Estrela Straus

Comissão de Seleção

Estrela Straus is a Brazilian actress and director. She studied film at FAAP, in Brazil; at EICTV, in Cuba; and at Universidad del Cine, in Argentina. As an actress, she graduated from the Lee Strasberg Film and Theatre Institute in New York; at CPT, in São Paulo; and with Augusto Fernandes and Agustín Alezzo, in Buenos Aires. She studied dramaturgy with Mauricio Kartun. She was a teacher at Teatro Escola Célia Helena. She acted in plays, short films and series in Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Germany and the United States. She directed the plays Fracture, in Berlin, and Vanities, in New York. She directed the short films My favorite things or Liberdade and Fim.

Eva Morsch Kihn

Palestrante | Comissão de Seleção

Curator and consultant in the audiovisual industry, she is the coordinator of the programming and professional platform Cinema em Construção at the French festival Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse. Since 2013, she has been an international consultant for the Gap Financing Market in Venice, and since 2016 she has collaborated with the Marché du Film and Ventana Sur, forming part of the selection committee for Primer Corte and Copia Final. She developed and coordinated the professional activities of La Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde in Cannes and has participated in selective support bodies such as Aide aux Cinémas du Monde and Proimagenes.

Flavia Candida

Comissão de Seleção

Flavia Candida is a curator, filmmaker, and producer who graduated from the Cinema course at UFF (Federal Fluminense University), where she directed the short film O Metro Quadrado, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 35th Brasília Film Festival.

She began as a programmer in the late 1990s at Cine Arte UFF and coordinated the Brazilian University Film Festival for over 15 years.

She collaborates in the curation of festivals such as the Rio Film Festival, Vitória Film Festival, Brasília Film Festival, Zózimo Bulbul Black Cinema Meeting, São Paulo International Short Film Festival, and Mate Com Angu Festival. She also curated the Cabíria Festival Mulheres & Audiovisual and FIMCine 23, both dedicated to female protagonism.

She has produced exhibitions such as Arte da África Cinema and Pequenas Histórias da Vanguarda – Downtown New York. She selects projects for labs such as BrLab, ICUMAM Lab, and the Curta Cinema Project Lab, and was a tutor at Roteiros do Arrabalde. She was on the selection committee for the Göteborg Film Fund 2021.

Marcio Miranda Perez

Comissão de Seleção

Programming coordinator for Kinoforum – São Paulo International Short Film Festival and Mix Brasil Festival. As a filmmaker and editor, his work has been screened and awarded in Brazil and internationally. He holds a degree in Cinema from ECA-USP and has also served as a juror on selection and award committees, representing Kinoforum at various events in Brazil, France, Argentina, Chile and Colombia.

Mariana Pinheiro

Comissão de Seleção

Mariana Pinheiro is a screenwriter and wrote the series Novela (Amazon Prime/Porta dos Fundos), directed by João Falcão, the podcasts Expectativas Delirantes, with Valen Bandeira (Audible), O Último Plano (G1) and A Nova Doença dos Brancos (Ethnographic Museum of Berlin/ISA), and was a collaborator on the feature film Canção ao Longe (Anavilhana) by Clarissa Campolina. She is currently writing the fiction feature film Garota da Urca with Marcelo Gomes (Matizar Filmes) and the documentary Serra de Fechados with Marília Rocha (Anavilhana), in addition to providing script consulting. She has researched authors and directors at TV Globo and participated in selection committees for BR Lab, FRAPA, FICA, Rio Film Festival, É Tudo Verdade and Curta Cinema, and in calls for proposals from the culture secretariats of RJ, SC, GO and SE.

Rafael Sampaio

Direção Geral | Comissão de Seleção | Tutor | Palestrante

Director of BrLab, producer, curator and founding partner of the production company Klaxon Cultura Audiovisual. He has worked as a programmer in cultural spaces such as MIS-SP, Cinemateca Brasileira and Cine Olido, in addition to having produced and programmed numerous exhibitions and festivals. He works as a coordinator of courses and training platforms, such as the Prodav 04 Project Development Laboratories for ANCINE/FSA, in addition to BrLab, which he created and has directed since 2011. Through Klaxon, he produced and co-produced the films Sobre Rodas (2017), by Mauro D’Addio; Diz a Ela que me Viu Chorar (2019), by Maíra Bühler; and co-produced the films Contactado (2020), by Marité Ugás; Fiebre (2022), by Elisa Eliash, Zafari (2024), by Mariana Rondón, among others.

