Jury
The members of the jury of the LAFF 2007 were:
- María Lourdes Cortés Pacheco
- Ricardo Cuadros
- Marianne Balothra
- Rob Brouwer
María Lourdes Cortés Pacheco
María Lourdes Cortés Pacheco is a film expert of Costa Rican and Central-American films. She's a professor at the University of Costa Rica and as a researcher linked to the Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. She's the director of CINERGIA, a fund that stimulates audiovisual productions in Central-America and Cuba. And if this isn't enough she also coordinates the Televisión de América Latina (TAL) in Central-America and the Caribbean.
She's won several titles and prizes, like the Premio Joaquín García Monge for her cultural input and also the Premio de Ensayo Aquileo J. Echeverría for her publications Amor y traición, cine y literatura en América Latina (1999) and La Pantalla Rota. Cien Años de Cine en Centroamérica (2005). Does she have a favourite film? “It's difficult to name one, but Memorias del subdesarrollo by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea which is a good combination of ways to tell a very important story and show a critical vision. I also liked Suite Habana by Fernando Pérez which is a very human, very simple and a visual poem.”
André Waardenburg
Due to circumstances André Waardenburg is unaible to participate as a member of the jury during the Latin American Film Festival.
Ricardo Cuadros
Ricardo Cuadros (1955) is a Chilean photographer, critic and writer (of novels, poetry, and radio plays). He received a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies at the University of Utrecht. Cuadros: “Like literature, cinema for me is not just entertainment but above all an inexhaustible source of aesthetic, moral and political knowledge.A good movie makes you stay in front of the screen until you read the last credits because you want to know everything about who made it, when and where. Some of my favourite films are El Chacal de Nahueltoro (Miguel Littin, 1968), Bye Bye Brasil ( Cacá Diegues, 1979) and Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000).”
Marianne Bhalotra
Marianne Bhalotra worked at the International Film Festival Rotterdam until 1986. Then he became head of the Hubert Balls Fund until 2007. This fund supports film projects in non-Western countries. She was a member of numerous jury’s at international film estivals, including the ones in Rabat, Durban and Shangai. Bhalotra: “What makes a film ood one? ‘A new and fresh approach to its subject and a very personal voice. Two of my favorite films from Latin America are: Battle in Heaven by Carlos Reygadas, a breath taking and chilling film which touched me often uncomfortably. Also, 25 WATTS by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll is an extraordinary debut, full of humor by two very young filmmakers from Uruguay.’
Rob Brouwer
Rob Brouwer lived and worked between 1985 and 1997 as an independent filmmaker in Managua Nicaragua and produced feature films and documentaries for both NGO’s as European Broadcast companies in Latin America and the Caribbean. His films have been focused on different subjects but most of all social issues that concern human rights. For ten years he’s been working as head of the Audiovisual Department of Amnesty International in Amsterdam. One of the documentaries he worked on as a cameraman and co-producer was “Against my Will’, from Ayfer Ergan. This film (about Honor Killings in Pakistan) was broadcasted in many countries and won the OMCT Award on the Human Rights Film Festival in Geneva and the “Prix Italia” as Best Documentary of the year 2003.
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