The International Jury of IndieLisboa is composed of personalities from the cinema world or related to it, and attributes the following prizes:

• Best Feature Film
• Best Short Film
• Best Portuguese Feature
• Best Portuguese Short Film
• Prize for Best Cinematography in a Portuguese Film (with no distinction between short and feature films)

MICHELLE CAREY
Lives in Melbourne, Australia and is Editor of Great Directors and Film Festivals sections of Senses of Cinema. She is a programmer for the Melbourne Cinémathèque and the Adelaide Film Festival. She has studied Psychology, French and Screen Studies and in the past has worked in film exhibition, screen art, video rental, film reference library, mail order record distribution and as a DJ.

ALBERTINA CARRI
Born in 1973 in Buenos Aires. Studied at Fundación Universidad del Cine and specialized in scriptwriting. In 1999 directs her first feature film. In 2000, starts investigating animation techniques, which is followed by two short films. GEMINIS it’s her third feature film.

JOHN COOPER
Director of Film Festival Programming at the Sundance Institute.
John Cooper is currently the Director of Programming of the Sundance Film Festival.  He has been a member of the Sundance programming staff since 1989.  Cooper has also worked extensively with the Sundance Institute's Screenwriting, Playwriting, and Children's Theater workshops as well as the Sundance Film Festival in Tokyo. He is currently the project director for The Sundance Collection at UCLA, an archive for independent film. Other work includes guest curator, Northwest Film and Video Festival, and juror and consultant, Rio Cine Festival in Brazil.  From 1995-1998 Cooper served as programming director of Outfest held annually in Los Angeles in July and until 2002 served on the Outfest Board of Directors.

J.P. SIMÕES
Born in Coimbra in 1970. Studied Journalism, Media Law, Screenwriting, Saxophone and Arab, but in the last 13 years he’s been mainly doing music with Pop dell’Arte, Belle Chase Hotel and Quinteto Tati. He wrote short stories, film scripts, song lyrics and participated actively as an actor in films by Fernando Vendrell, and Edgar Pêra, among others, and scored for documentaries. In theatre, he wrote the libreto for “A Ópera do Falhado”, and also co-wrote the music with composer Sérgio Costa. In 2006 he’s releasing the solo album “1970”, and the albums of “A Ópera do Falhado” and Quinteto Tati.

MASA SAWADA
Producer and founder of the production company Comme des Cinémas.
Masa Sawada has a degree in Amaerican Literature. He moves to France in 1982 and started Comme des Cinémas in 1993.
En 1996, he co-produces « Asphalt Tango » by Nae Caranfil. In 1998 he meets Shoei Immamura and begins a long time collaboration, which starts with « Kanzo Senseï ».
When he meets Nobuhiro Suwa, Suwa has already directed « H/Story. Masa Sawada  proposes him to repeat the experience, bu this time shot in France. That is how “Un Couple Parfait” was born in 2004, and it was also the first film Masa did as delegate producer.
Masa Sawada has also organized homages to three great directors at the City Museum in Kawasaki: in 1995 Ken Loach, after that, in 1997 it was the turn of Georges de Beauregard, and finally in 2000 he rendered a homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini.
He is also executive producer of a great number of commercials.

MARCO MARTINS
Born in 1972. He graduates from the Lisbon School of Cinema in 1994, and then completed his academic training in the USA. He worked in the area of Production with directors such as Wim Wenders, Manoel de Oliveira and Bertrand Tavernier. For two years he was assistant director to João Canijo. Between 1994 and 1998 he writes and directs three short features that receive awards at several different festivals: MERGULHO NO ANO NOVO (NEW YEAR'S DIVE), best film award at the Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal, 14 SEGUNDOS E UM TICO - NO CAMINHO PARA A ESCOLA (ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL), award for Best Film and Best Director at the VII Badajoz Film Festival and the Atlantic Axis Award at the Ourense Festival.
He also directs commercials, and in 2002 he founds his own advertising production company (Ministério dos Filmes), which has received several international awards.
ALICE is his first full-length feature film.

