20th IFFK 2015-Brazilian filmmaker Julio Bressane will head the five-member core jury for the 20th edition of the festival

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Celebrated Brazilian  the five-member core jury for the20th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK). The other members of the jury for Kerala’s premier film festival, which will run from December 4 -11, are Newton Aduaka, , Nadia Dresti, Maxin Williams and Janu Baruva.

Julio Bressane 

 Júlio Bressane Eduardo is a Brazilian filmmaker and writer. He is a representative of Brazilian Cinema Marginal. In 1967 Bressane debuted as director with 'Face to Face', then selected for the Festival of Brasilia. In 1970 he founded Belair Movies with fellow filmmaker Rogerio Sganzerla. His film Cleopatra was screened at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, in the catagory of Mostra Venezia Maestri (Venice Masters Exhibition), as well as being named best film of the 40th Festival de Brasília Film in November 2007.

Nadia Dresti, 

Nadia Dresti began her career in the movie business in 1984, with the Festival del film Locarno. In 1988 she joined the 20th Century Fox-Columbia TriStar Office in Geneva as Marketing Director for Switzerland. In 1990 she founded her own company, Zero Problem, specialized in film promotion, public and press relations. For 8 years she was also an active member of the Commission in charge of film culture, promotion and marketing of the Federal Office of Culture (Swiss Ministry of Culture). In 1998 she began working with the Marché du Film de Cannes and the European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin. At both festivals she was in charge of buyers for a number of years. Meanwhile, in 1999, she became a member of the Locarno Festival Selection Committee and was nominated Head of the Locarno Industry Office. Since then she has played an important role in the growth of this department. In 2006 Nadia Dresti was nominated Delegate of the Artistic Direction of the Festival del film Locarno. In 2010 she launched the Industry Days and became Head of International in 2013.Since 2012 she is a member of the Federal Commission for Cinema (CFC).

Newton Aduaka

Newton Aduaka is an internationally acclaimed film director, who hails from Nigeria. He has achieved a handful of accolades and appreciations from around the globe. Aduaka left for England to study Engineering but discovered Cinema and attended the London International Film School, graduating in 1990. In 1997 he established Granite Film Works. In 2001 Newton's debut feature film Rage, released in Britain, which got international acclamation. Between 2005 and 2007 he co-wrote, directed and executive produced Ezra, his first non-independently funded film, for Arte France. In 2001-2002 he was Filmmaker in Residence at Festival de Cannes' Cinéfondation in Paris.

Jahnu Barua,

Jahnu Barua is an internationally acclaimed Indian film director from Assam. He has directed a number of Assamese and Hindi films. He is considered as one of the pioneers in Assamese parallel cinema. He is best known outside Assam for his Hindi film 'Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara', a drama which uses the principles of Gandhism for its thematic backstory. His films have been recognized nationally and Internationally.

Maxine Williamson

A specialist in independent and foreign language film with over two decades in the industry, Maxine Williamson joined the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) in 2007, its inaugural year, to establish the brand, awards competition and filmmaker network.Along with directing the awards competition, Maxine sits on the APSA International Nominations Council and short listing panels each year and manages the APSA Academy and the exclusive film development funds available for its members, a 700-strong academy of elite film practitioners’ from Asia Pacific.During 2007 – 2009 she was creative content producer on the APSA documentary series Scene by Scene promoting the films and filmmakers of Asia Pacific, broadcast yearly on CNN International and on ABC network during 2010 – 2011.In 2014, Maxine was also appointed Film Director of the Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival (BAPFF), Queensland's premier screen culture event. She is a member of NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) and APN (Asia Pacific Producer’s Network) and has served on Juries for the Berlin, Fajr, Ladakh, Eurasia and Göteborg International Film Festivals. Maxine has a Bachelor Degree in Film and Television Production majoring in writing/directing.

FIPRESCI Jury

The Netpac (Network for the promotion of Asian Cinema) Jury consists of Siddique Marbak, Swarna Malvarchi and Meenakhi Sheddey.headed by eminent film critic Deric Malcom and Lathika Padgongar as member  .

FIPRESCI Jury headed by eminent film critic Deric Malcom and Lathika Padgongar as member  . Derek Malcolm  was educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford. On leaving university, where he studied history, he attempted to get into publishing but couldn’t get a job and instead became an amateur steeplechase rider, winning 13 races over three seasons before trying a professional acting career in the theatre. Later, he became a journalist, being engaged as a show biz correspondent by the Daily Sketch. From there he went to Cheltenham and worked for the Gloucestershire Echo as general reporter and theatre critic. In the late fifties, he went to The Guardian in Manchester as an arts page sub-editor under Brian Redhead. A few years later, he moved to The Guardian in London, again as arts sub-editor and was eventually made deputy drama critic to Philip Hope-Wallace, then deputy film critic to Richard Roud. He was appointed as a film critic in the early sixties. He remained film critic for over 25 years until his enforced retirement at 65. During his time at The Guardian, he won the IPC Critic of the Year title, directed the London Film Festival, became a Governor of the BFI, President of the International Association of Film Critics (Fipresci) and President of the British Federation of Film Societies. He has also served on juries at the three main European Festivals in Berlin, Cannes and Venice, as well as at the Moscow, Istanbul, Goa, Singapore, Chicago, Dinard and Rio Festivals. He has written three books — Robert Mitchum, 100 Years of Cinema and Family Secrets.  In 2001 he was named by an American film trade paper as one of the six most influential film critics in the world. 

The Netpac (Network for the promotion of Asian Cinema) Jury consists of Siddique Marbak, Swarna Malvarchi and Meenakhi Sheddey.