1 – BETWEEN DOCUMENT AND FICTION

Director: Dusan Makavejev
The most controversial, subversive and unexpected Yugoslavian director, he has marked the history of cinema, especially during the Cold War, with some of the most brilliant and original films from the last decades.
Graduated in Cinema and Psychology, he has directed around 30 films. Works like “A Man is not a Bird” (1965), “Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator” (1967), “Innocent Unprotected” (1968), have preceded “W.R.- Mysteries of the Organism" that, filmed in 1971, has become his first big international success. Based on Wilhelm Reich's theories of sexual psychology, this film was considered “subversive” in Yugoslavia and forbidden until 1986. Makavejev, forced to work abroad, would then film “Sweet Movie” in France and The Netherlands (1974), “Montenegro” in Sweden (1981), “The Coca Cola Kid” in Australia (1985), “Manifesto” in Croatia e USA (1988) e “Gorilla Bathes at Noon” in Germany (1993). His films were selected, and several times prized, in festivals like Berlim, Cannes, Chicago and São Paulo. His last film “A Hole in the Soul”, produced by BBC is an intimate self-portrait.

Coordinator: Miguel Seabra
Graduated by the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema de Lisboa, he was assistant-director of Patrice Chereau (“La Reine Margot”) and Artur Ribeiro (“Duplo Exílio”). Director of several short-films and documentaries, the last one of them titled “Dia que não vejo o Tejo não é dia”. He has also worked has a production director and in video projects in theatre. He has participated in almost every editions of the AVANCA.

2 – SCIENCE AND ART. THE INTERVENTION OF VIDEO

Director: Mika Taanila
At the AVANCA’97, with “Thank You For The Music”, Taanila received the Television Prize. “Futuro – A New Stance for Tomorrow” was screened at the opening of the AVANCA’99. This two documentaries are part of a trilogy prized and screened in over than 100 festivals all over the world, becoming reference works. These documentaries deal with the significant and alarming issues of human engineering and urban artificial surroundings. His films reflect the futuristic ideas and utopias of contemporary science. Taanila is one of the great Nordic authors of video art, music and video installation. His works have been screened in numberless shows, biennials and contemporary art museums. Taanila lives and works in Helsinki.

Coordinator: Paulo Bernardino
Sculptor, video artist and professor at Aveiro University where is finishing is doctorate about artistic image, the new technologies and art. Master by the “Royal College of Art” of London, awarded with the prizes “Fernando de Castro”, “Teixeira Lopes” and “AJE”, he frequently exhibits in the Luís Serpa Gallery. Invited of the AVANCA’97, he has exhibited in London, Madrid, Tokyo, Porto, among others.

3 – SCULPTURE APPLICATIONS IN CINEMA SPECIAL EFFECTS

Director: Colin H. Arthur
Born in Guildford in 1943. He has studied in the local Arts School and by the age of 24 he was Master in Sculpture in the Madame Tussaud Museum. There he has started a fabulous carrier in the movies industry. In “2001, A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick, he created masks using for the first time composite materials. Innovative and distinguished sculptor, Colin has worked in countless films like “Never Ending Story 1 and 2”, "Empire Of The Sun”, “Alien”, “007-Diamonds Are Forever”, “Dracula”, “Conan”, “Barry Lindon”, “Abre los Ojos”, “King Solomon's Mines”, “Alas de Mariposa”... His special effects were prized in Cannes (76 e 95), Berlim (98), with the Goya Prize (89), Metrópolis (91), ACE Award America (91), Lyon’94 (94), special mentions in Chicago, Cairo, Madrid and Cannes and nominations for the Goya in 1999. Colin has been working all over the world, using complementary technologies as make up, computers, electronics, mechanics e hydraulics. Amongst his most recent works he has created sculptures for the 3D animation feature-film “El Bosque Animado”, object of another workshop at the AVANCA’2002.

Coordinator: Joana Imaginário
Sculptor and illustrator. Graduated by the FBAUL, she was scholar in the Stone Department of the “Fachhochschule Aachen” in Germany. Working mainly with stone sculpture, she has participated regularly since 1990 in several exhibitions, symposiums, workshops and collective projects. Illustrator with countless published works in important magazines and newspapers, she's also working in the animations short-film “Zé e o Pinguim” by Francisco Lança.

