JURY
International Feature Film Jury
Birgit Kohler
She is a Berlin-based film curator and film studies scholar. She is artistic director of the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art since 2004, which she joined in 1998 as head programmer and which was formerly known as the association Friends of the German Film Archives. She is a member of the selection committee for the International Forum of New Cinema at the Berlin Film Festival since 2002. She has taught classes on film and published articles in periodicals and film festival or exhibition catalogues. She is founding member and on the editorial board of the internet based journal Nach dem Film.
Eva Truffaut
(1961, Neuilly-Sur-Seine) Between 1982 and 1991, she collaborated with City Magazine, the Italian Elle, The Face and I.D Magazine. She started to show her work as a photographer in 1991. As a movie actress and director, her regular activity dates back to 1998. Her director filmography includes Juillet-Août, La visite de Vincent, Il y a comme un froid, I’m Thru with Love, Anne, viens jouer à la pétanque, Au paradis du bébé, La redome, Jeu d’espions, Eppur’ si muove, some of them co-directed with Christophe Atabekian. She organizes regular screens, seminars and ateliers for students.
Miguel Gomes
(1972, Lisbon) He studied at the ESTC and worked as a film critic in the Portuguese press between 1996-2000. He directed several short films internationally shown and awarded and he directed his first feature in 2004, A Cara que Mereces. In 2008, Our Beloved Month of August premiered at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes and it’s shown in more than 50 international festivals receiving more than ten awards. Retrospectives of his work were shown at the Viennale (Austria) in 2008, Bafici (Argentina) and Coruña (Spain) in 2009. He currently works in a new feature. Supposed to be called “Sunrise”, it will be titled Tabu.
Nadir Operli
He was one of the founders of the acclaimed Altyazı Cinema Magazine in 2001 to which he still contributes. He has worked as the editor of Sinema.com, the first Turkish online platform on cinema. After taking part in a few short films, he founded Bulut Film Productions in 2007 with Yamaç Okur. He produced feature films Summer Book (2008), Dark Cloud (2009), and Our Grand Despair (2010). He is one of the co-producers of the feature documentary On the Way to School (2008). At the moment, he continues to work as a producer and film journalist, and follows a PhD degree on Film in Istanbul University.
Robert Koehler
He is a film critic for Variety, Cinema Scope, Cineaste and filmjourney.org, and a festival programmer. He is a partner in Festworks and served as director of programming for AFI Fest in 2009. A former theater critic for the Los Angeles Times, he has also written reviews, articles and essays for a number of publications. He is a member of FIPRESCI and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and has served on juries at various festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Vancouver or Buenos Aires. He has contributed chapters to the books, On Film Festivals and Cine Argentino 99/08.
International Short Film Jury
Ben Rivers
(1972, Somerset) He lives and works in London. He studied Fine Art. He has exhibited at many international galleries and film festivals, and won numerous awards including Tiger Award at Rotterdam International Film Festival 2008. He has been the recipient of commissions, including London Artists Film and Video Award, for which he made Origin of the Species and Ah, Liberty!, and Vauxhall Collective commission, for which he recently completed I Know Where I’m Going. His artist-in-focus screenings include the festivals Courtisane, Pesaro, London, Tirana, Punto de Vista, Pamplona and Indielisboa.
Caroline Deruas Her passion for cinema started very early with the discovery of Truffaut's films, and soon after with those from Bellochio. She directed her first real short in 2006, L’étoile de mer. She works with Philippe Garrel, notably in his films Le vent de la nuit and Sauvage innocence. More recently, she plays the role of Léa in the last Garrel, Les amants réguliers. She was also Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's second assistant in Actri
ces. Her second film as director is Le feu, le sang, les étoiles. She co-wrote the script for the next Garrel, J’ai gardé les anges.. She has recently interpreted the role of Julieta in the first feature film from the Portuguese director João Nicolau.
João Salaviza
(1984, Lisbon) He graduated from the Portuguese ESTC, finishing his studies at the Universidad del Cine, in Buenos Aires. His first short film, Duas Pessoas, was screened in several film festivals and awarded with the first prize Take One in Vila do Conde. In 2009, he won the Golden Palm for best short in the Cannes Film Festival for Arena, after an award as best Portuguese short in IndieLisboa and several screens in festivals like Tribeca, Rotterdam, London and Pusan. He’s currently finishing Hotel Müller after Pina Bausch, and he prepares the short film Rafa.
