INTERNATIONAL JURY 2008
	Luis Mariano Gonzajlez Mazarran Luis Mariano Gonzajlez Mazarran holds a Bachelors Degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. In 1994 he became part of the organizing committee of the Film Festival of Alcal de Henares / Community of Madrid, coordinating various publications and series. In 1998 he was made director of the festival. He also works as a cultural critic and film critic in various newspapers and as a writer and cinematographic adviser for television programs such as “100% Cine” (Telecinco), and “Cinemaspop” (Antena 3 TV). He has been a member of the jury at international festivals such as Locarno (Switzerland), Guanajuato (Mexico), Barinas (Venezuela) and Documenta Madrid. He was the President of FILMAD, the Coordination of Film Festivals in the Community of Madrid, from its founding to 2007.
	Marcel Jean Marcel Jean has authored a number of books on Quebec cinema and animation (“Le cinéma québécois”, 1991; “Le langage des lignes”, 1995; “Tout est mise en scène”, 2007, etc.). He is also a well-known critic and short film director (“Le rendez-vous perpétuel”, 1989; “Vacheries”, 1990), and a documentary filmmaker (“État critique”, 1992; “Écrire pour penser”, 1998). From 1999 to 2005, he headed the animation studio for French programmes of the National Film Board of Canada. In this capacity, Marcel Jean produced several internationally acclaimed films: “Àme noire” by Martine Chartrand (winner of 22 awards including the Golden Bear at Berlin), “Les Ramoneurs cérébraux” by Patrick Bouchard (2002, winner of 5 awards including a Jutra), “Nuit d’orage” by Michèle Lemieux (2003, winner of 12 awards of which a Crystal Bear at Berlin), “Accordéon” by Michèle Cournoyer (2004, presented in competition at Cannes, award winner at Leipzig and Dresde), “Isabelle au bois dormant” by Claude Cloutier (2007, award winner of 18 awards including a Jutra). Marcel Jean also fostered a dynamic policy of international co-production which led him to co-produce films by such directors as Norvegian Pjotr Sapegin (“Aria”, 2001, winner of 10 awards; “À travers mes grosses lunettes”, 2004, 12 awards); Danois Lejf Marcussen (“Angeli”, 2002, Zagreb award winner); Portuguese director Abi Feijo (“Clandestino”, 2000, winner of 8 awards); Swiss filmmaker Georges Schwizgebel (“L’Homme sans ombre”, 2004, “12 awards”; “Jeu”, 2006, awarded at Hiroshima and Ottawa); and French filmmaker Philippe Jullien (“Ruzz et Ben”, 2005). Under Jean's leadership, the NFB entered into partnership with the French studio Folimage to create an internship programme for animators. This resulted notably in his co-productions “François le Vaillant” by Carles Porta Garcia (2002, 4 awards), “Circuit marine” by Isabelle Favez (2003, 5 prizes), and “Histoire tragique avec fin heureuse” (2005, winner of numerous awards, including the Annecy Crystal). Since his departure from the National Film Board of Canada, Marcel Jean works as screenwriter, script doctor, and consultant for a roster of companies: Zone 3, ECP Televison, Noir sur Blanc Animation, Max Film, Productions Ottoblix, ACPAV, ONF, SODEC, etc. He also programmes for international festivals (such as Annecy, Zagreb, Ottawa, Wissembourg), teaches at the University of Montreal, and is an editor for the publisher Les 400 Coups. Most recently, Marcel Jean wrote the screenplay for “Dehors novembre” (Patrick Bouchard, 2005, Jutra Award for Best Animated Film) and “Champlain retracé” (Jean-François Pouliot, 2008, a film produced for the Quebec 400th Anniversary celebrations). In 2008, Marcel Jean and Galilé Marion-Gauvin created the production company Studio Cador. Their firm produced the animated short “L’homme qui dort by Inès Sedan”, to be released in 2009.
