european jury 2010
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Galeria
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Ã’scar Abril
Artist and curator born in Barcelona, in 1966, he has a professional career spanning almost twenty years, always around intangible arts: performance, music, sound art, new media and thought. Òscar Abril is also responsible for the exhibitions at the Sónar festival.
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Beatrice Alemagna
Illustrator born in Bologna, she currently lives in Paris. In 1996 she won the first prize in the Figures Futur international competition, and since then has published more than twenty books, translated into the most diverse languages, and continues collecting illustration prizes the world over.
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Bigas Luna
Film director with an extensive and recognise oeuvre, featuring the films Jamón Jamón (1992), Son de mar (2001) and the recent Di DI Hollywood (2010). His graphic work has also been shown in galleries around the world. Bigas Luna has collaborated with the Festival since its beginning, in 1998.
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Manuel Huerga
Film director, but not only this; Huerga has produced TV programmes (Estoc de pop, Arsenal) for TV3, a director of documentaries and ceremonies of the Olympic Games (1992) and responsible for video exhibitions. Among his works feature Antártida (1995) and Salvador (2006).
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Michelangelo Messina
Director of the Ischia Film Festival (Italy), a unique international film festival (short and feature films) in that it focuses specifically on film locations. And, clearly, the event is held in the incomparable setting of one of the most beautiful islands of the Mediterranean.
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Fabien Riggall
Born in Great Britain and trained in the New York Film Academy, he is the founder and director of Future Shorts, a distribution and exhibition space of short films with screenings around the world (from Bangladesh to Vietnam and from Denmark to Israel).
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Spanish jury 2010
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Roser Aguilar
Born in Barcelona, she has been a teacher at the ESCAC since 1999. After directing some short films (among them El llimoner, presented at the FEC Festival in 1999), Aguilar made her debut in feature films with Lo mejor de mÃ, a film that until now has won national and international awards.
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Tom Carr
Artist born in Tarragona and doctor of Fine Arts at the UB. His work, mainly sculptural, is made up of many public projects, where the concepts of space and time are constant references. He is a teacher in the Escola Massana and the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York.
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Manel Esclusa
Photographer and son of a photographer, born in Vic in 1952, is teacher at the EINA school and the Institut d’Estudis Fotogrà fics de Catalunya. Esclusa is a recognised artist who has exhibited in different galleries and museums in Spain and abroad and his work is found published in diverse written books.
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Jaume Gil
Born in Barcelona in 1969, and after having worked on the production of institutional videos and feature films, for more than 6 years he has directed the International Gay and Lesbian Exhibition of Barcelona (2002-2007) and since 2005 directed the International Film Festival of the Environment.
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Joan Recasens
Born in Cambrils in 1962. Graduate of Geology at the University of Barcelona in 1985he is currently councillor for Culture, Heritage, Sports and Leisure on Cambrils Town Council, and member of the state jury since 2006.
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Microfilms jury 2010
Jordi Abelló_Artist & curator
Àlvar Calvet_Artist & Art teacher
Eva Moreno_Artist
