JURY

Kai S. Pieck

Head of Jury, Germany

Writer and director. For a long time worked in the field of puppetry, held several exhibitions with self-made
puppets and wrote a book about making nd manipulating marionettes. Co-founder of the first Super8 movie theatre of Germany in Hannover.

Elizabeth Shepherd

USA

Director of the Children’s Film Festival Seattle, the West Coast’s largest annual competitive festival of its kind. Speaker, juror and panel member at festivals, symposiums and summits throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the Middle East.

Mariya Bershadskaya

Belarus

.Scriptwriter, children’s writer. Graduated from the scriptwriting department of VGIK, worked as a scriptwriter for the television show “Sesame Street”, wrote scripts for animation and documentary films. Author of the popular book series “The big little girl”.