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FICM 2006 JURY

Michoacán Short and Screenplay Jury

Magdalena Acosta

Graduated from the CCC film School (19751979). She has worked as a freelance screenwriter and filmmaker in Mexican and U.S. productions. For 25 years she taught various courses on film and television at the Department of Communication and Media Studies in the National University of Mexico (UNAM). She has also taught at the ENEP Aragón (National School of Professional Studies), at the Acting School of the National University, and at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, where she has held a number of academic and administrative positions. From 1993 to 1999 she was in charge of International Acquisitions and International relations at Canal Once (Channel 11 Television) and later served as the Director of Production. She has been the Director of the Mexican National Film Archive (Cineteca Nacional) since January 2001 and belongs to various professional associations, including the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and Women in Film and Television (Mexico). She is also the current vice-president of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and is a member of the Mexican Committee for the Memory of the World International Register.

Guadalupe Ferrer Andrade

Guadalupe Ferrer Andrade has served as the director of the Mexican Government Office for Cinema and the Mexican Film Institute, and as the director of the Television Station at the National University of Mexico (TV UNAM). She is currently the director of the Department for Film Culture and Outreach at the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE). She has been a member of various juries in media and visual arts, among them, the National Endowment for Culture and Arts (México), the National University Film School (CUEC) and the Mexico-U.S. Trust Fund for Culture. She has been a delegate to the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), a member of the Expert Committee for Hispanic-Mexican Media Arts, an Advisor to the Iberoamerican Educational Television Association, and the president of the Mexican chapter of this association.

Over the last 33 years, she has lectured extensively and written about film and media education, and has developed an academic field of study on the subject at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). In 1994 she received the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres condecoration from the French Government.

Iván Trujillo

Filmmaker and biologist graduated from the National University of Mexico (UNAM) Department of Natural Sciences, and from the University Film School (CUEC), where he currently teaches history of documentary film. Since 1989, he has been the director of the Filmoteca UNAM, and from 1999 to 2003, he was president of the FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives). He has been a jury member at various international festivals and has lectured extensively about diverse aspects of cinema. In 1985 he received the Ariel for best short documentary, for the film Mariposa Monarca... adivinanzas para siempre.

 

Short Films in Competition

Jon Bloom

on Bloom is an Oscar and five-time Emmy nominated filmmaker with broad experience as a director, producer, writer, cinematographer and editor. He is a renowned specialist in entertainment marketing. His production company, Bloom Film, provides creative marketing materials for promotion and advertising. He was nominated for an Academy Award as Producer/Director of the live-action short film Overnight Sensation, based upon a Somerset Maugham short story and starring Robert Loggia and Louise Fletcher. A three-term Governor at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Bloom also serves as Chair of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch. His early work experience includes stints with Robert Wise, Robert Altman, and Francis Coppola.

Carlos Bonfil

Film Critic. Studied French Literature at the Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and translation at Paris Daphine X. He was professor of French Literature at the UNAM (National University of Mexico) before he began working in cultural journalism. In the last 16 years, he has regularly published film in the newspaper La Jornada, where he also co-edits the section Letra S, salud, sexualidad y sida (Letter S, Health Sexuality and AIDS). He contributes to the International Film Guide on a regular basis and is the author of Águila o Sol, las apariciones de Cantinflas (Eagle or Sun, the Appearances of Cantinflas) and A través del espejo: el cine mexicano y su público (Through the Mirror: Mexican Cinema and its Audience) with Carlos Monsiváis. He has been a jury member of the Guadalajara International Film Festival 2002, a member of the selection committee in the first two editions of the Mexico City International Festival of Contemporary Film (FICCO 2004, 2005) and a jury member in its third edition (2006).

Pierre Murat

Pierre Murat is one of the most important and famous French film critics of the last 20 years. Known to the wider public for his participation in the radio show Le Masque et la plume, Pierre has been writing since 1981 in Télérama, the French public’s preferred weekly publication on arts and entertainment. He was born in Bizerte (Tunisia) in 1948. His parents were French of Russian origin. He studied Literature and Film, specializing in the work of Henri Colpi and spy films. He began his career as a critic in 1971, collaborating for the magazine Les Fiches du Cinema, and its yearly publication L’Annuel du Cinema, and later directing the publications from 1975-1981. He then co-directed L’Annee du Cinéma (Ed. Calmann-Levy) from 1982 until its last edition in 2005. He also directed the first two publications of Guide du Cinema chez soi (2002 and 2004, Ed. Telerama). He participated in a number of collective publications, and published different reference books, including CineGameBook (Ed. Assouline) and, more recently, a portrait of actress Danielle Darrieux (Ed. PAS). He selected short films in the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival for Gilles Jacob and then for Thierry Frémaux, from 1995 to 2005, when he joined the Selection Committee for the International Critics’ Week.

