Official Jury:

Florence Ayisi

Is senior lecturer in film and video at the International Film School Wales, University of Wales, Newport. She obtained a degree in English from the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon. She studied for an MA in producing and directing at the Northern School of Film and Television (NSFTV) in Leeds, U.K. and an MA in Theatre and Media Production at the University of Hull, U.K. She produced 2 short films at the NSFTV; Where the Cows Go and A Red Hat. Where The Cows Go won the special jury prize at the Chicago international film festival in 1992.
After NSFTV, Florence worked as a freelance production manager, researcher and production assistant for various independent television programmes that were commissioned by Channel 4 Television, U.K. These include "Out of Africa" (1993) 4 x 50 minutes current affairs series on politics, economics and conflict resolution, "Mister Foot" (1991) a docu-drama about football in Cameroon, "Earl Marshall School" (1993), about a multi-racial school in Sheffield, U.K. In 2002 Florence co-directed and shot a documentary project, Reflections, a personal film by a Black British dancer-choreographer in Cardiff, U.K.
Florence recently made a feature length documentary film, Sisters in Law, in collaboration with British documentary film-maker, Kim Longinotto (Divorce Iranian Style, 1998; Runaway, 2000; The Day I will Never Forget, 2002). Sisters in Law looks at the work of two women in the Cameroonian Judiciary: Vera NGASSA, State Prosecutor and Beatrice NTUBA, Magistrate court President and Judge. The film follows 4 court cases involving women and young girls. Sisters in Law celebrates a small slice of women’s courage, achievements and their determination to seek justice in modern Cameroon. To mark the International Women's Day (2005), Florence made a short film, My Mother: ISANGE. This project was part of a series of short films by women in Wales and the films were screened in the National Museums and Galleries of Wales throughout March 2005.
Florence’s ambition is to construct and represent African people in new and different ways in film; to tell stories that reveal different realities and viewpoints that move beyond the negative stereotypes of helpless victims of war, poverty or disease.

Christina Zulauf

She was born in Switzerland in 1967. She did several photography trainings in her hometown and in Zurich. She worked as an independent photographer in journalistic works in Switzerland, Germany and Russia. She studied direction and production at the Cinema and Television St, Pittsburgh University, Russia.

Filmography:
1996 Der Neffe
1997 Die Muse
1998 Guten Morgen
2002 Das Passphoto - Best European Short film FIKE 2003
2003 Vanya - Don Quijote Prize FIKE 2004
2004 Der Ausflug (all shor films)

Akram Farid

Director, he was born in 1972 in Cairo, Egypt.
Veterinarian since 1994.
Best University Actor in 1990, 1992 and 1993.
He studied cinema in the Egypt High Cinema Institut (1997 - 2001)
Teacher in the Egypt High Cinema Institute since 2002
Director of the Orbit Satellite Chanel since 2002
Director of several video-clips and publicitary spots.

Filmography:
Scent Of The Mud (1999)
Ego/Edo (1999)
Watermelon (1999)
Gone With The Wind (2000)
Nostalgia (2000)
The Wanderes (2000)
On The Seventh Day (2001)
El Mouled (2001)
The 3 Cards (2001)
Casino (2001)
Wedding (2001)
Munchen Varum? (2003)
Farah (2003)
TV (2004)
Like Love (2005)
Me And My Cousin (2005)

David Pope

David Pope became a graduate at the Leeds University. His first short film "Skulls, Angels, Mom and Dad" was shown at the Edimburg Film Festival among other important ones. After directing a video-clip of the Sonic Youth together with Thuston Moore to the "Root" album, David directed his first feature film, the awarded drama "Miles from Nowhere". The film was shot in the outside between New York and Las Vegas. David was also the first assistant director in clients as MTV, VH1 and BBC. Nowadays he is writing the screen-play for his second feature film "Pretence" and is directly connected to 3 different films developing in the USA and England. Presently, David Pope is the Director of Education for the New York Film Academy in London.

Fabrizio Ferrari (RIFF Founder, Director)

Since 1998, Fabrizio Ferrari is connected with the film world and cultural events. He started with the organization and planification of seminars and workshops related with screenplay writing and digital video, and of some events promoting the Italian cinema. From 1999 to 2000 he cooperated with Albert deQuay ( SMFF - St. Monica Film Festival - admnistrator) dealing, in a first stage with the organization and seeing of the received material and, in a second stage, with the marketing aspects related to the festival. From 2000 to 2002 he was the assistant of David Stephenson ( nominee to the best sound track academy award with the film "Richrad the III") and Darren Brisker, working in the shooting of several films. When he returned to Italy he founded the RIFF ( Roma Independent Film Festival). The festival has as main objective to guarantee a way to better know new independent italian and international directors who are outside of the most comercial distribution centers. With his work in the distribution and promotion of the received material, he created a net of more than 15 partnerships with international film festivals, receiving support of some institutional organizations, as the Foreign Office, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Embassies of several countries. The opening of RIFF TV and of the first film market in the capital are his main bets to a near future.

