Jury of STEPS 2008 Film Festival

1. The head of the jury – Arcadiy Filatov. Member of the Writers’ Union of Ukraine. Member of board of Kharkov branch. He has more than half a century experience in literature. Through this period he has published dozens of poetry books, among them there are: “Words”, “Snow, Wind”, “Elena”, “Pray”, “Retro”, “Aftermath”, “Twilight”, “From Apostles”, “Devils-Menologies”, “Tomorrow” etc., short stories and a novel “Horseradish in the village”. Laureate of the first Moscow film festival of youth – Award for the best script. Laureate of international and municipal awards in journalism and literature. His works have been translated into many languages. He’s also been a script wrighter of:
• 4-episode film “A house at the quay” (2007);
• 12-episode film “Mister Boss-2” (2005);
• 8-episode film “Detectives-5” (2003);
• 12-episode film “Chess master” (2001);
• feature film “Yanovskiy forest” (1985);
• feature film “House of a poet” (1983);
• feature films “No evidence”, “Clear case” (1981);
• feature film “Great Samoyed” (1980);

2. Valeriy Lovchanovskiy – rights activist, Ukraine

3. Ilona Gonsovskaya – artist, Latvia

4. Konstantin Sabinin – rights activist, Russia

5. Sergey Otvodenko – poet, Ukraine

6. Edward Kuskovskiy – actor, USA