32. TEDDY AWARD – Meet The international Jury

We are happy to present to you the jury of the 32nd TEDDY AWARD, which will be awarded on February 23rd in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Seven renowned filmmakers and festival organisers will choose the laureates from the queer films of the Berlinale in the categories Best Feature Film, Best Documentary/Essay Film and Best Short Film. Furthermore, they will award the TEDDY Jury Award.

Natascha Frankenberg is the programmer of begehrt!, the queer film section of the International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund|Cologne. She is a film and media scholar and holds a doctorate in the study of temporality in queer studies and in queer documentary films. She was a research assistant at the Institute for Media Studies in Bochum and a research associate at the Helene Lange College: Queer Studies and Intermediality: Art - Music - Media Culture at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg.

Bohdan Zhuk is a programmer for the Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist, Ukraine’s biggest film festival (47th edition to take place in 2018) since 2014. He is the curator of its LGBTQ programme Sunny Bunny, which has been part of the festival since 2001 and is Ukraine’s oldest regular queer-themed event. Under his curatorship, the programme was expanded and reformatted. With a masters in linguistics and a background as translator, radio journalist and host, he also works as communications manager for the British Council in Ukraine, writes articles about cinema, and translates films for national releases.

Roisín Geraghty is a producer, programmer, and festival manager, with experience in film and festival production from both Ireland and the US. She is currently the film programmer for GAZE International LGBT Film Festival. She has previously worked with Cork Film Festival, Galway Film Fleadh and Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival in Ireland, as well as the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) and Tribeca Film Festival in New York. She is interested in the creation, curation and proliferation of independent narrative and documentary film content, as well as advocating for both the creative and business elements of film.

Franck Finance-Madureira is a french movie journalist based in Paris. He's the co-editor-in-chief of FrenchMania, a website and a magazine dedicated to cinema and tv series through the lens of francophony. He is a member of French Syndicate of Cinema Critics. In 2010, he created the Queer Palm, the LGBTQI award of Cannes Film Festival, whose baseline is “Open minded award since 2010”. Franck is also a casting director and plans to write his first book and direct his first short film very soon.



Pecha Lo graduated with an MA in Film History and Visual Media from Birkbeck University in London, where she gained academic knowledge from Laura Mulvey and established a keen interest in film, feminist and gender equality theories. She currently serves as Secretary General of the Taiwan Women’s Film Association and is the festival director of the International Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taipei. Taiwan’s third largest film festival and only women’s film festival. She also lectures in film in community colleges and is a freelance film critic and an advocate of the LGBT rights movement in Taiwan.

Antonio Harfuch is a content producer and film curator living in Mexico City. He has worked in several media production companies including Zamora Films, The Maestros, Redrum, Piano Films. From 2015 to 2017 he has been a film curator for the Morelia International Film Festival, one of the most influential film festivals in Latin America, where he was also part of the team producing content for the festival's social media. He is the founder & artistic coordinator of the Genre and Sexual Diversity Film Programme, a programme of Mexican queer shorts films that emerged from this festival. He is strongly committed with the promotion of LGBT films and more broadly with films that showcase the richness of human diversity. He is currently a columnist on film for Fusion, a Spanish language news and cultural website.

Marthe Djilo Kamga is one of the founders and coordinators of the Massimadi Festival in Brussels. Her career has been characterized by themes such as roots, vulnerability, multiple identities and equal opportunities. Recently, it is through artistic creations and cultural productions (cinema, performances, photos, etc.) that she tackles the questions of the reappropriation of public spaces and the archival of images of people who feel invisible. Enriched by a academic journey, rather scientific and social, she defines herself as a thwarted artist in self-therapy. In 2009, Marthe also published in the collection of Cahiers de l'Universite des Femmes a book titled: Quand les femmes aiment d'autres femmes: regard sur les homosexualités féminines au Cameroun. In 2017, she co-wrote and directed a film: Vibrancy of Silence: A Discussion with My Sisters, the first part of Frieda Ekotto's visual research project on Vibrancy of Silence: Archiving Images and Cultural Production of Sub-Saharan African Women.

The TEDDY AWARD ceremony on February 23rd will take place at the Haus der Berliner

Festspiele, Schaperstraße 24, 10719 Berlin, starting at 20:30 PM. From 23:30 PM onwards

the hot After Show Lounge and the TEDDY AWARD BACKSTAGE PARTY will open their doors!