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2017 JURY PRONOUNCED

Most accomplished of film makers, critics, actors etc. from world over have been a part of the jury over the
years. Also it was an overwhelming experience for them all as a film festival for children of such magnitude
was hitherto unheard of, they revealed. A visibly moved Vijaya Mullay said “I would make a film on Dr.
Gandhi had I not been so old. She too reffered to it as the world’s best organized festival. Nenad Dukek from
Serbia suggested, "Quality world cinema was reaching only to five-seven percent of the young population
so, making chidren's films available to them was indeed a good job. Mike Pandey, the wild life film maker
said it was an important development for India. Following is a brief profile of those who adjudicated.

Robert Adrian Pejo (Jury Chairperson- ICFF 2017)
Robert Adrian Pejo was born in 1964 in Arad (Romania) and grew up in Feldkirch. There he
completed an engineering training and wasa a member of the Filmclub Feldkirch. From 1986
to 1992 he studied theater sciences at the universities in Vienna and Budapest. With
Crescendo he turned his first full-length film in 1992, for which he received the Austrian State
Prize "Best Film" in 1993. Numerous TV and cinema feature film productions followed. The
camera sponsor was shown in 2010 as an opening film of the diagonal in Graz. Since 1996
Pejo lives and works as a director and author in New York.

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Satish Vasant Alekar , born on30 January 1949 is a Marathi playwright, actor, and theatre
director. A founder member of the Theatre Academy of Pune , and most known for his plays
Mahanirvan (1974), Mahapoor (1975), Atirekee (1990), Pidhijat (2003), Mickey ani
Memsahib (1973), and Begum Barve (1979), all of which he also directed for the Academy. He
is one of the most influential and progressive playwrights not just in modern Marathi theatre ,
but also larger modern Indian theatre .
He has also remained the head of Centre for Performing Arts, University of Pune (1996–2009), which he
founded, after forgoing the Directorship of NSD [5] and previously remained an adjunct professor at
Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts , New York University as a Fulbright Scholar . [6][7]
He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Playwriting (Marathi) in 1994, by Sangeet Natak
Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama. He received the award "Padamshree"
(पद्मश्री) conferred by the President of India in January 2012.
Ms Nirmala, Ms.Nirmala hails from a traditional and orthodox family from
Kumbakonam.,Tamilnadu. Ms.Nirmala started learning Bharatanatyam at the age of 4 and
continued her learning under several tutors and masters of dance in Kumbakonam district.
Her Arangetram performance was at the age of 12.
The film career of Ms.Nirmala started with Vennira aadai directed by Late Sridhar who in fact
named her Nirmala and once the film was a hit she was given the prefix vennira aadai and from
then she was popularly known as Vennira aadai Nirmala.
She has acted in about 200 films in Tamil , Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam and has won several
recognitions for her contributions in films.
She acted in prime roles with most popular stars like MGR, Shivaji ,Ganesan, Gemini ganesan, Jaya
shanker, SriKanth, NT Rama Rao, Nageshwar Rao, Rajinikanth, Kamal Hasan ,She is a recipient of
National awards twice for her performance in Tamil and Malayalam Films. The State Government of

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