Past Editions

Mexican Feature Jury

MARK COUSINS

Is a documentary filmmaker, author and curator. His films have dealt with subjects such as neo-Nazism, childhood imagination and the cinema of Iran. His feature The First Movie won the Prix Italia, and is playing in cinemas around the world. His new movie The Story of Film: An Odyssey has taken six years to make. Cousins has published several books, including Imagining Reality, The Faber Book of Documentary (as co-editor), the acclaimed book The Story of Film, published in Europe, the United States and Asia, and most recently, the collection of essays on cinema: Watching Real People Elsewhere. Cousins took the Edinburgh International Film Festival to Sarajevo during that city's siege. He was co-artistic director of Cinema China, and of the Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, part of his ongoing collaboration with Tilda Swinton. They recently devised a cinema in Beijing and did A Pilgrimage, in which they pulled a cinema across Scotland. He is honorary doctor of letters at the University of Edinburgh. In the past, Cousins directed and presented the BBC's Scene by Scene, which ran for five years, screening career interviews with, among others, Martin Scorsese, Jane Russell, Paul Schrader, Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Roman Polanski, Jeanne Moreau and Rod Steiger. In 2001

FRANCOIS DUPEYRON

Is a writer and filmmaker. He studied at the IDHEC (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques) and has directed a number of awardwinning short and feature films, earning the César award for his short film works on various occasions. His film The Officer's Ward (2001) was included in the Official Selection of the Cannes Festival. He recently published the novel Où cours-tu Juliette (Paris: Léo Scheer, 2010) and directed Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera (2008), Conversations à Rechlin (2009) and Trésor (2009), co-directed with Claude Berri. In 2009 he received the France Culture Prize in recognition of his artistic trajectory and contributions to the seventh art.

MICHAEL WOOD

Teaches English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the author of America in the Movies, of a study of Buñuel's Belle de jour, and of books on Nabokov, Kafka and García Márquez, as well as The Road to Delphi, a study of the ancient and continuing allure of oracles. He is film critic of the London Review of Books and writes regularly on film and literature for The New York Review of Books and other journals. His most recent book is Yeats and Violence.

Javier Packer-Comyn (1969, Belgium)

He has worked as Director of the Cinéma du Réel International Documentary Festival in Paris for the past three years. From 1992 to 2004 he worked for the Filmer à tout Prix Documentary Film Festival in Brussels and for 12 years headed the P’tit Ciné, a documentary screening and distribution company that programs documentary films in various locations in Belgium. Packer-Comyn also taught for several years at the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Communications Sociales (IHECS) in Brussels. He has published various interviews with filmmakers such as Claire Simon, Denis Gheerbrant and Jean-Louis Comolli, and has worked on several films and TV programs for Arte and the RTBF. In 2008, he was awarded the Prix Coq by the Communauté Française for his work in documentary distribution.

Shannon Kelley

He's Head of Public Programs for the UCLA Film & Television Archive. He has also served as Artistic Director of the Morelia International Film Festival; Director of Programming for Outfest, The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival; Associate Director of the Documentary Film Program of the Sundance Institute, and Senior Programming Consultant to the Sundance Film Festival’s documentary section. He has been a mentor for the European Documentary Producers’ Development Program and the Discovery Campus Masterschool, and a panelist at documentary funding pitches in the United States and Europe.