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Berlin, 7 February 2019 (SIGNIS-INTERFILM) - Opening today of the 69th Berlinale where the Ecumenical Jury will award a prize in the Official Competition, the Panorama Competion and the Forum Competition. Here are the Jury members, coming from all over the world.
Pamela Aleman (Canada) Pamela Aleman holds a Master’s degree in Communications Management (MCM) from McMaster University in Hamilton (Ontario) and is the Communications and Public Relations Manager for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada. She also serves as President for the Association of Roman Catholic Communicators of Canada and as Vice-president for SIGNIS North America. Pamela participated as member of the SIGNIS Jury in the 2018 Washington DC International Film Festival and has taken part in the Moments of Grace Film Retreat in Washington DC, as well as taken film appreciation training with the SIGNIS North America Executive team.
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Micah Bucey (USA)
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Dominic Dipio, Kampala (Uganda) Sr Dominique Dipio is Ugandan and has obtained a BA in Education and an MA in Literature, both at the Makerere University in Uganda. In 2002 she obtained a PhD on women in African cinema at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome), where she also lectured on «Introduction to Film Criticism and African Cinema». Dr. Dipio is today an Associate Professor of Literature and Head, Department of Literature, School of Languages, Literature and Communication and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Makerere University in Uganda. Among her publications is a book on Gender Terrains in African Cinema (2014). She was several times member of the SIGNIS jury in Milan, Ouagadougou and Zanzibar. |
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Margrit Frölich (Germany) Margrit Frölich is Director of Studies at the Protestant Academy Frankfurt, specializing in film, transatlantic dialogue, and economics. She is the President of the Protestant Film Jury in Germany and directs a monthly film series in Frankfurt. She has published widely about various aspects of cinema. From 2012-2017 she was DAAD-professor of History, Culture, and Media at the University of California, San Diego. Contributor of journalistic articles to the monthly German film magazine epd-film. She was a member of the Ecumenical Film Juries in Berlin, Cannes. Karlovy Vary, Leipzig and Montréal.
The Ecumenical Jury is also presented in the official Berlinale Film Festival website with all other jurys and you can follow the day to day events on Twitter @berlinale |