Onion Seed Award Jury

Dina Pokrajac

Dina Pokrajac is a film critic and curator based in Zagreb. She majored in Journalism and Political Science at the Faculty of Political Science and is a PhD candidate at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. She works for the organization Restart and is the manager of Dokukino KIC – a unique cinema venue in the region, dedicated to non-fiction and hybrid cinema. She is the artistic director of Subversive Festival and has curated numerous interdisciplinary projects combining film and critical theory. She is also a selector and discursive programme coordinator for ZagrebDox. She has translated and edited over 20 books in the fields of political science, film theory and philosophy. She is the president of the Croatian Film Critics Society and chief editor of online publication Zona filma. In 2017 she won the Vladimir Vuković Award for Best New Film Critic. She is also a member of the European Film Academy and FIPRESCI.

Thanos Stavropoulos

Thanos Stavropoulos completed his undergraduate degree in Fine Arts in 2001 and then a Master’s in Video Art and Filmmaking in 2003. With a profound interest in cinema, his path led him to the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in Greece in 2007. Over the years, he has become a core member of the programming and coordination teams for the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF), the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (TiDF) and the Evia Film Project.

Since 2022, Thanos took on the position of AGORA Manager within the Thessaloniki Film Festival Organization Industry section.

Neda Milanova

Neda Milanova has worked for years in the field of documentary cinema as a producer at AGITPROP and project manager of Balkan Documentary Center.

She has been part of the team behind films such as The Cars We Drove into Capitalism (DOK Leipzig, 2022), Touch Me Not (Golden Bear, Berlinale, 2018), Working Class Goes to Hell (TIFF, 2023). As a project manager of Balkan Documentary Center, she is responsible for the overall coordination, network development and organization of the Center’s activities, including its three international programs for professional documentary filmmakers.

Since 2020, she is part of the team of Sofia Documental Festival as Head of Industry. She has experience in archival research for documentaries and is one of the founders of Kinoclub Super 8.