International Jury

Jan Broberg Carter
Jan Broberg Carter is a classically-trained TV and film composer/orchestrator who is an Executive Music Producer/Composer and Music Editor. She has scored 16 movies and is currently the exec.music producer/composer of an animated TV and web series,”Linear Tales.”
She has been chosen to produce and score the upcoming film project (along with architectural photographers Marilyn and Stillman Clark) in Las Vegas, Nevada—a documentary about American architect Frank Gehry– and a second documentary about the building of one of his masterpieces,”The Ruvo.”
A member of ASCAP since 1998, she is an international film festival judge in Italy, Greece, France, L.A. and N.Y. and is a member of IFP/NY, NAfTA, and the Las Vegas Musician’s Local 369.She wrote a weekly newspaper column for 2 years, “At The Movies” and was the Arts Critic for “Palascope Magazine” for 3 years. She has been a guest conductor for both symphonic and choral works in the U.S. and in Europe. She attended Dartmouth, Harvard and Oxford University and lives
in both Portland, Maine and Nova Scotia, Canada. This is her 4th year as a judge for BSFF.
She has been a member of The Sundance Patron Circle for 16 years.

Tatiana Poliektova
Tatiana Poliektova was born in St-Petersburg. Since early years she began to draw and graduated Art school. She entered University of Movies and Television in St-Petersburg and graduated the department of computer graphic and animation in 2008.She started work with her twin sister Olga as film director duo and animator.
During these years they made several short animation films (“Tomato story”, “Inspiration”, “Noise”, “I see you”, “Quagga”, “Warm
Liguria”) which took part over then in 50 worldwide festivals and earned over 20 awards. Their animation film “Noise” was first screened at Cannes Film Festival (Short Corner) in May 2012 and also at Moscow International Film Festival in June 2012. In 2013 they made animation film “Quagga” in production with Tve (television for the environmental) and Bloomberg, London.
Nowadays they are working on their new film “My Grandfather was a cherry tree”, with the support of Ministry of Culture of Russia. Film made after the book of Italian writer Angela Nanetti.

Olga Poliektova
Olga Poliektova was born in St-Petersburg. Since early years she began to draw and graduated Art school. She entered University of Movies and Television in St-Petersburg and graduated the department of computer graphic and animation in 2008. She started work with her twin sister Tatiana as film director duo and animator.
During these years they made several short animation films (“Tomato story”, “Inspiration”, “Noise”, “I see you”, “Quagga”, “Warm Liguria”) which took part over then in 50 worldwide festivals and earned over 20 awards. Their animation film “Noise” was first screened at Cannes Film Festival (Short Corner) in May 2012 and also at Moscow International Film Festival in June 2012.In 2013 they made animation film “Quagga” in production with Tve (television for the environmental) and Bloomberg, London.
Nowadays they are working on their new film “My Grandfather was a cherry tree”, with the support of Ministry of Culture of Russia. Film made after the book of Italian writer Angela Nanetti.