Speakers

Claire Aguilar (USA) – Dialog with ITVS at the Documentary Workshop  (July 25th)

Claire Aguilar is the Vice President of programming at ITVS (Independent Television Service), which will finance, promote and distribute content by independent producers on public television. At ITVS, Claire supervises all aspects of initiatives for programmes, programming strategies and applications for financing. 
She co-commissioned the series Independent Lens, winner of the Emma award, a series that programmes independent documentaries from all over the world and is broadcast weekly on PBS.
Before she joined ITVS she worked at ITVS of KCET/Hollywood as head of programming and acquisitions. From 1984 to 1991 she was a programmer at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, one of the country’s leading institutions for showing documentaries and classic Hollywood films.

Marta Andreu (Spain) – Seminar: the place of the gaze (July 23th and 24th)

Marta Andreu is academic coordinator of the Master in Creation Documentary at the Pompeu Fabra University, and gives post-graduate courses in documentary cinema: “Estudios Culturales del Mediterráneo” at the Rovira y Virgili University in Tarragona. In 2004-2005 she coordinated the retrospective of Spanish Documentary Cinema for Cinéma du Réel (Pompidou Centre, Paris), and in recent years she has taken part as jury member and speaker at various documentary film festivals such as Documenta Madrid, DocLisboa, Alcances, L’Alternativa, PlayDoc and Punto de Vista. Since 2005 she has analysed scripts for documentaries for the Centre de Desenvolupament Audiovisual (CDA) of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Marta is the Academia Coordinator of DOCMONTEVIDEO. She has a degree in audiovisual communication and a Master in Creation Documentary from the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. 
She worked on a number of films including “En construcción” by José Luis Guerín, “Durruti Anarchiste” and “Le concert de Mozart”. In 2004 she set up Estudi Playtime to concentrate on the production of creation documentaries and her work in this field includes “La terra habitada”, “Distancias”, “Entre el dictador y yo”, “Morir de día” and “Cuchillo de palo”.

Jorge Atton Palma – Chilean Sub-Secretary for Telecommunications

Jorge Atton Palma graduated in electronic engineering from the Austral University of Chile and he has a postgraduate degree in project administration and evaluation from the University of Chile. He has vast experience in management, consultancy and teaching in the telecommunications field.
He has been General Manager at Telefónica del Sur and General Manager of the Compañía de Teléfonos de Coyhaique.
As a consultant he has worked with public and private international organizations (the Secretariat of Communications of Bolivia, the Compañía de Teléfonos of Bogotá, the Secretariat of Telecommunications of Paraguay and the Municipality of La Paz).
He has participated in inter-disciplinary groups convoked by Ministries of Transport and Telecommunications and Economy, analyzing areas like telecommunications law and the long distance multi-carrier system, to name but two.
He was a member of the directing body of the Austral University of Chile and the Centre for Engineering and Innovation of the Valdivia Centre for Scientific Studies, of the firms Capreva and Ionix, and of the non profit-making organizations Fundación País Digital and Fundación Barco de los Pobres.

Patricia Boero (Uruguay) – Pitching moderator (July 27th)

Patricia Boero is Latino Public Broadcasting consultante, she was Executive Director of Latino Public Broadcasting between 2007 and 2011. She was also Director of International Programs at the Sundance Institute (1997-2001) founded by Robert Redford to promote the independent film development and the cultural interchange between moviemakers form Latin America, Europe and the rest of the world. Patricia studied film and law at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She began her career as a journalist and filmmaker. She directed documentary films in Central and South America for Australian public television and TV Latina; worked as a producer for CNN, and was the Havana correspondent for the BBC World Service. She has worked as a grant maker in the U.S. at the Rockefeller, MacArthur and Levi Strauss foundations, Starbucks Coffee Company, and Hispanics in Philanthropy, an Affinity group of the Council on Foundations. She has served on the Boards of INPUT- International Public Television, and American Documentary, Inc.

Alicia Cano – Director, The Bella Vista

Alicia Cano born in Uruguay, 1982. After earning an undergraduate degree in Media Studies, she travelled to Italy in 2006 to complete a Master’s degree in documentary cinema. In the following years she worked as a filmmaker on the successful Italian docu-soap series “Reparto Maternità” (Maternity), shooting 26 episodes inside a Maternity Hospital in Bologna, for Fox Life International Channel. In 2009 she came back to Uruguay and currently lives and works in Montevideo.Last April 2010, she was selected to participate in BAFICI Talent Campus in Buenos Aires, organized by Berlinale Talent Campus, as a young filmmaker. The Bella Vista is her first feature-length film.

