JURIES

RADAR JURY

ADRIAN MARTIN

 

Adrian Martin is Professor of Film Studies at Goethe-Universität (Goethe University, Frankfurt) and Monash University (Melbourne). He is published internationally and has been translated into over twenty languages, with regular columns in De Filmkrant (Holland) and Caimán (Spain). He is the author of six books including ¿Qué es el cine moderno? (2008) and is co-editor of the online film journals LOLA and Screening the Past, as well as the books Movie Mutations and Raúl Ruiz: Images of Passage. His forthcoming book (Palgrave, late 2014) is Mise en Scène and Film Style: From Classical Hollywood to New Media Art.

 

ANA MOREIRA

 

After completing her secondary education in the arts, she started the specialty of graphic design in Ar.Co in 2000 and, simultaneously, her career as an actress. She has collaborated since 1998 with filmmakers such as Teresa Villaverde, João Botelho, Jorge Cramez, Eugène Green, Gabriel Abrantes, Salomé Lamas and Miguel Gomes, whose latest film, Tabú, received the Alfred Bauer official award and the FIPRESCI critics’ award at the Berlin Festival. Moreira won different awards for best actress for the films Os Mutantes, Transe and Adriana at a number of national and international festivals. Apart from working with other theatre companies, she was a co-founder of the company Voz Humana. She has been a jury at international festivals such as Locarno, Vila do Conde or Sofia, among others. She is currently doing an MA in Contemporary Art Practices at the Faculdade de Belas Artes of the Universidade do Porto.

FELIPE LAGE CORO

 

Manager of Zeitun Films, a production company he founded together with Oliver Laxe and Martin Pawley. Felipe Lage has been involved in the production of four films to date: Todos vós sodes capitáns (Oliver Laxe, 2010), Arraianos (Eloy Enciso, 2012), O quinto evanxeo de Gaspar Hauser (Alberto Gracia, 2013) and Costa da Morte (Lois Patiño, 2013), all of which have received awards at some of the most important film festivals (Cannes, Locarno, Rotterdam, BAFICI, FICUNAM or Jeonju). He is currently working on the production of new projects by Oliver Laxe (As mimosas), Rainer Kirberg (A ausencia) and Lois Patiño (Tempo vertical).

 

NEUS BALLÚS

 

A film director and screenwriter. Her first feature-length film, La plaga (2013), was premiered internationally at the 63rd edition of the Berlinale, won four 2013 Gaudí awards and was nominated for the 2013 Lux Awards and the European Film Awards; it was also nominated for one Goya award. The film portrays everyday life in Gallecs, a rural area of Vallès Oriental, in the periphery of Barcelona, by following the relationships of five characters living there. A graduate in Audiovisual Communication, with an MA in Creative Documentary Filmmaking from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Ballús has also shot the short films La Gabi (2004) and L’avi de la càmera (2005), as well as the documentary Immersió (2009), shot under the water of a public pool, which received the award to the best documentary in the ALCINE Festival.

TIM REDFORD

 

Tim was born in the UK but lived in France most of his life, where, from 1998, he gained experience working on the production of Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. He then spent some years in the UK, where he worked as project manager for Signals Media Arts, but, during a trip in 2006, he fell in love with Galicia and moved to Santiago de Compostela, where he became the director of Curtocircuíto International Short Film Festival. Today, Tim is about to join the permanent staff of Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, where he will work as international coordinator and be a member of the International Selection Committee.

EXPLORA JURY

MIKE HOOLBOOM

 

Born: Korean War, the pill, hydrogen bomb, Playboy Mansion. 1980s: film emulsion fetish and diary salvos. Schooling at the Funnel: collective avant-geek cine utopia. 1990s: experimentalist features, transgressive psychodramas, questions of nationalism. 2000s: seroconversion cyborg (life after death), film-to-video transcode: feature-length-found-footage bios. Fringe media archaeologist: copyleft author of 7 books, co/editor of 12 books. Curator: 30 programs + www.fringeonline.ca Occasional employments: artistic director of the Images Fest, fringe distribution at Canadian Filmmakers. 75 film/vids, most redacted. 10 features. 30 awards, 14 international retrospectives. 2 lifetime achievement awards.
www.mikehoolboom.com.

ANDRÉS DUQUE

 

His best-known piece is Ivan Z, a portrait of the cult filmmaker Iván Zulueta that earned Duque a nomination to the Goya Academy awards. In 2011 he made his first feature-length film, Color perro que huye, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and obtained the audience award at the Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival. In 2012, he was one of the guest filmmakers at the prestigious Flaherty Seminar, held in New York. In 2013, he received the Ciutat de Barcelona award for his film Ensayo final para utopía. He is currently making his new documentary film, Oleg, on the Russian composer Oleg Karavaychuk.

