BHFF™ Jury Awards

BHFF is proud to announce introduction of three prestigious honors awarded to the most outstanding films screened at the BHFF 2012 by selection of the official BHFF 2012 Jury. Members of the BHFF Jury are accomplished and recognized members from Bosnian and American cultural, film and art community who have significantly contributed to the Bosnian-Herzegovinian film industry and culture in general.

Official BHFF2012 Jury Members are:


Refik Hodžić


Refik Hodzic has worked as a journalist, filmmaker and communications specialist in the field of transitional justice. Currently, he serves as the director of communications for the International Center for Transitional Justice. He worked in various capacities at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia. He also headed the public information and outreach section of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2004, Hodzic co-founded XY Films, an independent film and television production company producing documentaryfilms dealing with the legacy of war crimes committed during the 1990s. Hiswork includes Statement 710399 and Justice Unseen, award-winning documentaries produced by XY Films.

Aleksandar Hemon


Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-American fiction writer. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation. He is the editor of several Best European Fiction anthologies (Dalkey Archives) and the author of The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, The Lazarus Project, and Love and Obstacles. His collection of auto-biographical essays, The Book of My Lives, is forthcoming from Farrar Straus and Giroux in fall 2012. He is at work on his next novel.
Steve Nemsick

Steve Nemsick is an award winning filmmaker with ten years of experience making documentaries and editing television shows. In 2007, Pray For Me, The Jason Jessee Film, won numerous awards including Best Emerging Filmmaker (X-Dance). The 2010 film, Much Ado In Mostar, won Best Documentary at the2011 Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival in New York. A wide variety of projects has lead to Steve filming from the back of a chopper in Tokyo at 125mph, to a community that lives in a Mexican garbage dump, to a white power bbq in Australia. In between films, Nemsick has edited dozens of tv shows. He is currently making a series of short films about quintessential New Yorkers.

BHFF 2012 Jury will award following honors to the most outstanding films:

BHFF™ 2012 Jury Award for Best Documentary Film
BHFF™ 2012 Jury Award for Best Short or Animated Film
BHFF™ 2012 Jury Award for Best Feature Film


Films eligible for the Jury Award in 2012 are all those screened at the BHFF 2012 that were produced during 2012, 2011 or 2010. All winning films will be presented with “The Golden Apple” award.


BHFF™ Audience Award

BHFF™ Audience Awards were first introduced at the BHFF in 2006. For 5 years BHFF nominated films for the BHFF Audience Awards in categories Documentary, Short or Feature Films. We are pleased to continue to present the award today.  As of 2012 BHFF will award

BHFF™ 2012 Audience Award for Best Picture

in any category presented to a film that is selected as an outstanding by the audience members.

Films eligible for the Audience Award in 2012 are all those screened at the BHFF™ 2012 that were produced during 2012, 2011 or 2010. The winning film will be presented with “The Golden Apple” award.


Nominees and Winners: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011