Coordinator: Vitor Lopes
Director of animation films, is author of the short movie “O Massacre dos Inocentes”, distinguished with six international prizes in festivals of Portugal, Czech republic, Australia and England. He works in the animation studios of the Cineclube of Avanca, where he directs a new work.

2 – THE FICTION IN TELEVISION

Director: Pancho Casal
Pancho Casal was born in Corunha in 1955.
After a passage as a superior office staff and director of commercial departments in companies such as Union Fenosa, MBB, Intace and CAHORS, he begins his career as audiovisuals producer in the middle 80’s, being today one of the most outstanding producers of cinema, television and publicity of Spain.
Pancho Casal is the responsible person for several audiovisuals production companies, among others the “Continental”, dividing his activity between Madrid and La Coruña.
Production Director and Executive Producer on more than 300 advertising “spots”, of the animation series “Las Señales tus Amigas”, and television series as “A Familia Pita”, one of the greatest fiction successes in TVG - Television of Galiza. Recently he has been turning his activity to tele-pictures production. He’s producer and co-producer of several long-plays, among which are included some made in co-operate with Portugal. “Continental”, directed by Xavier Villaverde and nominated for the Goya rewards, was his first Long-play production. He is finishing a new film with this director, partially filmed in our country.

Coordinator: Maria João Faceira
Teacher of communication and expressions in UTAD - University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, video cinematographer and co-ordinator on audiovisuals production sector of the UTAD. S.D.E. She is nowadays preparing a television series in collaboration with the DAS of Canada.

3 – TO PHOTOGRAPH A MUSEUM OF MOVIES WITH A PINHOLE

Director: Jochen Dietrich
Jochen Dietrich was born in Weidenau in Germany in 1965.
He studied philosophy, German and art-plastic in the Universities of Munster and Siegen.
Scholar of Erasmus in the University of Aveiro and doctorate scholarship in the University of Siegen, where he prepares thesis on “THE Picture with dark camera as medium in the learning activity.”
Scholarship for the Superior School AR.CO in Lisbon, having accomplished in the years 1996/97 the project “Cine-Theatres of Portugal”, in exhibition in the “AVANCA’98.”
Educational of picture in the Universities of Siegen and Giessen, he has been guiding several shops of picture of “pinhole.”
Since 1984 he has been exposing at several European countries, namely in the Hungarian Museum of Picture, in Frankfurt Deutsches Filmmuseum and in the Photo gallery Imagolucis of Porto.

Director: Aníbal Lemos
Aníbal Lemos was born in Estarreja in 1951
Photographic artist is the director of Fotogaleria Imagolucis of Porto.
It possesses the Superior Course of Picture in ESAP of Porto, being at the moment accomplishing masters degree studies in photographic art in the University of Derby in England.
Awarded several times, his works were exhibited in several national galleries but also in Denmark, Germany (Galeria Typophoto in Singen), France (“la Septembre Photographie” in Nice and “la Mois Photo” in Paris), Belgium (Gallery “you Read Chiroux” in Liège), Spain, USES and Brazil (exhibition and conference in the “I Space Cultural EDEL in Porto Alegre).
It has been developing in a parallel way an intense activity of artistic creation and of teaching.
He is author and director of the Course of Picture of the Contemporary Academy of Performance - Porto and responsible for the “Atelier” of Picture of the Centre of Art of S.J.da Madeira.

Coordinator: Mariana Macedo
Photographer, she has been working in the areas of the advertising picture, fashion report and of graphic arts (she is author of the pictures included in the poster of the AVANCA’98). With the Superior Course of Picture of ESAP-Porto and a specialization in photojournalism, she has been collaborating in the “Regional Newspaper of Aveiro”, in the “Avanca Magazine” and participated in several exhibitions. She is part of the AURA group.

