International Jury Trento Film Festival 2009

GIULIANO MONTALDO
He was born in Genoa in 1930. In 1951, when still very young, he joined the Cooperativa Produttori Cinematografici (Film Producers Association) as a collaborator. At the beginning of his career he was mainly an actor and played a role in Achtung! Banditi! (1951) by Carlo Lizzani, followed by Ai margini della metropoli (1952), Cronache di poveri amanti (1954), Il momento più bello (1957) and L'assassino (1961) by Elio Petri, in which he was also co-director. He then worked with Valerio Zurlini, Francesco Maselli and Luciano Emmer. He started to work as assistant director with Maleno Balenotti and Gillo Pontecorvo in La grande strada azzurra (1957). Montaldo did his training as a director with Pontecorvo. In 1962 Tiro al piccione was his first film. In 1964 he shot the documentary film Nudi per vivere with Petri. In 1967 Paramount wanted him for the thriller Ad ogni costo (1967) with Klaus Kinski and for Gli intoccabili (1969) with John Cassavetes. Back in Italy he shot the famous film Sacco e Vanzetti (1971) with Gian Maria Volonté and music by Joan Baez. He then made Giordano Bruno (1973) with Charlotte Rampling, L'Agnese va a morire (1976), the TV film Circuito chiuso (1978), Marco Polo (1983) the “colossal” miniseries with Burt Lancaster and the dramatic film Il giorno prima (1986). Then he directed Philippe Noiret in Gli occhiali d'oro (1987), and Nicolas Cage in Tempo di uccidere (1989). Later on Montaldo dedicated himself to documentary film–making including Ci sarà una volta (1992) and Le stagioni dell'aquila (1997) as well as to the staging of operatic works such as Il trovatore, La Bohème, Turandot, Tosca and Nabucco. In 2008 he directed I demoni di San Pietroburgo and from 2000 to 2003 he was President of Rai Cinema. For one year he was professor at the faculty of Communication Sciences at the University La Sapienza in Roma, and since 2002 he has collaborated with the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Experimental Centre for Cinematography). He received the honorary title of “Cavaliere di Gran Croce” from the former president of the Italian Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and in 2007 he received the “David di Donatello” award for his career.

IVAN BOCCARA
He was born in Marrakech, Morocco in 1968. He moved to France where he studied at the Ecole Supérièure d’Etudes Cinématographiques in Paris and then Berber history and civilisation at INALCO. He is a photographer, cameraman, screenwriter and documentary film-maker. He is a scholar of Berber civilisations and in his work he has focused particularly on North Africa ethnographic topics, such as in the full-length film Mout Tania, Mourir deux Foix (1999) which was awarded at the “Biennale des Cinémas Arabes” in  Paris, at the “Bilan du Film Ethnographique, Musée de l'Homme” in Paris, at the “Film Rural” festival in Ville sur Yron and at the “Territoires en Images, Institut de Géographie” festival in Paris. His film Tameksaout (2005), which is the story of a family of nomadic shepherds in the Moroccan Atlas, was awarded the Silver Gentian at TrentoFilmfestival in 2006. He presented his work in several international festivals, including the visual art Tartu festival in Estonia, the Mostra Internacional do Filme Etnográfico in Rio de Janeiro, the Festival International du Film Francophone in Namur, Belgium, and the Festival International du Film d’Amiens and the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire in Montréal. Moreover Boccara has always dedicated himself to photography, particularly to documentary photo-reports in Europe and Africa and founded the 36 Pauses Association in 2004. He is currently working on the different cinematographic projects: Pastorales electriques, Les Maghrebim and Les eaux tourmentées.