 

Documentaries in Competition

Joseph Beyer

Beyer currently works as an Associate Programmer in the Sundance Film Festival, as well as producing the Sundance Film Festival Online, a 2006 Webby Award Winner in the Movie & Film category. Beyer has been Director of Programming to the growing Waterfront Film Festival in his home state of Michigan, and appeared on panels for such organizations as the UCLA School of Film & Television, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the Atlanta Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival, among others. He currently sits on the Advisory Board for iKlipz.com, a community driven web experience for independent filmmakers.

Before joining the Sundance Institute, Beyer worked as a freelance writer in film and television development where he was represented by Creative Artists Agency. His work was seen on the Fox series Night Visions and he cocreated an animated web-series for Warner Bros. Television and Warner Bros. Online.

Prior, he worked with the prestigious mPRm, a public relations agency specializing in independent films, where he worked on the release campaigns for L. A. Confidential, Shine, and Love and Death on Long Island, among others. Beyer studied Theatre at the Chautauqua Institute in New York and the University of Evansville in Indiana. He was a member of The New Harmony Project, a development center for new works in theatre and film.

Michael Fitzgerald

Producer Michael Fitzgerald was born in New York City, raised in Italy and educated in Ireland. After graduating from Harvard University he began his film career as a screenwriter in Rome. In 1979, he produced and co-wrote John Huston’s celebrated film adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood. His second film with Huston, Under the Volcano, was nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Actor, Albert Finney; Best Music, Alex North). He then produced The Penitent, starring Raul Julia, Mister Johnson with Academy Award winning director Bruce Beresford, and Blue Danube Waltz with the world renowned Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó. A producing partnership with actor/director Sean Penn culminated in their critically acclaimed production of The Pledge, starring Jack Nicholson. In 2005 he completed both Colour Me Kubrick, starring John Malkovich, about a con-man who impersonates director Stanley Kubrick, and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada received the Acting Award for Tommy Lee Jones and the Screenplay Award for Guillermo Arriaga at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

Yves Jeanneau

Yves Jeanneau’s commitment to the promotion of documentary film culture spans a remarkable trajectory in the production and exhibition of films, both in television and on the big screen. He was co-founder and General Manager of Les Films D’Ici from 1984 to 2000, served as head of the Documentary Unit at Pathé Television from 2000 to 2001, and at France 2 from 2001 to 2005. As Executive Producer, he has produced more than 100 award winning documentaries, many in collaboration with international partners such as HBO, NHK, ABC, BBC, Channel 4, ARD and PBS. Among his most acclaimed productions are Murder on a Sunday Morning (dir. Jean-Xavier de Lestrade), which obtained the 2002 Academy Award for best documentary, The Pinochet Case (dir. Patricio Guzmán), The Gospel according to the Papuans (dir. Thomas Balmes), Norman Mailer, Histoires d’Amérique (dir. Richard Copans), Chile, memoria obstinada (dir. Patricio Guzmán) and Transantarctica and Au Sud du Sud (dir. Laurent Chevallier).

He is currently the director of Sunny Side of the Doc, an event he founded and has headed since 1984, and which constitutes the main market place for documentary film, gathering 2000 attendants from around the world every year in La Rochelle, France.

 

SIGNIS

Luis García Orso

Doctor in Theology, Professor at the Iberoamerican University and the Pontifical University of Mexico. Author of A Guide to the Movies and Images of the Spirit in Cinema. Has been a member of the jury at various national and international film festivals (Habana, Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata). Is a member of the Latinoamerican Initiative of Catholic Communicators.

Sergio M. Guzmán García

Obtained his B.A. in Philosophy and Religious Sciences. Contributor of Buena Prensa, A.C. Teaches workshops on film criticism. Has been a member of the jury at various national film festivals.

Luis Eduardo Madaria Alzaga

Obtained his B.A. in Anthropology. Producer and host of documentary television programs. Currently works on a UNESCO initiative for television about cultural heritage. Has participated in various international film festivals.

