Jury | Competition
The members of the jury, Nick Bradshaw, Hans Hurch and Luis Miguel Oliveira, have decided to give the 2013 Play-Doc Award to Sofia´s Last Ambulance.

Sofia's Last Ambulance shows us three people doing their work in the Bulgarian capital like riders in a spaceship. By focussing exclusively on their daily routine and how they react to their challenges, it engages our imagination in the concrete problems of a society on the brink of social and economic collapse. Its delicate balance of the visible and invisible touches the heart of what cinema can do and be”.

HANS HURCH. Schärding, Austria.


From 1972 studies History of Art, Philosophy and Archaeology at the University of Vienna.

From 1976 until 1986 he was editorial journalist at the Vienna newspaper "Falter", head of cultural department, editor for music, photography and film, writes for various international newspapers.

From 1986 until 2000 collaborator and assistant director at theatre and film works from Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, "Der Tod des Empedokles" (1987), "Schwarze Sünde" (1989), "Antigone" (1992).

From 1990 until 1992 in Berlin, working together with Astrid Johanna Ofner on the documentaries "Jetzt und in alle Zeit" and "Ins Leere" (both 1993).

Since 1997 director of the VIENNALE Vienna International Film Festival.

NICK BRADSHAW. London, UK.


Nick Bradshaw is Web Editor for Sight & Sound, the British Film Institute's international film magazine.

Formerly film editor at both Time Out London and the late plan b magazine, he has also written for the Guardian online, the Independent, the Telegraph, the Times, Sunday Times, LA Weekly, the Village Voice and Vertigo, and is co-author of The DVD Stack (Canongate, 2006/07). His interests span documentary, animation, shorts, Golden Age Hollywood comedies and various kinds of experimental movies.

He is a sometime documentary filmmaker, with a MFA in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts, and an unfinished essay documentary about the derelict movie theatres of Broadway, Los Angeles, at the back of his mind. He tweets @nickkinocritic.

LUÍS MIGUEL OLIVEIRA. Tomar, Portugal.


Graduated in Social Communication by Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Since 2009 he is the Head of Programming of the Permanent Exhibition Department at the Portuguese Cinematheque, where he programs since 1993.

He also writes as a film critic for Público newspaper since 1994.