GUILLERMO ARRIAGA
Guillermo is one of the most influential filmmakers hailing from Mexico. He became famous overnight in 2000, when Amores Perros, a film he wrote and Alejandro González Iñárritu directed, world premiered in the Critics' Week sidebar at Cannes being hailed as one of the best features of that year. After this impressive success, Guillermo and Alejandro were invited to Hollywood, where they worked together again, writing and directing 21 Grams, a film that received two Academy Awards nominations, and Babel (seven Academy Awards nominations, winning a trophy for Best Original Score).
Guillermo switched to directing in 2008, when his first feature The Burning Plain, starring Charlize Theron, was released. Besides his filmmaking career, Guillermo is also an accomplished writer. His first novel, “Escuadrón Guillotina”, was published in 1991, while his most recent, “Salvar el fuego”, hit the bookstores last year.
SCOTT COFFEY
Scott knows his craft from both sides of the camera through his work as a director, writer, actor and producer. Filmmaker Magazine named him one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” for his film first film, Ellie Parker, starring Naomi Watts and Chevy Chase. His second feature, Adult World, premiered at the Tribeca Film festival. His screen adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s All God's Children Can Dance screened as the opening night film of CineVegas and at the Deauville International Film Festival. As an actor, he has appeared in numerous films including three John Hughes films, Nicholas Kazan’s Dream Lover and several David Lynch movies including Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire and, of course, Twin Peaks: The Return. Scott’s latest feature film It Takes Two will be released in September 2021.
CHRISTIAN JEUNE
Christian’s prolific experience and expertise is the result of a long career with the world’s leading film festival at Cannes. He works on presenting the Festival abroad and in locating films. He joined the team of the most prestigious international film festival in 1983. At first, he worked in the Press Office, and has since 1995 managed the Festival’s Film Department, where he is in charge of the pre-selection and selection process. As a deputy, he maintains close operations with the Cannes Film Festival General Delegate Thierry Frémaux, who is considered to be among the most influential people in the world film industry. He has also translated over one hundred films from English into French.
MARIA POPISTAŞU
Maria is an academically trained theater and film actress. Her international TV career started in 2003 with a leading role in the BBC production Gunpowder, Treason & Plot. Then she was cast in the acclaimed British miniseries Sex Traffic, receiving a Gemini Award for her role as a young Romanian sold into slavery. Maria starred in her first Romanian production, Love Sick by Tudor Giurgiu, which premiered at the 2006 Berlinale. She has worked across Europe in Belgium, France, Austria, Germany and England. For her performance in Die Zweite Frau by German director Hans Steinbichler she won a Grimme Preis in 2009. She worked closely with director Radu Muntean as she starred in Tuesday, After Christmas that premiered in Cannes in 2010, One Floor Below and Alice T., and returns this year to Cannes with his most recent film Întregalde.
KATRIEL SCHORY
Katriel studied at the New York University Film School. He founded his own production company, Belfilms, producing over 150 films. In 1999 was appointed the CEO of The Israel Film Fund authorizing the support and the production of 300 feature films. He has received many awards, among them The Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Berlinale Kamera, Special Medallion of the Telluride Film Festival, and The Variety Award.