Competition of Immersive Films Jury

This jury awards the Immersive Film Competition Prize to the virtual reality project that demonstrates the most significant societal impact within its category. Evaluation criteria include the use of contemporary immersive technology and tailored narratives aimed at raising awareness of human rights issues. The jury is made up of artists, theorists, journalists, and experts in the fields of immersive and gaming art, as well as virtual reality.

Tereza Fousek Krobová

Tereza Fousek Krobová

Tereza Fousek Krobová is a game theorist. Her research focuses on the gender aspects of digital games in the context of representation, audience, and the gaming industry as a whole.

She teaches gender studies, cultural studies, and game studies at several universities such as FSV UK, FAMU, NYU, and Scholastika. As part of the PRIMUS grant and FSV UK, she is a member of a research group focusing on the Czech gaming industry.

Tereza is also a member of a group researching the archiving of Czech games (NAKI, FAMU). She works for Czech Television as a programme/script consultant for the show DVA3.

Nela Klajbanová

Nela Klajbanová

Nela Klajbanová is a curator and cultural manager. She focuses on areas concerning the curation, distribution, presentation, and archiving of contemporary motion picture art.

She serves as curator for the cultural platform PAF and coordinates the Other Visions CZ competition. Since 2015, she has been the director of LITR, which is a book fair for authorial and artistic publications.

Currently, she acts as a curator for both the Luhovaný Vincent festival exhibition programme and the year-round programme at the Etc. gallery in Prague 2 and also coordinates the POP-UP AVU Gallery in Prague 3.

 

Portrét Weroniky M Lewandowské

Weronika M Lewandowska

Weronika M Lewandowska is a co-director, writer and executive producer of VR “Nightsss”. She experiments with interdisciplinary forms of poetry. Her poems were published in Romania, Estonia, South Africa, Brazil and Poland.

From 2022, she is also the coordinator of DOK Exchange XR at DOK Leipzig. She was an expert of the Committee for Innovative Film Projects at the National Film Institute and a mentor for the Climate Challenge XR project for the European Space Agency.

She is also a researcher and writer of XR climate change games for Guest XR. Her works were part of "The Liberated Voice – Sound Poetry'' exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

Weronika is, among others, a scholarship holder of Performing Art International Visegrad Fund, RUK/Kilba2Lab or Artistic Scholarship of the Warsaw City. 

Other Juries

International Competition Jury Awards

The jury for the International Competition award two prizes in this category: the International Competition Jury Award for Best Director and the International Competition Jury Award for Best Film. The jury comprises film experts from both the Czech Republic and abroad. 

Václav Havel Jury

In the Right to Know category, the film that makes an exceptional contribution to the protection of human rights is selected to receive the Václav Havel Jury Award for the Best Film. The jury is composed of prominent human rights defenders and international representatives of the non-governmental sector or institutions.  

Czech Competition Jury

The jury selects the best Czech or co-production documentary from the previous or current year to receive the Czech Competition Jury Award for Best Film.  

Competition of Immersive Films Jury

This jury awards the Immersive Film Competition Prize to the virtual reality project that demonstrates the most significant societal impact within its category. Evaluation criteria include the use of contemporary immersive technology and tailored narratives aimed at raising awareness of human rights issues. The jury is made up of artists, theorists, journalists, and experts in the fields of immersive and gaming art, as well as virtual reality.

Regional Jury

The regional jury comprises two representatives nominated by our regional partners. The nominees are chosen from One World’s fans and supporters in the relevant town. The jury is then supplemented by the holder of the Golden Projectionist title, which is awarded by our platform Promítej i ty!. The winning film will be included in the selection of documentaries included in the Get Your Audience! programme in 2023. 

Student Jury

Each year, we select a group of secondary school students who are actively involved in the One World in Schools programme. During the festival, they select the best film from the One World for Students category. The winning film is announced during the gala closing event and receives the Student Jury Award. 

Audience Award for the Best Film

Viewers can vote for their favourite documentary. The top-rated film will receive the Audience Award. Voting takes place directly in the cinemas with the use of tablets. You can rate the film by marking one to five stars, where five is the highest rating and one the lowest. 

Abakus Foundation Audience Award for Exceptional Discussion

Audience members select the post-screening discussion that has been the most rewarding for them, and which best supplemented the screened film. The voting takes place next to the cinema auditorium exit with the help of a tablet or QR code.

The award was supported by the Abakus Foundation.

Children Jury

The award will be given for the first time ever in the One World for Children category for a short film that is part of the morning school screenings. It will be selected by the pupils themselves who are involved in the year-round One World activities in schools.