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Xavier-Daniel
is a member of the Board of Catalan Filmmakers College, member of the
Film Critics and Film Writers Association in Catalonia, and FIPRESCI
(International Federation of Film Press). His first film "Silent
Moments" (1982)directed and produced by him, was forbidden in Spain,
but a few years later was considered a "Cult Movie" and screened in
Europe, America and Asia. He has directed film festivals in Catalonia,
France and Spain. He has been Programming Director of mythic
sessions of forbidden movies during Franco’s dictatorship screened in
France: Ceret, Perpignan, Amelie-les-Bains, Le Boulou. He has also been
a member of international juries in film festivals such as Berlin, West
Hollywood, Havana, Cracow, Turin… He founded and directed the first
GLTB Films Exhibition in Spain “Mostra Lambda” (Barcelona, 1995-2000).
Founder and Programming Director of Madrid International Gay and
Lesbian Film Festival (LesGaiCineMad, 1996-2000). Founder and Director
of FICGLB, The Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
since 2001 establishing the LGTIB Movie Awards in Catalonia.
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Alex
Viera. He studied Screenplay Techniques and Resources , Script Workshop
and Screenplay for TV serials (UNEAC. Havana, Cuba 2000) and Movies
Production (UNEAC. Havana 2001). Postgrade Course in Screenplay for
Fiction Feature Films with Alan Baker at ESCAC (High School of Cinema
and Audio-visuals in Catalonia, Barcelona 2002). Screenwriter of the
Cuban Clandestine Trilogy, documentaries programmed and screened in
several universities in U.S.A. which were invited to international film
festivals such as Outfest (Los Angeles, USA), West Hollywood, Toronto
(Canada), Turin (Italy)… Author of commercials and promotional
audio-visuals, and the responsible of Retrospectives about Cuban
Cinema, in Catalonia, for the FICGLB, who is General Coordinator
in Barcelona, since 2002.
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Moritz de Hadeln. Born
in Exeter, England, the year 1940, he is a Swiss citizen from the year
1986. With their wife Erika, founded the International Festival of
Documentary Film of * Nyon that directed from 1969 until 1979. The year
1963 put on behind the camera and he shot the documentary Him Pèlé,
taken place by the Switzerland Company of * Teleproducción of Zurich.
Three years later, and working with Ernest Artaria, he directed Ombres
et Mirages; in the same period he worked in edition, next to Yves
Allegret and as assistant of direction at the CCC Film Studios of
Berlin. He has been director of the Film Festival in Locarno
(Switzerland, 1972 -1979) and Berlinale, International Film Festival in
Berlin (1979 -2001). After the fall of the wall of Berlin, the year
1989, he considered opportune to make of the Festival one of the places
of more important professionals of the German new capital encounter. He
developed the Market of the European Film to establish links with the
film international industry and he was able to transfer the
headquarters from the Festival to the new building of Potsdamer Platz,
where it takes place at the moment the Internationale Filmfestspiele
Berlin. He was proposed as director of the Mostra of Venice and he
accepted (2002 -2003). He is member of EFA (European Film Academy) and
he has received the Teddy Award to his career and for the initiative of
granting these prizes in favor of the sexual diversity inside the mark
of the Berlin Film Festival, when he was the director.
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Wieland
Speck. Born
in Freiburg the year 1951, he has lived in Berlin from 1972. He studied
Germanic literature, drama and ethnology in Freie Universität Berlin.
He has worked as actor with directors of the prestige of David
Hemmings, Robert Van Ackeren, Ulrike Ottinger and Ian Pringle. He began
to put on behind the camera shooting several documentaries in support
videotape. Of the year 1979 at the 1981 studied in San Francisco Art
Institute. It is managing, author and producing of numerous productions
for television and cinema. He has worked in several film institutions
and events, among other Filmhaus Berlin, Filmbüro Baden-Württemberg,
and Berlin European Short Film Festival. From the year 1982 and during
ten years, has been working of assistant of managing Manfred Salzgeber
, for the section Panorama of the International Berlin Film Festival.
