Guests

Federico Veiroj was born in 1976 in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 2000 he graduated in Social Communications from the Catholic University of Montevideo. He has been directing and producing short films since 1996. His last short film, Bregman, El Siguiente, was screened at more than 60 festivals, receiving numerous awards (Best Film Award at the Gijon International Film Festival in 2004 and Best Spanish Film at Cinema Jove, Valencia in 2005). His directorial debut Acne premiered in Cannes in the Director's Fortnight section. In 2008, it won the International Feature Competition Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival.

Albertina Carri La Rabia Argentina Harvest     09. – 15. 9.

Albertina Carri was born in 1973 in Buenos Aires. She is a director, scriptwriter and actress, exploring and working in various genres. With her work, she is laying the groundwork for the concept of New Argentine Film. In the forefront of her films (No quiero volver a casa, 2001; Géminis, 2005) is the family, in the autobiographical socio-political documentary Los Rubios (2003) the family is her own. She has also made two animated films, the short Aurora (2001), and the pornographic melodrama Barbie, tambien puede estar triste (2003).

Noh Young-Seok was born in 1976 in Seoul, South Korea. He graduated from Seoul National University, where he majored in ceramic art. In 2008, he made his debut feature Daytime Drinking, which soon hit international film festivals and was awarded in Jeonju and Locarno. With his small story, he has earned acclaim as of one of the most promising younger Korean independent filmmakers.

Melanie Hollaus was born in Tyrol in 1980. Between 1999 and 2003, she studied dramaturgy. Afterwards, she worked in various areas of film production and photography. In 2002, she was the production assistant on the film Vollgas (2002) by Sabine Derflinger. New Kaisertal City is her directorial and scriptwriting debut.

Mariano De Rosa Aguas Verdes Argentina/Netherlands Friends     09. – 15. 9.

Born in 1970, he studied film direction in University for film in Buenos Aires. In 1990 he shot many short films. He works as a director and editor and lectures in University for film in Buenos Aires.

Nathalie Mansoux Access road Portugal Doc-Focus     10. – 15. 9.

Born in 1974 in Paris, she studied in Paris and Lisbon. She collaborated with Portuguese director Rui Simões on the film Ruas da Amargura (2008) and was a coordinator at the Short film festival The Invisibles at Chapitô in Lisbon. Her first short documentary De Paso por Juchitán (2001) received the best documentary award at the 2002 Ovarvideo Festival. She also shot Mémories (2005) and Femmes en Construction (2007). Access road is her most recent documentary.

After graduation on Jamia Mass Communication Centre in New Delhi she worked as an editor and journalist for many film magazines in India. Then she absolved in directing at Institute for film and television (FTII) in India with her film Jam Invalid (1998) which was given an award in Chicago. She also received various awards for her later documentaries City of Photos, 6 Yards to Democracy and Lakshmi and me, in which she filmed the life of her maid and commented on social and economical inequality in India.

An Iranian director, born in 1957. Abolfazl Jalili has been making short documentaries already in the seventies, and introduced his first feature Milad in 1983. Many features, among them Det Means Girl (1994), Dance of Dust (1998) and Full or Empty (2005), soon followed. His role in filmmaking is usualy not limited to directing, but also extends to script writing, montage and - as is the case with Hafez - composing of the music score.