Past Editions

Jury for the Michoacán Section

Nouredine Essadi

Nouredine Essadi is the Audiovisual Attaché of the French Embassy in Mexico. He obtained his Master's Degree in Economics and International Relations from the Sorbonne University, Panthéon. He worked as Assistant Director for Melvin Van Peebles, with whom he made the French adaptation of the musical comedy Don't Play Us Cheap, La Fête à Harlem. From 2004 to 2007 he was in charge of the Africa Cinemas program, included in the Europa Cinemas structure, whose mission is to promote and improve the distribution of African movies, particularly francophone films. He is also founder and organizer of the French Film Festival in Cuba, which has be­ come one of the most important film events in the island. He has created numerous cultural events in Paris, among them, the African­American cinema retrospective, as well as other events dedicated to urban culture. He is also the founder of the record label Hipi Music, and programming director of the jazz venue Hot Brass, in Paris.

Lucila Moctezuma

Lucila Moctezuma is originally from Mexico City and lives in New York since 1996. She is Director of the Media Arts Fellow­ ships at the Tribeca Film Institute, a program that has supported media artists in the us and Latin America and has been funded by the Rockefeller Foundation since 1988. Lucila has worked in New York's independent film community since 1996, including the Independent Feature Project (IFP) and the Latin American Video Archive (LAVA). She is on the Board of Trustees for the Flaherty Film Seminar and on the Advisory Board for Rooftop Panorama, New Children/New York, Impacto Foundation and the Fórum Internacional de Cine de Monterrey. She has collaborated with several national and international film festivals, among them the Margaret Mead and the Media That Matters festivals in ny, and is the us Del­ egate for the Huesca Film Festival in Spain. Lucila has worked in different areas of film and video production, including the pbs series The New Americans, produced by Kartemquin Films, and the series Shocking and Awful produced by Deep Dish, which was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Lucila studied Philosophy at the Universidad Iberoamericana, where she also taught from 1991 to 1995.

Ana Carolina Rivera

Born in Mexico City, Carolina Rivera studied Communications and Media Studies at the Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente in Guadalajara, Jalisco (iteso), and screenwriting at the University of California, Los Angeles (ucla). She began her writing career in radio, as the producer of the Spanish rock program, "Ecos de un aliento des congelado", broadcast by Radio Universidad de Guadalajara, and the program "Buenos días" broadcast by Radio Metropoli. She wrote a number of episodes of Sesame Street (Televisa, 1994­1995) and was the head of writing and development of the children's programming division at Canal 11 (1996­1999). She was also the creator and supervising writer of the children's show "Bizbirije" (1995­1999), as well as of the mini series "Mi gran amigo" (1998­2002), "Camino a casa" (2002), and "El diván de Valentina" (2002)-all produced by Ca­ nal 11 at the Instituto Politecnico Nacional (ipn). She also worked as a writer of the series "Cash y amor" (Telemundo) which was broadcast in Puerto Rico and the United States. In 1995, her first feature length screenplay, Recipes to Stay Together (Cilantro y Perejil), was made into a film directed by Rafael Montero. The film received nine Arieles (1997), among them, Best Original Screenplay, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Music (composed by Carolina herself, along with Enrique Quezada and Fernando Sariñana). In 1999, she collaborated in the screenplay of Gimme the Power (Todo el poder, dir. Fernando Sariñana, 2001). She then wrote A Second Chance (El segundo aire, dir. Fernando Sariña­ na, 2001), Amar te duele (Dir. Fernando Sariñana, 2002), Amor extremo (Dir. Chava Cartas, 2006), Las niñas mal (Dir. Fernando Sariñana, 2007), Enemigos íntimos (Dir. Fernando Sariñana, 2007). In 2006, she wrote and directed the segment "Dos meses de renta" of the film Sexo, amor y otras perversiones.