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	Carla Camurati
	Born in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960. In 1980, she stopped her college studies in Biology to take a course in theater. She acted in some plays and began, also, to work in television. She started in cinema in 1981, with O Olho Mágico, that earned her the prize for Best Actress in the Gramado Festival. She later made other important films such as Eternamente Pagos (1988) and Lamarca (1993). In 1987, she had her first experience as director with a short film A Mulher Fatal Encontra o Homem Ideal, that was awarded the prize for Best Director at the Brasília Festival. Acknowledgement came in 1995, when she produced and directed Carlota Joaquina, Princesa do Brasil, a great success with the critics and with the public. In 1997, she directed her second feature, Serva Padrona. Her most recent project is the feature Copacabana.

	Leonardo García Tsao
	Born in the City of Mexico in 1954. Critic and film script writer, Leonardo Garcia Tsao has written books on film makers Orson Welles, François Truffaut, Andrei Tarkovski, Sam Peckinpah, and Felipe Cazals. His most recent publication is El Ojo y la Navaja, a collection of his reviews and essays. He is the author of Intimidad, a feature, and of Ponchada, a short film shown at the festivals at Cannes, Toronto, San Sebastián, and Havana. For twelve years, he was programmer at the Cineteca Nacional, in Mexico. He was programmer at the Cancun Festival and the director of the Mexico Film Festival in Guadalajara. He has been a delegate at the Mexico Festival in San Sebastián for ten years..

	Leonor Silveira
	Born in Lisbon, Portugal. In 1970, she graduated in International Relations. In over ten years of career, she has worked with the main Portuguese film makers, especially veteran Manoel de Oliveira. She was cast in her first role with Oliveira in Os Canibais. Since then, she has been collaborating intensively with the director, with whom she made Word and Utopia (selected for the 24th Mostra) and is preparing for her next project Je Rentre à la Maison. Today, she is Coordinator for the Department for Divulging and National and International Furtherance of the Institute for Cinema, Audiovisuals, and Multimedia in Portugal.

	Manuel Martínez Carril
	Born in February, 1938. Director of Cinemateca Uruguaia and film critic, he is the author of several books and publications such as Três Rostros del Cine Norteamericano, Medio Siglo de Cinematecas en América Latina and Preservar el Cine. He has been part of the jury at several international festivals amongst which San Sebastián, Valladolid, Habana, and Viña del Mar. He is correspondent for Nuestro Cine, of Madrid and Celulóide, of Lisbon.

	Richard Dindo
	Born in 1944, in Zurich. He has been making documentaries since 1974 and has become one of the best and most perspicacious of European documentarists. In thirty years, he has directed over 20 feature films, amongst which: Swiss Nationals in the Spanish Civil War; Arthur Rimbaud, A Biography; Ernesto Che Guevara - The Bolivian Diary; and The Grüningers Case, selected for the 22nd Mostra. He lives in Zurich and Paris.

	Ivo Jankoski
	Born in Macedonia, is responsible for the musical score of the feature film Before the Rain, released in 1994. Directed by Milcho Manchevski, the film won the Golden Lion in the Venice Film Festival and the Audience Award of the 18th Mostra. In 1997, Ivo Jankoski won the Council of Europe award for his work in The Clock (best short film of the year). Jankoski has already directed more then 20 videoclips and produced last year the short films Kaval (selection of the 24th Mostra) and Gadja. He is also producer and manager of some bands of his country. Among them, Anastasia (Before the Rain).