Meet the Short Film Festivals

Enrico Vannucci mainly works as a short film advisor for the Venice Film Festival and as a short film programmer for the Torino Short Film Market. He has worked on film festival programming teams since 2010. In recent years, he has written essays on the short and feature film festival ecosystem and has covered major film festivals as a journalist since 2009. In August 2018, he co-founded Varicoloured, a holistic film agency, together with Carla Vulpiani.

Jukka-Pekka Laakso is has been the festival director of the Tampere Film Festival since 2002. He also acts as the executive director for Pirkanmaa Film Centre, a non-profit organisation that runs an arthouse cinema, distributes films in Finland and works in media education.

Julie Rousson holds a master’s degree in cultural project production. After working on projects at the Short Film Market, she permanently joined Sauve Qui Peut le Court Métrage in 2015, the association behind the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. She coordinates the industry events programme, especially Euro Connection and #SHORT, along with managing relationships with administrative institutions. She is a member of the international competition selection committee.

Sarah Schlüssel is a cultural worker and film programmer based in Berlin. At the Berlin International Film Festival, she heads the Short Form Station of Berlinale Talents and is a member of the Berlinale Shorts selection committee. She co-founded shorts/salon, a series of curated short film programmes and talks, is a film screener for New York Times Op-Docs, and a team member of Pictoplasma, a platform for contemporary character design and art.

Olivia Tay is a programmer at the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF). She studied Sociology and Film Studies at the National University of Singapore and has been involved in SGIFF since 2014, starting out in the hospitality department and moving to the programming team in 2016. She currently programmes for the Asian Vision, Cinema Today and Singapore Panorama sections and oversees film classification and traffic for the festival.