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Jos Horemans (Belgium)
Journalist and film critic, Horemans finished a training course for teachers and holds a degree in psychology. He worked as a teacher, and later director of the Catholic education of the Antwerp Diocese. Horemans is a member of the Katholiek Filmliga (now Film Magie) since 1968, the President of this association as well as its regional committee in Antwerp since 1993. He has been contributing to film magazines as an independent journalist for 30 years. Horemans is the President of SIGNIS - Europe since June 2005. He is also a member to the Ecumenical Jury at the Locarno, Montreal and Cannes festivals.

Denyse Muller (France)
Muller is the Pastor of Reformed Church of France and of the Protestant Church of Geneva. Spending her childhood in Cannes, and getting a university education in pedagogy and humanities, Muller graduated from the Protestant Theological University in Montpellier (France) and the Protestant Theological University in Chicago and Richmond (USA). She worked as a minister in different parishes in USA, France and Switzerland. Muller is a member of PRO-FIL (France), the WACC and the Vice-President of INTERFILM. An INTERFILM delegate, Muller has been organizing the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Festival with the SIGNIS since 2000. Muller is also a member of the Ecumenical Jury at the Locarno, Berlin, Montreal and Cannes festivals.

Reverend Father Gevorg Saroyan (Armenia).
Born 1977, in the town of Masis, Saroyan is a graduate of the Gevorkian Seminary of Holy Etchmiadzin. He studied English and Psychology at the Concordia College (USA). Saroyan received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Theology from the University of Leeds and the Oxford University in Great Britain respectively. Saroyan is the Dean of the Vaskenian Seminary.