Fernando Galrito

Born in May 1960
Animation teacher at the ESTGAD - High School of Fine Arts and Design of Caldas da Raínha. Co-ordinator and formator of the CITEN - Centre of Art and Narrative Techniques of the Calouste GUlbenkian Foundation, director and producer of the Ânimo Leve (animation and video producer). Cinema Course with Specialization in Animation Cinema (Grenoble). Video Direction Course (Lisbon). Graduate in Anthropology by the ISCTE (Lisbon). Post-Graduate in Communication, Cultute and Information Technology. Master-class in Animation.
He directs animation films and documentaries since 1975. He has participated and won prizes at several nacional and international festivals. He directs videos for several entities - Gulbenkian Foundation, Child Support Institute, Anthropological Studies Centre of the ISCTE amongst others. He also collaborates with several plays for Teatro da Trindade, Teatro Focus, Teatro Taborda, CCB, Karnart.
He presents seminars about image and mouvement, its pedagogy and didactics - amongst others - at the universities of Coimbra, Évora, Porto, Beira Interior, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Leiria and Potalegre, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Grenoble (France) , Campinas and S. Paulo (BRazil). He makes animation cinema and video workshops for different entities at national and international festivals - Espinho, Figueira da Foz, Lisbon, Covilhã, Algarve, Annecy, Grenoble, Paris, Rimouski (Canada), Zagreb and Cakovec (Croatia), Ketskemet (Hungry) amongst others.
He is a founder member of the associations Cartoon Portugal, Ânimo and ExpressOriente with which he directed projects to the Bienal de Cerveira, Câmara M. Lisboa, Cinanima, Porto 2001 and others. He is a member of the French association Collodion Humide and of the French Collective of Animation.

Henrique Espirito Santo

Henrique Espírito Santo was born in Queluz 18th November, 1931. He has been a teacher of Cinematographic production in several universities, institutions, workshps and companies in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique. Ateliers "How to make a Film" dedicated to childrem from 7 to 12 at Indanha-a-Nova, Angra do Heroísmo, Setúbal, Óbidos, Évora and Odivelas integrated in film weeks and festivals.
He is the author and researcher of a CD Rom about "Portuguese Cinema - the 70's - from Resistance to Freedom" to be edited by Insectos Lda. with the ICAM support.

As a producer he has a most wide curriculum with films such as:
"O Recado" e "5 dias e 5 noites" from José Fonseca e Costa
"A Promessa" from António Macedo.
"Meus Amigos" from António da Cunha Telles
"Benilde ou a Virgem-Mãe" and "Amor de Perdição" from Manoel de Oliveira
"Veredas" from João César Monteiro
"A Fuga" and "Cerromaior" from Luís Filipe Rocha
"O Bobo" from José Álvaro Morais
"Passagem ou a Meio Caminho" from Jorge Silva Melo
"Das Autogramm" from Peter Lilienthal
"Buster’s Bedroom" from Rebeca Horn
"Hors Saison" from Daniel Schmid
"Até Amanhã, Mário " and "Comédia Infantil" from Solveig Nordlund
"Olhos da Ásia" from João Mário Grilo
"O Clandestino" from José Laplaine – c.m.
"Golpe de Asa" from António Borges Correia – c.m.
"E assim nasceu a Ilha de Timor" from José Barahona – doc. Vídeo

Jury from the International Federation of Film Societies:

Don Quijote Prize of the International Federation of Film Societies.
Founded in 1947 during the Cannes Film Festival, FICC/IFSS is the international umbrella organization of film societies and non-profit cinemas from all over the world. One of its aims is to discover outstanding films and to promote them internationally. In order to achieve this, FICC/IFSS has created its international film network "Discoveries". By complementing existing distribution activities, this network creates an audience for films that are not normally screened in cinemas. All films awarded by the FICC/IFSS Juries are listed in the catalogue of FICC's Network "Discoveries" that was started in Spring 1998 as a pilot project. In addition to this, a selection of awarded films is presented at the annual International Festival of Film Societies in Calabria, Italy. The president of FICC/IFSS is Italian director Gianni Amelio.

Torbjørn Grav

Torbjørn Grav works as a filmdistributor for the norwegian company filmoptimistene. Torbjørn has been at the board of directors of the Trondheim Film Society and Minimalen Shortfilm Festival for severale years.

Inês Sofia Pereira da Silva da Fonseca Freitas

Inês Sofia Pereira da Silva da Fonseca Freitas was born in Amarante January 5th, 1970.She is a graduate in Chemical Engineering bu the FEUP. She works as a specializes tecnichian of the Water Quality Department in a private company since 2000 ans she taught Physics and Pura and Apllied Mechanics in the degree of Chemical Engeneering and Computer Engeneering in the FEUP.
She was co-founder of the Amarante Film Society (CA) whose direction she integrates for 10 years. She participates in workshopsabout cinema and associativism organized by the CA and the Film Societies Portuguese Federation (FPCC).
She played a relevant role in several evens of the FPCC and represented the CA as a member of the juri in the Luso-Brazilian Festival of Santa Maria da Feira in two editions. She signed film reviews in the Cineclubite magazine of the CA and cooperates in the CINEMA magazine of the FPCC.
She also cooperates with the brazilian producer "Urgência" in the translation to English of the shorts "O Espírito do Lugar" and "Aspirante" screenplays.

Stenåke Hedström

Born 2 September 1942
1965-1971 Teacher, English and Literature
1969 MA, University of Stockholm (Literature, Art, Film science)
1971-1978 Social worker, city of Stockholm
1978-1993 Swedish Film Institute, Childrens' Film Dep., Buyer, Administrator, Editor of film Quarterly Ung film, General Secretary of the Association of Swedish Childrens' Film Clubs
1993-1998 Freelance researcher, AGICOA Sweden
1998-present Researcher and head registrator with Filmproducenternas Branschkansli (FRF)

Jury duties Berlin, Germany (Childrens' Film Section), Tomar, Portugal (Childrens' Film Festival), Uppsala, Sweden (Short Film Festival; twice), Oulu, Finland (Childrens' Film Festival).