Jury #3
Bea „Lugosi“ Festerling
Born in 1970 in Wasserburg am Inn. After school, she gave up her studies in wood technology to organize punk concerts. As this proved to be unprofitable work, she began working in the editing room at the age of 21. She learned her craft on 16mm and 35mm editing tables. Today she works as a VFX and assistant editor (“Kung Fury: The Movie”, “Bang Boom Bang”), edits and produces genre films (“Levizia”, “Thirty2”), and is a founding member of the cooperative film distributor Drop-out Cinema. In her spare time, she runs the curious film club “Hardboiled” and the “Punk’n’Roll flea market” at the Backstage Munich and is a volunteer with the marine conservation organization Sea Shepherd.
Benedikt Guntentaler
studied Philosophy and Theatre Studies at LMU Munich for his bachelor’s degree, with a focus on an aesthetic formal analysis of the early Søren Kierkegaard. He is currently pursuing a double master’s degree at the same university in Film and Media Culture Studies and Literary Studies. Since 2024, he has been writing as a film and theatre critic for the online magazine artechock, contributing festival reports as well as the podcast “Das Filmquartett”. In addition, he jointly runs LMU’s student cinema, “ukino”, and in 2025 was active as a curator for the Young People’s Choice segment of the international film festival UNDERDOX.
Manuel Magno
Born in the early 1980s, the German-Portuguese spent his childhood and youth in front of the television and cinema screen. Films such as Poltergeist, Gremlins and A Nightmare on Elm Street sparked his passion for horror and genre films at an early age. Over the years, his film collection on various media (VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray) grew alongside his music collection, which comprises the most important possessions for the trained drummer.
After studying journalism, Manu wanted to express his passion for film publicly. Contributions to his blog manumeint.de enabled him to join the editorial team of ‘Deadline – Das Filmmagazin’. But he also wanted to be in front of the camera. Since 2016, he has been publishing reviews of current, crude and strange genre films over the YouTube channel ‘Filmfressen’ alongside his best friend Peter – and he does the editing. Since mid-2019, the two film buffs have been processing what doesn’t make it into a video in the podcast ‘Cine:viel’.