After his death, it was named, in 1992, director of this section. He
has directed the long feature film Westler (1985) and numerous short
films, as Zimmer 303 (1991). With Andrea Weiss he has shared script and
direction of the long documentary Escapes to Life-The Erika and Klaus
Mann Story (2000), with production of Greta Schiller, with Vanessa and
Corin Redgrave and the composer and actor Albrecht Becker.
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Kirsten
Schaffer is the Director of Programming of OUTFEST, the largest film
festival in Southern California and the largest arts and culture event
for the gay and lesbian community in the region. Schaffer is
responsible for ensuring that OUTFEST continues to program the newest
and best gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered feature films,
documentaries and short film subjects for its annual film festival in
July and throughout the year for OUTFEST Wednesdays. For six years,
Schaffer worked for the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, first as
the Director of Programming and then as the Co-Executive Director.
Schaffer has also worked as a programmer for the Northwest
International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and as a curator for the
Olympia Film Festival and the One Reel Festival at Bumbershoot. She has
a BA from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
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Jenni
Olson. Broadcaster, screenwriter, investigator and writer of films of
homosexual sunjects from the year 1986. She has been co-director of the
San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. She is also
the author of the Encyclopedia of Cinema and Video Gay and Lesbian,
published the year 1996. She has written for the noted publications The
Advocate, Out Magazine and The Bay Area Reporter, among other
newspapers and magazines. In the land of the production she has been
producer associated in several projects, as Jodie (documentary on Jodie
Foster, an icon for many lesbians) for British Channel Four Television.
The Joy of Life (2005) it has represented her long feature film's
debut. Her last work has been the short film 575 Castro St. (2008),
shot in the Set of Gus Van Sant for his film Harvey Milk.
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Cheryl
Dunye a native of Liberia, received her BA from Temple University
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and her MFA from Rutgers University’s
Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dunye has
received numerous national and international honors for her work in the
media arts. Her third feature film, Miramax’s, MY BABY’S DADDY, was a
box office success and played at theaters nation wide. Dunye’s second
feature, the acclaimed HBO Films, STRANGER INSIDE, garnered Dunye an
Independent Spirit award nomination for best director in 2002. Dunye
wrote, directed and starred in her first film which was the first
African American lesbian feature film, THE WATERMELON WOMAN. It was
awarded the Teddy Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and
best feature in L.A.’s OutFest, Italy’s Torino, and France’s Creteil
Film Festivals. Dunye’s other works have been included in the have been
included in the Whitney Biennial and screened at festivals in New York,
London, Tokyo, Cape Town, Amsterdam and Sydney. In addition Dunye has
received grants from the Astraea Foundation and Frameline; a recipient
of a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts; a fellow of the
Rockefeller Foundation; graced with the prestigious Anonymous was a
Woman Award, as well as a 2004 Community Vision Award from National
Center for Lesbian Rights and a 2004 Creative Excellence Award by Women
in Film and Television. Dunye has received grants from the Astraea
Foundation and Frameline; a recipient of a grant from the National
Endowment of the Arts; a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation; and
graced with the prestigious Anonymous was a Woman Award as well as a
lifetime achievement award from Girlfriend’s Magazine. Dunye is based
in Los Angeles and is at work on a new feature film, Adventures in the
419, with Duly Noted, Inc.
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Giovanni
Minerba. Founder and director of From Sodoma to Hollywood, Turin
International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the first
specialized filmfest contest created in Europe. He has carried out
numerous short films, pioneers in his country, performed and/or
codirected with Ottavio Mai, his feeling couple and professional. Both
founded the reivindicative association Another Communication, for the
homosexual rights and they created the Festival the year 1986. He has
directed, in homage to his died partner, the long documentary Ottavio
Mai (2003), together with the Italian writer Alessandro Golinelli.
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Desi
del Valle. Filmmaker and actress of Cruel the year 1994, has been
director of Frameline, distribution of independent films and
organizer of the San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. She is
also the actress of Mod Fuck Explosion, Jeanne & Hauviette, and
Desi's Looking For A New Girl. He received the co-main character when
the Catalan woman filmmaker, Marta Balletbó-Coll, offered her
performing the long feature film Costa Brava Family Album that supposed
her an international recognition, after numerous prizes that it got
this film. She is the director of Back to Life (2009).
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