KEN WARDROP
Ken Wardrop has recently completed his studies at the National Film School, IADT-DL. During his time at film school, Ken specialised in directing documentary film. His films include the awarding winning shorts Dampened Spirits, Love is Like a Butterfly Undressing My Mother and Useless Dog. He has co-founded the production company Venom Film with his former classmate Andrew Freedman and they are currently developing both short and feature projects.

SONIA VOSS
Graduated from the editing section of the INSAS in Brussels, Sonia Voss then worked for several film and documentary production companies. In 2003, she created Kinoko Films, a structure based in Paris and dedicated to the production of short films and creative documentaries. She produced, among others titles, “The old road” by Antoine Parouty, “Casa Ugalde” and “The Gentlemen” by Patric Chiha, all selected in several international festivals. She is also part of the documentary commission of the Région Limousin.

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’s Canal 2, RTP International and the Portuguese Cinema program in RTP2. 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.

FRANÇOIS BONENFANT
Born in Brussels and currently linving in Paris.
Studied stage direction at INSAS and then did a MA in Modern Literature at the University of Paris.
He is a writer and film critic and is in charge of programming of recent short films for the French Cinemathéque.
He is a regular contributor for Bref and Vertigo magazines, and also for the Film Dictionary published by Télérama.

JAY ROSENBLATT
Jay Rosenblatt has been making films since 1980. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have won many awards and have screened throughout the world.
Jay is originally from New York and has lived in San Francisco for many years. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist.

RONALD BERGAN 
(PhD Eng.Lit.), a British film historian critic and lecturer, is a regular contributor to The Guardian and other national newspapers and magazines. He has read scripts for the European Screen Fund and been consultant and writer on a number of TV documentaries. He was Vice-President of FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) for four years, has been President of the jury at numerous film festivals, and chaired and participated in many symposia on the cinema all over the world. During a number of years in France, he lectured on literature, theatre and film at the Sorbonne, the British Institute and the University of Lille. He has held the Davidson Chair of Humanities at Florida International University in Miami, where he teaches Film History and Theory. Among the many books he has written, he is the author of biographies on such personalities as the brothers Coen, Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Renoir, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Perkins e Katharine Hepburn.

JOSÉ VIEIRA MENDES
Born in Lisbon in 1960. His work as been divided between cultural management and journalism. He has a degree in Media Studies, and a Master in Compared Literature. Studied Photography and did a course in Journalism for televison. He was assistant editor in Portuguese magazine Expresso until 1994. He started collaborating as journalist and translator with Elle magazine and other Hachette Filipacchi publications in 1992. Currently he is editor-in-chief and director of the Portuguese edition of Premiere magazine, since its release in Portugal in November 1999.

BÁRBARA GUIMARÃES
She attended a course of International Relations but has a degree in Journalism. She did an internship as TV news anchorwoman and host of cultural programs for the Portuguese private TV channel TVI. She then changed journalism for entertainment. She did several shows for Portuguese private TV channel SIC. When cable TV channel SIC Notícias (news channel)  arose, she returned to hosting cultural programs.

HELENA GUBERNATIS
Born in Lisbon in 1963. Has a degree in History of Art. With a very diversified career, she has worked as producer to Portuguese private TV channel SIC and as Editorial Coordinator to the Exhibition Center at Centro Cultural de Belém. She’s also translator since 1988. Author of the book “A Guidinha antes e depois” (forward and selection of chronicles by Luís de Sttau Monteiro). She is currently press attachée for Portuguese Committee of UNICEF.

PEDRO PAIVA
Born in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal, in 1980. Has a degree in Filmmaking by the Lisbon Film and Theatre Scool, and took a Documentary Direction Course in the Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme supervised by the Ateliers Varan, during which he directed “Compassos de Espera”, that won a honorable mention in the second edition of IndieLisboa. He works regularly as director and in post-production.
He also works within the fields of theater, visual arts and video-art, within which he has developed various video perfomances.

MASA SAWADA