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CLAUDE
CHABROL (President)
GIUSEPPE BERTOLUCCI
YVONNE BLAKE
FLORINDA BOLKAN
ELOY DE LA IGLESIA
JORGE EDWARDS
SANDRA
HEBRON
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CLAUDE CHABROL
A French director born in Paris in 1930. A movie
buff by calling, he set up his first film club at the age of 13.
After graduating in Arts from Paris University, he started to write
in the magazine "Arts" at the start of the fifties from
where he moved shortly afterwards to the editorial department of
"Cahiers du Cinéma", where he worked together with
Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and Eric Rohmer. The author
of an essential book on the figure of Hitchcock and some unforgettable
articles, Chabrol was the first of the mythical editors at "Cahiers
du Cinéma" to start directing films in 1958 with his
first work Le beau Serge (Handsome Serge) which to a certain extent
began what shortly afterwards was to be known as La Nouvelle Vague.
Since then he had directed more than fifty films in which he has
sketched an incisive ironic portrait of French society, especially
of the provincial bourgeoisie. Comedy, drama, film noir, Chabrol
has worked in all the genres and has left his distinctive trade
mark in his films. A magnificent story-teller, he is also a exquisite
gourmet who can enjoy a good meal just as much as a great film.
Chabrol has been at the Donostia-San Sebastián Film Festival
on several occasions: 1967 with Le Scandale (Champagne Murders);
1970, with Le boucher (The butcher); 1986 with Inspecteur Lavardin
(Inspector Lavardin). The last time he was here was with Rien ne
va plus (The Swindle) which won him the Golden Shell in 1997.
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GIUSEPPE BERTOLUCCI
An Italian director and producer, he was born in
Parma in 1947. He is Bernardo Bertolucci's brother and began to
work with him as director's assistant on La strategia del ragno
(The Spider's stratagem). Shortly after this he wrote the script
for Novecento and La luna with him. After making several films for
television, he made his film debut in 1977 with Berlinguer ti voglio
bene, starring Roberto Benigni. He has a gift for comedy, but nevertheless
it is in documentaries and portraits of women that Giuseppe Bertolucci
is at his best: Segreti segreti (Secrets Secrets, 1985), Amori in
corso, which was presented in 1989 at the Donostia-San Sebastián
Film Festival in the Zabaltegi section, or Il dolce rumore della
vita (1999). His latest film, L'amore probabilmente was presented
this year at the Venice Film Festival.
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YVONNE BLAKE
A costume designer, born in Salford, Manchester,
in 1940. She studied at the Regional College of Art in Manchester
and started working alongside Cecil Beaton in the spectacular designs
for the theatrical version of My Fair Lady. She made her debut as
a costume designer in 1966 in Judith, by Daniel Mann. Since then
she has worked on almost forty films for directors such as François
Truffaut, Richard Lester, Paul Verhoeven or Richard Donner. In 1971
she won an Oscar for her work in Nicholas and Alexandra by Franklin
J. Shaffner. She settled in Spain and began to work regularly in
Spanish films where she has won two Goyas for her work in Remando
al viento (Rowing in the wind, 1988) by Gonzalo Suárez, and
Canción de cuna (Cradle Song, 1994) by José Luis Garci.
She has put her subtle original conception of costume design into
practice in cinema, theatre, ballet and television where her work
in the mini-series Casanova won her an Emmy nomination. Yvonne Blake
lives in Madrid, but works half the time in Los Angeles and half
in Spain. One of her latest collaborations has been The Sacrifice,
shot in Almería starring Willem Dafoe.
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FLORINDA BOLKAN
A Brazilian actress and director. She worked as
a stewardess in Brazil before going to Paris to study art at the
Sorbonne. In 1967 in Italy she met the director Luchino Visconti
who encouraged her to go into films. She started her career as an
actress working with directors as important as Luchino Visconti,
Elio Petri or Giuliano Montaldo. In 1970 the romantic melodrama
Anónimo veneziano (The Anonymous Venetian) by Enrico Maria
Salerno made her a well-known figure in European cinema. Since then
she has worked as an actress on both stage and screen between Italy,
France and England. In the year 2000 she made her debut as a director
fulfilling an old dream of shooting a film about her own city, her
family, her sisters and her friends. A heart-felt sensuous story,
packed with secrets, mysteries and love: Eu nao conhecia Tururu
(I didn't know Tururú) was presented last year at the Donostia-San
Sebastián Festival in the Zabaltegi-New Directors Section.
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ELOY DE LA IGLESIA
A Basque director, born in Zarautz in 1944. He tried
to get into the EOC, but he wasn't old enough, so he started working
in the Popular Children's Theatre Company. His first full-length
film was precisely a film for children Fantasía...3. In 1968
he directed Algo amargo en la boca which gave him his first problems
with the censors. He joined the Spanish Communist Party in 1971
and since then he has combined his political activism with films
that show a deep political commitment to the working-classes. He
achieved notoriety in 1970 with El techo de cristal (Glass Ceiling)
and La semana del asesino (Week of the Killer) a year later. However
it was to be after Franco's death, during the Transition, when Eloy
de la Iglesia established a personal kind of cinema with provocative
powerful images, in which he dealt openly with homosexuality, hypocrisy,
drugs and juvenile delinquency in films like Los placeres ocultos
(Hidden Pleasures, 1976), El diputado (The Deputy, 1978), Navajeros
(1980) El pico (1983) and El pico II (1984). In 1987 he directed
La estanquera de Vallecas which was to be his last film before he
disappeared for a while due to personal problems. In 1996 the San
Sebastián Festival devoted a retrospective to his work that
led him to return to the world of cinema. In the year 2000 he filmed
a version of Calígula by Albert Camus for television and
at the moment he is preparing to shoot a new full-length film, Los
novios búlgaros.
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JORGE EDWARDS
A Chilean writer, born in Santiago in 1931. He studied
Law at the University of Chile. A diplomat since 1957, he was responsible
for opening the Chilean Embassy in Havana. When he was ambassador
to UNESCO he received a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres medal from
the French government. In 1994 he received the National Literature
Award. In April 2000 he picked up the prestigious 1999 Cervantes
Award at the same time as the Chilean Ministry of Education awarded
him the Gabriela Mistral Order of Merit. He began to write in 1952
but he didn't become successful until he published his sixth book
"Persona Non Grata" (1973) which made him a popular writer
although he was very controversial for both the Right and the Left
in Chile. At the same time as "Persona Non Grata" was
published he abandoned his diplomatic career after the triumph of
General Pinochet's military coup that forced him to go into exile
in Spain. Since then he has published another 10 books, including
"Adiós, poeta" (1990) in which he recalls his friendship
with the poet Pablo Neruda. His latest novel, "El sueño
de la historia", describes his family's life during General
Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
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SANDRA HEBRON
A British festival programmer. After working for several years
as a teacher and writing on subjects to do with culture, she began
to work in independent cinema at the end of the eighties. She was
one of the driving forces behind one of the Regional Arts Boards
in Great Britain. She ran various seminars on screenings and distribution
strategies. In 1991 she took charge of the Manchester Cornerhouse
cinema, a complex with three cinemas and a contemporary art gallery
where she organised various seasons of films. It was in this context
that the idea came up of holding specialised festivals such as "Viva!",
the first British festival devoted to Spanish cinema and the Festival
of Independent American Cinema. In 1997 she started to work as a
programmer at the London Film Festival, where she is the deputy
director. She has directed documentaries and fictional short films
and writes regularly in various film magazines.
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