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The jury members will have the delicate task of choosing among the competing films and bestowing 18 official awards, including the Cristal for short films and the Cristal for feature films.

 

 


Short films

  • Joe Aguilar, jury member in 2012

    Joe Aguilar
    Producer, USA
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    Joe Aguilar, jury member in 2012

    Joe Aguilar


    Joe Aguilar has been a key Producer at DreamWorks Animation since the company began. He produced, among others, the blockbuster Puss In Boots in 2011, which was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature.
    He is in charge or recruitment, training, and the development of skills necessary to make animation feature films at the DreamWorks Dedicated Unit, situated in Bangalore, India.

     

  • Eric Khoo, jury member in 2012

    Eric Khoo
    Director, Singapore
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    Eric Khoo, jury member in 2012

    Eric Khoo


    Since 1995, Eric Khoo as left his mark on the international scene with each of his films including 12 Storeys (1997), the first Singaporean film invited to the Cannes Film Festival. Tatsumi, his first foray into animation, premiered at Cannes in 2011, and went on to win many prizes, including the Sitges Film Festival in Spain and the International Film Festival in Dubai.

  • Darragh O'Connell, jury member in 2012

    Darragh O'Connell
    Producer, Ireland
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    Darragh O'Connell, jury member in 2012

    Darragh O'Connell


    Darragh O'Connell founded Brown Bag Films with Cathal Gaffney in 1994. He has directed or produced series such as Give Up Yer Aul Sins, I’m an Animal, Olivia, Octonauts, as well as dozens of animated television commercials for global brands: Guinness, Vodafone, Coca-Cola, etc. Darragh became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

Feature films

  • Sue Goffe, jury member in 2012

    Sue Goffe
    Head of Production, Great Britain

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    Sue Goffe, jury member in 2012

    Sue Goffe


    Sue Goffe is the Managing Director and Head of production at the famous Studio Aka, where she has produced such international success as Jojo in the Stars, Varmints, Lost and Found and A Morning Stroll, nominated for an Oscar for best animated short in 2012.

  • Tom Perlmutter, jury member in 2012

    Tom Perlmutter
    Government Film Commissioner and Chair of the National Film Board (NFB) Canada
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    Tom Perlmutter, jury member in 2012

    Tom Perlmutter


    Tom Perlmutter became the 15th Government Film Commissioner and Chair of the National Film Board (NFB) in 2007. Since then, he has notably revitalized interactive, documentary and animation programming at the Board.

  • Stéphane Aubier, jury member in 2012

    Stéphane Aubier
    Director, Belgium
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    Stéphane Aubier, jury member in 2012

    Stéphane Aubier


    Stéphane Aubier has been directing animation films since 1991 with Vincent Patar, who he met while studying. Their hits include the Pic Pic André Shoow.
    They used stop motion with cowboy and indian figurines for a TV series and the feature A Town Called Panic.
    They have just completed the feature film Ernest & Celestine with Benjamin Renner.




TV and commissioned films

  • Tiziana De Carolis, jury member in 2012

    Tiziana De Carolis
    Composer, USA
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    Tiziana De Carolis, jury member in 2012

    Tiziana De Carolis


    After graduating from the national music Conservatoire in Bari, Italy, Tiziana De Carolis is now a concert performer and composer for the cinema and theatre. She is also on the board of the Union des compositeurs de musiques de films (UCMF). Her music is an artistic mix that she creates in collaboration with artists and filmmakers.

     

  • Jackie Edwards, jury member in 2012

    Jackie Edwards
    Producer, Great Britain
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    Jackie Edwards, jury member in 2012

    Jackie Edwards


    Jackie Edwards has been Executive Producer, Animation and Acquisitions at CBeebies since 2008, the U.K.’s foremost dedicated pre-school television channel. She has produced many of the channel's animated series including Tree Fu Tom, Driver Dan’s Story Train, The Octonauts, Raa Raa the Noisy Lion and Rastamouse.

     

  • Hugues Allart, jury member in 2012

    Hugues Allart
    Producer, France
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    Hugues Allart, jury member in 2012

    Hugo Allart


    Hugues Allart took charge of Mikros' 3D department in 1998. He then managed the visual effects department until 2009. Today, he produces creative content within the group.

    He has also been a member of the jury panel for Supinfocom, the École Louis Lumière, etc.

     

Graduation films

  • Véronique Cayla, jury member in 2012

    Véronique Cayla,
    Chairperson at Arte France

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    Véronique Cayla, jury member in 2012

    Véronique Cayla


    Véronique Cayla's career path has been strongly linked to the cinema. Starting out at the Ministry of Culture, she was technical advisor in charge of cinema, and went on to become Managing Director at the Video Library in Paris (now the Forum des images), where she worked between 1982 and 1989.


    During the 90s, she worked for the private sector as Managing Director for the MK2 film group followed by Executive Director at LMK-Images SA.
    She was Managing Director for the Cannes Festival and Chairperson of the CNC, and has been Chairperson at Arte and Chairperson for the executive board at Arte France since 2011.

  • John Piper, jury member in 2012

    John Piper
    Professor, New Zealand

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    John Piper, jury member in 2012

    John Piper


    After studies in Graphic Design, John Piper runs study programmes specialised in Digital Design, 3D Animation or Visual Effects at the AUT University in Auckland. He also researches into emerging industries in the moving image arena.

  • Stefanie Zhang, jury member in 2012

    Stefanie Zhang
    Distributor, China
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    Stefanie Zhang, jury member in 2012

    Stefanie Zhang


    Stefanie Zhang is the Head of Global Operations at Vasoon Animation studio based in Beijing. Her career has been rich and diverse, starting out as a filmmaker and then moving into animation festival programming in Taiwan and Macao.

    Since 2008, she has been a magazine editor writing on film, lifestyle or food for such publications as O2 Magazine and The Shopper Magazine.

     




Junior Juries


8 French and Portuguese juniors, aged between 9 and 16, will be awarding the Junior Jury Award for a short film and a graduation film.


The 4 young people from Portugal come from the MONSTRINHA animation workshop and the 4 French youngsters are all from theAtelier de cinéma d’animation d’Annecy et de Haute-Savoie (AAA).


In collaboration with the Lisbon Animation Festival, the MONSTRINHA workshop has been organising introductory hands-on courses for the young since 2000.

 

The juries

 

 

Short films (9/12 years)

  • Tiago Almeida Galrito, 9 yrs, MONSTRINHA animation workshop
  • Jorge Miguel Lourenço Diogo Vaz, 9 yrs, MONSTRINHA animation workshop
  • Kenzo Betend, 10 yrs, AAA workshop
  • Juliette Clauss-Auzeméry, 11 yrs, AAA workshop

Films de fin d'études (13/16 ans)

  • Joana Raquel Maurício Marques, 16 yrs, MONSTRINHA animation workshop
  • Ricardo Manuel Sampaio Jorge Rolim, 16 yrs, MONSTRINHA animation workshop
  • Clément Castets, 16 yrs, AAA workshop
  • Manon Gerlier, 15 yrs, AAA workshop


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