from fribourg international film festival

During an extraordinary General Assembly, the Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF) Association has unanimously appointed Thierry Jobin as the new director of the Festival while granting him a mandate of three years. He will assume his new function in May 2011. Thierry Jobin will thus take the place of Edouard Waintrop who was named director of the Centre d’animation cinématographique Voltaire (CAC-Voltaire) in September 2010.

Ruth Lüthi, the Festival’s president, is delighted with the choice: “With his profile, his passion for cinema and film, his winning commitment and the originality of his ideas, Thierry Jobin has utterly convinced the Board of the FIFF. I am convinced that his profound experience, his aptitude for critical thinking, as well as his love for the media and the Festival will further support the broadening of the programme we have witnessed these past years, while consolidating the Festival’s durability and exploiting its extra potential….more“