jury members - gstaadfilm 2015
Austin Ivers
Austin Ivers (Ireland) is an artist, teacher and curator based in Galway, Ireland. He is co-founder of the 126 gallery, lectures in Fine Art at GMIT and has recently exhibited in Graz, Kiev and Galway. An active member of the Irish video arts community, he is also on the board of the Galway Film Centre and has previously worked for the Galway Film Fleadh.
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Matt White
Matt White (UK) is an artist, film maker and lecturer. His work has been shown in gallery based group and solo exhibitions as well as screenings at EFA Project Space, New York; SMART Project Space, Amsterdam; Spike Island, Bristol; Chapter Arts, Cardiff; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway and Unit 2 Gallery, London. Past awards have included an Arts Council Research and Development Award, The Rootstein Hopkins Award and a Stanley Picker Fellowship. He has also been artist in residence at Apartment Project, Istanbul; Heathrow Airport, London and The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Matt lives and works in Bristol and is senior lecturer in Photography at the University of South Wales.
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Shelly Nadashi - Previous Winner GOLDEN COW AWARD Gstaadfilm Festival
Shelly Nadashi (Israel) lives and works in Brussels. Her work juxtaposes video, sculpture, writing and performance. She graduated from the MFA programme at The Glasgow School of Art in 2009 after having finished her studies at The School for Visual Theatre in Jerusalem. Recent presentations of her work include Etablissement d'en Face, Brussels, Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, Lux&ICA Biennial of Moving Images, London, Performa Biennial, New York, and Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.
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Dr. Michel-Sollberger, Beat
Beat (Switzeland) is a medical doctor, has had a lifelong interest in film and art - and has a wealth of experience in the viewing and judging of what is an art-film. He was a founder member of the Gstaadfilm festival and the Filmpodium, Saanenland (CH)
The ‘Filmpodium’ has been in existence for many years and was founded to give an opportunity to screen low budget and less well known movies in Switzerland. Its tenth anniversary was in fact the reason for the first Gstaadfilm Festival.
