Júris doclisboa 2008

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY

Christine Dollhofer [AU]
She studied theatre, journalism and media at the University of Vienna. Between 1993 and 1997, she worked for Filmcasino, in Vienna, and from 1997 to 2003 she headed Diagonale – The Festival of Austrian Film in Graz. Currently she is a lecturer at the University of Vienna, she is part of SixpackFilm direction, a jury member of Vienna Film Fund and a consultant for acquisitions at Filmladen distributors, in Vienna. Since 2004 she has been director of Crossing Europe Film Festival.

Joana Vicente [PT and EUA]
Joana Vicente has produced over thirty films, many by such acclaimed directors as Brian de Palma, Stephen Soderbergh, Jim Jarmusch and Hal Hartley. She co-founded, with Jason Kliot, Open City Films as well as HDNet Films. Her films have garnered numerous awards and are often selected for the Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, Venice, and Toronto film festivals. In 2007, she was honoured by Mayor Michael Bloomberg with the Made in NY award..

Jonathan Rosenbaum [EUA]
Born in Alabama in 1943. He later moved to Paris where he worked as assistant director to Jacques Tati. Regarded as an important figure in American film journalism, he was a film critic for Chicago Reader between 1987 and 1997. He has published and edited numerous books, most notably: Moving Places, Placing Movies, Midnight Movies (with J. Hoberman), Movies as Politics or Movie Wars, and has contributed to most of the world’s notable film publications.

Margarida Veiga [PT]
She graduated in Architecture and post-graduated in Arts Management. Director of Exposition Centre – Belém Cultural Centre between 1996 and 2003, she was also responsible for the management and programming of the Berardo Collection, in the same period. Currently she is Administrator of the Belém Cultural Centre Foundation and the Contemporary and Modern Art Foundation, Berardo Collection. She was responsible for the programming and production of CCB’s Inside Out Festival between July and August 2008.

Nan Goldin [EUA]
Born in Washington in 1953. For the last 30 years she has developed a body of work in which photography reveals itself as a radical and courageous coincidence between art and life. After she graduated at Tufts University, she moved to New York and started making documental photography about the post punk movements, quickly integrating herself in the New York underground scene. The documental nature of her work has been most often presented in the form of a slideshow at film festivals.

INVESTIGATION JURY

Fleur Knoperts [NL]
Between 2001 and 2006, she was director of the Forum for International Co-Financing of Documentaries at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival. (IDFA) where she also co-organized the yearlong documentary script workshop. From 1998 until 2000, she was co-coordinator of the Jan Vrijman Fund, which gives financial support to documentary filmmakers from developing countries. In 2007 she was Industry & Marketplace Director at Doc/Fest in Sheffield where she set up MeetMarket. She is currently freelancing and exploring new horizons.

Francesc Relea Ginés [ES]
Graduated in Journalism at the Universidade Autónoma de Barcelona and has a Master in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University. He began his Professional career at El Periódico de Cataluña. He worked in television in several countries where he was a war correspondent. Since 1990, he has been on the staff of El País editorial office, with a break to return to Latin America as a correspondent in Buenos Aires (1998- 2005) and México (2005-2008). Currently, he is El País correspondent in Portugal..

Licinio Azevedo [MZ]
He is a filmmaker and writer. One of his books was the basis for the script of the first Mozambican full-length feature film. He worked in the National Institute of Cinema of Mozambique, where he closely followed Ruy Guerra and Jean-Luc Godard’s experiences. For five years he was also responsible for the weekly television program Canal Zero at the Media Institute. Currently, he works as a director and producer for Ébano Multimédia, a production company.

PORTUGUESE COMPETITION JURY

Jordi Ambròs [ES]
From 1985, he was scriptwriter, and later Director, Executive producer and Commissioning Editor for Televisió de Catalunya/TV3. Since 2000, he has been Head of Documentary Co-production and director of El documental, a weekly slot that includes a wide selection of international documentaries and local co-productions. He has also numerous national and international engagements and contributions in the documentary film field (consultant, jury, lecturer, tutor and reporter).

Pedro Pimenta [MZ]
He started his film career at the National Film Institute of Mozambique in 1977. He is a founder of Ebano Multimedia Lda, leading independent production company in Mozambique. Between 1997 and 2003, he was the Chief Technical Adviser of the UNESCO Zimbabwe Film & Vídeo Training Project for Southern Africa. He is the founder and Director of Dockanema a documentary film festival in Mozambique and a consultant with the National Audiovisual and Film Institute (INAC).

Simonetta Luz Afonso [PT]
Born in 1946 in Lisbon. She graduated in History, initiated her Professional activity in 1972 in Palácio Nacional da Pena, moving to Palácio Nacional de Queluz in 1974, that directs between 1983 and 1991. From 1991 to 1996 she was appointed General-Director of the Portuguese Institute of Museums. From 2001 to 2004 she was the Chief Curator of the Portuguese Parliament. From May 2004 to August 2008, she was President of Institute Camões, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.