Ukrainian media-manager Oleksandr Rodniansky will head the International Jury of the Fourth Odesa International Film Festival, which will be held in July.

"Oleksandr Rodniansky is a man, who knows what cinematography is as an art, as a business, as a cultural politics. He is probably the most successful producer from the former Soviet Union. He's equally good with both festival hits and blockbusters. As a man, who has found in his work the right place between art and mainstream cinema, Rodniansky is the perfect candidate for the position of the Head of OIFF International Competition Jury," OIFF President Victoria Tigipko said at a press conference in Kyiv on Monday.

Serbian film director Emir Kusturica will be the honored guest of this year's festival. During the Opening ceremony he will be awarded 'The Golden Duke' for his life-time achievement in cinema. On the opening day of the festival, July 12, Kusturica and his punk-folk band No Smoking Orchestra will give a concert on the Potemkin stairs for the festival audience and Odesa residents.

Traditionally, a huge live film performance, accompanied by the symphony orchestra, will take place on the Potemkin stairs – the screening of ‘Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans’ (1927) directed by German expressionist Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.

According to the organizers, the prize fund of the Ukrainian National Film Award of the OIFF has increased this year and will be given out in two categories: UAH 50,000 will be awarded for the best Ukrainian feature film and UAH 10,000 for the best Ukrainian short film.

The Head of the International Jury of the Ukrainian National Film Award will be British documentary filmmaker, author and curator Mark Cousins.

The festival will be attended by Dutch film director Jos Stelling, who headed the international jury of the first OIFF in 2010. The director will present his new film 'The Girl and Death', starring Renata Litvinova and Sergei Makovetsky.

Jos Stelling as well as other guests of the festival, U.S. filmmaker Roger Corman, Czech film and theatre director Jiri Menzel and Director of the Munich Film Museum Stefan Drossler will conduct workshops for the students of the OIFF Summer Film School.

The Fourth Odesa International Film Festival will last from July 12 until July 20, 2013.

The OIFF 2012 Grand-Prix (Golden Duke statuette and $15.000) went to the British director Rufus Norris for his film Broken.