Meet the experts who will select the winning films of DOCU/WORLD, the international competition for feature and medium-length documentaries.
The DOCU/WORLD jury includes Danilo Petrovich Jorquera, a programmer of FIDOCS in Chile, a Chilean anthropologist, filmmaker, and cultural researcher; Niels Pagh Andersen, a Danish film editor who has made more than 250 widely different films; and Vika Leshchenko, a Ukrainian cultural manager and curator.
As a reminder, the DOCU/WORLD international competition will feature creative documentaries addressing ethical and legal issues through expressive artistic means.
His work focuses on the preservation and dissemination of Intangible Cultural Heritage through audiovisual media. For over 15 years, he has conducted ethnographic research across Chile, documenting religious rituals, devotional music, and rural traditions. Danilo was the General Producer of the Chilean National Cinematheque and the founder of MUCAM (Museo Campesino en Movimiento), an NGO focused on public art and heritage. He serves as President of the Documentary Cultural Corporation (CULDOC), the institution behind FIDOCS — Chile’s leading documentary film festival — and runs Librería Catálogo, a specialized bookstore in Viña del Mar.
Started his career as an assistant in fiction film when he was 16 years old. Since 1979 he has worked as a film editor and has edited more than 250 widely different films. Among them the documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence (both Academy Award Nominees).
In 2005, Andersen won the prestigious Danish Lifetime Achievement award, the Roos Prize, for his outstanding achievements in documentary filmmaking. In 2012, he became Professor in Editing at the Norwegian Film School. In 2021, he published the book Order in Chaos — Storytelling and Editing in Documentary Films.
She holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. From 2007 to 2011, she worked at the Molodist Film Festival as chief editor of the festival publications and a program coordinator. Since 2010, she has been involved with the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA as a program coordinator, and from February 2019 to May 2023, she served as the festival's program director. Since May 2022, she has been coordinating the international documentary film program at the DOK Leipzig Film Festival.
The 22nd Docudays UA is held with the financial support of the European Union, the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine, International Renaissance Foundation. The opinions, conclusions, or recommendations do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union, the governments, or organisations of these countries. Responsibility for the content of the publication lies exclusively with the authors and editors of the publication.
