Meet Our Jury 2011

Margarita Jimeno

Hailing from Columbia, Margarita Jimeno is a New York City based director and scriptwriter whose works reflect her passion for music and the peculiarities in life. Jimeno is also the founder of Hoptza and Güespa Films, and her resume includes both music videos and feature films. Margarita Jimeno won the MusiXine Main Award 2009 with her film Gogol Bordello Non-Stop.

Petri Varis

Petri Varis has produced the Rokumentti Rock Film Festival in Joensuu, Finland for five years. During the time, Varis has presented to the Eastern Finnish audience a couple of hundred films which have treated a wide range of subjects from music to church arsons and porn business. He has also worked among the public relations and international matters at one of the well-known Finnish rock festivals Ilosaarirock, and hustled in a few European Union funded projects. In his spare time, Varis likes to stare into the distance thinking what the heck is going on.

Janne Nyyssönen

Janne Nyyssönen is a writing journalist, TV columnist and music critic specialized in metal and hard rock. Working at the newspaper Kaleva, Nyyssönen is a fully addicted rock music consumer, jogger and winter bicyclist. Nyyssönen appears also in the grave rows of the world-famous Oulu-based male choir The Screaming Men, for which he is also mentioned in the Internet Movie Database.