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OFICCIAL INDIELISBOA’12 JURIES

FEATURE FILM INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY

LIONEL BAYER
(Lausanne, 1975) Since 1992, he’s co-responsible and programmer of the Cinema Rex in Aubonne. Since 2002, he’s also the head of the film department of Lausanne’s school of arts – ECAL. He directs his first film in 2000, the documentary Celui au pasteur (ma vision personnelle des choses). His first fiction feature Garçon Stupide is shown in Cannes 2006. In 2009 he co-founds the production company Bande à part Films. He’s a member of the foundation board of the Swiss Cinémathèque.

JOÃO CANIJO
(Oporto, 1957) He was assistant director to Manoel de Oliveira (Francisca, Le Soulier de Satin), Wenders, Tanner and Schroeter. His first feature film Três Menos Eu (Three Less Me), 1985, was selected for the Rotterdam Film Festival. He has since directed more six films, which have regularly been present at the most important international film festivals – Cannes, Venice, Toronto. Sangue do meu Sangue (Blood of my Blood), his latest film, received awards at San Sebastian and Miami and was presented in Toronto, Busan, Rio, Palm Springs, Torino, México, Istambul. This year, the BAFICI (Buenos Aires) and La Rochelle (France) will dedicate retrospectives of his work.

AGNÈS WILDENSTEIN
(Strasbourg) She lives in Paris. Worked ten years at the Cinémathèque Française as head of press and communication. Works for Locarno film festival since 2000, first as a consultant for French speaking countries then part of the selection committee since 2003. She’s a permanent jury member of the Jean Vigo Prize.

SHORT FILM INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY

MARIA JOÃO MADEIRA
Since 1993 she works at the Portuguese film museum, being a programmer and developing editorial, writing and programming activities since 1998. Among others, she organized or co-organized Cinemateca’s publications on the Portuguese filmmaker António Campos, Griffith, Cronenberg, Iosseliani, Clint Eastwood, John Huston, and compilation books on the films of Cukor, Capra, Dreyer, Bresson, Eustache, Mizoguchi, Visconti, César Monteiro, Murnau. She was part of the DocLisboa selection committees between 2005 and 2010.

PAOLO MORETTI
Since 2001 Paolo Moretti worked for several film festivals and film institutions in Europe, including the Pompidou Center in Paris (in both audiovisual production and film programming units), the Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire (Lussas), Filmoteca Española in Madrid, Leeds International Film Festival (UK), Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon, One World in Prague and Cinéma du Réel in Paris. From 2008 to 2011 he worked for the Venice Film Festival, as a program advisor, focusing in particular on short and medium length films of the Orizzonti section.

GABRIEL SPAHIU
He is one of the best known actors of the Romanian New Wave. He graduated mathematics (1992) and acting (1996) and acted in more than 80 shorts as well as feature films, some of which were awarded at international film festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, Berlin and IndieLisboa. Among the most important Romanian titles of his filmography are The Death of Mister Lazarescu; The Tube With A Hat; Marilena From P7; Home; California Dreamin'; Film for Friends; Adalbert's Dream; Everybody from Our Family. He is doing is PHD on directing actors.

ONDA CURTA JURY

JOÃO GARÇÃO BORGES
He joined the public Portuguese channel RTP in 1979, having held positions as head of cinema programming at RTP’s Canal 2, RTP Internacional (1992-94) and the Portuguese cinema program in RTP2 (1994-98). He was responsible for the production of Portuguese fiction at RTP, for film co-productions with foreign partners, and authored several original projects, such as Onda Curta. He collaborated as a cinema critic for the press, radio and television. He’s currently preparing the shooting of the six episodes series "Aleixo Garcia e a Invasão Guarani do Império Inca".

AILTON FRANCO FR.
Graduated in economy and cinema, he works as a producer of events, films, theater and as a curator and programmer since 1992. He’s the founder, producer and director of the Short International Rio de Janeiro’s Film Festival – Curta Cinema. He produced fiction features, documentaries and short films. Some of his short films are Nos Tempos do Cinematógrapho, Dadá, Maré Capoeira, e a co-produção francesa, Cinderela. In 2010 he distributed Paula Gaitán feature Agreste. In 2011 he produced Gaitán’s Sobre a Neblina.

NICLAS GILBERG
(1980) He has studied Film Studies, Aesthetics and Art History at Uppsala University and Stockholm University. Since 2001 he has worked with the Uppsala International Short Film Festival, and since 2004 as the director of the festival. He is a member of the nomination committee for the Swedish national film award Guldbaggen in the categories Best Short Film and Best Documentary. He also writes film reviews for Ergo, a magazine published in Uppsala.

WORLD PULSE JURY

DIANA ANDRINGA
(1968, Angola) She came for Portugal at 11 years old. In the beginning of the 1970’s she was arrested by the political Portuguese police PIDE and condemned to 20 months of prison for defending Angola’s Independence. She worked as a journalist in the press and television. During her 23 years of work at the Portuguese public channel RTP she started making documentaries, which she still does, now independently. In the last decade, among others, she directed films on the struggles for freeing East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, her childhood in a mining company in Angola and the concentration camp of Tarrafal, in Cape Vert.

MARTIN PAWLEY
(Coruña, 1974) He is part, alongside Oliver Laxe and Felipe Lage, of the production company Zeitun Films, responsible for the film Todos Vós Sodes Capitáns which participated in more than 50 international festivals, including the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and IndieLisboa festival. As a critic he has written about film and covered different festivals (Donostia, Gijón, Ponto de Vista, IndieLisboa, Vila do Conde, Cannes) for radio, TV, newspapers and magazines, including TVG, Radio Galega, Journal of Galicia and Cahiers du Cinema, Spain. In addition, he is a consultant and programmer for festivals and film cycles (Mostra de Ciência e Cinema - Rio de Janeiro, Cineuropa - Santiago, among others). Along with Mark Perez he wrote and directed the scientific documentary Ilusão Visual (Spain, 2006). Since 2009 he teaches theater in Sao Paulo. Today he is also preparing a book of interviews with young Galician filmmakers.

HELENA TORRES
She’s graduated in German philology studies. She’s a journalist working both in press and television, for the Portuguese public channel RTP-Rádio Televisão Portuguesa. She’s the head of drama and documentary programs for RTP 1 and RTP 2 and also cinema for RTP 1. She lives in Lisbon.

NON-OFFICIAL JURIES

The non-official juries are partners of the festival and don’t judge a full competitive section of the festival, but follow their own criteria, within the IndieLisboa 2012 programming.