4 - CINEMA FEATURE FILM PRODUCTION

Director: Henrique Espírito Santo
Having produced over than 70 films, he has worked with directors like Manoel de Oliveira (“Benilde ou a Virgem Mãe”, “Amor de Perdição”), João César Monteiro (“Veredas”), Luis Filipe Rocha (“A Fuga”, “Cerromaior”), Fonseca e Costa (“O Recado”, “5 Dias, 5 Noites”), Solveig Nordlang (“Até Amanhã Mário”, “Comédia Infantil”), João Mário Grilo (“Olhos da Ásia”), António Macedo (“A Promessa”), Cunha Telles (“Meus Amigos”), Seixas Santos (“Brandos Costumes”), José Álvaro Morais (“O Bobo”), José Sá Caetano (“As Ruínas do Interior”), among others. He has co-produced equally works from Daniel Schmid (“Hors Saison”), Peter Lilienthal (“Das autogramm”) and Rebeca Horn (“Buster’s Bedroom”).
Critic, he has started his professional activity in 1966, having passed by the Centro Português de Cinema, Tobis Portuguesa and founded in 1976 the Prole Filme. Professor in the Escola de Cinema do Conservatório Nacional, he publishes in 78 the important book “Produção de Filmes”(Film Production). He's been developing teaching activity in the production area in several universities, institutions and companies in Portugal and Mozambique.

Coordinator: Filipe Carvalho
Graduated in Social Communication by ESE do ISP de Viseu, he's been executive producer of “Teleciência – Festival Internacional do Filme Científico”, an organization of UTAD that takes place in some Portuguese universities. Production director in the Production Company TREZE, he's been signing the creation of various documentary scripts.

5 - CREATION AND PRODUCTION OF SHORT-FILMS

Directors: Jan de Coster
Graduated in Culture Sciences by the VUB of Brussels and Master in “Audio-visual Arts – Film Direction” by RITS, also in Brussels. He works in several levels of productions of “Quasi Modo”. Director of various publicity films he directed in 1999 “The Thread” with L.Van Baelen. This film won ex-aequo the Prize for Best Cinematography AVANCA’2001. Scriptwriter of several awarded films, we received the 1ºPrize “Writing for advertising” of CCB&VTM and “Filmnetprize for best script” with “The Chain”, film that he also directed. With Wim Vandekeybus he wrote “Inasmuch” and “The Last Words” (Cinema Prize at AVANCA’98). He was responsible for the editing of video installations, music videos, publicity films and short-films, namely “Chow-chow” by Lut Vandekeybus, which he also wrote the script. He has visited the AVANCA for several times.

Directors: Dieter Diependaele
Graduated by the Cinema School RITS in Brussels, she is director and cinematographer. She works in most projects of “Quasi Modo”, like those screened at some of the editions of the AVANCA. In “Inasmuch” she signed the cinematography in “The Thread”, she co-directed it as well as being responsible for the image. Director of several commercials she also directed the fiction films “Ahead of the Future” e “Haun”.

Coordinator: Tom Lauwers
Graduated by the Cinema School RITS in Brussels, he passed by studies of philosophy and film theory in the VUB. After a course in the production area (since from publicity to the feature-films), in 1997 takes part of the group of “Quasi Modo”, film Producer Company. He has been the responsible for the production of fictions, commercials, music videos, video dance, video installation and cooperative films directed by Belgium directors Jan de Coster, Lieven van Baleen, Win Vandekeybus, Lut Vandekeybus, Michael R. Roskam, Serge Leurs, amongst others. A great part of these works have been awarded in several festivals.

Coordinator: Armando Condesso
Having studied Electronics and Computing in the Aveiro University, Armando Condesso is now studying cinema and television production in the Westminster University in London. Founder of the Cultural Association HIDRA in Aveiro, he directed several short-films and he's finishing his last work “Wake Up”.

