The faun, a mythological sylvan spirit or spirit of the forest, guides us through the twisting jungles of the film business.
Since 2006, the INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION has presented THE FLAMING FAUN statuette to filmmakers from all around the world.
The statuette THE FLAMING FAUN was designed by Dutch artist Ineke Pijn, and has since been awarded to filmmakers from all over the world. The Faun is a mythological spirit of the forest and serves as a guide – in our case through the tangled jungle that is the film business.
The FAUN is gold casted and sits enthroned on a handcrafted stone pedestal. FLAMING stands for passion with a double meaning – both the passionate filmmaker and the contagious enthusiasm of winning an award. But only with its cheeky gesture does the FAUN reveals its integrity. The expression is open to interpretation, but «to cock a snook at somebody» could be the symbolic reaction of a winner to all obstacles and struggles one has to deal with in producing a film. We did it, against all odds!
AWARDS CATEGORIES
THE FLAMING FAUN – INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS – shnit AUDIENCE Award
THE FLAMING FAUN – WORLDWIDE COMPETITION – shnit JURY Award
THE FLAMING FAUN – INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION – shnit TRIBUTE Award – Up to 10 min
THE FLAMING FAUN – INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION – shnit TRIBUTE Award – Up to 20 min
THE FLAMING FAUN – INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION – shnit TRIBUTE Award –Up to 40 min
INTERNATIONAL JURY
The festival would like to take this opportunity to thank all the jury members and jury presidents who have accompanied the festival over the years and look forward to this year’s line-up.
Lisa Ogdie (US)
Lisa Ogdie is a Shorts Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival and also Membership & Events Manager for BAFTA Los Angeles. She has been part of the Sundance shorts programming team since 2009, selecting the Sundance short film slate and has moderated Q&A discussions and panels for BAFTA Los Angeles, Sundance and the American Pavilion at Cannes. With a keen eye for film, Ogdie has served on many festival juries including the Kansas City Film Festival, South Eastern European Film Festival, Rushes Soho Shorts Festival and The Smalls Film Festival in London.
Todd Brown (CA)
Todd Brown is Head of International Acquisitions. Todd Brown is the founder and editor of international film website Screen Anarchy (formerly known as TwitchFilm.com), the Director of International Programming for Austin’s Fantastic Fest – the largest genre film festival in the USA.
Stephen Follows (UK)
Stephen Follows is a writer and producer based in UK. He has produced over 100 short films and two features. Stephen’s scriptwriting has won several international awards as and has been and long-listed for a BAFTA. Stephen Follows is an established data researcher in the film industry whose work has been featured among others in the New York Times, The Guardian and Indiewire. He has taught as a Educator at the National Film and Television School (NFTS), Met Film School, NYU, Filmbase, and on behalf of the BFI, the BBC and the British Council.
PAUL HAGGIS (CA)
Paul Edward Haggis is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television. He is best known as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners Million Dollar Baby and Crash, the latter of which he also directed.
Kathleen McInnis (US)
Kathleen McInnis has over 30 years’ experience discovering, introducing and supporting emerging world cinema filmmaking talent through her work at premiere film festivals in programming & publicity; film producing, and strategic PR for films world premiering at A-List festivals around the world. McInnis is a Short Cuts Programmer at the Toronto Int’l Film Festival, as well as Founder / CEO of SEE-THROUGH FILMS, specializing in world cinema narrative, documentary and short films at festivals and markets worldwide, including Toronto, Sundance, Berlin and more.
Ilya Sherstobitov (RU)
Since 1992 Ilya Sherstobitov is a film producer and has been working in the media. As part of the RTR he was the producer of the program “The Tower”. He worked as chief editor of “The Tower” and the creative director of the magazine «Beauty». He also worked in the film industry in Hollywood companies.
Ivan Madeo (CH)
Worked for leading advertising agencies in Switzerland, Germany and Italy before working as a film producer and screenwriter. Founded the companies Contrast Film in Zurich and Bern and produces series, feature films and creative documentaries together with his two partners. Was Switzerland’s “Producer on the Move” at Cannes Film Festival in 2017. Board Member of the Swiss Filmproducers’ Association SFP and member of the Swiss Film Commission for documentaries, Swiss Film Academy and the European Film Academy.
Geoffrey Shawn Fletcher (US)
Geoffrey Shawn Fletcher is an American screenwriter and film director. Fletcher is best known for being the screenwriter of Precious, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, becoming the first African American to receive an Academy Award for writing. In September 2010, Fletcher began shooting Violet & Daisy in New York City based on his original script as his directorial debut. It was released in a limited theatrical run in June 2013.
Germán Arciniegas (CR)
Germán Arciniegas is a costa rican-spanish filmmaker and audiovisual researcher. For over 30 years, he has been working as a director, producer,scriptwriter, cast director and actor. Germán Arciniegas has been a professor at La Nueva Escuela de Cine Y Televisión at La Universidad Veritas de Costa Rica since 2005 and professor of Acting for Film and Narrative Photography at La Escuela de Artes Dramáticas at La Universidad de Costa Rica.
Kelly Nycks (US)
Kelly Nyks is an Emmy nominated filmmaker and New York Times best seller whose credits include Requiem for the American Dream, Age of Consequences, Disobedience, Disruption, Split: A Deeper Divide and Split: A Divided America, among others.
Antoine Aoun
Currently Antoine Aoun is Head of Current Affairs Department at Al Arabiya, the leading 24-hours news channel which is part of MBC Group the pioneer and largest broadcasting group in the Middle East. Antoine has a special interest in cinema and has participated in many forums and debates. In recent years he was part of press critics and member of jury in 3 film festivals in Lebanon and the UAE.
Moshidi Motshegwa (ZA)
Moshidi Motshegwa is a South African actress and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, History and Afri- can Literature. She debuted alongside Oscar award winning actor Sydney Poitier. Moshidi starred in international productions like STELLENBOSCH (NL, 2007), FLEISCH (DE, 2008) and the HBO series NO1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY (2008). She has also works as a television presenter and writer.