	Philippe Clivaz Philippe Clivaz is director of the Association Base-court in Lausanne. He is head of the Geneva Select Market and the Short Film section of the festival “Cinéma Tous Ecrans” in Geneva. Clivaz is also on the programming commission for shorts of the Locarno International Film Festival. He is short film expert for the Swiss Federal Bureau of Culture. According to Philippe Clivaz, the above are "... among other misdeeds committed and still unpunished...". Base-court is an association for the circulation and production of short films. It organises short film events and programmes, among which the "Nuit du court" in Lausanne. www.shortfilm.ch
	Giuseppe Schifani Schifani has worked in cinematography since 1981. After studying in Italy and England, his first job was with the Studio OIDA in Palermo. He went on to be production assistant for various companies such as Aspekt Telefilm (Hamburg), Antea (Roma), G.R. Production (Paris), and the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (Paris). In 1983, Schifani began working as assistant cameraman and, in 1990, as camera operator with directors of photography including: L. Verga, M. Gatti, P. Carnera, M. Isoli, F. Cianchetti, E. Bestetti, F. Lecca, N. Ciangola, F. Paroni, L. Tovoli, S. D'Eva, P. Rossato, A. Biddle, T. Pierce Roberts, M. Coulter, M. Longfollow, T. McDougal, S. Gibson, R. Suarez, R. Brunner, R. Shaefer, E. VanHaren-Noman, T. Spence. Since 1989, he has been working as director of photography for film and television. He has in-depth experience in multi-camera shooting, in the studio and on location, on film or magnetic support.
	NATIONAL JURY 2008
	Giovanni Truppa Truppa has been involved in film directing since 1998. He has participated in film workshops and seminars with Bellocchio, Bechis, Denis Arcand, Italo Petriccione and Giuseppe Bertolucci. As a writer and director, Truppa has made three shorts ("Identità sospese", "Resti d’aria" and "Maccheroni amari") which have ben screened at national and international film festivals, winning awards for Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Experimental Film. His shorts have been distributed by RAI SAT ("Resti d'aria") and RAI TRADE ("Maccheroni amari"). The director has a fourth short film currently in progress, "La norma", planned for completion in 2009. In 2004 the director also began a commercial activity producing audiovisual works for educational purposes. These are distributed by the major national and international newspapers (such as Spain's "El Mundo"). In 2006, Truppa also launched an activity producing commercials and documentaries. One of the latter is a film on the Uffizi Museum which is currently on sale in bookshops (published by the Scala Group). Giovanni Truppa is presently dedicating great personal commitment to the "Associazione Culturale delle Meraviglie", created by a group of friends and colleagues of the late Veronica Locatelli, director and editor of short films and video installations. She died on 16 July of this year, in a fall from the bastions of Fort Belvedere in Florence. To establish possible responsibility of those who should have guaranteed the security of the Fort, the Florence Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an inquest, for the charge of manslaughter. Indeed, already two years ago, a similar accident took place that took the life of a young 22-year-old, Luca Raso. In the opinion of members of the Association, this tragedy has not only deprived them of a wonderful friend, but it has regretfully interrupted an important and original creative career, sustained by intense human sensitivity and thinking that was always lucid, ironic, and extremely "lateral".
	Ivano De Matteo De Matteo, a forty-year-old Roman, began his artistic career in 1990 when he attended the theatre workshop “Il Mulino di Fiora” conducted by Perla Peragallo. He continued to participate in stages and specialisation seminars. As an actor, director and documentarist constantly experimenting his own personal language, his activities range from theatre to cinema to television.
	Marco Pallanti Pallanti has been the new president of the Consorzio Vino Chianti Classico since 2006. With this appointment, Marco Pallanti assumed an extremely difficult mission: to lead the Consorzio, unified in 2005 (by the merging between the Consorzio Vino Chianti Classico and the Consorzio del Marchio Storico) into the great challenges of global competition committed to affirming the personality and quality of the Chianti Classico wine. Marco Pallanti, 50, from Florence, is an oenologist, university professor, and art lover. He represents the new class of leaders that, in recent years, have tirelessly worked to affirm the image of Chianti Classico in the world. He obtained a degree in Agriculture in Florence and went on to get a master's degree in oenology at the University of Bordeaux-Mantes and Suze la Rousse. In 1982, he began working in the Azienda Castello di Ama, as an agronomist and oenologist, in the position of Manager. With his wife Lorenza, he also supervises public relations and follows the marketing activities of the company. Yet, in addition to wine, Marco has another great passion, that of contemporary art. In 2000, this led him, with his wife Lorenza, to launch the project “Ama for Contemporary Art”. In 2005, this initiative won the Castello di Ama the “Impresa e Cultura” award for best investments in art.
	Matilde Tortora Professor of History and Film Critic, Tortora is the author of several books on cinema that have published also in various translations. She is a member of the Cinémathèque Français, ASIFA, and the Italian association “Ricerche per la Storia del Cinema”. She is on the International Jury for the Award “Simona Gesmundo Animation Shorts” that she conceived and directs. In 2000, Matilde Tortora was bestowed the Culture Award by the Italian Prime Minister.