Paulo Branco
President [PT]

He has produced over 200 internationally distributed films, including more than 70 Portuguese titles. In Portugal, he is a producer (Madragoa Filmes), exhibitor (Medeia/Millenium) and distributor (Atalanta Filmes). In Paris, he is a producer and exhibitor (Gemini Films) and an international agent, responsible for significantly increasing the international visibility of Portuguese cinema in the last two decades.

Luciano Barisone [IT]

Journalist, critic ("Filmcritica", "Cineforum", "Duel") and film society member, in 1990, he founded the magazine "Panoramiche", which he is also directs. Since 1997, he has worked with various international film festivals, amongst them Locarno and Venice. In 2002 he became the director of the Alba Infinity Festival.

Marie-Pierre Duhamel Müller [FR]

Graduated in History, Chinese and Cinema. In the 80’s, she coordinated the distribution of documentaries in video libraries in France and worked for the CNC. She also worked in ARTE’s documentary department. She is a script writer, documentary film director, teacher in various European universities, programmer and selector for international film festivals (Venice, Turin, Lussas, etc). She is currently the artistic director for the Réel Film Festival (Paris).

Margarida Cardoso [PT]

Portuguese director. She began working in the area of cinema as script and director’s assistant. In 1996 she directed her first short. Her films, documentaries and fiction have won various awards. Christmas 71 (2000) and Kuxa-Kanema (2003) are some of the portuguese documentaries with important international broadcasting. She presented this year her first feature film The Murmuring Coast at Venice Film Festival.

Margarita Ledo Andión [ES]

Professor in Audiovisual Communications and Advertising at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Margarita Ledo Andión is also director of the Audiovisual Observatory
of the Communications Sciences Faculty, fiction writer, journalist, researcher and director of the feature-length documentary Santa Liberdade.

Cândida Pinto [PT]

Radio and Television leading journalist. She is the author of in-depth reports that have won acclaim both in Portugal and abroad. She received the AMI prize for her report Mulheres de Bagdad (Women in Bagdad). Her Meninos de Angola (Children of Angola) was short listed for the ECHO (European Community Humanitarian Office) award and she has won several Portuguese prizes, as well as the FIGRA award for human rights, in France.

Miguel Wandschneider [PT]

Graduate in Sociology and the Company from the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho (ISCTE), he also has a doctorate in Political Sociology from ISCTE.
He is in charge of the programme for contemporary art at Culturgest, in Lisbon (The exhibition programme under his responsibility begins in 2006).

Carlos Pinsky [FR]

Carlos Pinsky is assistant director of the Documentary Unit for the French television channel France 5. He is responsible for the programmes Société and Evènements Exceptionnels.

The School Jury
Five students from the D. Filipa de Lencastre High School

The College Jury
Five students from Restart, IADE, Lusófona University, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH) and Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema