Past Editions

1st Michoacán Screenplay Competition

Bruno Bichir

Actor

Guillermo Arriaga

Screenwriter

Alejandro Lubezki

Filmmaker

 

Michoacán Short Film

José Quintanilla

Journalist and film critic

Alex Rivera

Filmmaker

Lázaro Alexis Venereo

Member of the Huesca Film Festival Executive Comité

 

Short Film Competition

Diana Bracho

Diana Bracho studied Philosophy and English Literature in New York. She made her film debut in 1972 in Arturo Ripstein’s El Castillo de la Pureza, for which she earned her first awards. Between 1973 and 1978 she lived in Oxford, England, where she studied the Alexander Technique and participated in the University of Oxford’s Experimental Theatre Club. Alongside her film work, she has pursued an important theatrical career which includes works such as Sergio Magaña’s Santísima (1981), Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire (as Stella in 1982 and Blanche Du Bois in 1996), Oceransky’s Las dos Fridas (1989), Oscar Liera’s Los negros pájaros del adiós (1990), Sabina Berman’s Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda (1993), Terrence McNally’s Master Class (1999), and Christopher Hampton’s Dangerous Liaisons (2001). Since the mid-eighties she has also performed in several soap operas such as Cuna de lobos (1986), Cadenas de amargura (1991) and El vuelo del águila (1992). She is currently the President of the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

José María Prado

For several years, José María Prado was an interior designer who contributed to various film magazines. In 1976 he worked at the Filmoteca Española as Programming Director. Between 1980 and 1986 he collaborated on several music programs for Radio 3 Radio Nacional de España. In 1987 he was promoted to Assistant Director of the Filmoteca Española and in 1989 was named Director. Between 1993 and 1999 he served as a member of the Executive Committee of the FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives) and participated actively in Spain during its annual convention in 1999. Since the eighties he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the San Sebastián..

Francis Gavelle

Member and Coordinator of the Short Film Commission of the Cannes Film Festival’s International Critics’ Week since 2001, Francis Gavelle is producer of a radio program dedicated to literature and music in Paris and a programmer of numerous screenings of art/experimental film.
He has also participated as an actor in several short films. While he regrets not having presented Patricia Riggen’s La Milpa in Cannes, he is delighted to have revealed to La Croisette audiences films such as Gerardo Tort’s La Partida, Salvador Aguirre’s and Alejandro Lubezki’s De Mesmer, con amor o Té para dos, and Venezuelan Lorenzo Vigas Castes’ Los elefantes nunca olvidan, produced by Guillermo Arriaga. With great impatience, he anticipates new discoveries.

 

Documentary Competition

Marcelo Panozzo

A journalist and film critic, Marcelo Panozzo began working at 21 for the Buenos Aires newspapers Sur and Página/12 and the magazines Caín and Fierro. In 1992 he joined the staff of Clarín, the most widely read daily in Argentina, where he would remain for nine years, first as director of the youth culture supplement, then as director of the film section. At the same time he wrote film critiques for the magazine El Amante and, towards the end of 2000, was invited to become a programmer for the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival. He has participated actively in the last four editions of this festival (2001-2004) and is currently working on the next one. He still writes for El Amante and is Associate Editor for TXT, a Buenos Aires news weekly. He is also editing a book on the films of director Tsai Ming-liang for the Gijón International Film Festival and working on a compilation dedicated to the New Argentinian Cinema to be edited by the Argentine branch of the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics).

Jesse Lerner

esse Lerner is a documentary film and video maker, professor, curator, and writer based in Los Angeles. His work has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Sydney Biennale, the Sundance Film Festival, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, the Los Angeles International Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and other festivals and museums internationally. His films Natives (1991, with Scott Sterling), Frontierland/Fronterilandia (1995, with Rubén Ortiz-Torres), Ruins (1999), and The American Egypt (2001) have won numerous awards at film festivals in the United States, Latin America, and Japan. He has received grants and fellowships including the Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship (N.E.A.), the California Arts Council Fellowship, the Brody Family Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Fideicomiso para la Cultura México-EE.UU. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, his critical essays on photography, film, and video have appeared in Afterimage, History of Photography, Visual Anthropology Review, La Pusmoderna, Wide Angle, and other media arts journals. He has taught at the University of California San Diego, Bennington College, California Institute of the Arts, the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, and holds the MacArthur Chair of Media Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. In 1999 he was a Fulbright fellow at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán in Mérida.

María-Christina Villaseñor

Associate Curator of Film and Media, Maria-Christina Villaseñor curates film and media arts exhibitions for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York as well as the Guggenheim Museums in Berlin and Bilbao. Among her recent projects are the exhibition Bill Viola: Temporality and Transcendence, and Fellini!, an exhibition of Federico Fellini’s drawings and other graphic works accompanied by a full film retrospective. She has also organized and toured film programs internationally at venues including the Havana International Film Festival, the Museo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, and the Febio Fest in Prague. She writes on film, video and photography for a number of publications and is a co-editor of the exhibition catalogues Conversations between Shadows and Light: Italian Cinematography, and Tom Sachs: Nutsy’s. Among the panels and juries she has served on are the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowships Panel, the National Endowment for the Humanities Documentary Panel, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Student Academy Awards.