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Tim Burton
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President of the jury - Feature film Tim BURTON

Director
"And as films have always been like dreams to me, this is a dream come true." Tim Burton developed from childhood a passion for drawing and Gothic films. He joins in 1979 the Disney studios animation team which helped with the production of his first short films. His first feature film, "Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure" (1985), was a success but it was "Beetlejuice" (1988) that threw the doors of Hollywood wide open. Warner hired him for the first "Batman" (1989), which enabled him to move on to more personal projects, imposing his style with "Edward Scissorhands" (1990). The fourteen feature films which make up his works reinvent every genre, from biography ("Ed Wood", which got him selected for the Competition at Cannes in 1995), to science fiction ("Mars Attacks", in 1997, or "Planet of the Apes", in 2001), via gothic ("Sleepy Hollow", 1999), fantasy ("Big Fish", 2003), animation ("The Corpse Bride", 2005), tales for children ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", 2005) as well as a musical, "Sweeney Todd", in 2007. Tim Burton is also an illustrator, a painter and a photographer. In New York’s MoMA celebrates him as an artist with a major exhibition of his work that will travel around the world. His new feature, a 3D adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, is a worldwide success.
Atom Egoyan
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President of the jury -
Cinefondation & short films Atom EGOYAN

Director
"Cinema is an act of immersion. Emotional, sensual, intellectual, cinema immerses the viewer in an experience which is exciting, provocative, and rare. Form and vision are bound with absolute conviction." Egypt-born of Armenian descent, Atom Egoyan grew up in a family of painters in Canada. He began shooting short films at the University of Toronto and became known with Next of Kin (1984). Family Viewing (1987) and The Adjuster (1991) were presented at international festivals and attracted the interest of critics. Following Exotica (1994), Prix Fipresci, his work was consecrated at the Festival de Cannes when he won the Grand Prix for The Sweet Hereafter (1997). Felicia’s Journey (1999), Where the Truth Lies (2005) and Adoration (2008) were all selected to appear in Competition. His work has also earned him two Academy Award® nominations and eight Canadian prizes. Moreover, Atom Egoyan has created art installations that have been presented at the Venice Biennale or Artangel in London. His interest in music has also seen him staging opera: his Walkyrie by Wagner, for the Canadian Opera Company, won a prize in 2006. For theatre too, his Eh Joe by Beckett, which was presented in Dublin and then in London’s West End, won an Award for Best Direction.

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Claire Denis
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President of the jury - Un Certain Regard Claire DENIS

Director
"Here I am, this is me, I am yours and everything about me, everything you see... If only you could look hard enough I never could." (Stuart Staples, Tindersticks, My Sister) Claire Denis wrote and directed in 1988 her first feature film Chocolat, presented within the Festival de Cannes Competition. Then came a large number of works, in which music often plays an important role. No fear, no die (1990), I can’t sleep (Un Certain Regard 1994), Nenette and Boni (Léopard d’Or - Locarno 1996), Beau travail (1999), Trouble every day (Out of Competition Cannes 2001), Friday Night (2002), The Intruder (2005), 35 Shots of Rum (2008), White Material (2010). The director enjoys meeting her team and her actors anew in the course of her cinema journeys.

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Gael Garcia Bernal
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President of the jury - Golden Camera Gael GARCIA BERNAL

An actor nearly all his life, Gael García Bernal made his debut in Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Amores Perros, gained more attention for Alfonso Cuarón’s Y Tu Mamá También. He starred in the title role of Carlos Carrera’s Academy Awardnominated El Crimen del padre Amaro and in Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries. Other roles include: Pedro Almodóvar’s La mala educación, James Marsh’s The King, Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep, Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Babel, Hector Babenco’s El Pasado, Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness and Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control. Gael García directed short films, The Letter (for the feature film 8) and Lucio for the collective Mexican film Revolucion. He also founded the production company Canana with Diego Luna and Pablo Cruz in 2005. Together, they run the Ambulante documentary film festival. He directed his first feature Deficit in 2010.

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