At the next edition of Milano Film Festival, the Best short film award will be awarded by five women of Arte France

ARTE is the most important cultural channel in France.

''Since its launch, 15 years ago, ARTE has been constantly concerned with its audience' s expectations. In the last two years' work we have focused on the interests and worries of the people who share the current reality and look to the future. ARTE has become increasingly modern, innovative and European.'' (Christopher Hauser, Head of Programme)

The channel offers auteur films and hilarious as well as committed films from all over the world. Some cannot be labelled, while others are classics, unreleased films, or films worth of being re-discovered. Through its feature and short film selection, ARTE always offers an eclectic programme that could satisfy the most refined tastes, also made possible by its co-production policy and by the acquisition of film rights. Each year, the film unit of ARTE France acquires around 100 feature films and 55 short features and short films (among these, about twenty are selected before the shooting begins, depending on the screenplay only).
The branch in charge of co-production - ARTE France Cinèma - co-produces about twenty films every year, as well as 2 or 3 feature documentaries, whose broadcasting rights are pre-acquired by the channel.

Five TV programmers from ARTE Cinèma will be part of the Official Jury of the International Short Film Competition at Milano Film Festival 2009:

Diane Grigaut

Over the years she has covered different positions, such as film editor, drama director and director's assistant. She has worked for ARTE France since 1990, first in the multilingual section and later as a manager of short and short feature film post-production in the cinema section.



Caroline Jung

Caroline Jung works in the cinema section of ARTE France, where she has been working as a short film programme assistant since 2001. Her job is to manage short and short feature film submissions to the Court-Circuit section, and to assist Hélène Vayssières.



Claire Launay

After more than three years as an assistant of ARTE France's Head of Projects, Claire Launay, joined the ARTE France Cinéma group. Her job is to receive the feature films projects, thus helping the Head of Films Michel Reilhac, select the projects. She also coordinates the group of readers. She studied at the Conservatoire Européen d'Écriture Audiovisuelle, learning the skills needed to read and evaluate a screenplay.



Virginie Moussier

Virginie Moussier has worked as a film assistant and production assistant. In 2001 she joined the cinema section of ARTE France as a programme assistant. She has collaborated for 3 years on feature film co-production, and in 2008 she began working as the person in charge of short and short feature film management for the Court-Circuit section.



Hélène Vayssières

Hélène Vayssière was born on February 16th 1963 in Algiers. She studied Cinema at Paris VIII and at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français. A direction and production assistant, she also made a short film. Additionally, since 1991 she has been working in post-production for the different programme sections of Las Sept ARTE (shows, fiction, documentaries, théma, and cinema). In November 1996 she started working on short and short feature films in the cinema section of ARTE France, and became a co-production manager. Since 1998 she has been in charge of the purchase of the short auteur animations. In 2001 she created Court-Circuit, ARTE's midnight rendezvous with short films, and in 2007 she also created an online version of it. In 2008 she set up the Caméra de poche section, a series of short films shot with mobile phones.