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Brazilian Jury LAÍS BODANZKY São Paulo's Laís Bodanzky is 31 years old and has a degree in cinema from FAAP. In 2000, she directed the fiction feature-length film "Bicho de 7 Cabeças", the winner of nine awards at the Brasília Film Festival, including Best Film (Press Jury, Popular Jury and Official Jury), and Best Direction. For five years, she has been working with the "Cine Mambembe" project, which is an itinerant exhibition of Brazilian films to audiences who do not have access to movie theaters; a result of this project is the documentary "Cine Mambembe, the Cinema Discovers Brazil" (1999), co-directed by Luiz Bolognesi. She debuted as a director with the short film "Cartão Vermelho" (1994). ROBERTO GERVITZ Filmmaker Roberto Gervitz has a degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo. His directing debut came with the documentary "Greve Geral" / General Strike (1976). Then, he directed two more documentarieSOUND: "A História dos Ganha-Pouco" / The Story of the Underpaid (1977) and "Braços Cruzados, Máquinas Paradas" / Arms Crossed, Machines Stopped (1979). From 1980 to 1985, he wrote the scripts, in collaboration with Renato Tapajós, and edited several works that are a part of the cycle of political documentaries that marked the first half of the '80s, like "Assembly Line" and "In the Name of National Security". His first experience with fiction came with the feature-length film "Happy Old Year" (1988), based on the book by Marcelo Rubens Paiva. MÔNICA SCHMIEDT Mônica Schmiedt, 40, has produced, since 1984, eight feature films, dozen of short films and more than 200 commercials. She is executive producer of documentary films like "Isle of Flowers", by Jorge Furtado (Silver Bear at Berlin Int´l Film Festival 1990); "Antarctica: The Last Continent" (1997), that she also co-directed with Alberto Salvá, and "The Invention of Childhood" (2000), by Liliana Sulzbach. She is also producer of the feature films "The Liar" (1988), by Werner Schünemann, and "Anahy de las Missiones" (1997), by Sérgio Silva, and executive and associate producer of "Posthumous Memories" (2001), by André Klotzel.