RTP World Pulse Jury
Anabela Mota Ribeiro
(1971, Trás-os- Montes) She started her professional experience in journalism in radio and she was Antena 1’s London correspondent (2007/8). In television, she presented several programs both of entertainment and cultural. In the press, she collaborated with the Diário de Notícias’ supplement DNa. She gathered several of her interviews in O Sonho de um Curioso (2003). She has been collaborating with Jornal de Negócios (since 2006) and Pública (since 2008). She has a wide experience in moderating debates. She’s finishing a degree in philosophy in Lisbon. She likes cinema very much, in particular Naruse, Ophuls and Rossellini.
Davide Oberto
(1970, Alba) He studied Philosophy and Film History. In 1999 he started to collaborate with the Torino Film Festival, where in 2005 he becomes the curator of Italian Competitions (Short Films and Documentaries), and since 2008 he takes also care of the selection of international documentaries. From 2002 until 2009 he's been programmer of From Sodom to Hollywood – Turin GLBT Film Festival for which is also edited several retrospectives (R.W. Fassbinder or those about the queer cinema in Arabic world, the spaghetti western, and "j-ender: big bang love in Japan") and tributes (Alain Guiraudie, Adolfo Arrieta).
Jorge Wemans
(1953, Lisbon) He graduated in journalism in Paris in 1978. He started his professional career in the daily Diário de Notícias. He integrated the staff of the weekly Expresso and he was its deputy director between 1985-89. He was one of the co-founders of the daily Público (1989) and its deputy director (1990-96). He directed the Portuguese press agency Lusa (1998-2002) and the communication service of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (2002-05). He is the director of the Portuguese public TV channel RTP2 since 2006. He was also president of the ethical board of the Journalists Union (1984), Público’s ombudsman (1997-98) and professor of communication (1996-2003).
RTP 2 Onda Curta Jury
João Garção Borges
(1956, Lisbon) He studied cinema at the Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa. He joined the Portuguese public television RTP in 1979, having held positions as head of cinema programming at RTP’s channel 2 (1990-92), RTP Internacional (1992-94) and the rubric Portuguese Cinema (1994-98). Between 1994 and 1998, he was responsible for the production of Portuguese fiction at RTP, for film co-productions with foreign partners and he authored several original projects, such as Onda Curta. He collaborates with the press, radio and TV as a film critic.
Laurent Crouzeix
(1970, Clermont-Ferrand) He studied in universities of Clermont-Ferrand and London. He integrates the collective organization of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. Sharing his time between France and the UK for several years, he also worked with the Leeds International Film Festival. He animates the international film festival’s web site www.shortfilmdepot.com and he also organizes the Euro Connection, the first European co-production forum for short films. Since 1997, he’s one of the international competition programmers of the Clermont-Ferrand film festival. He’s an attentive observer of the young film creation all over the world.
Sari Volanen
She is a commissioning editor at YLE Finnish Broadcasting company. She started her career in television over 20 years ago. Currently she works at YLE’s Co-production department producing short films mainly with Finnish independent film makers and producers. She is in charge of the short film strand called New Cinema on YLE/TV1. Along with studies of film in Finland, she has participated EAVE –training in 1999, Eurodoc 2006 and Sources2 – Documentary Mentor training 2008.
FIPRESCI Jury (Internacional Federation of Film Critics)
Alex Leo Serban
(1959) He is a film critic, writer, translator and visual artist. He organized film retrospectives and festivals. He wrote a thesis on Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma. Published books on Lars von Trier, on Cinema and on Hedonism & Minimalism, all awarded top film & literary prizes. His photographic works have been exhibited in Romania and abroad. For 15 years, he has had a weekly film column in Libertatea – the most widely-read newspaper in Romania. His latest book, 4 Decades, 3 Years & 3 Months with the Romanian Cinema, came out in 2009.
Dana Linssen
She is a poet, philosopher and film critic from the Netherlands. Since 1997 she has been a regular contributor to the Dutch daily newspapers NRC Handelsblad and nrc.next, and in 1998 she became editor-in-chief, and later co-publisher of the independent film monthly De Filmkrant. In 2008 she launched the Slow Criticism Project, as a counterbalance against the commodification of film criticism. In 2009 she was awarded the Louis Hartlooper Prize for Film Journalism. She is currently writing a screenplay with Dutch film director Ineke Smits.
