Past Editions

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.