Huesca Film Festival
Catalogue
37th Edition
2009
JURY OF
CRITICS
JAVIER LOSILLA
A Journalist, video maker and music critic. He works in Television Española. In TVE he has directed the cultural programmes Rompeolas, Babilonia and Cabaret XXI. He has worked in several radio stations and he directed the magazine on trends Menos 15. He has produced the anthology albums Planeta Aragón 1 and Planeta Aragón 2, and was the artistic producer of the tribute concert that ten rock bands paid to José Antonio Labordeta at Pirineos Sur Festival, in 1999. He is the author of the books Diván, Conversaciones con Enrique Bunbury and ¿Sueñan los joteros con guitarras eléctricas? Una crónica de las músicas urbanas en Aragón, and also of the introductory texts for the record-books Las Músicas del África Negra, Las músicas del Sahel, Las músicas de Aragón and Las músicas de Martinica bajo la mirada de Kali. He coordinated the contents of the catalogue and the debates in the first edition of Strictly Mundial, a fair devoted to world music organized by the European Forum Of Worldwide Music Festivals, and also of the Diccionario de Hip-Hop y Rap Afrolatinos. He contributes in newspapers and magazines such as Ajoblanco, La Banda Elástica (Los Angeles, USA), El Día, El País de las Tentaciones, Elle...). At present he writes for El Periódico de Aragón and El País-Babelia, apart from festival catalogues and specialized publications. For Huesca Film Festival he made biographical sketches of Nelson Pereira Dos Santos and Antonia Sanjuán.
CARLOS OROÑO
Born in Durazno, Uruguay, in 1935. Since 1962, he has worked as a film critic in several Uruguayan communication media. In 1965 he took part in the shooting of the medium-length film El encuentro, which was awarded the second prize at the Documentary and Experimental Film Festival given by the official institution S.O.D.R.E. Between 1972 and 1973, he was the President of the Uruguayan Association of Film Critics (ACCU). He was also the founder of Uruguayan Film Library (Cinemateca Uruguaya) and played a very active role in Film Clubs and University Cinema in Uruguay. In Spain, he was a correspondent for the Uruguayan newspaper La República and for the radio station 1420 AM Libre, both based in Montevideo; he has also contributed to Diario de Ibiza. Since 2001, he collaborates with Cinemateca Uruguaya (FIAP) as a cultural manager and public relations officer. He has also been a jury member in several departments at International Film Festivals in Uruguay, organized every year by Cinemateca Uruguaya.
JOSÉ ENRIQUE MONTERDE
Born in Barcelona in 1953. A professor of the Department of Art History at Barcelona University and lecturer at the ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisual de Catalunya). A member of the editorial board of Cahiers du Cinéma. España, he has also written for other magazines such as Dirigido Por…, Film Guía, Fulls de Cinema, Les Cahiers de la Cinématheque, Archivos de la Filmoteca, Nosferatu, etc. Books published on his own: Cine, historia y enseñanza (1986), Veinte años de cine español: 1973-1992 (1993), La imagen negada. Representaciones de la clase trabajadora en el cine (1997), Martin Scorsese (2000), La representación cinematográfica de la Historia (2001) and El sueño de Europa. Cine y migraciones desde el Sur (2008); in collaboration, among others: Bernardo Bertolucci (1980), Los nuevos cines europeos (1955-1970) (1987), Historia del cine español (1995). As a coordinator-publisher: the volumes VII, IX and XI of Historia General del Cine (Cátedra 1995), Ficciones históricas (1999) and a series of books about “new cinema”: Free-Cinema (2001), Nouvelle Vague (2002), NCE (2003), Nuevo Cine Italiano (2005), Nuevos cines socialistas (2006) and Nuevo cine alemán (2007). Member of the Consulting Committee of the Antología Crítica del Cine Español. 1906-1995 (1997). He is deputy director of the project Diccionario del Cine Español e Iberoamericano. President of the "Associaciò Catalana de Crìtics i Escriptors Cinematogràfics" since 2001.