IDFA, the International Documentary Film Amsterdam, announced today the jury members for its upcoming 36th edition, taking place November 8-19, which includes Cinema Tropical’s Co-Founder and Executive Director Carlos A. Gutiérrez as a jury member for the IDFA Award for Best First Feature.
Gutiérrez, along with Monika Wagenberg created Cinema Tropical in 2001, the media arts non-profit organization, which is the leading presenter of Latin American cinema in the United States. As a guest curator, Gutiérrez has presented several series at numerous institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, Film at Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, BAM Film, and Anthology Film Archives.
In 2007, he co-curated the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and currently serves as artistic director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Latin Wave film festival and as co-director of Cinema Tucsón. He sits in Film Forum’s Board of Directors and has served as a juror for various international film festivals including Tribeca, Mar del Plata, New Orleans, Morelia, Seattle, Margaret Mead, DocsValencia, and SANFIC. He has served as both expert nominator and panelist for the Sundance Documentary Fund, Tribeca Film Institute’s Latin America Media Arts Fund, and the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
Launched in 1988, IDFA has become the largest documentary film festival. The organization believes in the power of documentary film as a high-quality, artistic form of information and reflection. In films that help us understand the world and determine our own place in it. In films that make us think, see, and experience so we are willing to stand up for others and build better societies with more democracy, openness, and humanity.
