JURY

CLAUDE CHAMBERLAN

Claude Chamberlan is the cofounder of Cinema Parallèle, of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, of the festival Magnifico and of CinéOké.

He is also cofounder of Check Hit Out productions, of FilmFilm distribution, of the Independant Filmmakers Cooperative and of the Underground Film Center.

Claude Chamberlan is also the ex-director in charge of Programmation at ExCentris and Cinéma du Parc.

Claude is a member of the Fraternity of cinephiles since 1967.


NOÉMIE GODIN-VIGNEAU
Actress

Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada in 1997, Noémie Godin-Vigneau has appeared in the movies: METEOR François Delisle (2012), CAMION Rafaël Ouellet (2011), THE KATE LOGAN AFFAIR by Noël Mitrani (2009), NEW FRANCE Jean Beaudin (2003), JE N'AIME QUE TOI Claude Fournier (2003), NEAREST TO HEAVEN by Tonie Marshall (2001) as well as numerous short films.

ANDRE PAQUET

Born in Quebec City, studies in Art and litterature; moved to Montreal in 1966 and is the founder of the Canadian Section of Cinemathèque. Organized and curated the first Retrospective of Canadian Cinema which was put together within the framework of Expo '67. Then left for Europe in 1970, living in Amsterdam, and in Rome then Returned to Montreal in 1974, to organize the RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES POUR UN NOUVEAU which assembled more than 250 filmmakers coming from Europe, the Americas and the Third World. In 1976, helped organize a similar Rendez-vous in Sotckholm, organized this time by Film Centrum.

From 1980 to 1987, directed the Cinema Section of the Delegation Générale du Québec in Paris, and travelled extensively in France and in Europe promoting Quebec films. In 1989 coordinated and curated SALUTE TO THE DOCUMENTARY , an International event which earmarked the Fifthieth Anniversary of the National Film Board in 1989. Since then has been active Consultant for various agencies , coordinating events, weeks, retrospectives of Canadian and Quebec films abroad ( France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Belgium, Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, ). In 1993, curated, and published with Sylvain Garel for the Centre Georges Pompidou ( Beaubourg) in Paris the largest retrospective of Canadian films ever held abroad (435 films) : LES CINEMAS DU CANADA. Was later commissioned by Telefilm Canada and SODEC ( Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles du Québec) to do the research and write the Section of Quebec cinema for a CD-Rom produced by Canal + ( France) on the Cinemas of the francophones countries. Since October 1999 was Curator and Special Consultant, for the Section Cinemas d'Amérique Latine of the M.W.F.F . from 2006 was head of Programming of RIDM. Has contributed numerous articles for international Film publications .