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Daniela Michel writes for the Mexican magazine Cine Premiere. She is the Founding Director of the Morelia International Film Festival, an annual event launched in 2003 to support and promote a new generation of Mexican filmmakers. Since 1994, she has reported on film in major Mexican media as a print journalist, critic and television presenter.

Fernando Ganzo is the editor in chief of So Film España. Doctorate in film at the University of the Basque Country where he has taught directing for 4 years, he co-founded the publication Lumière in 2008 and also works for publications like Trafic and Comparative Cinema. He also supervised at Capricci the collective book on George Cukor, On/Off Hollywood.

Jordan Mintzer lives in Paris where he works as a film critic for The Hollywood Reporter. Before, he was the French correspondent for Variety and wrote for several publications like Le Monde, Libération, Les Cahiers du Cinéma or Moving Image Source. He regularly contributes to the French radio program On Aura Tout Vu on France Inter and produces Matt Porterfield’s films (Hamilton, Putty Hill). He is also the author of Conversations avec James Gray (ed. Synechdote). 

Jonathan Romney is a film critic based in London. He writes film reviews for The Observer, Sight & Sound, Screen Daily, FilmComment.com and other publications. His most recent short film as writer-director is L'Assenza.

He worked as a postproduction supervisor and soon as an associate producer for documentary films and debut films. In 2005, Benny Drechsel cofounded Rohfilm and produced many films selected in the different sections of the Cannes Film Festival such as The Lunchbox, My Sweet Pepper Land, Harmony Lessons, Djeca, The Slut and Snow.

Founder and director of the international film festival CPH:DOX, of the CPH:LAB and the CPH:FORUM, as well as the owner of the production company Fischer Film, she worked six years at the Danish Film Institute, programming the National Cinematheque. She has during the last ten years been involved in the contemporary art scene as Partner in the leading Scandinavian art gallery Andersen’s Contemporary and as curator of a number of exhibitions.

Director and scriptwriter, he has worked on several documentaries and short films. Las Acacias, his first feature, selected for La Semaine de la Critique 2011, was awarded with 30 prizes around the world such as the Caméra d’or, the Soutien ACID/CCAS and the Prix OFAJ de la (Toute) Jeune Critique at La Semaine de la Critique. He is currently working on his new feature film: Invisible, that was recently selected to be part of Cinéfondation L´Atelier 2014 and will be shot in April 2015.

She is the Manager of the film department at the French Institute in Japan since 2013. Between 1996 and 2001, she wrote for Les Cahiers du Cinéma Japon. Since 1996, she has also organised at the French-Japanese Institute numerous retrospectives of French directors and actors.

27 years old. Graduate from Science Po, she also obtained her master’s degree in Law and in Audio-visual Business. She has contributed to different film criticism blogs for more than a year like Ceci Dit (au bas mot) and Cinématraque. More recently, she also contributed to the magazine Binge, specialised in TV series. She currently works at the Fémis department for creating TV series. She will cover La Semaine de la Critique for Cinématraque.

25 years old. Young graduate in Communication and Audio-visual Production, he is a regular contributor to electronic media and print magazines such as La Tempestad, Icónica, the University of Mexico’s magazine and literary criticism blogs. He will cover La Semaine de la Critique for Corre Cámara.

28 years old. Graduate and has a PHD in Cinema and Media Studies at the National University of Theater and Cinematography “Ion Luca Caragiale” in Bucharest, where he now teaches film studies and film history classes. He coordinates the film magazine, Film Menu, written by young critics and organises a Cineclub and other types of projections in the university’s film theatre. He will cover La Semaine de la Critique for Film Menu’s blog.

30 years old. Graduate in Cinema, he studied Filmmaking at the University of Cinema in Argentina and Audiovisual Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He currently writes for El Amante Cine magazine and is the main editor and creator of Buendiario, an online newspaper. He will cover La Semaine for Buendiario and for El Amante Cine.