Paola Castillo – Executive Producer, Timoteo’s fabulous ragged circus

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Cosette Espíndola de Castro – Researcher with the Brazilian Nacional Council for Scientific and Technological Development

Cosette Espíndola de Castro is a post-doctor from the UNESCO Chair of Communications. She obtained her doctorate in communications and journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, she has a master’s degree in communications and culture from the PUC/RS, with a specialization in popular education from Unisinos/RS, and she graduated in journalism at the Catholic University of Pelotas.
She has worked as a journalist in the press and for TV, she won the ARI journalism prize in 1987, she taught on the Unesp digital TV postgraduate programme and she has worked as a consultant for IBICT.
In 2008 she was awarded the Luiz Beltrão/Intercom for emerging leadership. She is the digital content coordinator for the Information Society (Sociedad de la Información) for Latin America and the Caribbean. She is also a researcher at the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), where she coordinates the group dealing with digital communication and cultural interfaces in Latin America.
Her latest book, written jointly with André Barbosa, was “Comunicación Digital: educación, tecnología y nuevos comportamientos”. In 2006 she published “Por qué los Reality Shows conquistan audiencias” and “Medios Digitales, convergencia tecnológica e inclusión social”. She has published more than 50 scientific articles in Portuguese, Spanish and English.

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Ramòn Giger (Switzerland), director A still jacket

Ramòn Giger studied Art and Design in St.Gallen (Switzerland) where he began working as a photographer. Later he studied at the Basel School Diesner and works as a camera, illuminator and editor. He has participated in “Fog above the clouds” (Roland von Tessin, 2007), “Be my guest” (Fiona Daniel), “Civil service” (2009) and “Off Beat” (Jan Gassmann).

Susanne Guggenberger (Austria) – Markets for documentary films (July 25th)

Susanne Guggenberger is coordinator of DokLeipzig in Germany, and was  “head of the market” at Visions du Réel 2011, in Switzerland . She was head of sales for TV at the distributor Autlook Films. 
She is a director, producer and production director.
Since 2010 she has been working as a producer for Filmwerkstatt Wien, a production enterprise that specializes in documentaries with cultural and social content geared to the international TV market. She worked as a producer at Navigator Film and was involved in the development and distribution of projects. 
For three years she was at Egon Humor Filmproduktion, where her work included production director on several television documentaries.  
In 2001, along with the Firstmedia network, she developed various projects with new formats centred on the construction of online video communities.

Ana de Hollanda – Brazilian Minister of Culture

Ana de Hollanda has been the Minister of Culture of Brazil since January 2011. She is 62 years old and she is the first woman to hold this exalted post. She was born into a family of intellectuals and artists; she was the sixth of the seven children of Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda –one of the Brazil’s outstanding historians- and the pianist Maria Amélia Alvim, and she herself is a singer, composer and culture manager. She has been involved in politics since she was quite young; she joined the old Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) and took part as a volunteer in several election campaigns. She has worked in public management, always in the area of culture. From 1983 to 1985 she was in charge of the music sector of the Sao Paulo Cultural Centre, and from 1986 to 1988 she was Secretary of Culture in the Municipality of Osasco during the Humberto Parro (PMDB) administration. From 2003 to 2007 she was Director of the Music Centre of the National Arts Foundation of the Ministry of Culture (Funarte/MinC). For the last three years she has been Vice-President of the Museum of Image and Sound (MIS) in Rio de Janeiro.

Diana Holtzberg (Estados Unidos)

Diana Holtzberg is Vice President of Films Transit International, a leading worldwide documentary film sales company with a catalogue of highly acclaimed films, many of which have won Grand Jury and Audience Awards at preeminent film festivals throughout the world as well as Emmys, Peabodys, duPonts, BAFTA’s, and Oscar nominations. She has been working for Films Transit since 2001.
Diana also executive produces and acts as creative consultant on a select number of films each year. Examples include: The Art of Failure, The dictator hunter, End of the century: the story of the ramones, Imaginary witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust, Held hostage in Colombia, Pucker up: the fine art of whistling, loving & cheating, and Still doing it: The Intimate Lives Of Women Over 65.
Diana conducts film workshops throughout the world and has sat on panels at the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, IDFA, Sunnyside of the Doc, NYON, Guadalajara, Full Frame, Hot Docs, Galway Film Festival, and Encounters in South Africa. She is on the Documentary Committee at the Paley Center for Media.
She is the co-author of three widely read documentary industry articles: The Current State of the International Marketplace For Documentary Films (for the IFP), Feeling Festive: Strategies for Taking Your Film on the Festival Circuit, and Distribution To The Max (both for International Documentary Magazine). Diana wrote and edited numerous articles while a contributing writer and editor for the now defunct POWER Magazine, and is the credited ghostwriter of The Warrior Diet (Dragondoor, 2002).

