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Mexican Short Film Jury

RÉMI BONHOMME

Has collaborated with the Critics' Week section at Cannes since 2003 and was appointed its program manager in 2009. Based in both Paris and Beirut, Rémi is also a programmer at the Metropolis Art Cinema, co-founder of MC Distribution company (Lebanon) and associate programmer at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival (Qatar). He was associate producer for the Lebanese feature film Every Day is a Holiday by Dima El-Horr, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2009.

BETH SÁ FREIRE

A Brazilian born in Rio de Janeiro, is assistant director of the São Paulo International Short Film Festival. She is a lawyer and holds a Ph.D in foreign trade. Sá Freire has worked for the São Paulo International Short Film Festival as assistant director and as head of its special programs since 1997. An official collaborator of the Critics' Week section of the Cannes Film Festival and of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival in Germany, she has also participated as a jury member in several film festivals around the world, including: Berlinale Short Competition (2001), Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival (2002), Drama Short Film Festival in Greece (2004), Zinebi in Spain (2004), ShortShorts in Japan (2004), Llámale H in Uruguay (2009), Asiana in Korea (2009), Berlinale (Teddy Bear), in 2011, and at least 10 Brazilian events dedicated to the short film format. She has curated programs of Brazilian shorts for the Drama Short Film Festival, Zinebi Festival and Asiana Short Film Festival.

ALISSA SIMON

Is the senior programmer for the Palm Springs International Film Festival. She has been a film curator for more than 25 years and does program consulting work through her company Cinequanon. She was named a 1999 "Chicagoan of the Year" for her innovative work as associate director/programming at the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute, a position she held for 11 years. After earning a B.A. in British Studies from Yale, an M.A. in film history and criticism from the University of Iowa, and a M.A. in arts administration from the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, Alissa began her programming career at the Film Department of the Walker Art Center, moving on to the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House. She has served on international film festival juries in Karlovy Vary, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Sarajevo, Sochi, Cluj, Torino, Montreal, Vancouver, Plzen and Trencianske Teplice. A member of FIPRESCI, the international film critics' association, she writes about films and film festivals for the trade paper Variety and coordinates Variety's "Ten European Filmmakers To Watch" program at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Mexican Documentary Section Jury

GIDEON LICHFIELD

Is an editorial director of The Economist Film Project (http://film.economist.com), an initiative in collaboration with PBS NewsHour that showcases the work of independent documentary filmmakers from around the world. The project selects films that provide new insights into world affairs on a broad range of subjects, and airs segments of them on the NewsHour, in order to bring them to a wider audience and stimulate debate. He has written for The Economist on global affairs, technology and science since 1996, as a staff correspondent in London, Mexico City, Moscow, Jerusalem and, currently, New York City. He has also been the paper's deputy digital editor, responsible for online innovation and strategy; the founding editorial director of its e-learning venture, Economist Education; and an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University.

LUCY WALKER

Has directed four award-winning feature documentaries: Devil's Playground (premiered at Sundance 2002), Blindsight (premiered Toronto 2006), Waste Land and Countdown to Zero (which both premiered at Sundance 2010). In 2011 Lucy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary for directing Waste Land, the story of artist Vik Muniz's transformational project with recyclable materials-pickers in the largest landfill in the world, in Rio. The film won over 30 other awards including the Audience Awards at Sundance and Berlin and the IDA's Best Documentary Award. Recognition for Devil's Playground, about the struggles of Amish teenagers, included three Emmy nominations for Best Documentary, Best Editing, and Best Documentary. Blindsight, about blind mountaineer Erik Weihenmayer, blind educator Sabriye Tenberken and their expedition leading blind Tibetan students up Mount Everest won many festival awards and was shortlisted for the Academy Award. Lucy grew up in London, England, and studied language and literature at Oxford University, where she directed award-winning theatrical productions before winning a Fulbright Scholarship to attend the MFA graduate film program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She was also a DJ and previously directed Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues, for which she was twice nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Directing.