6 - SHORT FORMAT CINEMA – FILMING WITH HISTORY

Director: Jurgen Lossau
Born in Wolfenbuttel, he studied sociology, economy, journalism and psychology in Hamburg. Editor in WDR (German state television), he would work as a freelancer for the television channels ZDF and NDR, and also for the “Die Zeit”, “Frankfurter Rundschau and “Frankfurter Allgemeine”. Lossau established a television production company where he produces several programs for public televisions. Interested in amateur cinema since very early, at the age of 17 he wrote for several publications like “Film-und-ton-magazine” (Munique) and “Schmalfilm” (Berlim), and being editor of “Single-8-Notizen”. In 1990 he started to collect old filming cameras and in 2000 he writes the book “Filmkameras Movie Cameras”, a reference work. He is also author of the volumes “Film Projectors” and “The 99 Finest Splicers” and member of the directors council of the “Film-und Fernsehmuseums Hamburg and V” (Film and Television Museum of Hamburg).

Coordinator: Vitor Silva
Short format director, largely awarded, he has developed an intensive activity of production at the NCI. For the RTP he directed one of the first national fiction series, “O Fosso e o Pêndulo”. Collector of short format cinema equipments, he has been organizing thematic exhibitions and he is a studious of the technologic evolution of cinema. His collection is now in the Cinemateca Portuguesa, where he is responsible for its maintenance.

7 – 3D ANIMATION AND CINEMA PRODUCTION

Directors: Manuel Cristobal
Born in Madrid and graduated in Cinema and Theatre Direction by ARTTS International in Great Britain. He was coordinator of the “Media Business School” from the European program MEDIA and manager of AGAPI (Gallician Association of the Independent Producers), vice-president of AEPA and member of the directive commission of FAPAE (Federation of Audio-visual Producers of Spain). He has produced several short-films and he was executive producer of the first European 3D-animation feature-film “El Bosque Animado”. This film was premiered last year and soon became one of the big happenings of the cinematographic season in Spain.

Directors: Alberto Fernandez
From Frades in Corunha, he started his experience in the world of multimedia in the “Estúdio Oceanográfico de A Coruña”. He was responsible for the programming and production chief of the multimedia CD-Roms “Bicho”, “Quick Magic”, as well as the animation short-film “Bicho, menudo mundo”. Technologic responsible for the Gallician company “Dygra Films”, in the 3D-animation feature-film “El Bosque Animado” he also assure that function as well as the production direction. In this work, Juan Nouche has intervened in the “story-board”, in preparation of the characters, in the programming of the software, in the effects of multitude and vegetation, in the preparation of the render and the direction of the art-technology and the information systems.

Coordinator: Cláudio Jordão
Graduated in Design by E.S.E. of Algarve University, where he has also taught "Animated Image" and “Animation” in the Communication Design Course. Specializing in 3D image, in 1997 he takes part of management of the company “Pantapoiein*criações-multimedia”, where he undertakes the production direction for the 3D animation and digital video. Since 2001 that he is creative designer in NEORIS Portugal.

8 – WEB PAGES FOR THE PROMOTION OF FILMS

Director: IBISA TV
Audio-visual Producer Company with over 10 years experience in the development of quality products for television and the net, in the European audio-visual space. IBISA TV gained important prizes for its audio-visual productions, the production of CD-Roms and web pages. Recently its promotion website for the fiction “Trofeo” was awarded with the Multimedia Prize “Chano Piñeiro”.
IBISA TV has been developing a pioneer work in the development and creation of various Spanish “Film Commissions” in the Net space. Producing TV series, documentaries, fiction and animation films, CD-Roms and websites, it has also been building its own projects assuring the supervision of all production phases (from the conception of the script, to the shooting and the post-production and to the TV broadcast and other media.
Recently IBISA TV started the production of “Señor Zonavella”, an innovative animation series exclusive for the web.
Under the direction of Inmaculada Castaño, the company director, this workshop will also count with the presence of, among others, Valentín Carrera, journalist, producer, prized writer and college professor in the audio-visual communication area.

Coordinator: Miguel Crespo
Journalist since 1989, he was editor of the newspaper “Correio da Manhã”, passed by “Diário de Notícias” and is now a permanent collaborator of “Público”, having specialized in Multimedia. He has received 4 prizes and 5 nominations with Internet projects while editorial director of MIND. He studied Sociology and Mechanics Engineering and is now finishing a post-graduation in Journalism and Technologies in ISCTE and E.S.J. He writes for television (soap operas, series e contests).