Simon Kilmurry (USA) – POV Presentation in Documentary Workshop (July 25th)

Simon Kilmurry is the Executive Director of American Documentary | POV and Executive Producer in POV.
He joined American Documentary | POV in 1999 and was appointed executive director in 2006. He oversees all aspects of American Documentary’s programs and operations, and serves as executive producer of POV, PBS’s award-winning documentary film series. 
Since 2006, POV has been honored with a Special Industry Emmy Award, 26 Emmy nominations, 4 Emmy Awards, 4 Academy Award nominations, 3 Peabody Awards, an IDA award and 3 Webby nominations. He has been involved in over 180 POV films, and has helped lead new initiatives to increase POV’s reach, diversity and impact.
Kilmurry attended the University of Edinburgh and Columbia University Business School’s Institute for Not-for-Profit Management.

Marcel Loziński (Poland) – Master class (July 28th)

Marcel Loziński was born in Paris in 1940. Graduate in Film Directing Department in the National School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz Nominated both for Oscar and the European Film Academy Award for the documentary – “89 mm from Europe”. He is Head of the Documentary Department at Andrzej Wajda Master School for Film Directing.
He is member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and European Film Academy, and Professor at Film School La FEMIS in Paris, and at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw.  He directed Master Classes in Moscow, Kiev, Helsinki, Tallinn, Marseille, Barcelona, Tui, Lyon, and other places. Created Dragon Forum - the international documentary film workshops in the middle of Europe. 
Lozinski received numerous awards for his documentaries and in recognition of his work in defense of the Polish culture: Andrzej Wajda / Philip Morris Freedom Prize (Berlin, 2004), Vitae Valor Award (Tarnow, 2005), winner of the Human Rights award given by the Helsinki Foundation in 2006, among many others.
Some of his most outstanding films are: Wheel of Fortune (1972); Happy End (1973); How to Live (1977); Matriculation (1978); Microphone’s Test (1980); Practice Exercises (1984); Witnesses (1988); Katyn Forrest (1990); Seven Jews from my Class (1992); 89 mm from Europe (1993); Anything Can Happen (1995); Poland After Victory 89-95 (1995); So, It Doesn’t Hurt (1998); If it happens (2007).

Noé Mendelle (Scotland) – Produce in Scotland, co-produce with Scotland (July 25th)

Noe Mendelle co-founded and directs the Scottish Documentary Institute, a research and production centre based in Edinburgh. She directed more than 30 films, and ten years ago she concentrated her efforts on production. She has worked with French and Portuguese producers at AfricaDoc, an initiative to strengthen the production of African documentaries. The Institute invests in the training of new directors and the production and distribution of films. It is a space for reflection about documentaries and possible creative projects. As a result of this work, its films have been shown on British television and at the main international festivals including Sundance, IDFA and Visión du Reel.
She is a director, producer and executive producer. Since 1980 she has worked on documentaries for various media organizations (Ch 4, BBC, Arte, RTP, RTBF).

Aloizio Mercadante – Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology

Aloizio Mercadante graduated in economics from the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and has a master’s degree in economic sciences (1989) and a doctorate in economic theory (2010) from the University of Campinas (Unicamp). He is a licensed teacher of economics at the Catholic University of Sao Paulo (PUC-SP) and Unicamp. He was a Federal Deputy (Member of Parliament) under two administrations (1991-1995 and 1999-2003) and Senator of the Republic for the State of Sao Paulo (2003-2011). In the Senate he was President of the Economic Affairs Committee, leader of the Workers Party (PT – Partido de los Trabajadores) and of the bloc that supported the Government. He was also President of the Mercosur Parliament (2010), and is now Minister of State for Science and Technology.
He has published various books the most outstanding of which are “Brasil: La Construcción Retomada” (2010); “Observatorio: Colección de artículos sobre la evolución de Brasil en los últimos años” (2009); “Brasil: Primer Tiempo – Análisis comparativo del gobierno de Lula” (2006); and “El Brasil post “Real”: la política económica en debate” (1998).

