We present the profiles of the Tramway Film Festival jurors:

Vivien Buchhorn – Chairwoman

Vivien Buchhorn is a curator and film historian. Her research interests include transnational cinemas and artworks as well as questions about how they are archived. Alongside her scholarly work, she also investigates in practice different modes of educating about films. She is the head of the documentary and experimental film section of Internationales Frauen Film Fest Dortmund+Cologne. Her multi-year research on the filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless culminated in the SHAHID SALESS ARCHIVE, whose task is making the filmmaker’s entire oeuvre visible again.

Magdalena Hueckel

Magdalena Hueckel – visual artist, screenwriter, filmmaker, researcher, photographer. Her works have been exhibited in more than 40 individual and over 60 collective exhibitions in Poland and abroad (including Tate Britain in London, Circulation in Paris, Unseen Amsterdam, Vienna Art Fair, Center for Contemporary Art in Berlin).

When it comes to film, she collaborates with Tomasz Śliwiński. Their documentary Our Curse received an Oscar nomination, and the web series Plague Chronicles won the main prize in the DIG IT competition for the best theatre activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Magda Hueckel is the author of photo documentation of several hundred theatre performances as well as photography books: Anima. Images from Africa 2005-2013 and HUECKEL/THEATER, nominated for the Photographic Publication of the Year Award 2014 and 2016. She is also the CEO and founder of Polish CCHS Foundation “Lift the curse”, winner of the EURORDIS Black Pearl Award 2020.

Kuba Mikurda

Kuba Mikurda – director, film scholar. He made the award winning documentaries “Love Express. The Case of Walerian Borowczyk” (2018), ‘Escape to the Silver Globe’ (2021) and ‘Solaris Mon Amour’ (2023). He teaches at the Film School in Lodz.

The author of the photo is Anna Krakowiak.