The main jury at Mezipatry evaluates the films in the main competition and awards the Prize for the best feature film. Feminist icon Mahide Lein, Culture Manager and DOTYk co-founder Anna Lok and Executive Director of One World festival Lenka Lovicarová will sit in the jury of the 22nd Mezipatra.
Mahide Lein
Mahide is a Cultural Manager, Organizer, Archivist of Läsbisch-TV, LGBTQI-Activist. The lesbian feminist connects stars and starlets with all kinds of art, cultures, ages and lifestyles. With her concert & event agency AHOI, she has been building bridges between art, culture, social engagement and cross-border issues. Among many other projects, she founded in 1991 the 1st Lesbian TV magazine on this planet. Together with others she produced the 1st CSD in 1992 and the 1st lesbian and gay film festival 1994 in Russia. She has been accompanying the TEDDY Award at the Berlinale for 30 years and worked at the 47th Lesbian festival LFT2021. Together we let the dreams come true – Rock Your Life!
Ana Lok
Ana Lok is a curator, culture manager, and organizer who lives and works in Minsk, Belarus. She focuses on long-term curatorial projects on the topic of community, horizontal communication, self-care, queerness, memories, and care as (r)evaluation in a post-soviet context. She is the co-founder of artivist group ‘Chascha’, an art-retreat program for ac(r)tivists in Belarus, and co-founder of the festival of queer culture ‘DOTYK’.
Lenka Lovicarová
Lenka Lovicarová is the Executive Director of the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, where she has been working since 2005. She has devoted much of her work to the development, support and coordination of One World in regions. Lenka shared her work experience in the form of workshops with partner human rights festivals around the world, including Georgia, Burkina Faso and Nicaragua. For several years, she participated in the organization of the Pavel Koutecký Award. She is also a co-founder of the GaP / Galerie a Prostor contemporary art gallery in her native Znojmo.
