INDIELISBOA - FESTIVAL RETURNS WITH NEW AWARDS AND JURIES

The International Jury of IndieLisboa's second edition will be composed by Ilda Santiago, Rio de Janeiro's International Film Festival director, by Portuguese actress Beatriz Batarda, by Argentinean director Lisandro Alonso (who will also be in the festival within the hommage to Argentinean independent cinematography), by German critic Olaf Möller (European editor of the prestigious magazine Film Comment), and by British journalist Kieron Corless (who writes for the popular Time Out London and Vertigo).
This jury will attribute the Feature Film Grand Prize, the Short Film Grand Prize, Best Portuguese Film Prize, and finally Best Cinematography Prize for a Portuguese Film.

Besides the International Jury, IndieLisboa will also welcome this year the esteemed Onda Curta Award, a prize that consists in the acquisition of short films rights for broadcasting in Portugal's Public Television.

For the first time, IndieLisboa will have an Amnesty International Award that will distinguish one of the films that are programmed in this festival and that is very honourable for IndieLisboa.

Finally, there will also be an Audience Award, a jury formed by all paying viewers of the Competition and Observatory sessions, which will attribute the Feature Film Prize and the Short Film Prize.

Furthermore, IndieLisboa will welcome for the first time a FIPRESCI observer. This will be an evaluation to the festival so that, in the future, IndieLisboa could have a FIPRESCI Jury. This year, the observer will be Belinda van de Graaf, FIPRESCI's vice-president and film critic for the Dutch newspaper Trouw and co-editor of Dutch film magazine De Filmkrant.