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Joao Moreira Salles (Brazil) – Master class (July 29th)

Joao Moreira Salles is a documentary filmmaker. In 1985, he wrote the screenplay for the documentary series Japan, a Journey in Time. In 1987, he directed China, The Empire of the Center and wrote the screenplay for Krajberg, the Poet of the Remains. Two years later he directed the television series America and the documentary Poetry is one or two lines and behind it a huge landscape about poet Ana Cristina César. In 1990, he directed Blues. For cable channel GNT, he directed the documentary Jorge Amado, about race relation in Brazil and the series Football, co-directed with Arthur Fontes. Together with Katia Lund, he directed News of a Personal War, about urban violence in Brazil. In 2000, he directed The Valley, a documentary about the environmental devastation of the Paraíba Valley and Santa Cruz: Holy Cross about the growth of an evangelical church in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. Both these films were made with journalist Marcos Sá Corrêa. In 2002, Salles directed Nelson Freire, his first documentary for cinema. In 2004, he launched Intermissions, a behind-the-scenes look at the election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian president.
He teaches at Princeton University in Film Studies.
Since 2006, he is editor for piauí magazine, covering variety of topics with a style of literary reportage and is the best-selling magazine in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

Nicolás Schonfeld – Director of the Red TAL

Nicolás Schonfeld is a journalist and General Coordinator of the TAL (Television Latin America) Network for Audiovisual Exchange. From 1998 to 2005 he was a member of La Tribu Communication Collective, from 2000 to 2002 he was a television producer for the University of Buenos Aires and was responsible for some outstanding cultural programmes, and in 2002 and 2003 he was coordinator of a forum for the creation of a television channel “Ciudad Abierta” in Buenos Aires. Since 2004 he has been working on the creation and coordination of Red TAL, an audiovisual network that involves 200 organizations in 20 countries in Latin America and

Orlando Senna – President of TAL (Latin American TV), Forum Moderator

Orlando Senna initiated and directed the TV Brazil project in 2007.
He was Secretary for Audiovisuals at the Ministry of Culture of Brazil (2003-2006).
He created and promoted DOCTV Iberoamérica, a collective initiative by Hispanic-American TV channels to produce documentaries. In the 1990s he was director of the cinema course at the Cinema and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He has an extensive filmography as script writer, director and producer.
His work includes the script for “Iremos a Beirut” (1998), he scripted and directed “Sabor a mí” (1992), he co-wrote “Ópera do malandro (1986)” jointly with Chico Buarque, and he has directed many other films including “Iracema, uma Transa Amazônica” (1981).

Paco Rodríguez – Director of Media Training & Consulting, Spain

Paco Rodríguez is the director of Media Training & Consulting. He founded the Spanish Association of Animation Producers, where he was the president. With Filmax Animation he was involved in sales and he co-produced Goomer, P3K PINOCHO 3000, Cid, La Leyenda, P3K – Pinocchio 3000 (3D), GISAKU, Pérez, el ratoncito de tus sueños, Nocturna and Donkey Xote. He is currently a consultant for the Institute of Foreign Trade in the area of the international projection of Spanish audiovisual material and as an expert on the Media of the EU programme.
He was executive producer on many film projects including Las Aventuras of Profesor Thompson (Spain), Koki (Spain, USA) which was sold to more than 80 countries, Los Caracolímpicos (Spain, France and Canada) and Capelito (Spain, France and Japan). He founded PPM Multimedia and has represented more than a thousand works.

Malu Viana – Executive Director of TAL (Televisión América Latina)

Malu Viana has a master’s degree in education from the University of London (1989). Since 1995 she has been working in the audiovisual production field. She did the production management course at the National Film and Television School (2000) in England. She has produced more than 300 audiovisual pieces including films, documentaries, the series “Oscar Niemeyer – O Arquiteto do Século”, “Os Brasileiros” and “Os Filhos do Sol”, and has received three nominations for the Emmy awards.
She is a founding member of Red Televisión América Latina (TAL), a non profit-making organization whose aim is to promote the sharing of audiovisual and cultural material in Latin America – www.tal.tv.

Mariana Viñoles (Uruguay) – Case Study in Documentary Workshop (July 27th)

Mariana Viñoles has a degree in in Performing Arts and Communication Techniques from the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD), Belgium. It, along with Stefano Tononi, creator of Cronopio film (2004). He directed the documentary “Crónicas de un sueño” (2005) and “La Tabaré, rocandorol y después” (2008)
In 2006 was selected among several Uruguayan filmmakers to direct “Los Uruguayos”, TV documentary produced by Latin America (TAL).
His most recent documentary “Exiliados” will be released in late 2011.

Luis Vitullo – General Coordinator of the “Argentina Connected” Commission for Planning and Strategic Coordination, and Executive Secretary of the Consultancy Council of the Argentine Digital Terrestrial Television System (SATVD-T)

Luis Vitullo has a degree in international trade with a specialization in economics and marketing from the National University of Luján. Since 2004 he has been working at the Ministry of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services, as a consultant to the Sub-Secretary for Coordination and Management Control of the Ministry of Federal Planning.
In the field of implementing public policies linked to strengthening digital inclusion, he is currently Executive Secretary of the Digital TV Advisory Council and General Coordinator of the “Argentina Connected” National Telecommunications Plan.