JORGE GAGGERO
Writer-director Jorge Gaggero studied film at
the Centro de Experimentación y Realización
Cinematográfica in Buenos Aires. He made
documentaries for Edición Plus, and was
later selected for the Best Foreign Documentary
category at the 1995 Emmy Awards.
In 1996 he was chosen by the Shoah Visual
History Foundation to record testimonies of
the survivors of the Holocaust in Argentina.
That year, he also wrote and directed Ojos de
fuego, which won Best Short Subject Script
at the National Film Institute. In 1997, he
earned a Fulbright Scholarship and attended
the Directing Program at the American Film
Institute. Gaggero then returned to Argentina
and shot Vida en falcon (2005) and also wrote
Cama adentro (2004). At the present moment,
Gaggero is working on his next feature film
La seguridad de los perros, and has adapted
Wildlife, from the original novel written by
Richard Ford .

JOSH SIEGEL
Josh Siegel, an associate film curator at The
Museum of Modern Art, has organized more
than 90 exhibitions, including Creative Capital
(opening April 2010) and Jazz Score (2008);
and the gallery installations Projects 84: Josiah
McElheny (2007) and Killer Films (2005).
His monographic exhibitions include Frederick
Wiseman (2010), Spike Jonze (2009), Michael
Haneke (2007), and Marguerite Duras (1996).
He is also the founder of the annual To Save
and Project: The MoMA International Festival
of Film Preservation, now in its eighth year.
Siegel has lectured at Yale, Columbia, USC,
Pixar, NYU, and the University of Warsaw; has
served on grant panels for the NYC Department
of Cultural Affairs and the Penny Mc-
Call Foundation; and has been a jury member
of many festivals. He serves on the board of
Cinema Tropical, a non-profit devoted to Latin American cinema.

MARIANNA SECCO
Born in Uruguay in 1975, Marianna Secco
is the director of Salado Media Cine and
has worked in the communications industry
since 1994, specializing in the development
and funding of cultural projects. At the same
time, she has coordinated photography, animation,
sculpture and painting exhibitions,
and has been heavily involved in organizing
international conferences on arts, marketing,
politics and journalism. In 2006 she produced
Carlos Ameglio’s debut film, La cáscara, which
still plays the festival circuit today. She participated
in the 2007 Talent Campus Buenos
Aires and has served as a juror in international
film festivals from Cartagena to Cairo.
Secco recently became Chairwoman of the
Uruguayan Association of Producers and Filmmakers
(ASOPROD), as well as a board member
of the Uruguay Film Commission & Promotion
Office. She currently has both fiction and
documentary projects in development.