 

CRISTINA ÁLVAREZ LÓPEZ

 

A film critic; a co-founder and co-editor of Transit: cine y otros desvíos; a co-curator of the film essay section in NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies. Her texts and video work on cinema have been featured in Spanish and international publications: Caimán. Cuadernos de cine, Trafic, Lola, Notebook, Fandor, Screening the Past, De Filmkrant, Frames, [in]Transition… She has participated in collective books about filmmakers such as Chantal Akerman, Paul Schrader, Max Ophüls and Philippe Garrel. She is presently teaching a course in film and audiovisual essay criticism at Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt.

 

LOIS PATIÑO

 

He took a degree in psychology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and simultaneously did cinema studies at Escuela Tai. He pursued his cinema training at the NYFA and in Barcelona, where he did an MA in Creative Documentary Filmmaking at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His videos and video installations have been shown in art centres such as Casa Encendida (Madrid), CCCB (Barcelona), MARCO (Vigo), Centro Cultural San Martín (Buenos Aires) and Galería Solar (Portugal). His films have been screened at film festivals such as Locarno, Rotterdam, San Francisco FF, Ann Arbour, Roma, Cinema du Réel, Vila do Conde, Media City, Jihlava, Viennale, Punto de Vista … and the Rencontres Internationales, which took place in Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) and the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid). His Montaña en sombra won awards at the Oberhausen Festival (Germany) and at Clermont-Ferrand (France), among others. In 2013, at the Locarno Festival, he received the Award to the Best Emerging Director with his feature-length film Costa da Morte.

MARGARITA LEDO ANDIÓN

 

From her novel Porta blindada (Edicións Xerais, Vigo, 1990) emerged the male character of her first fiction work, A cicatriz branca. A researcher and author of works on auteur cinema, including Cine de fotógrafos (GG, Barcelona, 2005), winner of an Espais d’Art Contemporani award. An experimental filmmaker in Illa (2009) and Cienfuegos, 1913 (2009); a political and feminist agitator, she establishes a dialogue among everything that remained to be developed in history in the documentaries Santa Liberdade (Galicia/Brazil/Venezuela, 2004) and Liste, pronunciado Líster (Galicia, 2005), to carry out academic projects around small-size cinematography and diversity policies. She is a professor of Audiovisual Communication in the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela University, USC) and a full member of the Real Academia Galega (Royal Galician Academy).

GALIZA JURY

MARGARITA LEDO ANDIÓN

 

FELIPE LAGE CORO

 

LOIS PATIÑO

 

NOVO JURY

EMILIO HORYAANS

 

Emilio Horyaans was born in Vigo and educated as a producer at the Escola de Imaxe e Son (School of Image and Sound) in Lugo, where he took his first steps in the industry. At the same time, he also started his music projects as a member of the band Pastillas Mamut and as a co-founder of the electronic music collective Disco Episcopal.

He currently lives in Santiago de Compostela, where he is still devoted to his projects and his ongoing training in the audiovisual industry, which has seen him participate in different productions both as an amateur and as a professional.

BEA GONZÁLEZ

 

I am twenty years old and came from Redondela to Santiago de Compostela to study audiovisual production, although I have been practising and learning about short film and music video editing and the use of different video post-production and motion graphic software products. I have been passionate about the cinema and TV world since I was a little child, and I have been an amateur online critic for more than three years.

 

CORA DIZ

 

I am doing my degree in Advertising and Public Relations in the city of Pontevedra. I started this degree not only because of the creative freedom it gives me when it comes to working, but also because I wanted to learn to understand audiences and communicate with them efficiently. As an artistic and communicative expression, cinema is much more complex than that; this is why it is so fascinating to me. I enjoy experimenting with, recording and editing audiovisual material by myself in my free time. Cinema, photography and design are my three greatest passions; although I have never worked on that as a professional, I hope I will be able to soon.

 

ESTEBAN CRESPO

 

A native of Dorrón, although in the past years he has divided the course of his days between Lugo, as a student of engraving and silk screen printing first, and Santiago de Compostela later, to do his university degree of History of Art. Over these years, he has combined his studies with temporary jobs and the cultivation of his artistic interests and preoccupations, such as sound production for the short film Red Sacre and, in the music field, production as a solo instrumentalist or in collective projects.

 

 

KIKA RAMIL

 

She sees the world through a coloured prism. After finishing high school in Santiago de Compostela, she embarked, one foot after another, on a long voyage without no compass and few belongings. From Amsterdam to Mexico, as if each destination were a lighthouse, she let herself be guided by the light of great artists and extraordinary people. Lastly, drawing on the strength and inspiration of these experiences, she started her graphic design studies in Escola Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso School, A Coruña), where she today channels her passion of the sea and currents into all type of projects made in tune with the changing tides.

