Jury

Tanya Ivanova
Bulgaria
Tanya Ivanova is a long-time journalist at the Bulgarian National Radio – she is a news editor there, runs a weekly column on extreme sports, does interviews and reports on these topics. She also publishes in other media – on her own website ludarabota.com, on the climbing website climbingguidebg.com, etc. For several years she has been covering events related to mountaineering culture, such as the Bansko Film Fest, competitions, etc. Her free time is dedicated to her two children, to projects related to the development of climbing in Bulgaria, as well as to her own climbing.

Mojca Volkar Trobevšek
Slovenia
Mojca Volkar Trobevšek (1981) is a graduate in comparative literature and a professor of the Slovenian language working as a Slovenian language teacher, editor, moderator, publicist, and author. She does research and writes scripts for documentary films for Slovenian national television and other producers. She’s co-authored and edited various biographies and other works on Slovenian alpinism, its history and protagonists. She writes for Planinski vestnik (a Slovenian mountaineering magazine) and designs cultural events, and recently she’s been focusing on moderating book clubs and discussions, as well as writing. She’s particularly interested in mountains and the people connected to them. She’s worked with the Festival gorniškega filma since 2008 and has served as a jury member at festivals in Ljubljana, Graz, and Tegernsee. She has a very close connection to the mountains; she used to be an alpinist and a climber and has dedicated much of her time to educating young mountaineers as a voluntary mountain guide and ski instructor. Together with her husband and three sons, she lives and works at the foot of the Kamnik Alps.

Fulvio Mariani
Švica
Fulvio Mariani has nurtured a deep passion for mountaineering and photography from an early age. He works as a cinematographer for the Swiss television RSI, for which he made a dozen alpine and adventure documentaries. His images often stand alone, not needing narration or dialogue to interpret their meaning to the viewer. In 1983 he took part in his first mountaineering expedition to the North Face of Everest, where he shot his first documentaries. Some of his most notable films are Cumbre, The Wooden Man, and Siachen: A War for Ice, among many others. His filmmaking has taken him all over the world, from Patagonia to the Himalayas, from Siberia to Pakistan, and he’s won numerous international awards, including one of the first International Alliance for Mountain Film Grand Prizes, which he won in 2004.