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

• Grand Prize “City of Lisbon” for Feature Film;
• Grand Prize for Short Film;
• Distribution Award;
• Tóbis Award for Best Portuguese Feature Film;
• Tóbis Award for Best Portuguese Short Film;
• Restart Award for Best Portuguese Short Film Director;
• Award for Best Cinematography in a Portuguese Feature Film FujiFilm / AIP.

AOYAMA SHINJI
Born on 13th of July 1964 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, he started filming in Super 8 while studying film at the University of Rikkyo, where he was profoundly influenced by the classes of the cinema critic Hasumi Shigehiko. Music was a former passion, dating back to his schooldays when he started a band called "Up Beat Underground".
Shinji Aoyama is one of the most outstanding contemporary directors, known for the versatility of his work whether digitally produced  ("Shady Grove") or in black and white cinemascope ("Eureka"), whether manipulating the codes of cinematic genres in works of fantasy ("Embalming") or revisiting yakusa (Japanese organized crime) films ("Chinpira") and thematically dealing with alienation and the death and rebirth of the human spirit through traumatic experiences.

HANS HURCH
Born in 1952 in Schärding, Austria. Studied history of art and archaeology at the university of Vienna from 1971. Journalist and film reviewer for the Viennese magazine Falter between 1976 and 1986. Moreover, he was responsible for several journalistic works and organisation of film selections and retrospectives. Between 1986 and 1990 he was assistant director of films by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.  In 1991 he moves to Berlin. Collaborate in Astrid Ofner’s films. Curator of the project "hundertjahrkino" on behalf of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Art between 1993 and 1995. He’s director of the Vienna International Film Festival VIENNALE since 1997.

MARK PERANSON
Film critic and programmer based in Canada. In 1999, he founded Cinema Scope magazine, one of North America’s most respected film publications, and acts as its editor and publisher.  Peranson is also a programming associate for the Vancouver International Film Festival, as well as the programming coordinator for the Vancity Theatre, the year-round screening venue operated by the VIFF. He also works for the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where he began his festival-going career in 1999. His writing on film has appeared in books and numerous publications, including Cahiers du Cinéma, The Village Voice, The Globe and Mail, City Pages and Film Comment. In the past few years, he has served on juries in film festivals in Vienna, Hong Kong, Berlin, Gijon, Chicago, Stockholm and Buenos Aires.

NATACHA RÉGNIER
Natacha Régnier was born in Berlin in 1972, and grown up in Brussels. From a young age she was interested in acting and she enrolled in the UCCLE Academy in Brussels where she did an acting course. She later met Pascal Bonitzer who gave her a part in a film Encore (1996). Her real breakthrough came later with the part in Érick Zonca's film The Dreamt Life of Angels (1998) for which she received an acting award at Cannes and later the Caesar award for the best young actress. From then on she participated in a series of films including some of the films of François Ozon, Chantal Akerman and Eugène Green.

VASCO CÂMARA
Born in Mozambique in 1963. A graduate in Law by the University Of Lisbon. Journalist and critic of the newspaper Público since its founding. Currently he is the editor of the supplement, Ipsilon.

THOM PALMEN
Thom Palmen is one of the founders and currently director of the Umeå International Film Festival in Sweden. He is current President of the European Coordination of Film Festivals (ECFF). He’s a member of the pre-selection committee for the Swedish National Film Prize for Shorts & Documentaries (Golden Bug)
In order to help talented young filmmakers from the North of Sweden he started his own distribution company: Botnia Film.

INÊS OLIVEIRA
Inês Oliveira was born in Lisbon in 1976. She studied Fine Arts and Cinema and her first film made in 2002, O Nome e o N.I.M., achieved three awards in the category of Best Short Film at the festivals of  Vila do Conde, Montreal and Angers. In 2005 she made a documentary, Comer o Coração de Rui Chafes e Vera Mantero. In 2007 she is to direct a second fictional short, Atheas, and her first full-length feature, Cinerama.

MICHAEL BAUTE
Author, curator and media-worker from Berlin, Germany. He worked as script-editor, production manager and driver for several film productions. He publishes articles and other texts on film since the mid 1990's in books and journals like Jungle World, Starship, kolik.film and SigiGötz Entertainment. In 2001 he and Ludger Blanke established the collaborative weblog new filmkritik (www.newfilmkritik.de). In 2006 he co-edited (together with Volker Pantenburg) the book Minutentexte. The Night of the Hunter in which 93 authors write texts about each of the 93 minutes of Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (USA, 1955).

