פסטיבל אוטופיה 2020 - Guests

Vincenzo Natali

Film maker

Writer director of Cube, Splice and In The Tall Grass.

Maritte Sørensen

Festival Director, Lund Fantastic Film Festival

Sweden

Festival Director of the Lund Fantastic Film Festival. Maritte loves everything violent, but also everything cute. You have to take the good with the bad. Keep it balanced!

Chris Oosterom

Festival Director, Amsterdam Imagine International Fantastic Film Festival

The Netherlands

Director, the Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam

Isaac Ezban

Film maker

Mexico

Sci-fi film-maker from Mexico (THE INCIDENT, THE SIMILAR, PARALLEL), co-founder of Red Elephant Films and Autocinema Coyote (Coyote Drive-In)

Mattie Do

Film maker

Utopia 2020 rising star in world genre film-making spotlight, Lao film-maker - Chanthaly, Dearest Sister, The Long Walk.

Noah Hutton

Film maker, Lapsis

Director of documentary and narrative films, including Lapsis (2021) and In Silico (2021).

Annick Mahnert

Film Producer, Dearest Sister, The Long Walk

Producer, Festival Programmer and Acquisitions Consultant ,Mahnert opened her independent company Screen Division in 2013, working as a freelance producer, acquisitions consultant and festival programmer. She is a programmer at the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival, Head of Programming at Fantastic Fest in Austin and since April 2020 also the Executive Director at the Frontières Co-Production Market, the leading industry initiative for genre film professionals.

Robert D. Krzykowski

Writer / Producer / Director - Makeshift Pictures, The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot

Writer, producer, director, The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot.

Orçun Behram

Film Director

Istanbul-born director, cinematographer, and photographer. Behram holds a bachelor's degree in cinema from Columbia College Chicago, has directed a number of short films, "The Antenna" is his feature debut.

Jonathan Cuartas

Utopia International Jury 2021-22 & Film Director, My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To (Utopia 2020-2021)

USA

Film Director, My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To

Ant Timpson

Film maker, Come to Daddy, Director/Producer (Timpson Films),

Timpson has worked in every facet of the film industry; from managing an arthouse, distribution and programming, creating film events, producing television and feature films, operating government film funds and mentoring many filmmakers. For his multi-faceted and long-running film & media entrepreneurship he was the inaugural recipient of New Zealand’s Art Entrepreneur Award and is a Board member of the New Zealand Film Commission. His annual film competition 48HOURS with Peter Jackson as mentor began in 2003. After producing numerous genre films, Come to Daddy (Tribeca 2019), starring Elijah Wood, was his directorial debut.

Arthur Jones

Director, Feels Good Man

FEELS GOOD MAN is Jones’s directorial debut, but he’s uniquely suited to tell the story. He’s a cartoonist who came up in the same indie comics scene as the film’s subject, Matt Furie, and has art directed animation and motion graphics for journalists and documentary filmmakers, working with ¬companies including The New York Times, VICE and The Center for Investigative Reporting.

Giorgio Angelini

Writer/Producer, Feels Good Man

Angelini came into film from a longer, multi-faceted career in the creative arts. He started in music, touring in bands, later enrolling for a Masters of Architecture program during the depths of the 2008 real estate crisis, during which the seeds for his directorial debut, OWNED: A Tale of Two Americas began to take shape. Giorgio served as the executive producer for the feature film My Friend Dahmer (2017). Giorgio is the writer and producer for FEELS GOOD MAN.

Emre Akay

Film maker, AV: The Hunt

Film maker - Director, Producer, Screenwriter - AV: The Hunt