Jury
Official Jury
Anna Da Palma
Anna da Palma was born in Lisbon and lives in France since he childhood. After attending the Art History University, worked as Assistant Director for eight years and graduated in “Scriptwriting for cinema” at the F.E.M.I.S.
Directs her own films: Mémoire Sépia, Bienvenue, Lisbon Calling, Orgueilleux, Telma, demain, Sem Ela. She also wrote for other directors as Hubert Gillet: Lune, Dans tes bras. Presently Anna is preparing new projects: her next feature film totally shot in the region of Baleizão and a documentary about Santo Aleixo da Restauração also in the Baixo Alentejo her family’s village.
Manuel Matos Barbosa
He participated in the Portuguese film society movement during the 50s and the 60s. Also at that time he started to use the reduced format film directing some documentaries and animated films, as he was much involved with the animated cinema. He also made part of the movement to create the FPCA (Film and Audiovisual Portuguese Federation) whose management bodies he also integrated.
He was at the Portuguese representation in the UNICA - Oostende/ Belgium, Colonia/ Germany and Saint-Nazaire, France.
He was a jury in national and international festivals, in the CINANIMA pre-selection and president of the international jury in the CINANIMA/ESPINHO – 1984 and 2005.
He has also been working with comics, cartoons and painting.
Michel Zgarka
Mr. Zgarka has been a senior executive in numerous sound, film and television production and distribution companies. Mr. Zgarka has over 30 years experience in this field. He is a graduate of McGill University with a degree in Education as well as a Bachelor of Arts from Sir George Williams University and has done post-graduate studies in International Communications in France. Michel Zgarka oversees the national and international development and sales of iSTUDIO Cinema Television.
Michel Zgarka has been a guest speaker at over 20 international entertainment industries events as well as recently the co-President of the Jury of the Rocky Awards at the Banff TV Festival (2009).
He recently created a full program for a Quebec based career college about the technical and creative jobs in production.
Jury from the International Federation of Film Societies
Rita Boronyák
She studied hungarian, french literature and aesthetics at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary, french litterature at Sorbonne III, Paris, France, and journalism at Journalist School of Association of Hungarian Journalists. Since 1998 she works at Hungarian National Film Archive (HNFA), Budapest at the Department of Documentaries. Since 2007, she is student at Doctoral Program in Film, Media and Contemporary Culture of ELTE, and preparing her thesis concerning the hungarian documentary films after the regime change. She is teaching contemporary documentary films at ELTE, and leading a documentary film club at the HNFA’s movie, Örökmozgó. Her writings are generally published in Filmkultúra Online.
She was member of different international and hungarian juries (Visegrad Documentary Library, Hungarian Film Week, Bratislava Film Festival). Member of the Committte of Film Critics of the Organization of Hungarian Journalists. She is translating french and english comics, too, her favorite work is to make speak hungarian Garfield, the lazy cat.
Luís Carneiro Ferreira
Luís Carneiro Ferreira was born in Porto, the city where he graduated in Cinema and Video in the ESAP – Superior Artistic School of Oporto in 2008. Since then he develops his work as a short-film director, producer and sound modeller. At the same time he develops a specialized work in review and essay, collaborated with the CINEMA Magazine and covered different festivals.
Dieter Weber
Founding and running the Art-Cinema Pforzheim (Germany) for over twenty years. Two years choosing scripts for regional production subsidies. Filmanalytics.
Documentary Jury
João Cayatte
João Cayatte graduated in the Film School and started to work as first direction assistant in feature films, mostly foreign co.produtions. He has worked with directors as Claude Miller, Walter Sales Jr. or Charles Sturridge and John Malkovich among others. In the begining of this decade he assumed publicity, documentary and fiction direction specially in series as João Semana and Quando os Lobos Uivam both for RTP1. He is a guest teacher at the Lusófona University teaching the 3rd year subject Fction Atelier and is also a teacher at the ACT- Actor’s School.
Miguel Coelho
He was born in Lisbon, 1976. He graduated in Communication Science – Cinema at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon; he still completed his documentary studies at the Varan Ateliers, 2006. He directed the documentaries Um Olho para Ver, o Outro Para Sentir, 2001 and Alda, 2006. Besides recently being the editor of the magazine Docs.pt he still is a teacher at the Audiovisual Communication Department at the António Arroio High School.
José Pinto de Sá
Journalist, translator, author and stage director, he is a founding member of the Estação Imagem, whose direction he integrates. In cinema, besides being a critic, he was a scriptwriter, casting director and ethnographic consulter.
November 23rd to December 1st, 2009
FIKE 2009 - 8th Évora International Short Film Festival
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7000 - 818 Évora
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