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Elisabeth Quin

Elisabeth Quin - Présidente du jury de la Queer Palm 2011
JURY'S PRESIDENT - Paris Premiere (France)

Born in 1963, Elisabeth Quin began her journalist career on Radio Nova and Ouï FM in the 80’s. She’s the cinema journalist of the tv channel Paris Première for twenty years, with some collaboration with France 2 (Comme au cinéma). She published some novels and host her cinema network, Ciné Quin, on Paris Première.


Marie Colmant

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Canal+ (France)

Marie Colmant was born in 1956. After an English and Russian language degree, she started to work as a journalist for the AFP, then for the Actuel magazine and for Radio Nova. She started to work within the LibĂ©ration newsroom in 1985, at the cinema department. From 1990 to 2004, she cohosted with GĂ©rard Lefort…Read more…


Gerard Lefort

Gérard Lefort
Libération (France)

GĂ©rard Lefort has been working as a movie critic for the French daily newspaper LibĂ©ration since the 1980s. After serving as Cinema Editor and Culture Editor, he is now Senior Editor at the paper. From 1990 to 1996, Lefort co-hosted two shows, PassĂ© les bornes y’a pas de limites (Sky’s the limit) and A toute…Read more…


Thomas Abeltshauser

Thomas Abeltshauser
Männer, Winq, Vanity Fair, Die Welt (Allemagne / Germany)

Thomas Abeltshauser was born in 1974. He is a Berlin based freelance journalist and film critic writing for various German newspapers and magazines including gay monthly Männer, Sissy – Homosexual’s Film Quarterly and both the international and Dutch edition of Winq. He studied film and journalism at Freie Universität Berlin and majored with a thesis…Read more…


Fred Arends

Fred Arends
Festival Pink Screens de Bruxelles (Belgique / Belgium)

Born in 1976. Master in Social Communications.Programmer and web manager for Pink Screens Film Festival Brussels and for monthly screenings by Genres d’à cĂ´tĂ©. Social worker for Ex æquo, an Aids prevention association. Critic for the dvd column for TĂ©lĂ©moustique, a social and cultural magazine. He was journalist for the movies and dvd columns for…Read more…


Esther Cuénot

Esther Cuénot
Cinémarges, Bordeaux (France)

Esther CuĂ©not, born in 1976, is coordinating a cinemas network in the Aquitaine region. After getting involved in the feminist network, she joined the Lesbian & Gay Pride of Bordeaux to lead cultural queer projects. In 2000, she founded with the Utopia cinema, the “Quinzaine de cinema LGBT”, which will become the “Cinemarges Festival” with…Read more…


Roberto Schinardi

Roberto Schinardi
Pride, Gay.it, Il Manifesto (Italie, Italy)

Journalist, cinema and television critic, contributing writer for Il Manifesto, Torino Magazine, Pride and the website Gay.it where he has been film editor for 10 years. He works for Fondazione Bottari Lattes in Monforte d’Alba. Editor of Kali, a free press magazine dedicated to contemporary art, he published the essay “Cinema gay, l’ennesimo genere” for…Read more…