alone Project; Anna Stylińska (Poland), documentary filmmaker and independent producer; Sam Klebanov (Sweden/Russia), Russian and Swedish film industry executive, distributor, producer, and TV host, founded of the new distribution project, Arthouse.