MONTSERRAT GUIU MARCH
Montserrat Guiu March was born in La Seu D’Urgell, in Catalonia, Spain in 1957. In 1981 she took a degree in Spanish at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. In 1986 she started to work as cinematographic anchorwoman in the cinema. In her professional career she distinguished herself by organising the screenings in film clubs and courses on the European art cinema. Moreover she dedicated herself to tailor-made cinematographic educational projects for the schools. Thanks to her intense work she started to become famous regionally and nationally and soon was awarded two prestigious prizes: the Euro Kids Cinema Award 2005 in Malmö, Sweden and the Expo Cine award for the best local businesswoman of Expo 2004 in Madrid. She is the creator and promoter of the CCCD - Circuit Catalá de Cinema Digital (Catalan circuit of digital cinema), a ten-movie theatre facility with permanent screenings of art films and alternative audiovisual products.
Since 2005 she has been director of “PICURT Mostra de curtmetrajes de temática montanyenca” (Short-film festival dedicated to the mountain), held in Artedo, Alt Urgell, in the Catalan Pyrenees. The main characteristic of this initiative is not only to screen films but also to produce shorts featuring the costumes and life of the mountain. Two shorts were also screened at TrentoFilmfestival in 2008: BrokeBike Mountain and La Ossa, the latter was awarded a prize for the best short at the XI Festival of Cervino and at the Festicurt III festival of Figueres-Alt Ampurdà.

MARCO PRETI
He was born in Brescia in 1956. He is director and cameraman specialising in extreme nature documentary films: mountains, oceans, deserts, jungles and Polar zones. Ski instructor, alpine guide and climber, at the age of 30 he left mountain activity for documentary film-making. He attended a screenplay course with Robert McKee, a direction course with R. Richards and an acting course with Dominique De Fazio. He was the founder of the Coral Climb productions and made his debut as a film-maker in late ‘80s with a trilogy on exotic free-climbing (Seychelles, Thailand and Polynesia). He thus started a long collaboration with the TV programmes Jonathan (Canale5-Mediaset) and Geo & Geo (RAI3) in 1996. He worked for Discovery Channel USA (Gentle Giant, 1994) and for the National Geographic (Papuas, 2003). Marco Preti has explored, travelled and filmed through all the continents and during his journeys he has collected pictures and stories from many different countries including: Antarctica, Alaska, Canada, United States of America, Mexico, Dominica Republic, Peru, Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Namibia, Mali, Kenya, Uganda, Madagascar, Morocco, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Benin, Siberia, Lebanon, Oman, Norway, Finland, India, Nepal, Tibet, China, Thailand, Malesia, Borneo, Sumatra, Bali, Java, New Zealand, Australia, Papua e Polynesia. He lives on Lake Garda with his wife Luisa and their children, Lucas and Dede. He presented several films at the TrentoFilmfestival: La montagna di corallo in 1986, Uno spigolo due facce in 1987 and Sfida sugli specchi in 1988. For the latter he was awarded the Coni prize. In 1991 he participated in the TrentoFilmfestival with Sogni di ghiaccio and in 1992 with L'ultima montagna which received the “Mario Bello” award.

SIBYLLE TIEDEMANN
Sibylle Tiedemann was born in Neu-Ulm, Germany in 1951. She studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Kassel and at the German Film & Television Academy in Berlin. In 1983 she continued her cinematographic education in Berlin and attended the Film making workshop held by the great Krzysztof Kieslowski and Agnieszka Holland. Since then she has worked as a director, screenwriter and producer of films and documentary films for cinema and television. Apart from being a director and a producer she is also a photographer and has held several solo photographic exhibitions across Europe. She is a teacher in Germany and abroad and at the Zelig film school in Bolzano, Italy. In 2000 she founded the Tiedemann Film production company. During her career she has participated in several international festivals including Oberhausen, Karlovy Vary, Berlinale, Montreal, San Francisco, Munich, Tallin, Hamburg and she is  a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie. Her filmography includes: Es war ganz einfach (fiction, 1986), La Colonna Sonora (television documentary film, 1990), Lautlinie (documentary film, 1992), Frauen sind keine Männer (documentary film, 1994), Jazzfocus (documentary film, 1994), Genius Loci (documentary film, 1996), Kinderland ist abgebrannt (1998, winner of the German Film Award and Grimme Award), Vom Schloss zur Hütte (a portrait of Eva von Tiele-Winckler, 1999), Verräter der Nation (television documentary film, 2000), Hainsfarth hatte einen Rabbi (television documentary film, 2001), Estonia Mon Amour (cinema documentary film, 2004), Yvon und der Atem des Teufels (documentary film, 2007) and Briefe aus Chicago / Bilder aus dem Exil (2008).