Michoacán Short and Screenplay Jury

Magdalena Acosta

Graduated from the CCC film School (19751979). She has worked as a freelance screenwriter and filmmaker in Mexican and U.S. productions. For 25 years she taught various courses on film and television at the Department of Communication and Media Studies in the National University of Mexico (UNAM). She has also taught at the ENEP Aragón (National School of Professional Studies), at the Acting School of the National University, and at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, where she has held a number of academic and administrative positions. From 1993 to 1999 she was in charge of International Acquisitions and International relations at Canal Once (Channel 11 Television) and later served as the Director of Production. She has been the Director of the Mexican National Film Archive (Cineteca Nacional) since January 2001 and belongs to various professional associations, including the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and Women in Film and Television (Mexico). She is also the current vice-president of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and is a member of the Mexican Committee for the Memory of the World International Register.

Guadalupe Ferrer Andrade

Guadalupe Ferrer Andrade has served as the director of the Mexican Government Office for Cinema and the Mexican Film Institute, and as the director of the Television Station at the National University of Mexico (TV UNAM). She is currently the director of the Department for Film Culture and Outreach at the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE). She has been a member of various juries in media and visual arts, among them, the National Endowment for Culture and Arts (México), the National University Film School (CUEC) and the Mexico-U.S. Trust Fund for Culture. She has been a delegate to the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), a member of the Expert Committee for Hispanic-Mexican Media Arts, an Advisor to the Iberoamerican Educational Television Association, and the president of the Mexican chapter of this association.

Over the last 33 years, she has lectured extensively and written about film and media education, and has developed an academic field of study on the subject at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). In 1994 she received the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres condecoration from the French Government.

Iván Trujillo

Filmmaker and biologist graduated from the National University of Mexico (UNAM) Department of Natural Sciences, and from the University Film School (CUEC), where he currently teaches history of documentary film. Since 1989, he has been the director of the Filmoteca UNAM, and from 1999 to 2003, he was president of the FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives). He has been a jury member at various international festivals and has lectured extensively about diverse aspects of cinema. In 1985 he received the Ariel for best short documentary, for the film Mariposa Monarca... adivinanzas para siempre.

 

Short Films in Competition

Jon Bloom

on Bloom is an Oscar and five-time Emmy nominated filmmaker with broad experience as a director, producer, writer, cinematographer and editor. He is a renowned specialist in entertainment marketing. His production company, Bloom Film, provides creative marketing materials for promotion and advertising. He was nominated for an Academy Award as Producer/Director of the live-action short film Overnight Sensation, based upon a Somerset Maugham short story and starring Robert Loggia and Louise Fletcher. A three-term Governor at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Bloom also serves as Chair of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch. His early work experience includes stints with Robert Wise, Robert Altman, and Francis Coppola.

Carlos Bonfil

Film Critic. Studied French Literature at the Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and translation at Paris Daphine X. He was professor of French Literature at the UNAM (National University of Mexico) before he began working in cultural journalism. In the last 16 years, he has regularly published film in the newspaper La Jornada, where he also co-edits the section Letra S, salud, sexualidad y sida (Letter S, Health Sexuality and AIDS). He contributes to the International Film Guide on a regular basis and is the author of Águila o Sol, las apariciones de Cantinflas (Eagle or Sun, the Appearances of Cantinflas) and A través del espejo: el cine mexicano y su público (Through the Mirror: Mexican Cinema and its Audience) with Carlos Monsiváis. He has been a jury member of the Guadalajara International Film Festival 2002, a member of the selection committee in the first two editions of the Mexico City International Festival of Contemporary Film (FICCO 2004, 2005) and a jury member in its third edition (2006).

Pierre Murat

Pierre Murat is one of the most important and famous French film critics of the last 20 years. Known to the wider public for his participation in the radio show Le Masque et la plume, Pierre has been writing since 1981 in Télérama, the French public’s preferred weekly publication on arts and entertainment. He was born in Bizerte (Tunisia) in 1948. His parents were French of Russian origin. He studied Literature and Film, specializing in the work of Henri Colpi and spy films. He began his career as a critic in 1971, collaborating for the magazine Les Fiches du Cinema, and its yearly publication L’Annuel du Cinema, and later directing the publications from 1975-1981. He then co-directed L’Annee du Cinéma (Ed. Calmann-Levy) from 1982 until its last edition in 2005. He also directed the first two publications of Guide du Cinema chez soi (2002 and 2004, Ed. Telerama). He participated in a number of collective publications, and published different reference books, including CineGameBook (Ed. Assouline) and, more recently, a portrait of actress Danielle Darrieux (Ed. PAS). He selected short films in the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival for Gilles Jacob and then for Thierry Frémaux, from 1995 to 2005, when he joined the Selection Committee for the International Critics’ Week.

