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ALTADIS-NEW DIRECTORS AWARD 90.000 euros.

The ALTADIS-NEW DIRECTORS AWARD JURY of the 52nd Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival consisting of the followings members:

has decided to grant a Mention to:

and by majority grant the ALTADIS-NEW DIRECTORS AWARD to the film:

for its aesthetic rigor and its creation of a disturbing and original universe.


Donostia-San Sebastian, 25 September 2004

A specially formed international jury is charged with granting the Altadis-New Directors Award of the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival. The largest monetary prize given in any festival, this 90,000 Euros (about 110,000 dollars) is shared by the winning film's producer and director. The first or second features of directors participating in the Official Section or Zabaltegi are eligible whenever the films have not already been screened in any other festival.

Rules (2004). Altadis-New Directors Award

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JORGE DE COMINGES
Born in Barcelona in January 1945, he graduated in Law at Barcelona University and worked as a film engineer from 1968 to 1980. He has been a film critic since 1976 for publications like “Destino”, “El Noticiero Universal” and “El Periódico de Catalunya”. He joined the editorial department of “Fotogramas” in 1981, where he was editor in chief from 1989 to 1996, when he became head of the editorial board of “Qué Leer”. At the moment he is also sub-editor of Comunicación y Publicaciones S.A., which publishes the magazines “Fotogramas”, “Qué Leer” and “Clío”.
As a novelist, he has published “Un clavel entre los dientes” (Seix Barral, 1989), “Tul ilusión” (Anagrama, 1993), “Las Adelfas” (Ediciones del Bronce, 1997) and “Un curso muy movido” (Alba, 1999), the latter in collaboration with his daughter Clara. He has also written a book of film memoirs, ‘Mis años de cine (1976-1979) Entre el destape y la “qualité”’ (DVD, 2001). In November this year the first volume of his memoirs, “Memorias de un extraño (1945-1971)” (Seix Barral) will be published. He has been married since 1971 and has a son and a daughter.
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 ROBERT DAUDELIN
Director of the Quebec Film Archive from 1972 to 2002, Robert Daudelin was previously the editor of the film magazine “Objectif” (published in Montreal from 1960 to 1967), deputy director at the Montreal International Film Festival (from 1963 to 1967) and director of the Quebec Film Broadcasting Council (from 1969 to 1972). Highly active in the Film Archive movement, he was Secretary-General of the International Federation of Film Archives from 1979 to 1985, and its president from 1989 to 1995. He has written numerous articles on cinema, and in 1987 he directed a documentary on the American musician Lee Konitz : Konitz, portrait de l’artiste en saxophoniste. At the present time he is editor in chief of the “Journal of Film Preservation”, a member of the editorial board of the Montreal magazine, “24 images”, and guest lecturer at St-Joseph University in Beirut.
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 NICK JAMES
A film critic, he is editor of “Sight & Sound Magazine”, one of the oldest and most prestigious film magazines in the world, (it first came out in 1933). Nick James is a rock musician who found a second career in film criticism. His first articles appeared in ”City Limits”, one of the radical magazines in London, which he became editor of in 1991. He joined “Sight & Sound” as deputy-editor in 1995 and became editor in chief in 1997. In 2002 he published a book on Michael Mann called “Heat” as part of the Modern Classics collection.
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 SATU LAAKSONEN
Born in Keuruu (Central Finland). She studied Romance Philology, Art History and Journalism at Helsinki University and later in Besançon (France). She has always been interested in French culture, and is a specialist in French and Black African films.
She has been a programmer at the Finnish Film Archive since 1985, where she is responsible for international relations and for programmes of French and French-speaking films, Italian cinema, and of films from Black Africa, the Arab countries, Iran and South America. She is in charge of the programmes of Finnish cinema organised outside Finland. She works as a translator (specialising in cinema) and has taken part in the activities of various cultural associations in Finland since the seventies. In the nineties she was responsible for UNESCO’s activities in Finland. She is currently Vice-president of the Federation of Franco-Finnish Associations and in 2003 she received the French Order of Chevalier of the Arts.
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 MARIASUN LANDA
An arts graduate, at the present time she is permanent lecturer in the Didactics of Literature at the University School for Teachers in Donostia (University of the Basque Country). She has worked for numerous magazines and newspapers in the Basque Country, but her creative work has focused especially on children’s literature in Basque. She has written 30 books, most of which have been translated into Spanish, Catalan and Galician, as well as other foreign languages: English, French, German, Greek, Arabic..., which is why she is considered to be one of the most internationally renowned authors currently writing in Basque. Among the literary prizes that she has won is the National Young People’s and Children’s Literature Prize 2003 for the book, “Krokodriloa ohe azpian (A crocodile under the bed),” awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
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ALAN PAULS
Born in Colegiales (Buenos Aires, Argentina) in 1959, this graduate in the Arts has been a university lecturer. Expert in the work of Manuel Puig, Lucio V. Mansilla and Roberto Arlt, he has written various essays on Argentine literature, the latest of which, entitled “El factor Borges”, is dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges. He is currently the editor of “Radar”, Sunday supplement for the newspaper “Página/12”. He has worked as a film and literary critic, in addition to having written scripts for television (Carlos Sorín’s La era del ñandú, 1987) and for the screen (Los enemigos, 1982; Sinfín, 1988; Imposible, 1999, Arizona Sur, 2000). His literary work consists of four novels and a number of short stories. The first time his name appeared in Spain was precisely in a tale published by Anagrama in 1992 as part of Juan Forn’s anthology “Buenos Aires”. But Pauls had already been publishing in Argentina for almost ten years. His first book was “El pudor del pornógrafo”, 1984; “El coloquio” came out in 1990. The third, “Wasabi”, published in 1994, narrated the comings and goings of an Argentinean writer in France, precisely at the La Maison des écrivains étrangers et des traducteurs in the French port of Saint-Nazaire. With his fourth book, “El pasado” (2003), Pauls won the 21st Premio Herralde de Novela. Not only is Pauls one of the most important writers of new Latin American narrative, he also holds the honour of being one of the leading characters in the novel by Enrique Vila-Matas, “El mal de Montano”.
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 HÜLYA UÇANSU
She was born in 1950 in Bandirma, Turkey. After graduating from the American College in Istanbul in 1971, she studied English Language and Literature at Istanbul University (1973-77). Her links with cinema began as a deputy manager at the Turkish Film Archive in 1975. After working on the organisation of various festivals in Turkey, she was appointed Director of the International Istanbul Film Festival in 1983, a post she has held ever since. In 1996, as the director of this festival, she was responsible for staging a great Turkish Film Retrospective at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris. She has taken part as a jury member at important international festivals, such as Venice, Montreal, Rotterdam, Montpellier, Valladolid or Taormina.
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