The Jury of the ALTADIS-NEW DIRECTORS AWARD at the 54th San Sebastian International Film Festival, consisting of the members:

• PATRICIA REYES SPÍNDOLA (Chairwoman)
• GILBERT ADAIR
• CARLOS LOSILLA
• SUSANA DE MORAES
• PER NIELSEN
• MARTINE OFFROY
• KIRMEN URIBE

• Has decided to grant a MENTION to:
  “ANG DAAN PATUNGONG KALIMUGTONG/ THE ROAD TO KALIMUGTONG”
  by the director Mes de Guzman (Philippines)
  
  
• And to bestow the ALTADIS NUEVOS DIRECTORES Award upon the film:
  “FAIR PLAY”, the director Lionel Bailliu (France)

Donostia-San Sebastián, 29th September 2006

The Jury of the MONTBLANC AWARD FOR NEW SCREENWRITERS at the 54th San Sebastian International Film Festival, has decided by a majority to grant its Award to:

“MEI MAN REN SHENG/SINGAPORE DREAMING”
for the screenplay by Yen Yen Woo and Colin Goh (Singapore)

This same Jury will grant the Montblanc Award for New Screenwriters.

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 director and the Spanish importer. 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 (2006). Altadis-New Directors Award

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Born in Mexico City on 11th July 1953, she started acting at a very young age with the maestros Virgilio Mariel, José Luis Ibáñez, Dimitrio Sarras, Héctor Mendoza and Adriana Roel, later heading for London to take a theatre workshop.
She has made 51 films to date, the most outstanding of which are La casa del sur (The House in the South, 1974) by Sergio Olhovich, Los motivos de Luz, by Felipe Cazals (1985, Silver Shell at San Sebastian), La reina de la noche (The Queen of the Night, 1993), El evangelio de las maravillas (Divine, 1998), El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel, 1998) and Así es la vida (Such Is Life, 1999), all by Arturo Ripstein, Before Night Falls by Julian Schnabel (1999), El sueño del Caimán by Beto Gómez (2000), La perdición de los hombres (The Ruination of Men, 2000, Golden Shell at San Sebastian) and La virgen de la lujuria (The Virgin of Lust, 2001), both of which are also directed by Arturo Ripstein, Exxxorcismos (Exxxorcisms, 2001), by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Frida, by Julie Taymor (2001), El Edén, by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, and Between, by David Ocaña (2004).
She has participated in 33 plays, and particularly Misterio bufo, Y la maestra bebe un poco, Salomé, Ángeles caídos, Las criadas, Los monólogos de la vagina and Hombres.
For television, she has worked in 22 soaps, the most outstanding of which are El maleficio, El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar, En carne propia, El vuelo del águila, La antorcha encendida, Pueblo chico, infierno grande, María Isabel, Mariana de la noche and La madrastra. She participated in several episodes of Mujer, casos de la vida real, as stage director and was the director of Operación Triunfo.
Patricia Reyes Spíndola was a member of the Official Jury at San Sebastian Festival in 1998.                 

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Gilbert Adair is a novelist, poet, scriptwriter and film critic. His novels include The Dreamers (for the film version of which, made by Bernardo Bertolucci, he wrote the screenplay), Love and Death on Long Island (taken to the screen by Richard Kwietniowski), A Closed Book (for the upcoming film version of which, to be directed by Raoul Ruiz, he has also written the screenplay) and the most recent The Act of Roger Murgatroyd.
He also co-wrote the screenplay for The Territory by Ruiz and the English language version of Klimt, by the same director. His latest screenplay, written in collaboration with the director, is for the forthcoming film by Bertolucci, Bel Canto.
He has published several collections of essays on cinema and has collaborated as a film critic with different British magazines and newspapers. He presently lives in London.

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Carlos Losilla (Barcelona, 1960) is an essayist, film and literary critic and lecturer on Film Theories at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and holds a PhD in Documentaries from the Universitat Autònoma in Barcelona. He also taught at the Literary Criticism Workshop organised by the Associació Catalana de Critics i Escriptors Cinematogràfics and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona.
From 1998 until 2006, he coordinated the film books for Ediciones Paidós and directed the Sesión Continua collection. He is the author of El cine de terror. Una introducción (1993), Taxi Driver / Johnny Guitar (1996), the short story, “En ausencia de Isabel” (from the collective book Homenaje a Casanova, 1998), La invención de Hollywood o cómo olvidarse de una vez por todas del cine clásico (2003) and the essays-novel, En busca de Ulrich Seidl (2003) and El sitio de Viena (to be published shortly), in addition to the coordinator of Paul Schrader, el tormento y el éxtasis (1995), La mirada oblicua, El cine de Robert Aldrich (1996), Richard Fleischer, entre el cielo y el infierno (1997) and Karel Reisz o el exilio permanente (1998), the first three with José Antonio Hurtado.
Chairman of the Asociació Catalana de Critics i Escriptors Cinematogràfics from 1999 until 2001, member of the Spanish Association of Film Historians (having actively participated in several of its congresses on both the organising and scientific committees), and of the Associació Col·legial d’Escriptors de Catalunya, assiduous collaborator in the magazines Dirigido, Nosferatu and Archivos de la Filmoteca, in addition to having written different articles for many other literary and film publications (El Observador, El Híbrido, Transversal, Lateral, Viridiana, Bandaparte...),  giving courses and conferences at different institutions and universities, sitting on juries or advisory or selection committees at a good number of national festivals (San Sebastian, Sitges, Cinema Jove in Valencia, Alcalá de Henares, Gijón...) and curator of an exhibition on science fiction movies.
He is currently a film critic of recent releases for the newspaper Avui and collaborates on the “Culturas” supplement of the La Vanguardia newspaper.

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This Brazilian director, producer and actress has worked in different areas of cinema and culture. In 1974 she directed her first short, Carlos Lelao and in 1975 Museu Paulista.
She was assistant director to Joaquim Pedro de Andrade on O Homem do Pau Brasil and to Miguel Faria Jr. on Para Vivir um Grande Amor and Stelinha. In 1980 she directed the medium-length film Vinicius de Moraes, um rapaz de familia, and in 1996 her first feature film, Mil e Uma (A Thousand and One) in which she recreates a strange imaginary meeting between the French artist Marcel Duchamp and a young girl from Rio de Janeiro called Alice, inspired by Lewis Carrol’s famous character.
In 2005 she produced Vinicius de Moraes, a documentary on the famous and versatile Brazilian artist, directed by Miguel Faria Jr.

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Born in Copenhagen in 1957, Per Nielsen started his professional career at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) at the age of 23, after having studied literature at university, in addition to pursuing his vocation as a musician, founding and composing for his two groups, Buztop and Frontline. This musical aspect was enormously important, due to his having created the News jingles for the Danish radio and television programmes produced in the last 25 years and winning the Ben Webster and State Arts Foundation Awards for his work.
At the DR, he produced radio and television programmes, later becoming Consultant/Executive Producer for Children and Youth Feature Films at the Danish Film Institute, producing films by Peter Flinth, Wikke & Rasmussen, Thomas Vinterberg or Lone Scherfig. Returning to the DR, this time at the TV Department, he co-produced films by Danish directors like Per Fly or Anders Thomas Jensen. He moved temporarily to Norway as Head of Script Development and Executive Producer of Norwegian Film Development, the organisation in charge of promoting cinema in that country. He returned to Denmark and production for Peter Aalbaek Jensen, founder of Zentropa, where he worked as a script consultant for the head players in the Scandinavian film industry (Nimbus Film, Danish Novel Film, A Film, Nordic Lights, Norsk Film A/S, Nordic Film and TV Fund and Nordisk Film).
He later joined the Swedish Film Institute as a consultant, acting as such for four years on over 50 films from all Nordic countries, including Kay Pollak’s Oscar-nominated As It Is in Heaven, Maria Blom’s Dalecarlians, Josef Fares’ Zozo, Lars von Trier’s Dogville and Manderlay, and Erik Poppe’s Hawaii-Oslo.
Per Nielsen currently works as a Senior Executive for Feature Film at Film i Väst, the biggest regional Film Foundation Centre in Scandinavia, while continuing to compose music for different media, translating opera, and writing for television, cinema and theatre.

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Graduate from the Political Studies Institute in Paris and PhD in Arts, Martine Offroy has always worked in the field of culture. She started her career in 1969 with Le Nouvel Observateur and later, in 1972, joined Editions Gallimard, where she rubbed shoulders with the most important authors of French literature, for which she has a real passion. It was at this time that she launched the magazine Cinématographe, where she was accompanied by Jacques Fieschi and Philippe Carcassonne.
In 1977, Nicolas Seydoux and Daniel Toscan du Plantier called her to join Gaumont, where she was in charge of external relations. In 1985, Nicolas Seydoux appointed her Director of the Cinémathèque and of the Gaumont Museum, making her Director of the Gaumont Heritage. In 2004, she became President of the Gaumont Pathé Archives, the company in charge of preserving the Gaumont and Pathé film newsreels and the catalogue of silent movies for both companies.
Martine Offroy has been President of the Toulouse Cinémathèque since 2003 (where she took over from Toscan du Plantier), is Vice-President of the Cinémathèque Française and Director of Protocol at Cannes Festival since 1985.
She holds the highest French distinctions, including the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres and the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

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Ondarroa (Biscay), 1970. Spain’s National Critics’ Award for his book of poems in Basque, Bitartean heldu eskutik (Susa, 2001), translated into Spanish, French and English.
His poems have appeared in prestigious literary magazines including The New Yorker and he has recited at screeds of international poetry festivals in New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Bordeaux, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia or Estonia.
He has participated in several multimedia projects comprising poetry, music and audiovisuals. In 2003 he published the book-CD Zaharregia, txikiegia agian, with the musicians Mikel Urdangarin, Rafa Rueda and Bingen Mendizabal, and the illustrator Mikel Valverde, the result of his stay in New York. Arkaitz Basterra has recently completed the documentary Agian, taking its inspiration from this project, which will be screened as part of the Zabaltegi section at San Sebastian Festival.
Kirmen Uribe is currently working on what will be his first novel.

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