Young Onion Award Jury

MAËLLE GUENEGUES

After working with various festivals, Maëlle Guenegues moved into international distribution, first with Point du Jour and Doc&Co before joining Catherine Le Clef to launch CAT&Docs in 2009. CAT&Docs represents a catalogue of handpicked creative documentaries with an international appeal.

IGOR ANGJELKOV

Igor Angjelkov (1974) graduated from the Interdisciplinary Studies in Journalism, and completed his master’s degree in Media and Communications at the Faculty of Law at the University of “St. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje. He has been actively dealing with film art in the media since the 1990s through reviews in various daily, weekly and monthly newspapers, and then, as the author of the film radio show “REDRUM” on Channel 103. He is probably most known for his “Filmopolis” film show that run on the national TV Telma. He was a jury member at several national film festivals, and in 2019 he joined the oldest association of film critics in the world, FIPRESCI, allowing him to also participate in international festivals ever since. In addition to the six prose works, he has also published three books of film essays: “Film.mkd” (2015), for which he received the “Mito Hadzivasilev Jasmin” State Publication Award, “Filmski Grad” (2018) and “Filmotopia” (2022).

WOUTER JANSEN

Wouter Jansen is the founder of the sales company Square Eyes which represents bold, author- driven features and shorts, and devises, in close collaboration with the filmmakers, bespoke festival distribution and sales strategies. In the past Wouter has worked for 10 years as the head of programming for the film festival Go Short and has been giving lectures at schools like Le Fresnoy, HEAD Geneva and Netherlands Film Academy.