FANTÀSTIC JURY

NEIL MARSHALL
Born in Newcastle, UK, he began making films with a Super 8 camera when he was just eleven. His passion for the Seventh Art led him to the Newcastle Polytechnic film school, where he graduated in 1992. For the next eight years he was busy working as a film editor while writing his own projects and in 2002 he debuted as a filmmaker with the horror movie Dog Soldiers, presented in competition at Sitges’02 and that has earned itself a much-deserved cult status. His next film, the splendid The Descent, surpassed all expectations, enjoyed extensive international distribution and won numerous awards, among them a Saturn and two BIFA. In 2008 he released the violent, post-apocalyptic Doomsday and today he is just finishing Centurion, a period adventure set during the Roman occupation of England.

AMANDA PLUMMER
This actress born in New York has a long filmography that includes outstanding titles like The Fisher King (91), Pulp fiction (94), My Life Without Me (03), Pax (94), Butterfly Kiss (95), The Million Dollar Hotel (00) and Ken Park (02). Off screen, her work on Broadway stages has been rewarded with a Tony Award, two nominations and several awards from the Critics' Circle for her collaboration in shows like ‘Agnes of God’, ‘Taste of Honey’ and ‘Pygmalion’, where she has worked alongside Geraldine Chaplin and Peter O’Toole, among others. Her most recent theater appearances were in ‘Summer and Smoke’ and ‘The Gnadiges Fraulein’, both by Tennessee Williams, and in film we can soon see her in The Making of Plus One. Besides the abovementioned awards, she has also won three Emmys, a Saturn, was nominated for a Golden Globe and a British Academy award.

TUOMAS RISKALA
A Finnish writer, film critic and programmer, since the year 2000 he is the director of the official fantasy selection at the popular Espoo Ciné, an international festival that just celebrated its twentieth anniversary. He is also a correspondent for Episodi, the number one cinema magazine in Finland, and a film critic for Iltalehti, the newspaper with the third largest circulation in the country. He has been writing about genre movies for over fifteen years for several magazines and newspapers and has contributed to numerous publications like the book ‘Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945’. Tuomas Riskala has been a member of the Finland Film Academy since 1999, with a right to vote in the Jussi Awards, ‘the Finnish Goyas’.

JOHN SAXON
Born in Brooklyn, New York, he signed his first contract as an actor with Universal Studios when he was barely eighteen years old and since then he hasn’t stopped showing his face in over a hundred movies and many other television series (from Falcon Crest to CSI). A genre actor, he worked a great deal in westerns, comedies and dramas under the direction of filmmakers like John Huston, Vincent Minnelli and Sidney J. Furie and starred in numerous Italian fantasy and  crime genre productions that made him enormously popular in Europe. In 1987 he debuted as a director with the horror film Death House. Some of his most memorable movies are: The Unforgiven (60), The Girl Who Knew Too Much (63), The Appaloosa (66), Queen of Blood (66), Joe Kidd (72), Enter the Dragon (73), Violent Napoli (76), The Electric Horseman (79), Virus (80), Tenebre (82) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (84).

JORDI BATLLE CAMINAL
Born in Barcelona in 1956. A film critic, he presently contributes to Fotogramas magazine and the Guía del Ocio de Barcelona (Barcelona Leisure Guide). He writes as a critic at La Vanguardia newspaper. He is the author of the books ‘La última cruzada de Spielberg’ (1989), ‘Catastrorama’ (1998), ‘Med&Cine. Encuentros, tribulaciones y cortocircuitos entre cine y medicina’ (1998), ‘Brian de Palma. El deslumbrante manipulador’ (1998), ‘CineMETROgrafia’ (1999) and ‘Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi. El cineasta de l’acció’ (2005). He has strong ties to the Sitges-International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, because from 1982 to 2002 he was in charge of Festival’s publications.

NOVES VISIONS JURY

STEPHANIE BILLETER - FILM CRITIC
MARC HELWIG - MOTION PICTURE AGENT
PEDRO USABIAGA - PHOTOGRAPHER

MÉLIÈS JURY

TIM LEAGUE - FANTASTIC FEST DIRECTOR, BLOGGER
TONI MESSA - FILM CRITIC
ANTJE NIKKOLA MÖNNING - FILM PRODUCER, ACTOR

ORIENT EXPRESS - CASA ÀSIA & ANIMA'T JURY

FAUSTO FERNÁNDEZ - FILM CRITIC
LUIS M. ROSALES - SCI-FI WORLD MAGAZINE
MARC WALKOW - DVD PRODUCER, NY ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAMMER

CARNET JOVE JURY

ARNAU VILARÓ I MONCASÍ (JURY PRESIDENT)
SERGI FABREGAT MATA
ARANTZA MARICHALAR CARRASCO
JOAN SALA MOZOS
ISABEL SALVADOR JIMÉNEZ


NOVA AUTORIA JURY

ROSER AGUILAR - DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER
LLUÍS BONET MOJICA - FILM CRITIC
ALBERT SOLÉ - DIRECTOR
JOAN VALENT - COMPOSER

BRIGADOON AWARD– PAUL NASCHY

DOMINGO LÓPEZ TORTOSA - WRITER AND SHORT FILM DIRECTOR
DIEGO LÓPEZ FERNÁNDEZ - PUBLISHER OF THE ‘EL BUQUE MALDITO’ FANZINE
JOSÉ MARTOS ARROYO - MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST