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Edwin Carels
As a film programmer and curator Edwin Carels is especially interested in the relationship between visual arts and film, video and photography. His work for the International Film Festival Rotterdam focuses yearly on developing thematic programmes (formerly under the umbrella term 'Exploding Cinema') that demonstrate cultural implications of changes in media-technology. Besides the IFFR, Carels also curates, teaches and writes about art, film, animation and media-archeology.
Contact: e.carels@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
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Evgeny Gusyatinskiy
Evgeny Gusyatinskiy studied film history and theory at the VGIK (All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography). Following his studies, he worked as a film critic and journalist for a range of Russian media. He is an editor of Film Art (Russian: Iskusstvo Kino), the oldest film magazine in Europe. He has been visiting the IFFR since 2005, when he was part of the IFFR’s Young Film Critics Project. He has selected full-length films for the Kinotavr film festival in Sochi since 2006 and compiles programmes for the Pioner Cinema arthouse cinema in Moscow.
For the IFFR, Evgeny Gusyatinskiy will be selecting feature films from Russia, Central and Eastern Europe.
Contact: e.gusyatinskiy@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
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Chinlin Hsieh
Chinlin Hsieh comes from Taiwan and has lived in France since 1988. She started in the film world assisting Hou Hsiao-hsien and producing Tsai Ming-liang (What Time Is It There). She subsequently worked on project development, acquisition and sales with Arena Films, The Coproduction Office and Celluloid Dreams. She was a member of the selection committees of the Turin Film Fund, the Hong Kong Asian Film Financing Forum and the Venice Days. At present she is executive producer at Soudaine Compagnie for feature films by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, the Larrieu Brothers and Leos Carax. As IFFR programmer, Hsieh selects feature films from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and French-speaking Canada and for the Tiger Awards Competition.
Contact: c.hsieh@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
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Peter van Hoof
His background is that of independent cinema programmer. First at the Squat Cinema Filmhuis Cavia and after that as founder and programmer of Cinema De Balie - the independent cinema department of political cultural center De Balie in the heart of Amsterdam. He is one of the founders of Stichting De Filmbank: a small organization for promoting Dutch Experimental Cinema, to which he still contributes.
As programmer for the IFFR he is responsible for programming the Short Film section and as such he heads the Short Film selection committee. The other members are Juliette Jansen, Sacha Bronwasser, Erwin van 't Hart, Peter Taylor and Theus Zwakhals. Besides the short film section he selects the features and documentaries from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Contactl: p.vanhoof@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
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Inge de Leeuw
Inge de Leeuw studied Culture Sciences in Rotterdam and Film & Television Sciences in Utrecht. Once her studies finished, she started working at the IFFR programme department for the festival’s 2006 edition combined with working in film production. In 2010 and 2011, she worked as assistant programmer and producer of commissioned works in the ‘Where is Africa?’ section. For IFFR 2011, she compiled the ‘Out of Fashion’ programme on film and fashion – a programme that was also shown in Maastricht, Saint Petersburg and Sao Paolo, and will shortly be travelling to Moscow. She writes about film and technology for the Creators Project.
Inge de Leeuw will be selecting films for the IFFR from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand as well as for the Tiger Awards Competition.
Contact: i.deleeuw@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
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Bianca Taal
After finishing her Film and Television Studies at the University of Utrecht, Bianca Taal started working with the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2001 as a staff member of the Hubert Bals Fund and the CineMart. From 2005 - 2007 Bianca was co-Head of the CineMart. Consecutively Bianca has been director of the Hubert Bals Fund from 2007 - 2009.
From 2009 - November 2011, Bianca worked as Head of Programmes at the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam. Bianca was an advisor on the Committee Feature Fiction Film of the Dutch Film Fund from 2006 - 2010.
Bianca will oversee the 2012 selection of feature length films from Greece, Turkey, Israel, Iran and the Arab world. Furthermore she is a member of the CineMart selection committee.
Contact: b.taal@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
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Gerwin Tamsma
Gerwin Tamsma is responsible for programming Rotterdam’s feature films from China and Korea, Latin America and - in Europe - Belgium, Scandinavia, Italy, Spain and Portugal. He coordinates the ‘Bright Future’ section. He is part of the selection committee for the Tiger Awards competition, as well as the committee of the Hubert Bals Fund. He has curated retrospectives as well as special programs for the festival.
Contact: g.tamsma@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
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Rutger Wolfson
Rutger Wolfson (1969) studied Art and Culture at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. From 1996 to 1999 he was curator of Witte de With, centre for contemporary art in Rotterdam and compiled exhibitions and (co-)produced music, theatre and dance projects. Since 2000, Wolfson has been director of the Stichting Beeldende Kunst Middelburg (De Vleeshal). He has compiled several renowned exhibitions about the boundaries of the visual arts and other art forms. Further he has been a member of advisory commissions for the Mondrian Foundation, for the Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture and for the Dutch Film Fund. Wolfson compiled and introduced the anthologies ‘Kunst in crisis’ (Art in Crisis, 2003) and ‘Nieuwe symbolen voor Nederland’ (New Symbols for the Netherlands, 2005). In August 2007, Wolfson published the essay ‘Museum als plek voor ideeën’ (The Museum as Space for Ideas). From 2004 until 2007, when he was appointed director of the 37th festival edition, he was a member of the board of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
September 2007, the Board of the International Film Festival Rotterdam appointed Rutger Wolfson as festival director to arrange the organisation and artistic substance for the 2008 festival edition. March 2008, the Board of the International Film Festival Rotterdam appointed Rutger Wolfson as festival director for a period of four years as general director of the festival organisation. In this function, Wolfson has the final responsibility for the artistic and business matters of the festival, the CineMart and the Hubert Bals Fund. Wolfson is Chair of the board of programmers and heads the selection committee of the Tiger Awards Competition.
Contact: tiger@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
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Gertjan Zuilhof
Gertjan Zuilhof (1955) is a Dutchman from above the big rivers. In Holland this means you are quite likely touched by the Protestant tradition. On the other hand he is from a generation that was more than touched by Provo (typical Dutch version of sixties Dada). He was educated as a fine art master and finished his studies of Art History in Leiden (the town the young Rembrandt left for Amsterdam). For quite some time he wrote film criticism for the cinema monthly Skrien and the cultural-political weekly De Groene Amsterdammer. Now already for more than a decade he works as a programmer for the International Film Festival Rotterdam. He is making contributions to the general program and develops also more special thematic programs.
Gertjan coordinates the 'Spectrum' section, selects films from North and Southeast Asia (excluding China and Korea), Central and Southern Africa and for the Tiger Awards Competition. He is also part of the selection committee of the Hubert Bals Fund.
Contact: g.zuilhof@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
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