2004
- The Jury
The Jury 2004 consisted of :
Leo
De Bock (°1959)
was chairman of the Dirk Vandersypen Award jury. For years
he was a documentary filmmaker and jury member at numerous
festivals. Before moving to the news department he was
channel manager of Canvas and Ketnet, the second television
channel of VRT. Presently he is leading Kanakna, a TV
production company.
André
Vermeulen (°1955)
was head of the Belgian department of S.O.S. World Trade
1980 tot 1984, nowadays known as Fair Trade Organisation.
In 1984 started working as a journalist at VRT television
news department. Is 'first in line' for Latin America
there, and reports regularly on the region, in VRT
television news and in the background information programme
TerZake.
Wessel van der Hammen (°1950)
trained to be a social worker, in the meantime he started
working for television in 1972 as a production assistant
for the weekly current affairs programme KENMERK.
In 1974 he changed to sound recording, as part of a film
crew and travelled for 8 years all over the world. In Latin
America he worked a lot with correspondent Koos Koster and
the Dutch director Jan Kuiper, in countries like El
Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama and Chili. (Koster
and Kuiper were killed in 1982 together with heir cameraman
Joop Willemsen and soundrecordist Hans Terlaag in an ambush
set up the Salvadorian army for them).
In early 1982 Wessel van der Hammen changed to making
reports as a director.
From 1990 until 1996 he was editor in chief of the current
affairs weekly KENMERK for which Dirk Vandersypen did
several reports.
From 1996 until 1998 van der Hammen was fund raiser for
documentaries.
From 1998 on he was commissioning editor for the
documentary slot ‘Werelden’. For
‘Werelden’ Dirk Vandersypen produced ‘De
heksenketel’, his beautiful film about Mexico City.
Anna
Van der Wee, with
degrees in Criminology and Political and Social Sciences at
Leuven University, started her career at Leuven University
in the department of Criminology. After serving as an
attaché to the Minister of Social Affairs and Culture of
the Brussels Region, she became a journalist. She reported
on social and cultural issues for various magazines around
the world such as Playboy, Humo, Intermediair and New Art
in Europe. Her books include 'Growing in Life - Time' and a
self-help manual on ageing. Van der Wee now heads Wild
Heart Productions in Brussels, Belgium, an audiovisual
production company she founded in 1994 in Montreal, Canada.
She is an accomplished multi-award winning director and
producer. Her documentaries include 'The dead are Alive.
Rwanda, an eyewitness account’. 'Power of the North',
'Seeing is Believing', ‘The Man who wanted to
classify the World'.
Between 1997 and 2001 Van der Wee was the Series Editor for
a monthly 30-minute television magazine that Wild Heart
Productions produced together with UK-based Worldwide
Pictures for the European Commission. The magazine series
was distributed to broadcasters in 170 countries.
Frans Lefever (°1946)
was born in Belgium, Poperinge and lives now in the centre
of Brussels. He studied languages and philosophy at the
Catholic University of Leuven. Since 1971 he works at VRT
(Flemish Radio and Television), first as a cultural
journalist at Radio 1, and since 1978 he works for the
Flemish Television. He is responsible for the purchase of
foreign productions, e.g. feature films, documentaries,
short films and co-productions.