 

Documentaries in Competition

Joseph Beyer

Beyer currently works as an Associate Programmer in the Sundance Film Festival, as well as producing the Sundance Film Festival Online, a 2006 Webby Award Winner in the Movie & Film category. Beyer has been Director of Programming to the growing Waterfront Film Festival in his home state of Michigan, and appeared on panels for such organizations as the UCLA School of Film & Television, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the Atlanta Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival, among others. He currently sits on the Advisory Board for iKlipz.com, a community driven web experience for independent filmmakers.

Before joining the Sundance Institute, Beyer worked as a freelance writer in film and television development where he was represented by Creative Artists Agency. His work was seen on the Fox series Night Visions and he cocreated an animated web-series for Warner Bros. Television and Warner Bros. Online.

Prior, he worked with the prestigious mPRm, a public relations agency specializing in independent films, where he worked on the release campaigns for L. A. Confidential, Shine, and Love and Death on Long Island, among others. Beyer studied Theatre at the Chautauqua Institute in New York and the University of Evansville in Indiana. He was a member of The New Harmony Project, a development center for new works in theatre and film.

Michael Fitzgerald

Producer Michael Fitzgerald was born in New York City, raised in Italy and educated in Ireland. After graduating from Harvard University he began his film career as a screenwriter in Rome. In 1979, he produced and co-wrote John Huston’s celebrated film adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood. His second film with Huston, Under the Volcano, was nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Actor, Albert Finney; Best Music, Alex North). He then produced The Penitent, starring Raul Julia, Mister Johnson with Academy Award winning director Bruce Beresford, and Blue Danube Waltz with the world renowned Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó. A producing partnership with actor/director Sean Penn culminated in their critically acclaimed production of The Pledge, starring Jack Nicholson. In 2005 he completed both Colour Me Kubrick, starring John Malkovich, about a con-man who impersonates director Stanley Kubrick, and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada received the Acting Award for Tommy Lee Jones and the Screenplay Award for Guillermo Arriaga at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

Yves Jeanneau

Yves Jeanneau’s commitment to the promotion of documentary film culture spans a remarkable trajectory in the production and exhibition of films, both in television and on the big screen. He was co-founder and General Manager of Les Films D’Ici from 1984 to 2000, served as head of the Documentary Unit at Pathé Television from 2000 to 2001, and at France 2 from 2001 to 2005. As Executive Producer, he has produced more than 100 award winning documentaries, many in collaboration with international partners such as HBO, NHK, ABC, BBC, Channel 4, ARD and PBS. Among his most acclaimed productions are Murder on a Sunday Morning (dir. Jean-Xavier de Lestrade), which obtained the 2002 Academy Award for best documentary, The Pinochet Case (dir. Patricio Guzmán), The Gospel according to the Papuans (dir. Thomas Balmes), Norman Mailer, Histoires d’Amérique (dir. Richard Copans), Chile, memoria obstinada (dir. Patricio Guzmán) and Transantarctica and Au Sud du Sud (dir. Laurent Chevallier).

He is currently the director of Sunny Side of the Doc, an event he founded and has headed since 1984, and which constitutes the main market place for documentary film, gathering 2000 attendants from around the world every year in La Rochelle, France.

 

SIGNIS

Luis García Orso

Doctor in Theology, Professor at the Iberoamerican University and the Pontifical University of Mexico. Author of A Guide to the Movies and Images of the Spirit in Cinema. Has been a member of the jury at various national and international film festivals (Habana, Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata). Is a member of the Latinoamerican Initiative of Catholic Communicators.

Sergio M. Guzmán García

Obtained his B.A. in Philosophy and Religious Sciences. Contributor of Buena Prensa, A.C. Teaches workshops on film criticism. Has been a member of the jury at various national film festivals.

Luis Eduardo Madaria Alzaga

Obtained his B.A. in Anthropology. Producer and host of documentary television programs. Currently works on a UNESCO initiative for television about cultural heritage. Has participated in various international film festivals.