Prize awarded by the JUNIORFEST, registered association:
Golden Clock Hand
Award for lifelong creative contribution to filmmaking for children and young audience.
International Expert Jury awards
the following prizes:
Festival Flap
- Best Feature Film in Children Category (5-11 years of age)
- Best Feature Film in Young Audience Category (12-16 years of age)
- Best Animated Feature Film in Children Category (5-12 years of age)
Festival Jury 2024
Bára Fišerová
Bára was born into an artistic family, her father is an artist and her mother a documentary filmmaker. As a child, she studied ballet at the National Theatre’s preparatory school, where she also stood on the stage for the first time. She became so enchanted with the theatre stage that she eventually began studying drama acting and became a member of several Prague theatre companies. Thanks to ballet, Bára appeared in front of the camera for the first time at age six. After completing her studies, she pursued a career as a theatre, film, and television actress. She has appeared in several Czech and foreign films, TV productions, fairy tales, and series. She also does moderating and dubbing and writes poems in her spare time. Bára has already published two books, which she illustrated herself and one of which she also wrote.
Susanne Finken
Susanne Finken writer for audio, screen and book, based in Cologne, Germany. Former work experience in the field of theatre and journalism, jury member in different sections of cultural film funding. The German children's movie „Zu weit weg / Too far away“, based on her script, received many prizes at various international film festivals.
Tomáš Danay
Tomáš Danay is an animator and director who studied animation at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU). He leads the animation department and works as a creative director at the Slovak studio Blue Faces. Recently, he worked as the head of animation for the animated feature film “The Siren” (directed by Sepideh Farsi), which received an award at the Annecy festival. As an animator, he has contributed to dozens of animated and live-action films, such as “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows“, “The Green Hornet“,“Xibalba“, and “Asura“. He has also worked on various games, including “NBA 2k16“, “Shadows: Awakening“, and “Die by the Blade“, as well as on commercials for brands like Orange, Billa, Chase, Voya, and TJMaxx, and music videos, including Lil Dicky's “Pillow Talking“. Additionally, he teaches 3D animation, and from 2019 to 2023, he served as the program director of the International Animated Film Festival for Children and Youth BAB (Biennale of Animation Bratislava).
International Competition of Feature Films for Young Audience – Category 10–14 years of age
Antonia Grimaldi
Born in Salerno in 1970, she studied Literature at the University of Florence. Part of her degree thesis is published in the literary review Studi Italiani, vol. II, 1998. She was a member of the Official Jury in 1983 and in 1984. From 1987 to 1997 she collaborated with GFF working on catalogues and as assistant to the deputy director on film selection. Since 1998 she has been a member of the Artistic Direction of the Giffoni Film Festival and from 2005 to 2019 she has been one of the two deputy directors. Her main activity at the festival is the selection of the short films for all the sections and of feature films dedicated to children from 3 to 12 years of age. Antonia also works on festival educational programs and lectures. Since 2014 she has been a teacher of Italian, History and Geography in public middle school. In 2016 her novel IL CLUB DEL PIUMINO ROSSO was published by the editor L’Isola dei Ragazzi.
Hilde Steenssens
Hilde Steenssens is founder and director of Filem'On, the International Film festival for Young Audiences in Belgium, which celebrates its 18th edition this year. She also curates for other film initiatives and festivals for children in Belgium. As pedagogue and youth criminologist, she is convinced of the power of art and film as intermedium to support children and young people in their growth towards world citizens! She ensures that the Filem'On festival can remain dynamic, qualitative and sustainable.
Pavel Kern
Pavel is a film and television editor. He graduated from the Miroslav Ondříček Film Academy in Písek, where he later became a lecturer and has been teaching in the editing studio since 2013. During his professional career he has edited numerous short and feature-length films. Pavel dedicated himself to music videos, with editing credits on dozens of projects. He also began specializing in reality TV format, contributing to many projects across commercial TV channels. In recent years, he has returned to filmmaking, focusing primarily on feature-length documentaries. In his spare time, he writes documentary ideas and scripts for feature films.
International Competition of Animated Feature Films for Children – Category 14–16 years of age
Alice Aronová
Film Historian, Educator, and Journalist Alice graduated from the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague (specializing in Film Studies) and received her doctorate from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts. Since 1998, she has worked as a dramaturge for film festivals. She has worked as an editor for Czech Radio 6 and Czech Television (Kinobox, Filmkompas) and contributes reviews to the program “Mosaic” on Czech Radio’s Vltava station. She works in PR for the distribution company CinemArt and Prague’s Evald cinema. She has lectured or currently lectures at the Literary Academy, the Metropolitan University in Prague, and the University of Creative Communication in Prague. Since 2017, she has been an expert for the State Cinematography Fund. As a historian, she specializes in Jewish cinema.
Chloë van Baar
Chloë van Baar (1997) was born in the Netherlands. In 2018 she graduated with a BA in Media and Culture from the University of Amsterdam and in 2020 she got her MA in Film Studies. Starting out as an intern at the programming department for the 2018 festival, Chloë has now been working as a programmer and producer for Cinekid Festival for over three years.
Michael Carrington
Born in London, Michael Carrington graduated in Animation from the Higher Vocational School of Film in Zlín in 1996. He then returned to London, where he spent a year mainly as a 2D animator at a commercial studio. Later, he focused on freelance work and teaching visual and craft subjects in a charity project for adults with various learning difficulties. In 2006, he returned to Zlín, where he became head of the Animation department at the Higher Vocational School of Film. During this time, he contributed as a stop-motion animator, designer, and co-creator on several music videos and created a short animated film “Transmorface” (commissioned by Czech Television). When the Zlín film school closed, Michael continued teaching in Prague at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), where he still teaches puppet and flat lay stop-motion animation. He worked on puppet animation for two feature films by Jan Balej and created his own short film “Waves”, using animation with backlit sand.
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