Past Editions

Mexican Short Film Jury

RÉMI BONHOMME

Has collaborated with the Critics' Week section at Cannes since 2003 and was appointed its program manager in 2009. Based in both Paris and Beirut, Rémi is also a programmer at the Metropolis Art Cinema, co-founder of MC Distribution company (Lebanon) and associate programmer at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival (Qatar). He was associate producer for the Lebanese feature film Every Day is a Holiday by Dima El-Horr, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2009.

BETH SÁ FREIRE

A Brazilian born in Rio de Janeiro, is assistant director of the São Paulo International Short Film Festival. She is a lawyer and holds a Ph.D in foreign trade. Sá Freire has worked for the São Paulo International Short Film Festival as assistant director and as head of its special programs since 1997. An official collaborator of the Critics' Week section of the Cannes Film Festival and of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival in Germany, she has also participated as a jury member in several film festivals around the world, including: Berlinale Short Competition (2001), Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival (2002), Drama Short Film Festival in Greece (2004), Zinebi in Spain (2004), ShortShorts in Japan (2004), Llámale H in Uruguay (2009), Asiana in Korea (2009), Berlinale (Teddy Bear), in 2011, and at least 10 Brazilian events dedicated to the short film format. She has curated programs of Brazilian shorts for the Drama Short Film Festival, Zinebi Festival and Asiana Short Film Festival.

ALISSA SIMON

Is the senior programmer for the Palm Springs International Film Festival. She has been a film curator for more than 25 years and does program consulting work through her company Cinequanon. She was named a 1999 "Chicagoan of the Year" for her innovative work as associate director/programming at the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute, a position she held for 11 years. After earning a B.A. in British Studies from Yale, an M.A. in film history and criticism from the University of Iowa, and a M.A. in arts administration from the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, Alissa began her programming career at the Film Department of the Walker Art Center, moving on to the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House. She has served on international film festival juries in Karlovy Vary, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Sarajevo, Sochi, Cluj, Torino, Montreal, Vancouver, Plzen and Trencianske Teplice. A member of FIPRESCI, the international film critics' association, she writes about films and film festivals for the trade paper Variety and coordinates Variety's "Ten European Filmmakers To Watch" program at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.