Advisory Board MASO #2

Enrico Vannucci is a member of the selection committee of Pardi di Domani at the Locarno Film Festival and of the selection committee of LIM - Less Is More, and the artistic head of the short film training programme of MASO. He has worked in film festivals and markets since 2010, in particular collaborating with the Venice Film Festival and Talents and Short Film Market - TSFM, which he co-founded in 2016. He also co-founded Varicoloured, a holistic short film agency, in 2018, Talking Shorts, an online film magazine dedicated to short films, in 2020, and Talents Generator Factory, a company dedicated to the development of new audiovisuals by emerging and established professionals, in 2022. In 2021, he became a member of the European Film Academy.

Zsuzsanna Kiràly studied communication science in Vienna and Berlin. From 2009 to 2020 she worked at Komplizen Film as Head of Development. Since 2017, Zsuzsanna has been producing artistic feature films and documentaries with her own production company Flaneur Films. These include "Phantasiesätze", "Afterwater" and "The Garden Cadences" by Dane Komljen, "Outside Noise" by Ted Fendt, "Two Minutes to Midnight" by Yael Bartana and "A Flower in the Mouth" by Éric Baudelaire.
Zsuzsanna is member of the editorial board of "Revolver, Zeitschrift für Film", the funding committee of the IDM-Südtiroler Filmförderung, the selection committee of the TorinoFilmLab and the jury of the German Short Film Award II. She teaches at various film schools and universities, including the DFFB, UdK and ZeLIG.

Based in Montreal (Canada), Tam Dan Vu is Artistic Director and Head of Communications at Travelling Distribution. With a BA in Cultural and Media Production Strategies, Tam Dan Vu seeks to bridge short films to its audience since 2013. Through an internship at H264, she contributes to the genesis of Plein(s) Écran(s) - the world’s 1st film festival on Facebook - where she evolves as coordinator, communications director and programmer. Leveraging her creativity in digital marketing, she oversees the social media campaigns for the Oscar© race of three shorts that will get nominated – “Fauve”, “Marguerite” and “Brotherhood”. Meanwhile, she works in communications at Arsenal Contemporary Art for over two years, before joining Travelling Distribution in 2020. 

Douwe Dijkstra (b. 1984, The Netherlands) is a filmmaker and visual artist, operating in a mixture of video, animation and VFX. His projects range from short films and documentaries to video installations and theatre performances. He moves freely and playfully in a meta-area he has hammered out on his own, a narrative style that crosses the traditional boundaries between documentary and fiction, essay and experiment. His films have been screened at film festivals around the world and won awards at the Locarno Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival among others.

Boris Hadžija is a filmmaker and musician currently based in Berlin. After earning a degree in classical piano, he studied film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). His works include “Mother Trilogy” – “Mother Prays All Day Long” (2022), “As If Mother Cried That Night” (2023), “Mother Is a Natural Sinner” (2024) - which premiered consecutively at the Locarno Film Festival. The films were made together with Hoda Taheri, with whom he currently works as a directing duo. Boris Hadžija also wrote and directed Yugotransport (2023), which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and two films commissioned by ARTE: “Back to the West” (2020) and “A Simple Event” (2021). He is a DAAD fellow and was nominated for the German Short Film Award.

Sigrid Hadenius-Ebner is the Festival Producer at Uppsala Short Film Festival. She is responsible for the industry events at the festival, spanning from Uppsala Talent Days and the Uppsala Short Film Pitch, to planning all seminars, panels, and masterclasses. Since 2023 she is the head of the National Competition, and since 2014 she has been a part of the selection committee for the International Competition. She is also a freelance programmer and curator for other festivals and cultural organisations. Sigrid Hadenius-Ebner has a background in art history at Uppsala University and in film studies at Stockholm University.