4 – DIRECTING DOCUMENTARIES

Director: Alejandra Islas
Director and scriptwriter, she studied cinematography in the Universidade Nacional Autónoma in Mexico.
She has directed more than thirty biographical, historical and social documentaries in cinema and video. Amongst those: “Iztacalco”, “Cerca de los Lejos”, “Tina Modotti”, “Remedios Varo”, “El caso Molinet” e “Eisenstein en México: El Círculo Eterno”.
Distinguished with the “Ariel de plata” (the most important prize of the Mexican Academy of Cinematography), for the documentary “Iztacalco”, she received several other prizes.
Her documentary “Eisenstein en Mexico: El Círculo Eterno”, received the Television prize (ex-aequo) in the AVANCA’97, having also won the first prize of the MIDIA’97 in Madrid and nominated in the category of Documentary of Art in the International EMMY AWARD 1996.

Coordinator: Salvador Lima
Teacher of audiovisuals and publicity in the Fernando Pessoa University in Porto, Video maker and cineclub lover, he has been collaborating actively with the Cineclube de Avanca. In the University of Aveiro he is responsible for the audiovisual equipment.

5 – THE WRITING OF SHORT-FILMS SCREENPLAYS

Director: Emmamuel Oberg
Emmanuel Oberg was born in France in 1966.
Scriptwriter and Director, worked as reader and analyst of scripts for “Le Studio CANAL+”, “Flash Films”, “CANAL+ ECRITURE” and “A.C.E. (European Cinema Workshop).
Script teacher in the “IIIS - International Institute for Image and Sound”, “F.E.M.I.S.” and “European Centre for Film Production Training (C.E.F.P.F.), both in Paris.
He was consultant of the European Commission in 1996 and 97 and specialist in scriptwriter’s formation for the attribution of subsidies of the Program MEDIA 2.
As a director, his first film won the cinema prize of the AVANCA’97 and the first prizes of the New York and Potsdam Festivals.
At the present moment, Oberg writes the long-play “Child's Play”, a fantastic “thriller” developed with CANAL+ECRITURE.

Coordinator: M.F. Costa e Silva
Teaches the discipline of script in the Superior Course of Cinema and Video at ESPA – Porto, has also been signing several works as a director. “A Primeira Vez” is his most recent fiction short film that is being produced by the Cine-Club of Avanca.

6 – EXECUTE A CD-ROM STORY-BOARD

Director: Iginio Straffi
Iginio Straffi was born in 1965 in Gualdo, Italy.
He began his activity with cartoons and advertising illustration.
Responsible for the “story-boards” and “layouts” of the animation film made French /Luxembourg “Le Roman de Renert”, he still participated in the accomplishment of important TV animation series of European production, before opening his own animation studio in Italy. This studio originated the society “Rainbow, srl”, endowed with the most advanced technology and professionals for the animation production and multimedia, company that today he directs.
In this society, Straffi directs several animation works such as “Pimpa” for RAI (first prize in the Television Festival of Amalfi “Cartoons on the Bay”), “AstroKids”, “Belphegor” and part of the animation feature film “THE Blue Arrow.”
In 1997, he directs the interactive CD-ROM “TOMMY & OSCAR” that was a sudden and enormous success, having been distributed in 28 countries in 14 different linguistic versions. This CD-ROM had already won the “Bologna New Measured Prize” (Italy) and the “Children Software Revue Award” (USA), before winning Multimedia prize in the AVANCA’98.
Given the character and the history’s international success, the “Rainbow” is already to producing the second chapter of the adventure “Tommy & Oscar” in CD-ROM and a animation TV series of 26 episodes of 26 minutes each.
Iginio Straffi is one of the talented new authors of the Italian multimedia.

Coordinator: Sérgio Nogueira
Teacher and director, has been developing projects of educational innovation with the introduction of images in movement and multimedia. Founder of the Cine-Club of the Figueira da Foz, directs presently the animation short-movie “Dá-me Luz” with the support of the ICAM and the production of the Cine-Club de Avanca