ALISSA SIMON

Es la Programadora Principal del Palm Springs International Film Festival. Ha sido curadora de cine por más de 25 años y trabaja como consultora de programación a través de su compañía Cinequanon. En 1999 obtuvo un reconocimiento por su labor como Directora Asociada de Programación en el Film Center de la School of the Art Institute, posición que ocupó por once años. Después de haber obtenido un M.A. en Estudios Británicos en la Universidad de Yale, un M.A. en Historia y Crítica de Cine en la Universidad de Iowa y un M.A. en Administración de Arte en la School of Business de la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison, Alissa empezó su carrera como programadora en el Departamento de Cine del Walker Art Center. Prosiguió en el Museo Internacional de Foto en la George Eastman House. Fue jurado en varios festivales internacionales de cine, como Karlovy Vary, Ljubljana, Belgrado, Ámsterdam, San Francisco, Sarajevo, Sochi, Cluj, Turín, Montreal, Vancouver, Plzen y Trencianske Teplice. Es Miembro de FIPRESCI, la Asociación Internacional de Críticos de Cine, escribe sobre cine y festivales para Variety y coordina el programa de Variety "Diez realizadores europeos que se deben ver" en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Karlovy Vary.

Mexican Feature Jury

MARK COUSINS

Is a documentary filmmaker, author and curator. His films have dealt with subjects such as neo-Nazism, childhood imagination and the cinema of Iran. His feature The First Movie won the Prix Italia, and is playing in cinemas around the world. His new movie The Story of Film: An Odyssey has taken six years to make. Cousins has published several books, including Imagining Reality, The Faber Book of Documentary (as co-editor), the acclaimed book The Story of Film, published in Europe, the United States and Asia, and most recently, the collection of essays on cinema: Watching Real People Elsewhere. Cousins took the Edinburgh International Film Festival to Sarajevo during that city's siege. He was co-artistic director of Cinema China, and of the Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, part of his ongoing collaboration with Tilda Swinton. They recently devised a cinema in Beijing and did A Pilgrimage, in which they pulled a cinema across Scotland. He is honorary doctor of letters at the University of Edinburgh. In the past, Cousins directed and presented the BBC's Scene by Scene, which ran for five years, screening career interviews with, among others, Martin Scorsese, Jane Russell, Paul Schrader, Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Roman Polanski, Jeanne Moreau and Rod Steiger. In 2001

FRANCOIS DUPEYRON

Is a writer and filmmaker. He studied at the IDHEC (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques) and has directed a number of awardwinning short and feature films, earning the César award for his short film works on various occasions. His film The Officer's Ward (2001) was included in the Official Selection of the Cannes Festival. He recently published the novel Où cours-tu Juliette (Paris: Léo Scheer, 2010) and directed Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera (2008), Conversations à Rechlin (2009) and Trésor (2009), co-directed with Claude Berri. In 2009 he received the France Culture Prize in recognition of his artistic trajectory and contributions to the seventh art.

MICHAEL WOOD

Teaches English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the author of America in the Movies, of a study of Buñuel's Belle de jour, and of books on Nabokov, Kafka and García Márquez, as well as The Road to Delphi, a study of the ancient and continuing allure of oracles. He is film critic of the London Review of Books and writes regularly on film and literature for The New York Review of Books and other journals. His most recent book is Yeats and Violence.

Javier Packer-Comyn (1969, Belgium)

He has worked as Director of the Cinéma du Réel International Documentary Festival in Paris for the past three years. From 1992 to 2004 he worked for the Filmer à tout Prix Documentary Film Festival in Brussels and for 12 years headed the P’tit Ciné, a documentary screening and distribution company that programs documentary films in various locations in Belgium. Packer-Comyn also taught for several years at the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Communications Sociales (IHECS) in Brussels. He has published various interviews with filmmakers such as Claire Simon, Denis Gheerbrant and Jean-Louis Comolli, and has worked on several films and TV programs for Arte and the RTBF. In 2008, he was awarded the Prix Coq by the Communauté Française for his work in documentary distribution.

Shannon Kelley

He's Head of Public Programs for the UCLA Film & Television Archive. He has also served as Artistic Director of the Morelia International Film Festival; Director of Programming for Outfest, The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival; Associate Director of the Documentary Film Program of the Sundance Institute, and Senior Programming Consultant to the Sundance Film Festival’s documentary section. He has been a mentor for the European Documentary Producers’ Development Program and the Discovery Campus Masterschool, and a panelist at documentary funding pitches in the United States and Europe.

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