Jury Team / 2025

FILM

Mahdi shadizadeh

Founder of 5PhotoAward, Director, Film Maker, Photographer
Mehdi Shadizadeh is founder of 5Photoaward, he maked Documentary film about Abbas Kiarostami, the name is “Walking with the Wind” and “Single Tree” and “Dejhavoo”. He Attended more than ten domestic and foreign Exhibition.
cultural institute art Amordad.
Director- producer and documentary
Producer of the movie Dzhavu anad screened in art and experience department
Semi – length documentary making (First impression)and attendance at the us Elensburg competition
Short film making (room) and candidate for polish Grand off
Short film making (step five) and attendance at the international jaffalo festival in Italy
Attending solo and collective galleries insid and outsid the country
Atending the prestigious fabr gallery in Albany for the collection of photo s under the bark of trees.
Atending at the Insomina Gallery for the collection of photos under the bark of trees along with other artists from other countries.
Atending in the Albanian museum of contemporary art for the collection of under the bark of trees
Presence in the most prestigious arts in the word along with artists of all over the word

Mohammad Hassan Saadat Handi is a photographer and producer of Iranian cinema. He started his career in the theater in 1376. He is a member of the cinema house and a member of the board of directors and the Iranian Cinema Photographers Association. He is a member of the producers of Iranian cinema. And he was the managing director and chairman of the board of directors of Simorgh Nama Art Cultural Institute. He was selected as the best photographers of Iranian cinema in 2017. He was the secretary and chairman of the 8th celebration and competition of Iranian cinema photographers.

He is the advisor for the campus affairs of the Shahbar Cultural Institute and the director of the Mellat Cinematic Campus. He has been in more than 20 feature films as a photographer, producer and production manager.

Presence in louisioun Gallery in Istanbul city for the collection of the crows along with other artists of turkey.
Holding a solo exhibition of the tomorrow Gallery for the collection of photo s minimal in the snow.
Presence in Ehsan Gallery with the collection of photos the rain of behind glass(window) along with other artists.
Presence in Aprik Gllery with the collection of photos the rian of behind the glass (window) along with other artists

International Secretary of the Festival

GÜLTEN TARANC

Born in İzmir, 1990. In 2008, she studied Latin Dances and Spanish at Universidad de Quintana Roo, Mexico. “Obezonlar” (2010), “Dönüşüm” (2011) and “Consensus” (2012) trilogy films are her well-known short films. In 2013, she graduated from Dokuz Eylül FOFA, Department of Film Design. In 2015, she founded Taranç & Taranç Film Production. In 2017, she has completed her MAF at Marmara University. In 2016, she directed and produced her first independent feature film, “Wish to Wash in Rains”, and received Audience Award at the 53rd Antalya Film Festival. “Snails” was awarded with the “Meeting on The Bridge Award” in 2021; also selected for the 2nd round of consideration for the 2022 “Development Track” in Sundance Film Lab. She is the founder and director of the “International Women Filmmakers Festival (IWFF TURKEY)” (est: 2018). She continues to write & compose her own songs. Digital album available on Spotify.

FILMOGRAPHY
FEATURE FILMS
YAĞMURLARDA YIKANSAM (2016)
Festivals & Awards:
53.Antalya Film Festival, Motley Audience Award, Turkey, 2016
Balkan Film Food Festival, Best Film Award, Pogradec, Albania, August 2016
Barcelona International Film Festival, The Gold Lion Award, Spain, June 2016
ISENMA International Student-Newcomer-Woman Filmmaker Film Festival, Best
International Feature Film Film, Gold Award, Endonesia, November 2016
4.Antakya Film Festival, Special Mention Best Engaged Film Turkey, November,2016
I Filmmaker International Film Festival, Special Mention, Spain, December 2016
9.Rofife Director Achievement Award, Mersin, Turkey, 2017
SHORT FILMS & DOCUMANTRIES
Sadıkbey(2023) Editor/Producer
Consensus (2012) Director
3rd International Izmir Women’s Festival, Active Women Award
DEU, Faculty of Fine Arts, Şenel Aksu Award the Best Thesis
İKFD (Istanbul Short Filmmakers Association), 11th National Short Film Festival, 1st

Prize, Fiction Category (Consensus)
Dönüşüm “dönüşebildiğimiz kadar” (Metamorphosis “as much as we can
metamorphose”) (2012)
3rd Identita Short Film Festival, Italy, 3rd Prize (public choice), Fiction category.
10th Environmental Short Film Festival, National Short Film Contest, 3rd Prize,
Fiction Category
Sinepark 6th Short Film Festival, (Gökçe Sezer) Best Actress Award
Sinepark 6th Short Film Festival, (Meryem Şahin) Best Screenplay Award
Anadolu’nun Son Karatabağı (The Last Leather Craftsman of Anatolia) (2012)
Kaçan Kovalanır (2011)
2nd Manisa Golden Grape Short Film Festival, 2nd Prize, Fiction Category
Obezonlar (Obezons) (2011)
Yolculuk (The Trip) (2010)
Nedensiz (Without a Reason) (2010)
Pembe Mariachi (The Pink Mariachi) (2010)
İki Ucu Ateş (Both Ends on Fire) (2007)
İzmir Valisi Kazım Dirik (Kazım Dirik, Governor of Izmir) (2006)
1st Agora Film Festival, Best Amateur Documentary Film Award

Mircea Sorin ALBUTIU

Albuțiu is independent photographer and filmmaker.
Born in Transylvania, Romania. He moved to Portugal in 2022, after 5 years of collaboration with
different Portuguese artists and institutions: Museu da Imagem em Movimento, Banco das Artes
Galeria, SERRA – Espaço Cultural, ICR Lisboa and Atelier Pop-Up. He started in 2022 a new
project about the river Lis, an installation with photography, audio, video and live performance.
Albutiu has a master degree in documentary Filmmaking. He published three photobooks: Rasto,
Chocolat après ballet and Framing A Romanian Landscape. The fourth photobook (HOST) is in
editing phase. He directed 3 documentaries: Khozyain, When Borders Get Indistinct and Without
Expectations. His newest film, Zarafe, is going to be premiered in November 2024.
Photography Exhibition

2023; Suprapuneri II; București/ collective
2023; Without Expectations ; Cluj Napoca
2023; utopos ; Leiria
2022; Suprapuneri ; București/ collective
2022; Rasto ; Leiria
2021; between the lines ; București/ collective
2021; Dansactorul ca fenomen. Punct ; Alba Iulia
2020; Cool Breeze In A Silent Landscape ; Târgu Mureș
2020; Under The Surface ; Leiria
2020; Family Of Dog ; Leiria
2019; Khozyain ; Leiria
2019; Khozyain ; Brașov
2019; New Energy ; Sibiu

2018; Cats and Moods ; Brăila
2018; Khozyain ; Cluj Napoca
2017; New Energy ; București
2017; New Energy ; Lisboa
2017; New Energy ; Leiria
2017; Cats ans Moods ; Brașov
2015; New Energy ; Bistrița
2015; Now’s the Time ; București/ collective
2014; Cats and Moods ; Podgorica
2014; Inside ; Cluj Napoca
2012; Jurnal de Culise ; Cluj Napoca

Andrew Robert Thomas

British-born Director and Producer based in Nara, the ancient capital of Japan.
Over 30-year career in international creative production spanning the film, television, advertising and publishing industries. Established production & management company creativehybrid, working with the finest Japanese and international creative talents.
In recent years has founded the development and creation of independent community and culture film-making, discovering and developing educational storytelling workshops, image and sound archives which have been presented across the Kansai area of Japan.