The International Jury of IndieLisboa is composed by personalities from the cinema world or related to it, and attributes the two Grand Prizes of IndieLisboa: Best Feature Film and Best Short Film (this one sponsored by Sagres Preta).
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 addition to the International Jury, there will be also the Onda Curta Jury, and the Amnesty International Jury. The Onda Curta Jury attributes the Onda Curta Award which consists in the acquisition of film rights for broadcasting in Portugal’s Public Television.

The Amnesty International Jury distinguishes a film, no matter its genre or lenght, which can contribute to broad the viewer’s comprehension towards human dignity.

Finally, there will be two more awards: a jury formed by all paying viewers of the Competition and Observatory sessions, will attribute the Audience Jameson Award to the feature and short film most voted during the festival. As for the IndieJúnior Audience / Victoria Seguros Jury, which is formed by all children sessions’ viewers, will attribute a diploma to one of the short-films presented during the children sessions.
The awards attributed during the 2nd edition of IndieLisboa comprehend a trophy, a diploma and money, with exception of the Amnesty International Award and the IndieJúnior Audience/Victoria Seguros, that will be only honorific..

Lisandro Alonso was born in Buenos Aires in 1975 and studied for three years at the local Universidad del Cine. In 1996, he wrote and directed the short film Dos en la Vereda. Then Alonso worked on several features as assistant director. His own feature début La Libertad (2001) was screened as part of the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes. Los Muertos (2004), Alonso’s second feature, won several prizes in various festivals, including Best Film in Torino Film Festival. In 2005, he was a member of the prestigious Competition Jury of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. He is preparing his third feature film.

Beatriz Batarda Born in London in 1974 and grew up in Lisbon where she first started her work as an actress. Her earliest experience was in a documentary called “E Agora Maria?” (1978) directed by Maria Armanda Passos and Claudia Fernandes. After small appearances in “Tempos Dificeis” by João Botelho and “Vale Abraão” by Manoel de Oliveira, her first relevant role was in “A Caixa” (1993) also by Manoel de Oliveira. She studied Design at IADE institute in Lisbon and began her training in acting at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Between Portugal and England she has been working with film directors such as José Álvaro de Morais, Vicente Jorge Silva, Ivo Ferreira, Jeanne Waltz, Pedro Caldas, João Canijo, Margarida Cardoso, Marco Martins, David More, Christopher Morahan, Andy Wilson, Nick Laughland and Mike Dowse; in theatre with directors such as Luis Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, João Perry, Steven Unwin, Edouard Kemp and Joseph Blatchley.

Kieron Corless Is a film and TV critic for Time Out London and the film magazine Vertigo.  He has also written on cinema for a range of other publications including The Independent, Sight and Sound, Scotland on Sunday and Plan B.  He is also currently programming two seasons of films to screen at the Curzon Soho cinema in London in 2005.  Previously he has worked as script reader and editor for various film production companies, and collaborated on making several short films.  He has also edited pop promos, TV programmes, short films and a documentary.  He recently served as a jury member at the Bucharest international film festival.

Olaf Möller Born, raised, and still living in Cologne. Is the european editor of the magazine Film Comment. Writer/Curator/etc. “He’s a fucking madman!” (anonymous German filmcritic) - “He’s a great guy!” (anonymous US-American programmer) - “He’s a walking contradiction / partly truth and partly fiction...” (Kris Kristofferson)

Ilda Santiago Holding a degree in Journalism, she is the director of Festival do Rio - Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, one of the greatest film events in Latin America. Ilda is also a co-founder of Grupo Estação, the most established art-film distribution and exhibition circuit in Brazil, with over 30 theatres in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, and more than 300 released titles in the last few years. Estação, which started as a film club, is now a private company with 18 years in the market of exhibition, distribution, and organization of film events, and is one of the organizers of Festival do Rio. Ilda Santiago is presently Cannes Festival’s correspondent in Brazil.

Onda Curta Jury

João Garção Borges Born in Lisbon in 1956. He graduated in Cinema Studies at the National Conservatory of Lisbon. He joined RTP in 1979, having held positions as head of cinema programming at RTP. Between 1994 and 1998 he was responsible for the production of Portuguese fiction at RTP, for film co-productions with foreign partners, and he authored several original projects, such as Onda Curta (and Noites Curtas of Onda Curta of which he is the author, programmer, director and production coordinator), both programs are currently broadcast at the a 2: channel. A film critic with the press, radio and television, he has contributed to several Portuguese and international publications. He is a member of FIPRESCI - the International Federation of Film Critics – and the Vice-president of its Lisbon Section.

Clémentine Mourão-Ferreira Head of the documentary and feature-film production department of the production companies Filmes do Tejo (Portugal) and Les Films de L’après Midi (France), Clémentine Mourão-Ferreira is a regular contributor to film-related magazines, and she coordinated the fourth and fifth French Film Festivals. With a degree in Classical Literature by the Sorbonne, she later did a traineeship at the Arte France television channel, and worked at Gemini Films.

Paolo Manera Born in Torino (1967). Graduated in Literature 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. He was a jury member of the International Competition of IndieLisboa 2004.

International Amnesty Jury

Carlos Vaz Marques Born in Lisbon in 1964. A professional journalist since 1987, he joined the editorial staff of TSF in 1990. He has worked all over the world as a reporter. He was the editor of TSF’s morning newscast and of the daily Fórum TSF program. Since 2001, he has been working as author of the “Pessoal e… transmissível” program, a daily afternoon interview show, where he has interviewed some four-hundred personalities both Portuguese and foreign. He has published two books with the interviews made for TSF, “Pessoal e… transmissível” in 2002, and “XX/XXI” in 2004. He collaborates with several newspapers and magazines, and does a weekly interview show called “Encontro Marcado” at the SIC Mulher TV channel since September 2004. He was a scholar of The German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Madalena Miranda Filmmaker. She was born in 1976, and graduated in Media Sciences at the College of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon. She directed six episodes of the “Inter-Europa” serial and the feature-films “Um Olho Para Ver, Outro Para Sentir” (2001), “Naquele Bairro” (2002), and “Estrela da Tarde” (2004), which participated in the 1st IndieLisboa competition. In 2004 she directed a 28 minute documentary about an opera staging course called “Na Pele do Urso”.

Taco Ruighaver (1964) is director of the Amnesty International Film Festival in Amsterdam. He organized various film events and worked for DocuZone, the Dutch project that started distributing documentary films digitally as a predecessor of CinemaNet Europe. Taco is one of the initiators of the Human Rights Film Network, a new network of eighteen human rights film festivals worldwide. He is member of the board of the CJP Foundation, the Dutch Euro < 26 organisation. For eight years he was editor of the Dutch Amnesty International youth magazine “Frontaal”.