Huesca Film Festival
Catalogue
37th Edition
2009
IBEROAMERICAN SHORT FILM CONTEST JURY
EDGARDO VIERECK
Born in Santiago de Chile in 1966. He studied Law and got a degree as a Lawyer. He has fully devoted to cinema since 1992, combining film directing with academic and professional activities. He studied in Chile and at the EICTV (San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba) where he attended workshops given by Gabriel García Márquez, among others. A director, scriptwriter and film producer, he has already directed eight shorts and four full-length films. As an associate producer and executive producer he has worked in other four films, two of them international co-productions with Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Cuba, directed by filmmakers such as Silvio Caiozzi and Alberto Lecchi. He has taken part in various festivals in which he has received several awards and recognitions. He has written and co-written scripts for short and feature films by other directors and producers in Chile, Peru and Argentina. He has taught scriptwriting, directing and narrative in various schools and institutions in Chile and abroad. He has been a member of the executive committees that created ACORCH (Chilean Association of Short Film Makers, 1992), Chilean Audiovisual Platform (2001-2004) and the present Law of Audiovisual Promotion for that country. He is presently the Academic Head of the Film Specialty at the University UNIACC in Santiago de Chile, and is ready to premiere his two latest feature films during 2009.
LAURA DE LA UZ
A Cuban theatre, film and television actress. She graduated at the National School of Arts in Havana, Cuba in 1992 and at the International School of Gesture and Image ‘La Mancha’ in Santiago de Chile in 2000. She started her professional career with the Cuban film director Fernando Pérez in the films Hello Heminway and Madagascar. She has taken part in other film projects such as José Sanjurjo’s Amores and Historias Clandestinas de La Habana by the Argentinian director Diego Musiak and more recently in the Cuban films El Beny and El cuerno de la Abundancia by the Cuban directors Jorge Luis Sánchez and Juan Carlos Tabío. She has had a successful career in the theatre with some of the most important directors of this medium in Cuba, also making incursions in theatrical directing and teaching both inside her country and abroad. She has been awarded numerous performing prizes such as Premio Coral to the best actress at the XII International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana in December 1990, the Prize to the best actress in the 11th Atlantic Film Festival in Canada in 1991, the recognition of Italian Film Societies (ARCI NOVA) at the XVI International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, as well as a nomination to the ACE awards (Asociación de Cronistas de Espectáculos) in New York for her performance in Fernando Pérez’s Madagascar. In her country she has been awarded several times the acting prize “Caricato”, given by the National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists as a recognition of her works in film, theatre and television.
BORJA COBEAGA
Born in San Sebastian in 1977. He is a director and scriptwriter for film, television and commercials. As a television producer he has worked in reality shows such as Gran Hermano (Telecinco) and Confianza Ciega (Antena 3). He has directed humour programmes such as Vaya Semanita (ETB-2) and Territorio Champiñón (Antena 3), apart form working as an assistant director in Agitación+IVA (Telecinco) and Made in China (TVE-1). In 2001 he wrote and directed La primera vez, a short film nominated to Goya and awarded over 30 prizes, among them the Golden Dancer in the Iberoamerican Contest of Huesca Film Festival. His next short film, Éramos pocos was nominated to the Oscar, apart from winning over 80 awards in festivals all around the world. After Limoncello, his latest short film, this summer he is going to premiere Pagafantas, his first feature film as a director and co-writer, which has just win the Prize of the Critics and the Prize to the Best First Script at the Spanish Film Festival in Malaga.
GUADALUPE FERRER
María Guadalupe Ferrer Andrade has been the Coordinator of the Centre for Documentary Research at the School of Political and Social Sciences of the UNAM, Director-General of Cinematography and of Mexican Cineteca Nacional, as well as head of the General Bureau of University Television of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma in México (TVUNAM) and also Head of Cinematographic Cultural Promotion for the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE). She is presently UNAM General Manager of Cinematographic Activities and Film Library. She has also been a member of different juries in areas of visual media and arts, among others, for that of the National Fund for Culture and Arts, the University Centre for Film Studies, the Trust for Culture Mexico-United States, the Promotion of filmmakers by the Mexican Film Institute and for several film festivals, as well as Proposer of Mac-Arthur Foundation or Rockefeller Foundation. She has also been a delegate at the International Federation of Film Archives, a member of the Experts Committee of Spanish-Mexican Audiovisual Space and Counsellor of Iberoamerican Association of Educational Television and Head of the Mexican department of this Association. She has dictated numerous lectures and she has written many specialized articles about media and education and has been teaching for over 33 years at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma in Mexico, where she has also been part of collegiate bodies.
ROBERTO CUETO
Born in Madrid, in 1965. He is an Associate Professor of History and Theory of Cinema at the Audiovisual Communication School in Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (Spain). He is a member of the Selection Committee of San Sebastian International Film Festival and of the editorial board of the Spanish edition of the magazine Cahiers du cinéma. He is also the author of several books on film topics such as Cien bandas sonoras en la historia del cine, El lenguaje invisible: Entrevistas con compositores del cine español y Drácula: De Transilvania a Hollywood and has coordinated the volumes Los desarraigados en el cine español, Dentro y fuera de Hollywood: La tradición independiente en el cine americano, Nuevo cine coreano, Asia Noir: Serie negra al estilo oriental y Japón en negro: Cine policíaco japonés. He as well has contributed articles to several publications devoted, among many other topics, to Asian cinema.