Agustina Chiarino

Tutor

Estudió Ciencias Políticas, es licenciada en Comunicación y magíster en Documentales. Ha producido 15 largometrajes latinoamericanos con más de 100 premios internacionales, estrenados en los más prestigiosos festivales de cine y distribuidos en más de 30 territorios. Entre ellos se encuentran Gigante, de Adrián Biniez (2009); Tanta Agua (2013), de Ana Guevara y Leticia Jorge; Mi Amiga del Parque (2015), de Ana Katz; Benzinho (2018), de Gustavo Pizzi; y Las Herederas, de Marcelo Martinessi. Forma parte del comité de selección del Foro de Coproducción de San Sebastián y es docente y tutora en Biennale College, BrLab, Biobio Lab y PUENTES, que organiza junto con EAVE.

Eliseo Altunaga

Palestrante

With a degree in Hispanic Literature and Literature, he is the Dean of the Screenwriting Chair at EICTV. His work includes La Invención de las Especies, directed by Tania Hermida (Ecuador), winner of the Sloan Science on Screen Award in 2024; The Count, directed by Pablo Larraín (Chile), winner of the Golden Lion in the category of Best Screenplay in 2023; and Una Mujer Fantástica, directed by Sebastián Lelio (Chile), awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay in 2017 and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2018.

Erick González

Comissão de Seleção | Coordenador | Palestrante

Director of Australab, a platform that, among other initiatives, includes 3 Puertos Cine, in addition to developing actions to reflect on the circulation of independent cinema, such as the Industry Academy Chile-Locarno. For seven years, he was the programming director of the Toulouse Latin American Film Festival and a member of the selection committee of Cine en Construcción for the Toulouse and San Sebastián editions. He was also a programmer at FIC-Valdivia and, in addition, is a project delegate at the Center for Cinema and Creation, a space for promoting independent cinema in Chile.

Eva Morsch Kihn

Palestrante | Comissão de Seleção

Curator and consultant in the audiovisual industry, she is the coordinator of the programming and professional platform Cinema em Construção at the French festival Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse. Since 2013, she has been an international consultant for the Gap Financing Market in Venice, and since 2016 she has collaborated with the Marché du Film and Ventana Sur, forming part of the selection committee for Primer Corte and Copia Final. She developed and coordinated the professional activities of La Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde in Cannes and has participated in selective support bodies such as Aide aux Cinémas du Monde and Proimagenes.

Fernanda de Capua

Comissão de Seleção | Palestrante

Fernanda De Capua created and directed the sitcom Insustentáveis, wrote the screenplays for the series A História Delas and Turma da Mônica – Origens, and the feature films A Suspeita and Virtuosas. She was a consultant for the scripts for Saudade Fez Morada Aqui Dentro, Gabriel e a Montanha, and for more than 20 projects in the Prodav 04 labs. Among her achievements as a producer, the films Sonhos de Peixe, Casa Grande and Quem Matou Eloá stand out.

Fernanda Del Nido

Tutor

Born in Buenos Aires, she developed her professional career in Spain. From her production company Tic Tac she directed: “Polvo” (Julio Hernández Cordón, 2012), “Tralas luces” (Sandra Sánchez, 2011), “18 comidas” (Jorge Coira, 2010) and “¿Qué culpa tiene el tomate?” (ómnibus, 2009). She has also co-produced feature films such as “Agua fría de mar” (Paz Fábrega, 2010), among other titles. In 2014 she founded Setembro Cine, through which she co-produced internationally recognized films: “Neruda” (Pablo Larraín, 2016), “Princesita” (Marialy Rivas, 2017) and “Una mujer fantasia” (Sebastián Lelio, 2017). He is currently involved in the development of the next film by Dutch director Joost Van Ginkel.

Juliana Rojas

Direção | Tutor

Director and screenwriter. Her solo works include the short films O Duplo and A Passagem do Cometa, and the feature film Sinfonia da Necrópole. With Marco Dutra, she made the feature films Trabalhar Cansa and As Boas Maneiras. She was a screenwriter for the series Supermax, 3% and directed episodes of Boca a Boca, Terrores Urbanos and Tarã. She was a tutor for the laboratories Novas Histórias, BrLab, Icuman Lab and Sesc Argumenta.

