HORIZONTES AWARD JURY MIRTHA IBARRA Chairman JORGE GOLDENBERG LUIS MIÑARRO HORIZONTES AWARD JURY MIRTHA IBARRA Chairman Basilia Mirtha Ibarra Collado was born in Havana in 1946. A Cuban actress who was educated during the early period of the Cuban Revolution, she graduated at the National School of Arts in Havana and took an arts degree at Havana University. She has belonged to the most important emblematic theatre groups on the island, such as Teatro Estudio, Teatro Bertolt Brecht, Teatro de Arte Caribeño and El Público. In the year 2000 she had enormous success with the play, Obsesión Habanera, which she wrote, co-directed and acted in herself. She has acted for cinema and television in leading roles for many of which she has received major international awards. She established her reputation with Hasta cierto punto, directed in 1983 by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea which won her the Choral prize at the Havana International Film Festival. Adorables mentiras (1992), by Gerardo Chijona, won her an award at the Damascus Film Festival. International success came with Fresa y chocolate (1994) and Guantanamera (1995), both directed by Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío. In 1993 she took part as a guest together with the filmmaker Tomás Gutiérrez Alea in the Oscar ceremony with the nominated film, Fresa y chocolate. Since the death of her husband, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, in April 1996, Mirtha Ibarra has combined working between Cuba and Spain, and took part in Mararía by Antonio Betancourt, Cuarteto de La Habana (1999) by Fernando Colomo, Sobreviviré (1999) by Albacete y Menkes, Sagitario (2001) by Vicente Molina Foix, the short film Ruleta (1999) by Roberto Santiago, and the TV film Quia (2001), directed by Silvia Munt. In 2002, she starred in the Spanish Television series La verdad de Laura. She has also taken part in the films Aunque estés lejos (2003) and El cuerno de la abundancia (2008), both directed by Juan Carlos Tabío. She has been a jury member at several prestigious festivals such as those in San Sebastian, Los Angeles, Valladolid, Huelva, Gramado in Brazil, Providence in the USA and Havana, among others. In 2007 she published the book Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Volver sobre mis pasos. She has given lectures and workshops at various Universities and specialised institutions in Latin America and Europe. She has also co-scripted and directed the documentary, Titón, de La Habana a Guantanamera, which will be screened in the Horizontes Latinos Section in a special dual session out of competition as a tribute to the filmmaker, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, who died in 1996. JORGE GOLDENBERG Born in San Martín, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1941, he studied at the National University Film Institute of the Litoral (in Santa Fe), where he graduated, specialising in film direction. He has directed the documentaries, Reportaje a un vagón (1963), Oficio (1966), and has co-directed the documentary Hachero nomás (1966) with Patricio Coll, Hugo Bonomo and Luis Zanger, and the documentary feature Regreso a Fortín Olmos (2008) with Patricio Coll. He has written and/or co- written the scripts of numerous films, including: Plata dulce (Fernando Ayala, 1982), La película del rey (Carlos Sorin, 1985), Miss Mary (María Luisa Bemberg, 1986), La frontera (Ricardo Larraín, Chile, 1990), De eso no se habla (María Luisa Bemberg, 1993), El sueño de los héroes (Sergio Renán, 1997), El impostor (Alejandro Maci, 1997), Tinta roja (a full-length documentary directed by Carmen Guarini, 1997), La fuga (Eduardo Mignogna, 2001), La tarara del chapao (Enrique Navarro, Spain, 2003), Perder es cuestión de método (Sergio Cabrera, Colombia/Spain, 2004), Las alas de la vida (full-length documentary, directed by Antoni P. Canet, Spain, 2006). HORIZONTES AWARD JURY He has also written plays, including: Relevo 1923, Argentine Quebracho Company, Fifty-fifty, Poniendo la casa en orden, Knepp, Cartas a Moreno, Krinsky, La lista completa and Fotos de Infancias, pieces that have been staged and published in Argentina and in several countries in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela), and Europe (France, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and Russia). In parallel with his work as a writer, he has given and regularly gives courses and workshops on film scriptwriting in Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, Uruguay, Spain and France. He has taken part as a consultant in workshops at the Sundance Institute and at SOURCES, a programme for the development of scripts, that forms part of the EU Media programme. LUIS MIÑARRO Born in Barcelona in 1949, he followed a professional career in the advertising sector to be then able to work in film production through his own company, Eddie Saeta S.A. from 1995 onwards. He was film critic for Destino and Dirigido por and cofounder of the Arts & Mirador film clubs. Luis Miñarro has helped to consolidate the prestige of new filmmakers and he has made a firm commitment to promoting art-house cinema. The 14 feature films that he has produced have represented Spain at the most prestigious international festivals: Cannes, Venice, Berlin, San Sebastian, Locarno, Toronto, Karlovy Vary, New York, Buenos Aires, and Shanghai. His productions to date have been: Cosas que nunca te dije (Isabel Coixet, 1996), Fuente Álamo. La caricia del tiempo (Pablo García, 2001), Les mans buides (Las manos vacías) (Marc Recha, 2003), Ar meno un quejío (Fernando de France, 2005), Honor de Cavalleria (Albert Serra, 2006), La silla (Julio D. Wallovits, 2006), Bolboreta, Mariposa, Papallona (Pablo García, 2007), La cáscara (Carlos Ameglio, 2007), En la ciudad de Sylvia (José Luis Guerin, 2007), Escuchando a Gabriel (José Enrique March, 2007), El cant dels ocells (Albert Serra, 2008), Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso, 2008), El somni (The Dream) (Christophe Farnarier, 2008), El brau blau (The Blue Bull) (Daniel Villamediana, 2008). A tireless traveller, he has co-produced work with Argentina and Uruguay and he has been a juror at the l’Alternativa Festival in Barcelona and the 9th Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Festival. He has also taken part as a speaker at the Pompeu Fabra, Ramon Llull, Blanquerna, and Autonomous Universities in Barcelona, The Film Library of the Valencian Autonomous Government and the Observatori de l’Audiovisual, among others. He is currently a member of the European Film Academy, the Spanish Academy of Film Arts and Sciences and the Catalan Association of Film Producers, among other associations. .