Jury
MICHAEL CHANAN
England
President of the Jury
Documentary Film-Maker, Writer and Teacher
Professor of Film & Video at Roehampton University, London. Documentary fi lm-maker, and author, editor and translator of books and articles on film and media (including early cinema and Cuban cinema), and the social history of music (including the history of recording). Visiting Professor, Duke University, North Carolina, Fall 2000, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2002-2007.
He studied Sociology at Mexico Autonomous National University (UNAM) and in parallel joined the university film club. Subsequently, he worked on the National Programme for Cultural Promotion - in the Film Department of the Secretariat of Public Education (1980-1984).
In 1985, he joined the area of programming of the Department of Cinematographic Activities of UNAM, which joined with Filmoteca to become the current General Directorate of Cinematographic Activities, Head of Programming in 1989-1995. Head of Programming
and International Events of the National Film Archive in 1995-1997. Assistant Director of National Distribution and International Promotion at the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE) between 1998 and 2001.
He has coordinated and collaborated for film publications and has attended the Film Festivals in Mexico and abroad since 1982. Director of Programming at the International Film Festivals of Mazatlán in 2001 and Acapulco from 2005 to 2007. He collaborates in the Programming of the Latin Festival in Vancouver, Canada and the Festival of Memory in Tepoztlán. Morelos, Mexico. He is currently working on an independent research project on Mexican Documentary Cinema and is the coordinator of image for the cultural TV series, "Box Populi", which is transmitted via Channel 22.
Born in Barrancabermeja, Colombia. Since the 1970s, he has been linked with working groups related with the theatre, audiovisuals and musicals. He studied sociology, history and cinematographic aesthetics, scriptwriting and creations of audiovisuals with children. He has coordinated many international cinema activities, taught workshops and given seminars. He has founded film clubs and film festivals. He has been an invited speaker for a range of public and private institutions in a number of countries and has been a member of the jury at international festivals.
Since 1993, he has settled in Spain and since 2001, he has worked in the film archive of AECID, the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. He is currently an advisor to film festivals in Europe and Latin America and supports an Intercontinental Audiovisual Platform.
President of the Jury, scriptwriter and author
Self-taught, between 1962 and 1970 she worked in technical and artistic areas on the readio, in the press, theatre, cinema and television. From 1970 onwards, her activity focussed on scriptwriting and novels and she also collaborated in the promotion of the audiovisual medium in Latin America and was a teacher. She also founded the production company, «Brothers & Sisters», with which she produced the film Salvajes by Carlos Molinero, for the script of which she obtained the Goya Prize for the Best Adapted Script.
She has written numerous radio scripts for such programmes as Con los ojos cerrados (1972-1973), a daily literatura programme; diario Verso a verso, another daily programme, devoted to poetry, which was broadcast between 1974 and 1977 and, in the eighties, she wrote the script for Cuentos de amor y magia, a programme for broadcasting oral folklore, and for a dramatic series Diario de la luna, in 1984. For television, her work on literature slots and also fi ction stand out. She has written for editions of Serie rosa and Sesame Street. For the theatre, she has adapted classics such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams, in 1984 and Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, premiered in 1993.
As a novelist, she published El crimen de Cuenca in 1979, based on her script for the film of the same name by Pilar Miró and the trilogy El Olivar de Atocha (1988) which tells the story of a family in Madrid in the first third of the 20th Century up to the outbreak of the Civil War and which was subsequently adapted by herself as a script for a series of twenty-six instalments broadcast in 1989 by Televisión Española.
Among the scripts that she has written for cinema apart from El Crimen de Cuenca, those for the films of the director Jaime Chávarri Bearn o la sala de las muñecas (1982), Las bicicletas son para el verano (1984) -which is an adaptation of the play of the same name by Fernando Fernán Gómez- and Tierno verano de lujurias y azoteas, 1993, stand out.
Director and Scriptwriter
The fi lm-maker, Rosa Vergés, is the director of the great audiovisual work which is projected onto a large wides-Jury for the National and First Film Competitions creen at the end of the display route. The projection shows water as the source of artistic inspiration, whether musical, literary or pictorial.
