Past Editions

Mexican Feature Film Jury

Trevor Groth

He grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah and started attending the US Film Festival (which later became the Sundance Film Festival) while in high school. He began working for the Sundance Institute in their development department and at their filmmaker labs while in film school at the University of Utah. Upon his graduation in 1993 he moved to Los Angeles to join the programming staff. Trevor Groth is Senior Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival, where he has worked since 1993. He programs narrative and documentary features and is the head of the short film section of the festival. He is also Director of Programming for CineVegas. In its sixth year under his guidance, CineVegas has emerged as one of the hottest film festivals in the United States.

He helped to conceive and produce the Sundance Online Film Festival, which marked the first time that one of the major international festivals showcased their short films online. He has been a guest curator, panelist and juror for numerous international festivals, as well as a consultant on a number of film productions and for IFILM.com.

Peter Scarlet

Has been with New York City?s Tribeca Film Festival since October 2002, serving as its Executive Director until June 2007 when he was promoted to Artistic Director. He is the event?s chief programmer, and is primarily responsible for its programming of foreign films in all of the festival?s different sections, mainly its narrative and documentary features, and the groundbreaking restored/rediscovered section. He had previously served as Director General of the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, the first American to hold that prestigious position.

Prior to that, Mr. Scarlet served for 19 years (1983- 2001) as Artistic Director of the San Francisco International Film Festival. Under his leadership, this festival, the oldest event of its kind in the Americas (founded in 1957), reclaimed a place among the most adventurous and widely respected international film festivals; at the same time its attendance increased more than three-fold. In addition, Mr. Scarlet is host and programmer of the Cinemondo series of foreign films on LinkTV.

He has served on juries at festivals all over the world, and taught university-level film courses in film history, production and theory for eight years. He was named Chevalier dans l?Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.

Cecilia Suárez

Mexican actress. She attended the Theater Faculty of Illinois State University (USA) and got an acting degree in 1995. She was part of the following plays: Santos & Santos (1996); Everyman (1995-96); The Crucible (1995); Henry IV, Part II (Illinois Shakespeare Festival, 1995-96); and The Macbeth Project (1994), where she appeared as Lady Macbeth. In México she acted in the short films Nic Habana (1997), by María Fernanda Suárez, Table Dance (1997), by Gerardo Pardo and Lección relámpago (2007) by Alejandro Lubezki. Some of her films are Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1999); Spanglish (2004); The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), Un mundo maravilloso (2006), and Blue Eyelids (2007).