as the central location for the “Summer Film School.” Master classes this year were taught by many guests of the festival including John Malkovich, Otar Iosseliani, Vadim Perelman, Sergei Solovyov, Nana Jorjadze, Alexander Mitta, Valeriy Todorovskiy, Jerzy Stuhr, Maria de Medeiros, American screen-writing and directing consultant Mark Travis, and others. In the second year of the festival, a project called “Screen-writers Workshop” was added to the Summer Film School. This project included intensive and highly personalized seminars for a select group of screenwriters whose works were selected in a screen-play contest. The second Odesa Film Festival also included two new professionally geared events – The Film-market and the pitching of film projects. The Grand Prix of the festival went to the French Film -"Tomboy" written and directed by Celine Sciamma. At the closing ceremony, The Golden Duke statue was accepted on behalf of the filmmaker by Sophie Cattani who played one of the lead roles in the film. On the very last day of the festival it received the great honor of being recognized by a well-known, international journalistic association – the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) who are responsible for awarding the Golden Globes. Hollywood Foreign Press member Gabriel Lerman presented the festival with a sign of this recognition. Jury Main Jury of the Odesa Film Festival: Jerzy Stuhr – Jury chairman, actor, director, Poland Maria de Medeiros – actress, director, singer, Portugal Ada Rogovtseva - actress, Ukraine Valery Todorovsky – Director, producer, Russia Klaus Eder – Film critic, Germany International Federation of Film societes Jury: Andrey Alferov, Ukraine João Paulo Macedo, Portugal Raivo Olmet, Estonia Ukrainian Laboratory Jury: Nana Dzhordzhadze, director, Georgia Virginie Devesa, producer, France Sergey Chliyants, producer, Russia Dmytro Sholudko, Head of Board of Directors, Odesa Cognac Factory (Shustov TM), Ukraine Jury of Ukrainian critics: Alex Pershko - editor in chief of cinema portal kino-teatr.ua, Ukraine; Irina Gordeychuk - film critic and television presenter, Ukraine; Valery Baranovsky - film expert, member of the Odesa branch of the National Union of Cinematographers, Ukraine. Jury of projects pitching: Katerina Kopylova – The head of the state film agency, Ukraine Vadim Perelman - film director, US Vladimir Voitenko - film critic and broadcaster, Ukraine Simone Baumann - film expert from German Films agency, German Vlad Ryashin - producer, Ukraine Waldemar Dziki - producer, Poland Valery Kodetsky - CEO of UDP company, Ukraine Competitive program Competition program Odesa IFF 2011