Rosa Vergés is a History of Art graduate from the University of Barcelona and the Sorbonne. She is a director and scriptwriter of the full-length films Boom, boom.(Goya Prize for the best fi rst work), Souvenir, Tic tac (children's film which formed part of Selection 8 Films around the world at the Lincoln Center in New York in 1998) and Iris. In 1988, she received the City of Barcelona prize for Audiovisuals .
She has directed the documentaries, El pavelló de la República (Generalitat de Catalunya Prize), Barcelona, negatif et positif, Alberti, un poeta en la calle and De Granada a la Luna, as part of the centenary of the birth of García Lorca. For television, she has created such series as Para qué sirve un marido (TVE) and the European Histoires de famille: Maresme (ARTE, TV3).
This film-maker was responsible for the artistic direction of the arrival ceremony of the Olympic torch (Ampurias, 1992); the virtual show, Barcelonas; the musical, Fes córrer la veu, at L'Auditori de Música in Barcelona; Raixa and Caloma by Maria del Mar Bonet, at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya; the multi-disciplinary show A propósito de Bola de Nieve, with Jordi Sabatés, and Mari Catúfols, among other works.
Rosa Vergés was the vice-Chairwoman of the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AACC) from 1994 to 1998.
She currently teaches at Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Universidad Ramon Llull, Universidad Menéndez y Pelayo (FIA) and the Projecte school, and is a delegate of the Fundación ESCAC (Catalonian School of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts).
Assistant head of the Foundation for Audiovisual Research since 2002. She has organised courses and seminars on cinema and scripts for more than fifteen years. She has coordinated training programmes for the development of European Union projects and the First Cinema Encounter: Solidarity and Cultural Diversity. She is a Judge for the SGAE Julio Alejandro Script Prize and of the Bancaja Prize for shorts. She was responsible for the development of shorts in Burkina Faso in collaboration with the FESPACO Film Festival. She was responsible for the publication of the first RTVV catalogue of television films. She is on the selection committee for projects for the Institute of Audiovisual Project Development (IDEA) of the Foundation for Audiovisual Research.
She coordinates the activities of the IDEA Network, a platform which brings together institutions, film-makers, experts and specialist trainers from different countries of Latin America so as to improve co-productions between their film industries.
He is a graduate in Information Sciences from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid (1991). He has worked for the last seventeen years on directorial teams for fulllength films; as a scriptwriter; director; producer; photographer; essayist, film collaborator and cultural manager. He has been the head of Audiovisual Production for the Canary Islands Government. He drew up the first Law of the Audiovisual in the Canary Islands, organised the first public subsidies for cinema in the Canary Islands and organised the first training workshops in cinematography in the Canary Islands with the European Union.
Since 2003, he has been a collaborator with the daily, El País. His articles have appeared in the daily newspaper and El País Semanal. He has published in the Herald Tribune. He has also been a film critic and a film writer in the local press. He was a member of the Advisory Commission on Audiovisual Arts of the Canary Islands Government and is a member of the Advisory and Selection Committee of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival. He has programmed and coordinated the Canarian Forum section of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival since 2001. He is the author of the biography, Andrés Santana, El vuelo de la cometa (T&B Editores, Madrid, 2003) and of the essay, Espectadores al sol, on film and tourism (Fundación César Manrique, Lanzarote, 2004). He currently has another three essays on fi lm pending publication and he is writing a biography of Francisco Melo Sansó.
