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Jon BARRENECHEA - UK
Jon has worked since 2004 as General Manager of the Duke of York's Picturehouse. Before that, he worked as a freelance production assistant in New York in Film & TV production. He attended film school at New York University and the New School, also in New York and is currently doing an MA in Arts and Cultural Management at Sussex University.
He is a board member of the CINECITY Film Festival, and writes a blog called Splendor Cinema.
Since the 1980s the Duke of Yorks has ben the only arthouse cinema in Brighton, presenting independent, classic, foreign language, cult and british cinema. Its programming comprises a combination of foreign language films (including many Latin American titles), British cinema, American independent and European cinema.
Ruta BOGUZAITE - Lithuania
From 2007 to 2009, Ruta worked in film production and distribution company in studio Nominum, Vilnius, where she was responsible for several distribution and cinema education projects.She also worked as producer’s assistant in several documentary films that were international coproductions. In 2009, she also debuted as line producer in first feature film.
Since late 2009, she joined PASAKA where she now works as director.
Kino Pasaka: www.kinopasaka.lt
KINO PASAKA is a private but non-profit company operating an arthouse, cinema PASAKA. The cinema was established in September 2009 and is concentrating on quality cinema programming, special events, festivals and film education. In order to guarantee an interesting, attractive and alternative programme and to run the premieres, PASAKA is also distributing films itself.
Maeve COOKE - Ireland
Maeve is the executive director of access CINEMA since July 2007. She’s in charge of agreeing the general company policy, implementing strategies, the artistic programming and the promotion of the organization.Previously, she worked in production and as a free-lance co-ordinator for FAS/Screen Training Ireland, and has been the programme manager of Access cinema from 2006 to 2007.
Access>CINEMA is the resource organisation for regional cultural cinema exhibition in Ireland (not-for-profit). Its core activity is booking and despatching films, on all exhibition formats on behalf of its member groups (currently over 70). The key aims of access>CINEMA are : to give local audiences the opportunity to see a range of world cinema ; to act as an information resource ; to undertake a lobbying/advocacy role within the sector of arts and film ; and to support the work of Irish film makers. Among the future goals of Access>CINEMA : the facilitation of the rollout of 2K digital technology across the network and the touring of original film programmes for all formats.
Anthony LE PERFF - France
Anthony started in cinema by working for 5 years on an educative program proposing to young people coming from underserved areas various activities around cinema. After this, in another underserved area, he led a little TV chain which ambition was to use TV program to give local information to inhabitants, make them participate in the creation of programs, help them expressing their feelings, and organize debates with public institutions (associations, mayor...). An other very interesting experience that he left to lead the cinema department in DSN, from 2003 until now.
DSN – Dieppe Scène Nationale: www.dsn.asso.fr
Inaugurated by the French director François Truffaut, DSN is a national theatre that shows theatre, dance, music and cinema. The aim is to promote culture from all over the world to the general audience. In its single screen cinema, DSN welcomes about 50 000 viewers per year and wishes to expand further. The goal is not only to be an art house for the city but also to become an art house for a larger area including the suburban area and country side villages.
Tanja MILICIC - Croatia
Tanja Miličić is the Producer and one of the Programmers of the Pula Film Festival since 2007 and the Manager and Programmer of Cinema Valli since 2008. From 2006 on, she has been member of the master working groups for the drafting of cultural strategies for the City of Pula and Istrian county. She graduated in Film, Photography and Digital Media at the Napier University in Edinburgh. She directed and produced several films of which her autobiographical documentary Patchwork won several awards nationally and internationally.
Cinema Valli and Pula film festival: www.kinovalli.net // www.pulafilmfestival.hr
Kino Valli (former Kino Zagreb) was reopened in July 2008 after complete makeover which was initiated by the city of Pula, its new owner. It is currently the only cinema in Pula, with programming that compromises commercial and non commercial films. The cinema’s key aim is to develop new audiences especially for European and world cinema with accent on children and the young.
Pula Film Festival dating back to 1954 presents Croatian, European and World cinema in starry open air cinemas.
Tess RENAUDO - Spain
Tess is a member of the directing committee of L’Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, as well as programmer and coordinator of the festival’s competitive sections and itinerant programmes, which is a yearlong initiative to screen festival films at other venues around the world. She contributes and edits the festival blog, and has served as a jury member at various international film festivals.
La Fàbrica de Cinema Alternatiu: www.alternativa.cccb.org
La Fàbrica de Cinema Alternatiu was founded in 1992 as a natural reaction against traditional film institutions. It was the initiative of directors, producers and other professionals from the audiovisual sector and was constituted as a non profit-making association. La Fàbrica's principal aim is to support and promote film and audiovisual work by creating a necessary space for screening, learning, debate and reflection. This goal is achieved through 3 main activities: l’Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival; l’Alternativa Takes a trip (itinerant film programmes) and the IFN internet portal.