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Jury
Jury, Best Film of an Emerging Director
- Ann Marie Stock, President of the Jury
Ann Marie Stock is a Professor of Hispanic Studies and Film Studies at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. A specialist on Latin America culture with an emphasis on Cuban film and video, Dr. Stock has conducted research, led study programs, served as a consultant, and participated in film and cultural events during more than 50 visits to the island over the past two decades. She has served on numerous juries including the Sundance Film Festival, the Fulbright Program, and Cinergia. Several years ago she founded the non-profit Cuban Cinema Classics initiative www.cubancinemaclassics.org to distribute Cuban documentaries with English subtitles in the U.S. Dr. Stock’s book-length study documenting the island’s rapidly-changing audiovisual landscape, On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition, appeared in 2009. She is currently collaborating on a documentary examining this transitional moment in Cuban through the lens of audiovisual culture.- Javier Espada
Javier Espada is the director of the 22 x Don Luis Film Festival created as a film homage to Luis Buñuel, which has already completed its 6th edition. He has designed the permanent exhibition of the Center Buñuel in Calanda (CBC), in honor to the Aragonese filmmaker and Spanish icon Luis Buñuel. Mr. Espada heads the CBC since its creation in the year 2000. He has created numerous exhibitions related to Buñuel in the cities all over the world. Along with Asier Mensuro he designed the photographic exposition of the Buñuel Family Album (Album fotográfico de la familia Buñuel). In contribution with the Filmoteca Española he conceived an exhibition dedicated to rescue an assembly of unpublished photographs made by Buñuel while scouting for locations in Mexico called Mexico Photographed by Luis Buñuel. He has collaborated in diverse film festivals such as Berlin International Film Festival, CineFrancia, Mostra de Cine Latinoamericano de Lérida, Festival Cinespaña de Toulouse, Mostra de Cine Latinoamericano de Lisboa, Guadalajara International Film Festival (Mexico), Documenta Madrid, Filmtage Munich, SEMINCI, San Sebastián International Film Festival, Havana International Festival of Latin-American Cinema, and many more. He has written and co-directed with Gaizka Urresti the documentary El ultimo guión: Buñuel en la memoria (The last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel), which received several international awardeds and will be screened at NEFIAC this year.- Ishtar Yaseen
Ishtar Yasin was born in Moscow in 1968 of Iraki, Chilean and Costa Rican origin. She starts its artistic education in 1979 at the Castella Conservatory, in San José, Costa Rica. Later on she follows Dramatic Arts career at the University of Costa Rica. She receives a Master’s degree in Arts from the State Cinema Institute of Moscow (VGIK) in 1990. Since 2000 she works in her first feature film project “El camino” (The Path), which is chosen for the Manhein Coproduction Meetings in Heidelberg, Germany. It also receives the support of Fonds Sud Cinema Program from the French Ministry of International Affairs and a scholarship from Center of Scriptwriting (CECI), from Normandy, France. In 2008, after seven years of hard work, her first long feature film, “El camino” (The Path) finally sees the light in the Berlinale and she will be sharing with us at NEFIAC this year. She is currently working in the postproduction of the documentary “Apocalipsis de Nuestro Tiempo” (Apocalypse of our Time) about the recent work by the costarican-chilean painter, Julio Escámez and also the documentary “Les Invisibles” (The Invisibles) about the drama of the Haiti people after the earthquake. Another project in which she is involved is “Cine Carretero” that she is devoted to bringing cinema to marginal communities. “Knife of the Soul” is her second long feature film project, which is in its development stage at the present moment.
Jury, Best Documentary
- Michelle LeBrun
Michelle LeBrun is also an adjunct professor in the Integrated Arts and Learning Graduate Masters Degree Program at Lesley University and also teaches in the Film Media and Communications departments of the University of Rhode Island. The award-winning documentary Death: A Love Story, marked Ms. Le Brun’s debut as a filmmaker having directed, produced, written and photographed the film. It was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, won top awards at several other national film festivals and aired on national PBS and CBC Canada. In 2002 Ms. Le Brun founded HARKEN! Youth Media providing workforce development filmmaking opportunities to youth. We teach youth to master their environment by learning storytelling, technical skills associated with camera work, interviewing, and editing as well as civic engagement to tell compelling stories.- Mark Fogarty
Mark Fogarty is the president and Co-founder of the Rhode Island Film Collaborative (RIFC), a non-profit created to help local filmmakers find resources in the Ocean State. The RIFC has more than 1,900 members and has been involved in the production of dozens of films. For more information, visitwww.rifcfilms.com. Mark started Exile Movies in 2003 and has worked as a director of photography and editor on feature-length and short films. Mark recently directed the feature-length epic, smalltown, from his screenplay. You can find out more about the film at www.smalltownmovie.com. As an actor, Mark has been in dozens of films and uses his knowledge of acting to inform his writing. Mark graduated from Emerson College with a degree in filmmaking, and works as a freelance editor and writer.- Marisol Rodriguez Rosabal
- Marisol Rodriguez Rosabal is responsible for the organization of the National Showcase of New Filmmakers (Muestra de Jóvenes Realizadores), an event aimed to encourage knowledge and reflection concerning to the audiovisual work by new filmmakers. Young filmmakers films´screening, international contemporary film showcases, theoretical meetings debates and seminars. Its usual space “Haciendo Cine” (Making Cinema) is dedicated to the making of audiovisual projects: Workshops with important Cuban filmmakers, exhibitions and its usual Poster Contest.
Jury, Best Short
- Lizabel Mónica
Lizabel Mónica is a Cuban writer, blogger and multimedia artist born in Havana in 1981. Recently, she received the Fronesis grant for novelistic creation from Cuba's Asociación Hermanos Saíz for her novelin-progress, Tim Sin Tina. She also coordinates Revista Desliz, an online alternative cultural project that includes the writings of authors residing in and out of Cuba as well as her personal blog (http://paladeoindeleite.blogspot.com/) and other innovative collective projects such as “Cuba Fake News,” a site that features false news stories about Cuba that anyone can publish.
- Yolyanko William Argüelles Trujillo
Yolyanko William Argüelles Trujillo is a Cuban filmmaker and painter born in Maranzas in 1975. He graduated in fine arts academy “San Alejandro”. He also work as cartoons designer and animations. His filmography includes The engulfed cathedral (FIPRESCI 2008), Ex-ergo (FIPRESCI 2008), The dictation (Special Jury Prize, Cuban New Filmmakers Festival 2010).
