Jury

		Rachel Millward Founder-Director, Birds Eye View Film Festival, UK Rachel Millward co-founded Birds Eye View as a touring short film event in 2002, motivated by the statistic that fewer than 10% filmmakers are women. Today it is one of UK's leading annual film festivals. Millward has also led training labs for emerging women screenwriters, bringing five new feature film ideas into development, and commissioned leading female musicians to create new live scores to silent films as part of BEV's Sound & Silents programme. Millward was nominated a World-Changing Woman by the Guardian in August 2006 and a Media Award nominee at the 2010 Women of the Future Awards. She is currently the film fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme. Supported by the British Israeli Arts Training Scheme (BI ARTS) a British Council initiative in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture and Sport in Israel

		Brigitte Bertele Brigitte Bertele is a German actress and feature and documentary film director. Her film The Fire will have its premiere screening at the festival. Bertele studied drama at the Akademie fuer darstellende Kunst and joined the international master class for acting at the Russian Academy for Theatre GITIS in Moscow. She studied at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg and got a diploma for directing documentaries. She then went to the Universidad del Cine at Buenos Aires, Argentina. She played in more than 30 productions at theaters in Eisenach, in Dresden and at the Mecklenburgische Landestheater as well as in several film and TV productions.

		Audrey Estrougo Audrey Estrougo is a French film director whose first feature film Regarde Moi (Ain't Scared) was screened at the festival in 2006, and second film Toi, moi, les autres is to have its premiere screening at the festival this year. She directed Regarde moi, a story about teenagers in the French suburbs, without any prior formal education in film studies. She then directed her first documentary about the twentieth birthday of one of the most famous hip hop bands in France "IAM". Her second feature film, for which she also wrote the script, is a romantic-ironic musical that demonstrates her singularity and political engagement for a critical social cinema. Today she is writing the script for her third film, dealing with female prisoners, and for which the shooting is due to be next summer.

		Einat Glaser-Zarhin Graduate of the Film and Television Department of the Tel Aviv University. Editor of feature films, television dramas, and documentary films. Tutor at the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem. Glaser-Zarhin was awarded the Israeli Film Academy Award for editing six times, and the Docaviv Award for The Comedians. Among her works: Amazing Grace, Zohar, Passover Fever, The Comedians, Yana's Friends, Broken Wings, Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi, Campfire, Aviva My Love, The Debt, Noodle, The House on August St., A Matter of Size, Internal Grammar, Footnote, and many more.

		Leslee Udwin Leslee Udwin is a British independent film producer. Amongst her films are: West Is West (2010), Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007), The One and Only (2002) and East Is East (1999). Udwin was awarded the London Critics Producer of the Year Award, and won the BAFTA (British Academy Award) for Best British Film (East is East).

		Dr. Orly Lubin Chair of the Department of Literature and of The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics. She is among the founders of the Women and Gender Studies Program at the Tel Aviv University, teaches in it and was the head of the program. She taught at the Department of Film and Television at the Tel Aviv University and was a member of competitive and public committees of film and television.