Every film and screenplay submitted to TMFF is watched and voted on by our jury of filmmakers, writers and critics.

  • Andrei Florescu

    Founder

    Andrei Florescu is an award-winning director, screenwriter, and film festival founder who graduated in Film & Television from the University of Glasgow in 2016. His films have screened at international festivals, including Cannes and BAFTA-qualifying competitions, with his latest short acquired by ShortsTV, reaching over 100 million households worldwide. He is the founder of TMFF – The Monthly Film Festival, two other international film festivals, and The Golden Script Competition, one of the world’s leading international screenwriting competitions, connecting emerging writers with Oscar-winning industry professionals. His screenwriting work has also received multiple awards and nominations.

  • Benjamin Rider

    Film director, writer and cinematographer

    Benjamin Rider was born in Harare, Zimbabwe. At the age of three, he moved to South Africa for a year, and then to Israel for most of his childhood before moving to London (UK). He now lives in Hampshire (UK) and has recently become the new Festival Director of the nearly 20-year-old Maverick Movie Awards. His recent feature film releases include Our Little Haven (distributed by Bayview Entertainment) and People in Landscape, featuring Gina Gershon and Oscar nominee Eric Roberts (distributed by Summer Hill Films).

  • Alex Mill

    Film producer and director

    Alex Mill has her background in photography and editing. She spent years in a drama group during high school and has been directing short films since the age of 15. She currently works in London, United Kingdom, as an assistant director and producer, and has been involved in projects such as Justice League, Transformers: The Last Knight and Tomb Raider. As a recurring theme, Alex often brings the troubles of obsessed minds to the screen, much like in her first feature, The Immovables.

  • Marie Vandelannoote

    Director, screenwriter and producer

    Marie Vandelannoote is a self-taught director, screenwriter, editor, producer and former radio host. Very early, her love for films led her to spend all her time in video rental stores, where she discovered every possible movie genre, from old classics to horror. She began her career at the age of 16 at a radio station in Lyon (France), where she started to write horror stories. Since then she has written for a French television series, for adventure and horror video games, and horror short stories for literary magazines in France and Quebec. Since 2016, she has written, produced, edited and directed all her short films, starting with the fantasy drama “The End of the Movie”, which was a success and won several awards. A fan of horror and gothic stories, she later shot “The Shroud”, a 30-minute short that confirmed her success by winning awards at festivals around the globe. Her latest short drama, “Funeral”, explores another genre. She is working on the feature version of “The Shroud”, to be shot in Canada.

  • Ciprian Iacob

    Composer

    Ciprian Iacob is a highly talented creative mind and music coordinator, established as a film music composer, with experience gained through numerous projects in Romania, the UK, France and the US. His collaborations include a centre-stage performance in The Masterpiece event-concert in 2014, a project involving top industry names such as Hans Zimmer, Thomas Bergersen and Uyanga Bold. Driven by a deep and passionate love for what he does, Ciprian is a constantly evolving musician, with the ambition of one day becoming an important influence on the next generations of composers working in film music.

  • Rafael Rodriguez

    Screenwriter and critic

    Rafael Rodriguez is a lawyer of South American origin, as well as a screenwriter, critic, novelist and cinephile. He has been involved in several indie projects, both from the inside as a short film scriptwriter and from the outside as an analyst and consultant. His legal background makes him objective and detail-oriented, while his love for the seventh art makes him passionate and dedicated.

  • Andrei C. Serban

    Writer and critic

    Andrei C. Serban has a PhD in poetry from the University of Sibiu (Romania). He is a literary critic and the author of a volume of poetry, and discovered his great passion for theatre and film during his college years. He is one of the official reviewers of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, while his growing interest in cinema and the visual arts has resulted in several articles published in academic journals, along with experience in film and screenplay reviewing. He has collaborated with the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF) as a local organiser and host, leading a series of discussions with invited actors and directors.

  • Julian A. Leu

    Screenwriter, critic and marketeer

    Julian A. Leu has been passionate about stories and films since he was a kid, and could operate a VCR before he mastered talking. He later discovered his passion for putting words on paper, writing and adapting several plays in high school as part of the theatre club. His academic career took him in a different direction – a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of Glasgow and a Master’s degree in the same field from Maastricht University – but his inclination toward the film industry never faltered. Julian became an award-winning screenwriter, with “Best Screenplay” prizes from festivals in Italy, Russia and Venezuela, as well as nominations from competitions in Israel and Peru. Now based in the Netherlands, Julian is fascinated by creative approaches to storytelling, non-conventional filmmaking and intertextuality.