Past Editions

Mexican Short Film Jury

Peter Brunette

Peter Brunette is a film critic for The Hollywood Reporter and Reynolds Professor of Film Studies at Wake Forest University, where he directs the program in film studies. He has written or edited seven books on film, including Roberto Rossellini, the definitive study in English of this director's films, a book on François Truffaut's film Shoot the Piano Player, and several books on film theory. In 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni and, in 1999, Martin Scorsese: Interviews, was published by the University of Mississippi Press. His most recent book is a study of Wong Kar­Wai, published by the University of Illinois Press in 2005. He is also general editor of the Mississippi Interview series -nearly sixty books have already been appeared in this series- and has done voice­over commentary for the dvds of Blow­up, Shoot the Piano Player, and Amarcord. He is currently writing books on Michael Haneke and Luchino Visconti. Brunette has also written frequently for The New York Times Arts & Leisure section, The Boston Globe, and many other newspapers. He is artistic director of the Key Sunday Cinema Club, which has branches in ten us cities.

Hannah McGill

Hannah McGill, daughter of two writers, was born in 1976, grew up in Sheltand, Germany, Lincoln and finally Glasgow. Having edited the Glasgow' University paper briefly, she went on to manage the List's Music pages, before being snapped up as tv critic for the Scotsman, which she left in 2001 to become film critic for The Herald. She is now Artistic Director of Edinburgh International Film Festival, which screens new work in fiction, documentary, animation and experimental film. She also writes for the film magazine Sight and Sound.

Sandra Rudich

Sandra Rudich holds a Master in Philosophy. She has been working at Canal Plus for over 14 years. She began working in the talk show La grande famille in the society and psychology sections, and in the show Nulle part ailleurs as a journalist, and programmer for the cultural section, which includes film, art, fashion, theater, and sports. She then worked in the movie partnerships of Canal Plus, and in special events broadcasts, including the Cesar Awards, the Academy Awards, the Cannes Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the Deauville Film Festival, and the Marrakesh Film Festival, among others. In the last five years, she has been in charge of the editorialization of Canal Plus group, and its other channels (Canal+Cinema, Cinecinema, tps) and of the section on movie special events. She works with all the all departments at the channels, including acquisitions (of Foreign and French film), documentary production and development, production of special programs, talk shows and events such as film premieres in France and special focus segments on foreign festivals. Rudich also manages the station's relations with the film industry, acting as a liaison to the producers, directors, actors, and other crew.