Müge Turan Tüfenk
(1976, Istambul) She studied sociology and film. She started her professional activity as public relations and journalist in the fields of music and film. As a programmer, her first initiatives date back to 2001/2. She was the coordinator of the international project The One Minutes Organization-Istanbul and a collaborator of both the Istanbul Film and Jazz international festivals. Since 2008 she’s the film department manager of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art and she also currently does film critic. She is also a radio programmer & DJ, at Radyo Eksen, Açık Radyo since 2001.
SIGNIS Jury
Inês Gil
(1964, Paris) A professor of cinema and photogrpahy, she settled in Lisbon in 1998. In Los Angeles, at the UCLA’s photographic archive, she did the editing of the outtakes of The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955). She published this work in 2002. She made her doctor degree at the Université Paris 8 with a thesis on the concept of “atmosphere” applied to cinema, which was published in 2005. A FCT’s holder, she’s currently finishing her post-doctor degree on the “time’s color” of film, based on the notion of “sacred”. She integrates the group of the Secretariado Nacional da Pastoral da Cultura.
José Tolentino de Mendonça (19
65) He has made his doctor’s degree in Theology in Lisbon, with a thesis awarded with the Pen/Club award for essay. He’s a Professor of Biblical Studies and he directs the magazine Didaskalia, the most important Portuguese periodic in the field of the Theological Sciences. He’s also author of a relevant poetic work, whose edition he started in 1990 with Os Dias Contados and which is currently gathered as A Noite Abre Meus Olhos. He translated poems by Hildegard von Bingen and the Italian Cristina Campo. He coordinates the activities of the Secretariado Nacional da Pastoral da Cultura.
Margarida Ataíde
A film critic and journalist, she collaborates with the Secretariado da Comunicação Social da Igreja, writting for the review Ecclesia and in www.agencia.ecclesia.pt. Between 200 and 2009, she worked at Cinedoc, and her texts have been published in the review Cinedocfilme and in www.cinedocfilme.pt. Since 2000, she collaborates with Signis (International Catholic Association for Communication) and has participated as a member of the Signis Juries in several festivals around the world. She also developed her professional life in pedagogic and cultural projects for children in Portugal and abroad.
Amnesty International Jury
Dalila Carmo
Actress, she has made professional studies in theatre at the Professional School of Ballet and Theatre, specialization in Method with Marcia Haufrecht from the Actors Studio. In theatre, she worked with Joaquim Benite, Joseph Szajna, Paulo Filipe Monteiro, António Pires, Marcia Haufrecht among others. In cinema, she worked with Manoel de Oliveira, João César Monteiro, João Botelho, Margarida Gil, João Pinto Nogueira, Juan Miñon, Vicente Alves do Ó, among others. She received a special mention as best actress for her role in the Margarida Gil’s O Anjo da Guarda, at the Portuguese film festival Fantasporto.
Pedro Mexia
(1972, Lisbon) He graduated in Law, and he’s a writer and a literary critic. Between 1998 and 2007, he made literary and film critic in Diário de Notícias. Since 2007, he makes literary critic and he’s the author of a weekly column in Público. He’s deputy director of the Portuguese filmmuseum since 2008. He published six books of poetry and two chronicle’s anthologies. He has been collaborating in several projects in theatre, writing, translating and staging his own texts or texts by other authors. He participated in television and radio programs of political commentary. He’s an active blogger since 2002.
Sofia Branco
(1977, Póvoa de Varzim) She graduated in journalism at the Universidade de Coimbra, and she has made postgraduate studies in Islamism and on Women, in Lisbon, and on Human Rights in Italy and the Netherlands. She is currently deputy editor of the Portuguese press agency Lusa, after a ten years collaboration with the daily Público, and a guest teacher in the Master on Women and Human Rights in Lisboa. She is also counsellor for European Strategy for the International Amnesty. She was awarded with several prizes for her work in journalism and Human Rights. She published the book Cicatrizes de Mulher.
IndieJunior Jury
The IndieJunior jury is composed of five children from social institutions and private schools, giving the IPJ Award for best movie shown at the IndieJunior section.
