Past Editions

Short film Jury

PABLO FENDRIK

Argentina

As a director and screenwriter, he gained international recognition after participating for two consecutive years in the Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival, with his first film, El asaltante (2007), and his second, La sangre brota (2008). He is currently working on his third feature, El ardor, which has the support of the Programa Ibermedia and other foundations for project development. He is co-screenwriter of the documentary Vida en Falcon (2005), directed by Jorge Gaggero, as well as the feature Las vidas posibles (2007), directed by Sandra Gugliotta.

JUKKA-PEKKA LAAKSO

Finland

He is chairman of the board of directors of the Film Festival of Tampere, Finland, and has been in charge of the selection and programming of the films at the festival since 2000. He has also been executive director of the Film Center of thePirkanmaaregionsince 1998.This non-profit organization manages an art house theater and brings people closer to the media. He has worked as a critic of independent film for radio and diverse publications. He is a member of the National Council for the Arts of Finland and of the European Film Academy.

CHARLES TESSON

France

He is currently a critic for Cahiers du cinéma, the influential French film magazine where he began working in 1979 and was its editor from 1998 to 2003. He gave classes in history and film aesthetics at the Sorbonne. He has published numerous books and essays on film, such as: Satyajit Ray (1992), Luis Buñuel (1995), Él de Luis Buñuel (1996), Théâtre et cinéma (Theater and Cinema) (2007) and Akira Kurosawa (2008). He has been in charge of several special editions of Cahiers du cinéma, including “Made in Hong Kong” (1984), with Olivier Assayas. He is a member of the selection committee of Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival.