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has decided by majority to grant the following awards: JURY AWARD FOR BEST PHOTOGRAPHY to SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTOR to SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTRESS to SILVER SHELL FOR BEST DIRECTOR to SPECIAL JURY AWARD to GOLDEN SHELL FOR BEST FILM to
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ARIANE ASCARIDE (Marseilles, France, 1954) After studying sociology at the University
of Aix-en-Provence, where she met the man who was to become her
husband, the director Robert Guédiguian, she moved to Paris
to continue her studies with Pierre Vial, Antoine Vitez and Marcel
Bluwal at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. She made her
theatrical debut together with her brother Pierre Ascaride in the
show "Aventures, spectacles à domicile". After
taking part in various films in small roles, she found her first
important leading role in Dernier été, by Robert Guédiguian,
the first of the ten films that the director and actress have made
together. In the 80's and early 90's, Ariane devoted herself to
her children Valentine y Madeleine, and worked exclusively with
her husband to become the visible face of the militant ideas in
Guédiguian's films. Chroniclers of life in the port district
of L'Estaque in Marseilles, it was not until halfway through 1995
that both of them achieved international success with Marius et
Jeannette, the sixth film they had made together. Presented at the
Festival de Cannes Film Festival it won her the César for
Best Actress in 1996. Since then Ariane Ascaride, as well as continuing
to work closely with her husband, has also worked with Dominique
Cabrera, Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau Alain Guesnier, Jean-Pierre
Améris and Jean-Louis Milési, among others. Her most
recent films have been, Marie-Jo et ses deux amours, by Robert Guédiguian,
Ma vrai vie à Rouen, by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau,
and Lulu, de Jean-Henri Roger.
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MARIANO BARROSO Mariano Barroso (Barcelona, 1959) studied directing and acting at the Spanish Theatre in Madrid and at the William Layton Laboratory, as well as working as an assistant director on numerous plays. In 1987 he moved to Los Angeles to study at the American Film Institute and the Sundance Film Institute. He directed three shorts produced by the American Film Institute before he went back to Madrid where he worked as a director on various television series. His first film, Mi hermano del alma (1993), with a script written together with Joaquín Oristrell, won a prize at the Karlovy Vary Festival and won the Goya for Best Debut as a Director. Extasis (Ecstasy), his second feature film starring Javier Bardem and Federico Luppi, competed in the Official Section at the Berlin Film Festival. Before he made his third film, Los lobos de Washington, he made his debut as a theatre director when he staged "The elephant man". In the year 2000 he directed Kasbah and took part in the "Del largo al corto" project for Canal+ with the short film Mi abuelo es un animal. His latest film, In the Time of the Butterflies, starring Salma Hayek and based on the story of the murder of the Mirabal sisters in 1960 on General Trujillo's orders, opened the Santo Domingo Festival this year. Mariano Barroso collaborates with the International Film School in San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba) where taught directing from 1997 to1999 and he teaches Directing and Acting at the Film School in Madrid. He is currently working on the script for his next film Hormigas en la boca, set in pre-revolutionary Cuba.
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RENATO BERTA (Bellinzona, Switzerland, 1945). Director of photography born in the Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. He began to take an interest in photography at the beginning of the 60's. For three years (1965-67) he studied at the Experimental Film Centre in Rome. In 1967 he made his debut as a director of photography in four films. From this moment on his name has been linked with the most prestigious films in Swiss, French and German cinema. In 1968 he began to work together with Alain Tanner on Charles mort ou vif. In 1970 he won his first international award for his work in La salamandre, also by Alain Tanner. Since then Renato Berta has photographed more than a hundred films with directors such as Straub/Huillet, who he began to work with in 1969 and who he has continued with right up to their latest film Umiliati; Manoel de Oliveira, who he has worked with for the last six years; Daniel Schmid, who he formed a creative partnership with in 1972 that continued right up to his most recent film in 1998. Renato Berta has also photographed films by Godard, René Allio, Patrice Chéreau, André Techiné, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Louis Malle, Alain Resnais, Amos Gitai or Robert Guédiguian among others. The many prizes that he has received include the César for Best photography for Au revoir les enfants by Louis Malle in 1988, the Best Photography of the Year Prize in 1995, awarded by the Japanese Cameramen Association for Le visage écrit by Daniel Schmid, or the Gianni di Venanzo Award for Inquietud by Manoel de Oliveira in 1998.
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PRINCIPE CHATRI CHALERM YUKOL (Thailand, 1942). He is one of the most famous film directors in Thailand and is undoubtedly one of the most representative figures in Asian cinema. The son of his Royal Highness Prince Anusorn and Mom Ubon Yukol, he is one of the most distinguished members of the Thai royal family. He studied at Geelong Grammar School in Australia and later went to UCLA in Los Angeles where he did his PhD in Geology. From a very early age he was surrounded by films as his parents were pioneers in Thai cinema. His father made his first film, Lavo Motion, in 1938, four years before the prince was born. Chatri Chalerm Yukol began to work as a cameraman on several films by his father and other Thai directors before making his debut as a director in series made for television where he worked as a producer and scriptwriter. The first feature film he made was Out of the Dark followed by Doctor Karn which won him the Best Thai Director's Prize. One of the most important Thai actors, Sorapong Chatri, appeared for the first time in this film. Since then Prince Chatri Chalerm Yukol has directed more than twelve films and has won several prizes at international festivals. His latest film is the huge historical epic fresco The Legend of Suriyothai
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MIRTHA IBARRA A Cuban actress, she is an Arts graduate from Havana University. She belongs to the generation of actors that was formed during the early years of the Cuban Revolution. She is one of the founders of the National School of the Arts in Cuba. From a very early age she began to work in theatre, television and cinema. She has belonged to the most important emblematic theatre groups on the island, such as the Teatro Estudio, the Bertolt Brecht Theatre Group, the Caribbean Art Theatre and El Público. She has never given up working in the theatre and in the year 2000 her monologue "Obsesión Habanera", written, directed and performed by herself, was hugely successful. Although her first film was La última cena (The Last Supper), she established herself as an actress with Hasta cierto punto, directed in 1983 by the man who was to become her husband, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Adorables mentiras (Adorable Lies) by Gerardo Chijona, won her a prize at the Damascus Film Festival. International success came with Fresa y Chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate), directed by Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, who she worked with again on what was to be her husband's last film, Guantanamera. Since her husband's death in April 1996, Mirta Ibarra has combined working between Cuba and Spain and has taken part in Mararía, by Antonio Betancourt, Cuarteto de La Habana by Fernando Colomo, Sobreviviré (I will survive) by Albacete & Menkes, Sagitario by Vicente Molina Foix, the short film Ruleta by Roberto Santiago and TV Movie Quia directed by Silvia Munt. During this year she has starred in the series on TVE La verdad de Laura. Her latest film, which is currently in the post-production phase is Aunque estés lejos, directed by Juan Carlos Tabío, once again between Madrid and Havana. Mirta Ibarra is undoubtedly one of the great Dames of modern Latin American cinema.
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ANGELA POPE Great Britain. She is a British director who made her debut in 1971 with the documentary Yesterday's Men that she made for television. This is the medium that she has been working in for more than 20 years where she has made such outstanding films as The Best Days, Shiftwork, Dream Baby, Children Crossing or Mr Wakefield's Crusade. In 1985 she won an Emmy with the film The Treble. Two years later she directed Sweet As You Are, a spine-chilling document about a relationship affected by AIDS starring Liam Neeson and Miranda Richardson which won, among other prizes, the Golden Hugo at the Chicago Festival, an ACE award in the USA and the Royal Television Society Award for Best Film and Best Actress which went to Miranda Richardson. In 1993 she filmed a documentary in Bosnia, Ordinary People, as part of the BBC series "Inside Story" with which she won the Silver FIPA award. A year later she made her first full-length fictional film with Captives, starring Tim Roth and Julia Ormond in which once again she sketched a provocative difficult love affair between an inmate and a dentist who goes to a jail to visit the prisoners. In 1996 in the Zabaltegi section at the Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival she presented her second film Hollow Ree
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