THE JURY

The International Jury of IndieLisboa is formed by personalities from the cinema world or related to it, and is responsible for awarding the two Grand Prizes of IndieLisboa: Best Feature Film and Best Short Film (sponsored by Sagres Preta), these are the films that, in their view and for each of these categories, are the best in their respective competitions.
The International Jury will also award the Tobis Prize for Best Portuguese Film (with no distinction between feature and short films) and the AIP/ FujiFilm Prize for Best Cinematography in a Portuguese Film.
In parallel, the Critics’ Jury, composed of cinema critics from the international specialized media, will award the Jornal Público Critics’ Prize to the film they consider to be the best in the competition section.
In addition to the International Jury and the Critics’ Jury, a jury formed by all paying viewers will vote for the Jameson Audience Prize given to the feature or short film with more votes in the Competition and Observatory sessions.
The prizes for the 1st Lisbon International Independent Film Festival will comprise a trophy, a certificate, and a money award, except for the Critics’ Prize which will only be honorific.

INTERNATIONAL JURY

Augusto M. Seabra
Critic, columnist of the Público newspaper, of which he is one of the founders. He has been a jury member in film festivals in Cannes, San Sebastian, Turin and Taipei (Golden Horse). Former consultant to the European Script Fund of the European Union’s Media Programme. As a programmer, he organised the first exhibitions in Portugal of movies by directors such as Alexander Sokurov, Edward Yang, Hal Hartley, Todd Haynes, Wong-Kar Wai, Takeshi Kitano, Arnaud Desplechin, Sharuna Bartas, Mohsen Makmalbaf or Elia Suleiman.

Emmanuel Burdeau
He was born in Rennes on April 25 1974! Chief-Editor of Cahiers du Cinéma, and also a programmer of the International Documentary Festival of Marseille. He is a regular contributor to the Trafic and Vacarme magazines.

João Pedro Rodrigues
Born in Lisbon in 1966. He graduated from Lisbon’s School of Theatre and Film. Until 1999 he worked as an assistant director and editor in movies of established Portuguese directors, such as Teresa Villaverde or Alberto Seixas Santos, among others. His work as a director was disclosed in 1997, with the short-film “Parabéns!”. Premiered in the 54th Venice International Film Festival, where it was awarded an honourable mention by the jury, the film made a good career in many festivals around the globe. The documentaries “Esta é a Minha Casa” and “Viagem à Expo” followed in 1997 and 1998, respectively. The feature-film “O Fantasma” was released in 2000, also making a good international career in festivals and being premiered in four countries other than Portugal (Italy, France, Brazil and the USA). “Odete”, his new project, is in production stage, with expected release for 2005.

Jukka-Pekka Laakso
(b.1959) is the festival director (since 2002) and president of the board of directors (since 2001) of Tampere Film Festival. Tampere Film Festival is one of the best known and oldest short film festivals in the world and it will celebrate its 35th anniversary next year. Jukka-Pekka Laakso acts also as the executive director for Pirkanmaa Film Centre (since 1998), a local film centre in Tampere. The film centre is a non-profit organisation that runs an art-house cinema and works extensively with media education. He has also worked as a free-lance filmcritic for radio and magazines. Jukka-Pekka Laakso was appointed in 2004 as the chairman of the National Council for Cinema and this position brings him also a seat at the National Council for the Arts. Jukka-Pekka Laakso is also member of the European Film Academy.

Paolo Manera
Born in Torino (1967). Graduated in Litera-ture with a thesis on Cinema. Since 1985: musician/composer in independent bands and soundtracks. Since 1990 working for cultural associations and institutions in Torino for cinema programs/events, writing articles and essays (for Cineforum, Il Manifesto, Einaudi, Il Castoro...). Since 1999: curator of the International Short Film Competition of Torino Film Festival - Cinema Giovani. Since 2000: author and consultant for documentaries, web projects, screenplays, radio and TV programs for RAI channels and other national networks. Currently working as freelance for several associations and festival in Italy and abroad, with the focus on independent cinema and cinema/music relations.

CRITIC´S JURY

Luís Miguel Oliveira
Born in September 1970, in Tomar. Graduated in Media Studies at the College of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 1993. He is a member of the programming department (now named Department of Permanent Exhibition) of Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema since September 1993. He is a contributor to the Público newspaper since August 1994, as film critic.

Frank Beauvais
Born in 1970. He contributed as a critic to se-veral publications: Limelight, Repérages, Max, Chronic’art, Bref. In 1998 he directed the short-film Le Grain et l’Ivraie. From 1999 to 2003 he programmed the competitive section of the Festival Entrevues de Belfort, together with Janine Bazin and, later, with Bernard Benoliel. He was head of programming at the cinema department of the Arte channel from 1999 to 2004. Currently he is writing and developing the script for his first feature film.

Thierry Lounas
Was for many year a film critic at the Cahiers du Cinéma. He was director of the first phase of the Cahiers du Cinéma Internet site. He collaborated with Pedro Costa for the documentary Où Gît votre sourire Enfoui? (2002). Presently, Thierry Lounas is deputy director at the Atelier de Producion Centre Val de Loire, in France.

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