Monday, February 26-----With all eyes turning southward to the warmest spot in these United States for the opening weekend of the Miami International Film Festival (why suffer? come on down.....) this Friday, the Festival has announced the juries who will determine the Festival Awards in its three competition categories.

The three competition categories include: World Cinema, Ibero-American Dramatic Features (films from Spain, Latin and South America) and the World and Ibero-American Documentary Competiton (eligible to films from all over the world). In addition, representatives from FIPRESCI, the international film critics association, will choose across all categories for the FIPRESCI Prize. All the awards will be announced at the Gala Awards Ceremony to be held on Saturday evening, March 10th at the historic Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, a Spanish-style gem in the heart of Miami's revitalized downtown.

Gusman Center for the Performing Arts

2007 MIAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL JURORS

Dramatic Features – World Cinema Competition

• Raoul Peck (Writer, Director, and Producer, L’Affaire Villemin, Lumumba)
• Christine Vachon (Co-Founder, Killer Films/Producer, Boys Don’t Cry, Far from Heaven, Hedwig & the Angry Inch)
• Bernardo Zupnik (Producer / President, Distribution Company of Argentina S. A.)

Dramatic Features –Ibero- American Cinema Competition

• Howard Feinstein (Professor / Writer / Programmer, Sarajevo Film Festival)
• Bertha Navarro (Producer, Pan’s Labyrinth, I Murder Seriously, Loco Fever)
• Jim Stark (Producer, Coffee and Cigarettes / Co-writer, Factotum)

• Cynthia Lopez (Vice President, American Documentary P.O.V.)
• Mike Maggiore (Programmer, Film Forum)
• Rob Williams (Acquisitions Executive, Red Envelope Entertainment)

FIPRESCI (International Film Critics Association)

• Sheila Johnston (Journalist, The Independent)
• Peter Keough (Film Editor, Boston Phoenix )
• Josefina Sartora (Critic, Cineismo)