EDVINAS PUKŠTA -A programmer, film hunter, industry expert, member of the European Film Academy, festival traveller freelance reporter and always curious ci- nephile. After 15 years of programming, coordinating, scheduling for the Vilnius International Film Festival . he now watches films, scouts and advises for BLACK NIGHTS Film Festival in Tallinn from 2018. Edvinas regularly attends various international film festivals around the world since 2001. From 2018 till 2020 he was invited as Independent Expert to join for a challenging mission in the Selection Committee of the European Film Awards. First Cut Lab trusted him with two invitations as Industry Expert to share opinions on still unfinished films from Finland (in 2019) and Czech Republic (in 2021). Previously Edvinas judged short and fea- ture films as a Jury member in Cannes (CICAE Jury for QUINZAINE DES REALISATEURS), Berlin (CICAE Jury for section FORUM), Busan & Warsaw (NETPAC Juries), Wroclaw (Polish Shorts Jury), Cluj-Napoca (Romanian Shorts & Features Juries), Lodz (TRANSAT- LANTYK Jury in Polish Shorts), Bucharest, Tallinn, Minsk, Malatya, Pilsen and Varna