Paolo Bertolin
Paolo Bertolin is a film programmer, critic, producer, and a member of the Venice Film Festival selection committee. He has worked for several international film festivals and institutions, including Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, Locarno Open Doors, IFF Rotterdam, Doha Film Institute, Torino FF, Mumbai IFF, Beijing IFF, and IFF Bratislava. He has production credits on Berlinale Competition entries Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (dir. Phan Dang Di; 2014) and A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (dir. Lav Diaz; 2016). He is a member of the European Film Academy, the Asia Pacific Screen Awards Academy, and Film Independent.
Xavier Henry-Rashid
Xavier Henry-Rashid runs Film Republic, a London-based sales agency specialised in world cinema. Its catalogue includes Peter Bebjak’s The Line (2017) and Tereza Nvotova’s Filthy (2017). Xavier started his career as a photographer and freelance journalist, contributing to publications such as Variety, Screen, Esquire, and GQ. He then worked for a number of festivals in various positions, from previewer at Sheffield Doc/Fest to executive director of the Raindance Film Festival. He had a tenure on the board of Europa International – the pan-European sales association – until 2021, is an alumnus of the Berlin Talent Campus (now Talents), Screen Institute, and EAVE, and a member of the EFA.
Barbara Orlicz-Szczypuła
Head of the Krakow Film Festival programme department, one of the leading festivals in Poland. She graduated from the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Before joining the festival, she worked at a film distribution company with responsibility for film events. She is a president of the Krakow Film Foundation and CEO of KFF Sales&Promotion, the sales agency that internationally promotes Polish documentary, animated, and short films. She is a member of the Polish Film Academy.