He is producer and co-director of the video-creation, A Meager Canary Beach (Una exigua playa canaria, 2005), which represented the Canary Islands at the Spanish pavilion at the Second International Architecture Biennial in Rotterdam (2005) and was projected at the Centre of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (CCCB). He is the head of the project, Salvar La Memoria: 50 años de "Tirma" and Moby Dick (2005-2007) and of the Film Section of the Literary Club in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Documentary director, journalist, researcher and Cuban teacher. He was born in the city of Matanzas, Cuba in 1950. He graduated in Journalism from the University of Havana in 1974. That same year he joined the Cuban Art and Film Industry Institute, first as an assistant director to Santiago Álvarez, Rolando Diaz, Fernando Pérez and Daniel Díaz Torres and subsequently, as the producer of the ICAIC newsreel, with over one hundred editions handled. His reports on Cuban reality are characterized by their critical sense and the use of humour and satire. Among his honours, the most important are: The Caracol Prize at the 3rd Festival of Cinema, Radio and Television at UNEAC, in 1986. The Cinema Prize in 1987, 1988 and 1990 in the 26th July competition of the UPEC. Specialist Critics Prize in 1988.National José Martí Prize to those responsible for the ICAIC Newsreel. Mention of the Jury for his documentary, ¿Perdedores?, Co-directed with Santiago Álvarez at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, in 1991. With this film, he also obtained recognition from the International Olympic Committee at the Festival of Sports Cinema in Jaca, Spain. He has taught workshops such as "Journalism on the basis of cinematographic research" in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and "Humorous photography" in Corunna. He has done work in research such as "Canarias en la filmografía Canarias" and "El humor en la publicidad" (Humour in Advertising). He has been a jury member in the PortoCartoon humorous drawings competitions in Oporto, Portugal, and of the Curuxas Prizes, granted by the Fene Museum of Humour. He has lived in Corunna, Galicia, since 2000 and is a contributor to the Galician newspaper, A Peneira and Siglo 21, a Latin daily published in Boston, United States.
Was born in Guía de Isora on 6th February 1961 In 1985, he obtained his degree in Geography and History from the University of La Laguna. In 1988-1989, he was selected by INEM and he was the director of the Restoration School-Workshop in Guía de Isora.
From 1989 to the present, he has worked as the Culture Coordinator in the Department of Education, Culture and Citizen Participation of the Guía de Isora Local Authority.
JURY OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION. FULL-LENGTH FILMS AND SHORTS
MICHAEL CHANAN
England
President of the Jury
Documentary Film-Maker, Writer and Teacher
Professor of Film & Video at Roehampton University, London. Documentary fi lm-maker, and author, editor and translator of books and articles on film and media (including early cinema and Cuban cinema), and the social history of music (including the history of recording). Visiting Professor, Duke University, North Carolina, Fall 2000, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2002-2007.
MOISÉS JIMÉNEZ GARCÍA
Mexico
Mexico
He studied Sociology at Mexico Autonomous National University (UNAM) and in parallel joined the university film club. Subsequently, he worked on the National Programme for Cultural Promotion - in the Film Department of the Secretariat of Public Education (1980-1984).
In 1985, he joined the area of programming of the Department of Cinematographic Activities of UNAM, which joined with Filmoteca to become the current General Directorate of Cinematographic Activities, Head of Programming in 1989-1995. Head of Programming
and International Events of the National Film Archive in 1995-1997. Assistant Director of National Distribution and International Promotion at the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE) between 1998 and 2001.
He has coordinated and collaborated for film publications and has attended the Film Festivals in Mexico and abroad since 1982. Director of Programming at the International Film Festivals of Mazatlán in 2001 and Acapulco from 2005 to 2007. He collaborates in the Programming of the Latin Festival in Vancouver, Canada and the Festival of Memory in Tepoztlán. Morelos, Mexico. He is currently working on an independent research project on Mexican Documentary Cinema and is the coordinator of image for the cultural TV series, "Box Populi", which is transmitted via Channel 22.
ORLANDO AGUILERA MARTÍNEZ
Colombia
Colombia
Born in Barrancabermeja, Colombia. Since the 1970s, he has been linked with working groups related with the theatre, audiovisuals and musicals. He studied sociology, history and cinematographic aesthetics, scriptwriting and creations of audiovisuals with children. He has coordinated many international cinema activities, taught workshops and given seminars. He has founded film clubs and film festivals. He has been an invited speaker for a range of public and private institutions in a number of countries and has been a member of the jury at international festivals.
Since 1993, he has settled in Spain and since 2001, he has worked in the film archive of AECID, the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. He is currently an advisor to film festivals in Europe and Latin America and supports an Intercontinental Audiovisual Platform.