CREA JURY

XOSÉ ANTÓN CASCUDO

 

Graduate in History of Art and Audiovisual Communication. Author of the documentary O instante eterno(2014), about the poet Díaz Castro, and screenwriter of A realidade máxica (María Cordero, 2009). He organised a seminar on Alexander Sokurov (2007) and another seminar on Chris Marker (2014) in CGAC (Galician Centre of Contemporary Art). He published the poetry book Manual do misántropo (Espiral Maior) in 2007.

 

SONIA MÉNDEZ

 

With multidisciplinary training in the field of interpretation and audiovisual arts, Sonia Méndez studied interpretation in Espazoaberto, Santiago de Compostela, and in the Centre d’Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya (Centre for Film Studies of Catalonia), Barcelona, and took a Postgraduate Degree in Interpretation and Drama at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (University of Santiago de Compostela, USC). At the Centre d’Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya, she followed different courses in screenwriting and direction of actors. She studied dramatic construction at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (International Film and Television School), Cuba. Méndez has directed the short filmsPerversa Lola, Leo y Mario (se dejan), As damas negras and Conversa cunha muller morta. As an actress, she has worked in the TV series Terras de Miranda and Os Atlánticos, and in feature-length films including Xavier Bermúdez’s Rafael, Gerardo Herrero’s Unha muller invisible, Judas Diz’s Por mí y por todos mis compañerosand Xavier Villaverde’s El sexo de los ángeles. She is involved in the webseries Angélica y Roberta as co-creator, screenwriter and actress. Méndez is currently directing the Carballo Interplay (CIP) webseries festival.

DANIEL VIQUEIRA

 

He started his audiovisual career at the Escola de Imaxe e Son da Coruña (A Coruña School of Image and Sound) and majored in production and image. Over the following years, he played different roles in more than twenty pieces and short films of his own or by other Galician directors.

At the same time, he worked in the production company Mr Misto Films carrying out production and edition tasks, and in 2012 he edited a number of chapters of the series Para mariñeiros nós.

He moved to Madrid to focus on the post-production of the composition of visual effects at Trazos school and started to work in this field.

He did composition work in the medium-length film The Roach, selected for the Sitges Film Festival; he was also a member of the digital composition team of the Telecinco series Piratas and supervised the special effects of the short films Mr. Smith and Mrs. Wesson and Koan. Additionally, he co-directed the latter together with Omar Rabuñal; their work received the Award for Best Direction at the 2014 Cans Film Festival.

AGAG JURY

ANDRÉS MAHÍA

 

I was born in A Coruña and studied Journalism in Madrid. I worked in the press and in the radio and TV industries until the emergence of Galician TV fiction allowed me to give up journalism and try to earn a living from screenwriting. This seemed utopic almost twenty years ago, but Zopilote, the company I founded together with Xosé Castro and Carlos Ares, is still alive. Our first job was to write the ‘bible’ forMareas vivas. The latest one, producing and directing Era visto! I have never been a jury for anything.

 

XAVIER MANTEIGA

 

A Galician writer and screenwriter. As a novelist, his most outstanding works are Morrer na herba, Sinfonía inacabada (finalist of the 1995 Xerais novel award), Manancial (winner of the 1997 Xerais novel award), Ira (finalist of the 1999 Blanco Amor novel award) and O soño de Caín (finalist of the 2005 García Barros novel award). As a screenwriter, he is best known for writing for different series of Televisión de Galicia (the Galician public TV), for having received the award given by the Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (Spanish Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts, ICAA), for the film script Ma Clon and for being the creator of the Galician fiction characters Os Tonechos, for which he wrote and edited more than one hundred sketches, thirty special programmes and eighty-five programmes of O show dos Tonechos. He is currently working on the development of the project Mundo verde, a 3D animated film of which he is the author. He also collaborates with different magazines and newspapers, and is a member of the Academia Galega do Audiovisual (Galician Academy of Audiovisual Arts) and a co-founder of the Asociación Galega de Guionistas (Galician Screenwriters’ Association, AGAG).

XOSÉ CASTRO (PATO)

 

He started working as a screenwriter in fictional series for TVG, the Galician public TV channel, in 1996. In 1997 he, Carlos Ares and Andrés Mahía founded Zopilote, S. L., the first Galician production company specialising in the design of TV series and formats. He has since written several hundreds of TV scripts for fictional series, comedy shows, documentaries and entertainment programmes. He is also the author of the design of more than twenty productions, including the famous Mareas vivas, Terra de Miranda, Pepe o Inglés, Air Galicia, O Nordés and Era visto!, and is one of the screenwriters of the film Encallados, directed by Alfonso Zarauza. He has half a dozen Mestre Mateo awards (for best screenplay and best TV series) to his credit.