Debut Film Competition Judges

Amir Kaminer (born 1960) has devoted himself to injecting camp, cult, trash, and fringe culture into all corners of Israeli society. In addition, he is also a regular fashion and culinary writer and critic. In the year 2000, Kaminer began covering the Cannes Film Festival on a regular basis and has since become one of the figures most synonymous with the festival and he has been known to cover many other festivals all over the world on a regular basis including Venice, Berlin, Marrakesh, Rome, Karlovy Vary, Zurich, and Macau. Throughout his career, Kaminer has interviewed the industry’s top tier directors (including Robert Altman, Woody Allen, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jane Campion, Pedro Almodóvar, Roman Polanski, Ethan and Joel Coen, Quentin Tarantino, Lars von Trier, and Bernardo Bertolucci to name but a few) and sat down with some of the entertainment world’s biggest names (including Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman, Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Scarlett Johansson, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Sandra Bullock, Penelope Cruz, and many more.) This year, Kaminer was selected to be part of the limited group as a Golden Globes voter, for the Golden Globe Awards, the second most important award of the Hollywood awards season.
 

In 2012, after distribution for 20 years, Dominique Welinski founded DW, a production and consulting company. Since then, she curates and produces the Factory program at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes. She’s a consultant and pitch trainer for various workshops and labs. She did co-produce among others: Sanjeewa Pushpakumara (Sri Lanka), Alireza Khatami (Iran), Midi Z (Myanmar), Yona Rozenkier (Israel). DW is developing films in Israel, India, Greece.