Paula Astorga

Tutor | Selection Committee

An international consultant for audiovisual projects in development and exhibition, she received the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government in 2012 for her work in audiovisual culture. Her recent productions include Trigal (Dir. Anabel Caso, 2022) and the documentary Me niego rotundamente (Dir. Nina Wara Carrasco, 2025). She is the director and founder of the Audiences of the Future Seminar and the Circo 2.12 Documentation Center.

Rosane Svartman

Palestrante

Rosane Svartman, graduated in Cinema (UFF), with a master’s and doctorate in Communication (UFRJ, UFF), directed the films: Como ser único, Desenrola, Mais uma vez amor, Tainá 3. She wrote for the theater and has 4 published books. She was co-author of the soap operas “Malhação: mexicana como a vida”, “Malhação sonhos” and “Totalmente demais”, with 4 nominations for the International Emmy. She is currently directing the film Pluft, is the curator of the International Book Biennial RJ and co-author of the soap opera “Bom Sucesso”, on TV Globo.

Veronica Cura

Tutor

Born in 1972, Veronica Cura studied at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and from 1992 onwards developed a career in film as a producer, executive producer, production director and teacher. As a producer, she made Las Acacias by Pablo Giorgelli (Caméra d’Or, Cannes 2011), La Mujer sin cabeza by Lucrecia Martel, El Otro by Ariel Rotter (Silver Bear for Best Actor and Grand Jury Prize, Berlinale 2006), Cama adentro by Jorge Gagger (Special Jury Prize, Sundance 2005), Un Amor by Paula Hernandez, Muerte en Buenos Aires by Natalia Meta, among others. Providing production services and as executive producer and production director, she has produced El Inventor de juegos by Juan Pablo Buscarini, There be dragons by Roland Joffe, And soon the darkness by Marcos Efron, Hide by KC Bascombe, Torrente 3 by Santiago Segura, among others. She has been teaching at ENERC (Argentine School of Cinematographic Experimentation) since 2005 and has been the academic coordinator of the production chair since 2011. She has also taught production seminars at EICTV and produced several seminars and workshops on production direction and executive production in different Latin American countries.

Albertina Carri

Tutor

Albertina Carri is a pivotal figure in contemporary Latin American cinema. She is known for her versatility in the genres and materials she explores. She has directed the films No quiero volver a casa, Los rubios, Géminis, La rabia, Cuatreros, Las hijas del fuego, and ¡Caigan las rosas blancas!, which have been screened at the Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Venice, San Sebastián, and Rotterdam film festivals, among many others. Carri’s work evolves as she develops her themes, resources, and methods. She reorganizes film footage, immersing herself in the power of sound and movement in audiovisual installations such as Cine puro, Punto impropio, and Animales puros. She also incorporates writing into her work, both poetry and prose. She has published Los rubios: Cartografía de una película, Retratos ciegos, Lo que aprendí de las bestias, Las poseas, and Cine vivo.

Andrés Wood

Palestrante

Andrés Wood graduated in Economics from the Universidad Católica de Chile, and later went to New York to study Film at NYU. He directed the feature films Historias de fútbol, ​​La fiebre del loco, Machuca, one of the most watched and awarded films in the history of Chilean cinema, and La buena vida, which received the Goya Award for Best Hispanic-American Foreign Film. His last feature film as a director was Violeta se fue a los cielos, a Chile-Brazil-Argentina co-production. His work has been shown at the most important film festivals in the world, such as Cannes, Venice, San Sebastián, Toronto and Sundance.

Bárbara Sonnewend

Palestrante

Bárbara Sonnewend is a producer and designer. She graduated in Design from Centro Universitário Senac and started working in the audiovisual production area for Coletivo Lumika. She is currently the production director of the documentary Dentro de nós, the collective’s new work. In the design area, she has worked in advertising agencies until becoming self-employed, and currently produces content for the promotion of films such as Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho, Setenta and O mercado de notícias. She is doing a postgraduate degree in Technological Aesthetics at PUC-SP and graduated in Gender Diversity and Sexual Orientation in the extension course at FFLCH-USP.

