Judges

Gennady Grutsya

President of the Center of Underwater Photographers of Russia

Instructor of PADI and CMAS

Instructor of the underwater photography PADI and CMAS ***

Member of the Journalists Society of RF

President of the Film Festival

Kirill Modylevsky

Dear Friends!

How are underwater films shot? The same way as others-hard, routinely, diligently. Day after day, dive after dive, you have been shoot for dozen of hours of material swearing at low visibility and at disobedient «actors» to make a FILM in several months.

Thank so much to the authors who entrusted their works and hearts to our festival!

Vadim Zverev

Professional photographer, changed your favorite hobby into the wonderful art.

Author of the famous illustrated book - "Terra Aquatica".

Laureate of the international festivals.

Chief of the Jury

Andrey Makarevich

Poet, composer, TV- producer.

Diver for more than 30 years.

The author and the leader of the TV program «Andrey Makarevich’s Underwater World».

Vladimir Gudzev

Instructor of the underwater photography

CMAS* Underwater photo consultant and teacher of his own Author's program.

Constructor and worker out of the exclusive photo&video shooting systems and also depth shooting systems.

Vyacheslav Sachkov

Director-Operator,

Honored Figure of Arts of the RF,

Member of Cinematography Society RF,

Director-operator of the following films: «The murder of emperor. Versions», «Seventh anniversary of USSR», «Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Life without lie».

Vladimir Neskoromnyi

Editor-in-Chief of the «Foto&Video» Magazine (from 2004 year). Graduated the Journalist faculty of the MGU of M.V. Lomonosov.

Hi doesn’t divide the press into specializations. Thinking that any kind of journalistic area can be professional or not.

The photo art is valued for its specific language which could be shown only.

Andrey Skiba

Senior manager of «Sony Electronics» company. Head of «Sony Academy» and «Sony Digital Workshop» projects. Advanced diver with more 10 years experience in underwater and sports video filming.

Vladimir Vyatkin

Special press photographer of the Directorate of Photo information of RAMI «RIA NEWS»

The teacher of photojournalism in MSU named I.V. Lomonosov

Member of Alliance of Journalists in Russia

Academic of International Guide of Press Photographers in Communication Media

Alexander Rybin

Director-Operator,

Senior Lecturer, the Dean for Operator’s Department at the RSIC.

Winner of the State Award of Russian Federation.

Honored Figure of Arts of the Russian Federation.

Aleksandr Evteev

President of the Creative Union «Photo Art»

Publisher of the magazine «Photo panorama»

Head of the course «Photography» in MSIEM (Moscow State Institute on Electronic and Mathematics)

Professor of the Institute of Journalism and Literary work

Igor Dvinyaninov

Artist –Producer,

Director, Chief of the course «Underwater shooting» of the Operator’s Department at the RSIC, instructor- consultant of U/W photo-video shooting course- Chair «Theory and policy of applied and extreme kinds of sport» RSUPT. Professor of High school of television