Gérard Cairaschi lives and works in Paris. His work catachizes about the images' cultural dimensions: its codes, devices, references and historic loads.

Gérard Cairaschi wons the jury' price of Videlogia Festival in Russia in 2005, but also the Canal + price of the video creation in « Festival International du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand » in 2004, the jury' price at Videolisboa International Festival (Portugal, 2000) and the first price in the category « SCAM Video Creation » (Author Multimedia Civil Society) in 1999.

He teaches video in the Art and Design Highschool of Reims.

Proposed film for the jury program:
Magia / Gérard Cairaschi France / 2010 / 0:07:00
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Triny Prada is a franco-colombian artist. She lives and works in Paris. Her works leads about the life's fragility, pointing some questions of society like the problems of alimentation all around the world and their consequences on humans populations.

Her videos and experimental documentaries (aproximatly 40 of whom « La vie ne tient qu'à un Fil », « Les poulets ne sont pas armés », « Madness and Genius »). She made paintings, sculptures, installations and culinary performances on the obsessional idea of the « thread separating life and death ».

Her works were shown in the entire world (selection): * Human Frames Festival, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin 2012 * Hong Kong Contemporary, 2012 * The Human Frames project, Kunst Im Tunnel Museum, Düsseldorf 2011 * Biennale de Cerveira, Portugal 2011 * Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Simon Bolivar, Santa Marta, Colombia 2011 * Artist Art Fair , Istambul 2010 * EMAF, Osnabrück 2009 * Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand 2007-2008 * Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse 2007 * International Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, South Korea 2007 * Museum of Modern Art of Cartagena , Colombia 2008-2009 * Audiovisiva, Milano, 2008.

Triny Prada was invited to present her artistic work in the 55th Biennale de Venise in the Palazzo Bembo with the project “Personal Structures”.

Proposed film for the jury program:
Les poulets ne sont pas armés / Triny Prada France / 2006 / 0:04:22
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Living in Berlin, Nicole Stecker works as a curator and festival organizer. She studied English and French literatures with an additional focus on film in Trier, Bordeaux, and Berlin. While she was still at university, she engaged in contemporary art and realized group exhibitions in a Berlin gallery.

In 2006, she initiated the short film festival "kurzfilmfunk hamburg-berlin" offering a platform for film makers from these two major German cities. Furthermore, she has been working as a programmer and co-director for the XPOSED International Queer Film Festival Berlin since 2006, and as a programmer for European films at the International Comedy Film Festival Berlin since 2010.

From 2007 to 2012, she worked as assistant to the curator of the "Berlinale Shorts" programme of the Berlin International Film Festival. Next to her commitment for film festivals, she has been doing freelance work on various assignments in film productions, e.g. as director's assistant. She is currently working for the editorial at onlinefilm.org, an upcoming distribution platform for independent filmmakers.

Proposed film for the jury program:
Back by 6 / Peter Connely, Belgique / 2012 / 0:28:00
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