Daniel Ribeiro

Palestrante

Screenwriter and director, graduated in Audiovisual from ECA-USP. He wrote and directed the short films Café com Leite (2008) and Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho (2010), programmed in more than 180 international festivals, where he received 115 awards. His first feature film, Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho, won the FIPRESCI and Teddy Award at the Berlin Festival.

Diana Almeida

Produção

Born in Maputo in 1983, she graduated from the University of São Paulo. Her first feature film as a producer, Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho, won the Teddy Award and the Fipresci Award at the 2014 Berlinale and was Brazil’s official entry for the 2015 Oscars. Her second feature, As Duas Irenes, premiered at the 2017 Berlinale.

Eliseo Altunaga

Palestrante

With a degree in Hispanic Literature and Literature, he is the Dean of the Screenwriting Chair at EICTV. His work includes La Invención de las Especies, directed by Tania Hermida (Ecuador), winner of the Sloan Science on Screen Award in 2024; The Count, directed by Pablo Larraín (Chile), winner of the Golden Lion in the category of Best Screenplay in 2023; and Una Mujer Fantástica, directed by Sebastián Lelio (Chile), awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay in 2017 and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2018.

Gabriel Mascaro

Palestrante | Tutor

An artist and filmmaker, his work has been screened and exhibited at festivals and exhibitions such as the Berlin, Sundance, Locarno, Toronto, Venice, IDFA, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, São Paulo Biennial, Videobrasil, MACBA and MoMA. He received the Fênix Award for Best Ibero-American Screenplay for Boi Neon (2015), which was also among the New York Times Top 10 Best Films in 2016. On the visual arts circuit, in 2015, he was nominated for the PIPA Prize. His films have won more than 50 international awards and, in 2016, Mascaro had a retrospective at the Lincoln Center in New York.

José Agripino

Palestrante

José Agripino is a director, screenwriter and audiovisual producer, with a degree in Audiovisual from Senac. He worked for three years as a producer for In-Edit – International Music Documentary Festival, and currently works as a digital communications strategist for film and television. He was co-responsible for the online promotion strategy for the release of the films Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho, by Daniel Ribeiro, and O mercado de notícias, by Jorge Furtado. He directed the short films Poliamor and Leve-me pra sair, which together were seen by more than 1.2 million people on the web. He is currently part of Lumika, a content production collective for young audiences.

Meinolf Zurhorst

Palestrante

He studied art history, film, television and anthropology. He is a film critic and the author of almost 20 books on film. In the 1980s, he co-founded a production company focused on German TV programmes, such as Voice of Germany. Later, Meinolf Zurhorst co-founded a production company that also works in post-production. He co-wrote and directed several documentaries, the two most successful of which were about two German actors, Götz George and Mario Adorf. In the 1990s, he began working as a commissioning editor in the film department of the TV channel ARTE, eventually becoming its director. In 2000, he became head of the ARTE/ZDF department, which he led until recently, when he became head of the fiction department at ARTE/ZDF. He has been a consultant for EAVE and ACE, and has served as a juror at several international festivals.

Sandro Fiorin

Tutor | Palestrante

A Brazilian, he founded the production company FiGa Films in Los Angeles in 2006 with Alex Garcia to discover and distribute Latin American content in North America, as well as represent it around the world. He studied film at FAAP and the New School in New York, where he lived for 14 years, moving to California in 2001. He has worked at Film Forum, Universal and First Look Films. He was a programmer at the Latino Film Festival in Atlanta and artistic director of the IndieBrazil Film Festival in Los Angeles. He has been a speaker and jury member at Sundance, San Sebastián, Cannes, Rotterdam and other festivals. Since 2010 he has been a producer on projects such as “Verano de Goliat”, “Los viejos” and “Avanti Popolo”.

Silvia Cruz

Palestrante

She holds a degree in Business Administration from ESPM and worked at the independent distributor Pandora Filmes, contributing to the creation of the Cineclube do Belas Artes. She produced the project “Vá ao Cinema”, which screened more than 20 national films in the state of São Paulo. She worked at the distributor Europa Filmes, releasing national films, and at the production company Coração da Selva, as an executive producer. In 2010, she founded Vitrine Filmes, distributing more than 100 titles, such as “O som ao próximo”, “Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho” and “Aquarius”. In 2011, she started the Sessão Vitrine project, which has received support from Petrobras since 2016 and has released 30 films to date.