Past Editions

Michoacan Section Jury

ÁNGEL-SANTOS GARCÉS CONSTANTE

Spain

He is co-founder and current director of the Huesca International Film Festival in Spain, founded in 1973, as well as acting representative and secretary of the Huesca Film Festival Foundation. He has made several documentaries and has been a jury member at film festivals in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Morocco and Spain. He is the co-author of Literatura, cine y guerra civil (Instituto Estudios Altoaragoneses, 2004). He has also organized film series, given lectures and created film workshops for children and adults.

CRISTINA PRADO ARIAS

Mexico

She studied film, visual arts, communication and scriptwriting. She is the promotion director of cinematographic cultural at the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE). She designed and coordinated the film department at the Universidad Anáhuac México Norte and worked at the Cineteca Nacional as assistant director of research and academic outreach. She is a member of the Women in Film and Television Mexico, in addition to being its communications secretary. She has also organized many film events, and has collaborated for both written and audiovisual media in the area of culture and film.

GUSTAVO SÁNCHEZ PARRA

Mexico

He studied acting at the Centro Universitario de Teatro (CUT) of the UNAM. In 2000, he began his career in film with Amores Perros, for which he won an Ariel for Best Actor in a Minor Role. He has participated in dozens of shorts and features. Although his work has mainly been in film, he has also acted in theater and television series. He is currently an acrobatics teacher at the CUT. He also appears in the soon-to-be released film, Año Bisiesto by Michael Rowe, winner of the Golden Camera at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010.