JURY FOR THE NATIONAL AND FIRST FILM COMPETITIONS
LOLA SALVADOR
Spain
Spain
President of the Jury, scriptwriter and author
Self-taught, between 1962 and 1970 she worked in technical and artistic areas on the readio, in the press, theatre, cinema and television. From 1970 onwards, her activity focussed on scriptwriting and novels and she also collaborated in the promotion of the audiovisual medium in Latin America and was a teacher. She also founded the production company, «Brothers & Sisters», with which she produced the film Salvajes by Carlos Molinero, for the script of which she obtained the Goya Prize for the Best Adapted Script.
She has written numerous radio scripts for such programmes as Con los ojos cerrados (1972-1973), a daily literatura programme; diario Verso a verso, another daily programme, devoted to poetry, which was broadcast between 1974 and 1977 and, in the eighties, she wrote the script for Cuentos de amor y magia, a programme for broadcasting oral folklore, and for a dramatic series Diario de la luna, in 1984. For television, her work on literature slots and also fi ction stand out. She has written for editions of Serie rosa and Sesame Street. For the theatre, she has adapted classics such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams, in 1984 and Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, premiered in 1993.
As a novelist, she published El crimen de Cuenca in 1979, based on her script for the film of the same name by Pilar Miró and the trilogy El Olivar de Atocha (1988) which tells the story of a family in Madrid in the first third of the 20th Century up to the outbreak of the Civil War and which was subsequently adapted by herself as a script for a series of twenty-six instalments broadcast in 1989 by Televisión Española.
Among the scripts that she has written for cinema apart from El Crimen de Cuenca, those for the films of the director Jaime Chávarri Bearn o la sala de las muñecas (1982), Las bicicletas son para el verano (1984) -which is an adaptation of the play of the same name by Fernando Fernán Gómez- and Tierno verano de lujurias y azoteas, 1993, stand out.
ROSA VERGÉS
Spain
Spain
Director and Scriptwriter
The fi lm-maker, Rosa Vergés, is the director of the great audiovisual work which is projected onto a large wides-Jury for the National and First Film Competitions creen at the end of the display route. The projection shows water as the source of artistic inspiration, whether musical, literary or pictorial.
Rosa Vergés is a History of Art graduate from the University of Barcelona and the Sorbonne. She is a director and scriptwriter of the full-length films Boom, boom.(Goya Prize for the best fi rst work), Souvenir, Tic tac (children's film which formed part of Selection 8 Films around the world at the Lincoln Center in New York in 1998) and Iris. In 1988, she received the City of Barcelona prize for Audiovisuals .
She has directed the documentaries, El pavelló de la República (Generalitat de Catalunya Prize), Barcelona, negatif et positif, Alberti, un poeta en la calle and De Granada a la Luna, as part of the centenary of the birth of García Lorca. For television, she has created such series as Para qué sirve un marido (TVE) and the European Histoires de famille: Maresme (ARTE, TV3).
This film-maker was responsible for the artistic direction of the arrival ceremony of the Olympic torch (Ampurias, 1992); the virtual show, Barcelonas; the musical, Fes córrer la veu, at L'Auditori de Música in Barcelona; Raixa and Caloma by Maria del Mar Bonet, at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya; the multi-disciplinary show A propósito de Bola de Nieve, with Jordi Sabatés, and Mari Catúfols, among other works.
Rosa Vergés was the vice-Chairwoman of the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AACC) from 1994 to 1998.
She currently teaches at Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Universidad Ramon Llull, Universidad Menéndez y Pelayo (FIA) and the Projecte school, and is a delegate of the Fundación ESCAC (Catalonian School of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts).
LOURDES RUBIO
Spain
Spain
Assistant head of the Foundation for Audiovisual Research since 2002. She has organised courses and seminars on cinema and scripts for more than fifteen years. She has coordinated training programmes for the development of European Union projects and the First Cinema Encounter: Solidarity and Cultural Diversity. She is a Judge for the SGAE Julio Alejandro Script Prize and of the Bancaja Prize for shorts. She was responsible for the development of shorts in Burkina Faso in collaboration with the FESPACO Film Festival. She was responsible for the publication of the first RTVV catalogue of television films. She is on the selection committee for projects for the Institute of Audiovisual Project Development (IDEA) of the Foundation for Audiovisual Research.
She coordinates the activities of the IDEA Network, a platform which brings together institutions, film-makers, experts and specialist trainers from different countries of Latin America so as to improve co-productions between their film industries.
JURY OF THE CANARIAN COMPETITION
LUIS ROCA ARENCIBIA.
Spain
He is a graduate in Information Sciences from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid (1991). He has worked for the last seventeen years on directorial teams for fulllength films; as a scriptwriter; director; producer; photographer; essayist, film collaborator and cultural manager. He has been the head of Audiovisual Production for the Canary Islands Government. He drew up the first Law of the Audiovisual in the Canary Islands, organised the first public subsidies for cinema in the Canary Islands and organised the first training workshops in cinematography in the Canary Islands with the European Union.
Since 2003, he has been a collaborator with the daily, El País. His articles have appeared in the daily newspaper and El País Semanal. He has published in the Herald Tribune. He has also been a film critic and a film writer in the local press. He was a member of the Advisory Commission on Audiovisual Arts of the Canary Islands Government and is a member of the Advisory and Selection Committee of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival. He has programmed and coordinated the Canarian Forum section of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival since 2001. He is the author of the biography, Andrés Santana, El vuelo de la cometa (T&B Editores, Madrid, 2003) and of the essay, Espectadores al sol, on film and tourism (Fundación César Manrique, Lanzarote, 2004). He currently has another three essays on fi lm pending publication and he is writing a biography of Francisco Melo Sansó.
He is producer and co-director of the video-creation, A Meager Canary Beach (Una exigua playa canaria, 2005), which represented the Canary Islands at the Spanish pavilion at the Second International Architecture Biennial in Rotterdam (2005) and was projected at the Centre of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (CCCB). He is the head of the project, Salvar La Memoria: 50 años de "Tirma" and Moby Dick (2005-2007) and of the Film Section of the Literary Club in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
FRANCISCO PUÑAL SUÁREZ
Spain
Spain
Documentary director, journalist, researcher and Cuban teacher. He was born in the city of Matanzas, Cuba in 1950. He graduated in Journalism from the University of Havana in 1974. That same year he joined the Cuban Art and Film Industry Institute, first as an assistant director to Santiago Álvarez, Rolando Diaz, Fernando Pérez and Daniel Díaz Torres and subsequently, as the producer of the ICAIC newsreel, with over one hundred editions handled. His reports on Cuban reality are characterized by their critical sense and the use of humour and satire. Among his honours, the most important are: The Caracol Prize at the 3rd Festival of Cinema, Radio and Television at UNEAC, in 1986. The Cinema Prize in 1987, 1988 and 1990 in the 26th July competition of the UPEC. Specialist Critics Prize in 1988.National José Martí Prize to those responsible for the ICAIC Newsreel. Mention of the Jury for his documentary, ¿Perdedores?, Co-directed with Santiago Álvarez at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, in 1991. With this film, he also obtained recognition from the International Olympic Committee at the Festival of Sports Cinema in Jaca, Spain. He has taught workshops such as "Journalism on the basis of cinematographic research" in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and "Humorous photography" in Corunna. He has done work in research such as "Canarias en la filmografía Canarias" and "El humor en la publicidad" (Humour in Advertising). He has been a jury member in the PortoCartoon humorous drawings competitions in Oporto, Portugal, and of the Curuxas Prizes, granted by the Fene Museum of Humour. He has lived in Corunna, Galicia, since 2000 and is a contributor to the Galician newspaper, A Peneira and Siglo 21, a Latin daily published in Boston, United States.
JOSÉ VIDAL DOMÍNGUEZ GONZÁLEZ
Spain
Spain
Was born in Guía de Isora on 6th February 1961 In 1985, he obtained his degree in Geography and History from the University of La Laguna. In 1988-1989, he was selected by INEM and he was the director of the Restoration School-Workshop in Guía de Isora.
From 1989 to the present, he has worked as the Culture Coordinator in the Department of Education, Culture and Citizen Participation of the Guía de Isora Local Authority.