Past Editions

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.