The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) is proud to announce that award-winning filmmaker and media executive, Pamela Hogan, will serve as a jury member during this year’s event, taking place May 21-23 at Tribeca Cinemas. Hogan will form part of a three-member jury that will award Golden Apples to the Best Feature Film, Best Short Film, and Best Documentary Film.
Pamela Hogan is Series Creator and Executive Producer of Time for School, PBS’s longitudinal mini-series following seven children from seven countries as they fight against the odds for a basic education.
She was recently Co-creator and Executive Producer of Women, War & Peace, a five-part media initiative on women’s strategic role in global conflict and peace-building. She was also Director of Episode 1, I Came to Testify, about the Bosnian women who changed international law when they testified about wartime rape for the first time in history. Seen by 12 million viewers on PBS, the films won two Overseas Press Club awards, a Television Academy Honor, and the ABA’s Silver Gavel.
Previously, Hogan was Executive Producer of PBS’s international series Wide Angle. Working closely with global filmmakers on 70 programs filmed in 50 countries, she also originated and developed Ladies First about women’s leadership in post-genocide Rwanda. The film won her an Emmy and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi for excellence in journalism.
She is currently a Board Member of the International Center for Transitional Justice and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
The call for film entries is still open; the final deadline is March 15, 2015. The BHFF committee will consider features, shorts, documentaries, and animated films by Bosnian-Herzegovinian filmmakers and films that have Bosnia-Herzegovina as their theme.
In addition to jury awards, films selected to screen at the BHFF 2015 are eligible to win the Golden Apple audience award. For more information about the submissions process and to complete the entry form, visit http://www.bhffnyc.org.
Stay tuned as we announce our second juror next month!
The BHFF is completely run by volunteers and organized by two non-for-profit organizations, the Academy of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Voice of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Inc. Those interested in sponsoring the festival should contact Denis Bešlić at denis@bhffnyc.org.
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