Huesca Film Festival
Catalogue
37th Edition
2009
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FIML CONTEST JURY
ZHANG YUAN
Born in Jiangsu, China in 1963, Zhang Yuan has studied painting since childhood. After graduating from Beijing Film Academy in 1989, he raised his own funding and has directed many significant works, including Mama (1990), which won the Jury Award at the Nantes Three Continents Festival. Beijing Bastards (1992) won the Jury Award at the Singapore International Film Festival; Sons (1995) won the Tiger Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam and Seventeen Years (1999) brought Zhang the Best Director award at the Venice Film Festival. His latest film, Little Red Flowers (2006), won four major best director awards at home and abroad. Zhang has been recognised as one of the most prominent of China’s Sixth Generation Directors. Time Magazine selected him in 1994 as one of the “one hundred young world leaders for the 21st century” and China Youth Magazine chose him as one of the “one hundred young people influencing the next century.” Zhang received the United Nations Cultural and Peace Prize and in 2006, the Robert Bresson Award given by the Vatican.
PETER EVANS
Born in Great Britain in 1946, he has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in French and Spanish from St. Andrews University and he also has a PhD from Cambridge University. In the course of thirty years of academic activity he has given courses on Spanish language, literature and cinema, and also on British and American cinema. He is the author of many books, articles and reviews about above mentioned filmographies. He introduced the subject of Spanish cinema at Newcastle University, first in degree courses and subsequently in postgraduate courses. He has directed several doctoral theses focused on various topics related to cinema and literature of the Spanish Golden Century and he also works as an editor and consultant for several academic publications. At present he is based at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary College, at the University of London. Besides he takes part in many public events related to Spanish culture.
MANUEL ANTÍN
Born in Las Palmas, Chaco, Argentina in 1926. He has been published three poetry books (La torre de la mañana, 1945; Sirena y espiral, 1950; and Poemas para dos ciudades, 1954); he has written two novels (Los venerables todos, 1958; and Alta la luna, 1991) and two plays (El ancla de arena, 1947; and No demasiado tarde, 1957). Between 1960 and 1982 he directed ten films. He was the Director of National Film Institute between December 1983 and July 1989, during the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín. In 1991 he founded the University of Cinema, a humanistic education institution specialized in cinematographic studies. He has been decorated in France and Italy. He was awarded the Prize “Leopoldo Torre Nilsson” given by Cineteca Argentina. In Sorrento’s “Incontri Internazionale del Cinema” he was awarded the Prize “Vittorio de Sica”. In december 1994 the National Fund of the Arts of Argentinian Republic awarded him the Grand Annual Prize for his cinematographic, educational and cultural achievements. In 1995 he won the Prize Universidad de la Plata for all his career. Grand Prize Honor, Argentores, 2008. He has directed ten films based on literary texts.
PUY ORIA
Born in Torres del Río, Navarra, in 1962. She got a degree in Philosophy and Education Sciences from the University of Navarra in 1986. Her first contact with cinema was as a video operator for the production company Elías Querejeta P.C. in the casting for the film Las Cartas de Alou in 1989. Since then and up to now she has worked in the production department of over thirty films made by various directors such as Bigas Luna, Montxo Armendáriz Jose Luis García Sánchez, Víctor Erice, Imanol Uribe, Vicente Aranda, Adolfo Aristarain, Arturo Ripstein, Manoel de Oliveira, Fernando Pérez, Jaime Chávarri o Carlos Saura. In 1999 he co-founded, together with Montxo Armendáriz the production company Oria Films with which he has already produced five films, among them the feature films Silencio Roto and Obaba.
ROBERTO BODEGAS
He was born on 3rd June 1933 in Madrid. When he was 24 he left Spain to try his luck in Paris. He learnt French and watched all the films he could at the Cinemateque. He returned to Spain to study Arts. At the university he knew the Communist Party and he started his political commitment. He also started to carry out minor jobs in the film industry as a trainee until he reached a turning point in his career: Un taxi para Tobruk, directed by the French filmmaker Denys de La Patellière. He started the shooting as a translator, as it was a Spanish-French co-production, but he ended up as an second assistant director, earning both every one’s respect thanks to his bright nature and professionalism and a future as an assistant in the industry. After some works as an assistant director to Patellière, he had the opportunity of writing his first script: O salto, together with his friend and filmmaker Christian de Chalonge. In 1971 he directed his first feature film Españolas en París, produced by José Luis Dibildos, with whom he would also make other two films: Vida conyugal sana (1973) and Los nuevos españoles (1974). In 1975 he directed La adúltera, with a script by Rafael Azcona, followed by films such as Libertad provisional (1976), starring Patxi Andión and Concha Velasco, Corazón de papel (1982) and Matar al Nani (1988). He worked side by side with the various teams that Pilar Miró led when she was Director-General of Cinematography and Televisión Española. In the last two years, after receiving the award Rafael Azcona at Arnedo Film Festival ‘Octubre Corto’ in La Rioja, he has directed two TV movies with great success: Fago and Los últimos días de Franco.