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 RTP 2. 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.

GÉRALDINE GOMEZ
Géraldine Gomez is responsible for programming at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Always on the cutting edge, for the past five years she has concerned herself with programmes linked to the use of new film technologies as well as more conventional programmes of short films. For the past two years her imagination has led to the Hors Pistes festival of short films, designed to bring together films coming from different horizons (dance, fiction, the visual arts, video etc.…), the latest having been in March this year.

MICK HANNINGAN
Has been Director of the Cork Film Festival, Ireland, since 1986. He owns the Kino Cinema, Ireland's only independent art-house cinema and has served on the boards of the Federation of Irish Film Societies, the Irish Film Institute, the Irish Film Board and the European Coordination of Film Festivals. He is also a member of the European Film Academy. Mick has a particularly interest in the art of short film and organized an International Short Film Symposium in October 2005.

JOÃO ANTUNES 
Born in Lisbon, and graduated in Economics from Instituto Superior de Economia, where he founded a cinema club and a magazine. In 1986 he started writing for the weekly O Jornal, which was followed by collaborations with Se7e, Diário de Notícias, Jornal de Notícias, TV Guia and Cosmopolitan. He edits Cinematógrafo and Play Magazine and is sub-editor on Cinemania. He is author of  Melhores Filmes, Melhores Cineastas and À Conversa com os Senhores dos Anéis. At the Libertas Film Festival in Dubrovnik he is responsible for the Focus Portugal programme. Over the past few years he has been on the juries of various festivals: Figueira da Foz, FICA, Fantasporto, Cinanima and Festróia, FIPRESCI in Istambul, Tromso and Mumbai. He is on the board of the Commission for the Classification of Performances and teaches cinema at the Universidade Moderna in Lisbon.

STEFAN IVANCIC 
Born in 1985 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Since 1992 he’s living in Barcelona (Spain). As soon as he started his engineering studies he realised that his true passion is cinema, and he founded the Spanish web magazine Contrapicado.net, where he is still the editor-in-chief. He took part in the collective book Vientos del Este – Los Nuevos Cines en los Países Socialistas Europeos, published by the Gijón Film Festival 2006. He was a member of the youth jury at the Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia in the same year. IndieLisboa is his first FIPRESCI appearance.

JANUSZ WRÓBLEWSKI 
Born in 1963. Graduated in Sociology and Literature at Warsaw University. One of the most influent film critics in Poland. Author of many scripts, among which Pożegnanie Jesieni by Marius Trelinski, shown in competition at Venice Film Festival in 1991. He published Magia Kina – collection of essays about cinema (1997). He works as a staff member in the weekly magazine Polityka. He’s also a collaborator of the Polish channel TV.

DIOGO INFANTE
Born in Lisbon in 1967. Actor and director. Graduated from the acting course at the Escola   Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisbon in 1992.
He has worked on films by Ana Luíza Guimarães, João Botelho, Jorge Queiroga and most recently by George Felner and Jorge Cramez. He has worked a great deal on stage as an actor and director, having directed plays by Harold Pinter, Alan Ball and Tennessee Williams.

RITA NUNES
Born in Lisbon on the 11th of August 1974. She did a cinema course, concentrating on   image, at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. In 1997 she produced and directed her first short, Menos Nove, which won various awards at festivals and was shown at cinemas.
Her next project was to direct two shorts commissioned by Expo 98, Lixo and Amália Por Nós. In 2000 she directed Contas Do Morto and in 2002 Só Por Acaso, two telefilms produced by Paulo Branco and shown on RTP1. She is currently preparing her first full-length feature. Over the years she has also worked regularly directing publicity films.

FERNANDA FREITAS
Her professional experience started in radio, Radio Press and Radio Paris Lisboa. In 1992 she started working for the national television channel RTP2, later moving on to Canal Noticias de Lisboa, Canal 21, Sic and once again back to RTP2 where she moderates the daily programme Sociedade Civil. She also works on RTP N where she presents the weekly programme Mais Europa. She is part of the Education for Citizenship Forum and is frequently asked to moderate at debates. She writes the Friday chronicles for the newspaper Destak. She is part of the founding team of Moda'r mentalidades - a fashion show for people with disabilities. She is a volunteer for the Gil Foundation in several hospitals.

AOYAMA SHINJI

MARK PERANSON

NATACHA RÉGNIER

VASCO CÂMARA

THOM PALMEN

INÊS OLIVEIRA

MICHAEL BAUTE