Past Editions

Mexican Short Film Jury

Mihai Chirilov

Mihai Chirilov lives in Bucharest. He is a film critic and the artistic director of the Transylvania International Film Festival, which he co founded in 2002. In addition, Chirilov works as a curator for the Romanian Film Festival in New York, in partnership with TribecaCinemas. He has served as jury member at film festivals such as Hong Kong, Berlin, Gothenburg, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco and Moscow, among others. He writes for several publications, runs a film and music website called Rekino, and is coauthor of a book about Lars von Trier, The Films, the Women, the Ghosts. He translated into Romanian two of Chuck Palahniuk’s novels, Choke and Diary.

Nick Roddick

Nick Roddick taught Film and Theatre at Trinity College, Dublin; the University of Manchester; and California State University, Long Beach, before becoming a journalist in the early eighties. He has edited a number of trade papers and journals, among them Stills Magazine in London (1983-1984), Cinema Papers in Australia (1985-1986, and Preview, a quarterly magazine on films in production (1993- 2007). He was also an editor of the weekly trade paper Screen International (1987-1988) and, in 1990, founding editor of Moving Pictures International. Roddick has written several books on British and American cinema, and currently runs Split Screen, a Brighton-based publishing and consultancy company specializing in the international film and television business. He is a contributor to a number of publications, most regularly Sight & Sound and The London Evening Standard. He is currently working on Film File Europe, a European film industry database that has received support from the UK Film Council and the MEDIA Programme.

Leo Soesanto

Leo Soesanto is a journalist, film critic, blogger and regular contributor to the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles, where he writes about film, television, Internet, and pop culture. He is a member of the selection committee for long feature films at the Critics’ Week at Cannes, and has been a regular member of the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) jury at several festivals around the world. He studied political science, sociology and history at the Institut D’Etudies Politiques in Paris.