Iana Cossoy Paro

Tutor | Speaker

Screenwriter, professor, and consultant. Director of the Master’s program and residency in Screenwriting at EICTV. She co-wrote the screenplay for Eneida (2022) with Heloisa Passos and Tina Hardy, Três Verões (2019) with Sandra Kogut, Eu Te Levo (2017) with Marcelo Muller, among others. She holds a Master’s degree in Audiovisual Media and Processes from ECA-USP and is a consultant and lecturer in various laboratories and schools throughout Latin America.

Xenia Rivery

Comissão de Seleção | Palestrante

Screenwriter, consultant and teacher. She was coordinator and head of the Screenwriting Department at EITCV – Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba. She coordinated the International Screenwriting Workshop (Havana Film Festival). She develops and teaches workshops in Brazil, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Panama, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. She works as a speaker and judge at Latin American and European events and festivals, and is a founding member of the creative collective Viceversa.

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.

Gabor Greiner

Tutor | Palestrante

After studying Cultural Management in Vienna, Birmingham and Chicago, Gabor GREINER worked as a journalist and film critic. In 2003, he moved to Brussels to take over the distribution support department of the MEDIA Programme at the European Commission’s Film Fund. In 2009, Gabor became acquisitions executive at the international sales agent event, The Match Factory. In August 2010, Gabor moved to Berlin to become COO of the Franco-German sales company, Films Boutique, winner of the Golden Bear in 2017 and 2020 and the Golden Lion in 2011 and 2016. Gabor is a member of the European Film Academy.

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Roshanak Behesht Nedjad

Palestrante

She started working in the film industry as a festival coordinator and production manager. In 1999 she founded her first production company, Flying Moon, through which she produced arthouse films that won over 30 international awards until 2014. Under the banner In Good Company/IGC Films, she founded another company focusing on international co-productions with an emphasis on European films. Roshanak also works as an expert and consultant for various training institutions and organizations, such as EAVE. She is an EAVE graduate and group leader, as well as a member of the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy.

Camilla Larsson

Palestrante

Camilla Larsson is the manager of the Göteborg Film Fund 2021, as well as a programmer at the Gothenburg Film Festival and Draken Film. She is a film critic, curator and moderator. She has written and directed short films and music videos, and has also worked behind and in front of the camera on a number of productions.

Josephine Bourgois

Palestrante

Josephine Bourgois is the executive director of Projeto Paradiso. With a master’s degree in Literature from the Sorbonne (Paris) and in Social Sciences from New York University (NYU), she has worked for over 18 years in the Third Sector and in the cultural sector in Brazil. She was the director of the Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty (Flip), founded Fabriqueta de Histórias — an innovative creative writing project — and worked at the Secretariat of Culture of the City of São Paulo.

Peter Johansson

Palestrante

Vice-Consul of Sweden in the states of São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul since 2017. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Stockholm University and a Bachelor’s degree in Commercial Law from the University of Mälardalen. He was an exchange student at FEA-USP and the University of Passau in Germany. He is also Director of Aconbras – Association of Consuls in Brazil and Director of the Scandinavian Church in São Paulo.

Simone Bauman

Palestrante

Simone Baumann is working in the film production for more as 25 years and has produced many documentaries and feature films. Till March 2019 she was the head of the documentary department of Saxonia Entertainment GmbH. From 1997-2010, she was managing director of the independent production company LE VISION. She is an experienced co-producer, and one of Europe’s leading experts on Russia, the former Eastern bloc, and their audiovisual markets.

In April 2019 Simone Baumann was appointed as the Managing Director of German Films – the German film promotion. She has been working as the GERMAN FILMS Eastern Europe representative since 2005. She also supervised numerous feature film productions in the former Soviet Union as an executive producer and consultant.

Fred Burle

Palestrante

Fred Burle is Brazilian and has lived in Berlin since 2010, where he graduated as a producer at the German Film School dffb. His short films have been shown at over 400 festivals worldwide. He has worked as a film critic, at the global sales company The Match Factory, at the Berlinale and Munich Film Festivals, curated the first dffb Film Festival and taught at the University of Brasilia, the European Film College and the MET Film School in Berlin. In 2020, he was selected for the EAVE Puentes program. In January 2017, Fred started working for One Two Films as a Project Manager. He is now the company’s second Producer.

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.

Mariana Schneider

Palestrante

Mariana works as a financial advisor for first and second feature films and short films at HessenFilm and Media based in Frankfurt, Germany. After graduating from an international master’s program in film and media, Mariana began working as a journalist and producer for television in Germany. She has worked on more than 20 editions of the arthouse Metropolis and other documentary formats. In 2017, she participated in the year-long international masterclass for young producers AtelierLudiwgsburgParis. After that, she took on a position as a commissioned editor for pop culture programming at ZDF/arte before starting work at the Hessen Regional Film Fund.

Marion Wagner

Palestrante

Marion Wagner studied law at the Università di Trento (Italy). After a one-year internship at the TV station ProSiebenSat1 in Munich, she worked as a Funding Officer at the then newly founded film funding organisation IDM Südtirol (Italy) from 2011. Since 2019, she heads the funding department of HessenFilm und Medien GmbH in Frankfurt. In her role, she is involved in the strategic realignment of HessenFilm, among other things. The focus is on documentaries, new talent, internationalisation, web series, diversity in film and green filming.

Helga Binder

Palestrante

Helga is Deputy Director of Finance with a focus on international co-production. She joined the film industry in 1993 and has since worked as a producer on international co-productions, a lecturer in production and distribution at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, and a consultant for the MEDIA program.

Teresa Turégano

Palestrante

Teresa Hoefert de Turégano is executive of financing of international co-productions, documentaries and experimental projects of the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (Germany). It also administers several international Medienboard programs and partnerships, such as the Turkish-German co-production development fund and artistic residency programs in Berlin (10 international partnerships) with Israel, Palestine, Paris, West Africa, Mexico, India, etc.

Karen Halley

Palestrante

Graduated in Social Communication from Faculdade Cásper Líbero. She coordinated cultural projects for the British Council in theater, music, visual arts and cinema. She has worked in the audiovisual sector for 10 years. She was the institutional relations manager at Buriti Filmes, acting as an interface between sponsors and the production of traveling cinema projects. She is currently responsible for the commercial promotion of Cinema do Brasil, a Brazilian cinema export program that encourages the circulation of Brazilian professionals and films in foreign markets. She has participated in more than 15 editions of international markets, including Berlin, Cannes, Toronto and Buenos Aires, coordinating the production for the participation of Brazilian delegations.

Fred Burle

Palestrante

Fred Burle is Brazilian and has lived in Berlin since 2010, where he graduated as a producer at the German Film School dffb. His short films have been shown at over 400 festivals worldwide. He has worked as a film critic, at the global sales company The Match Factory, at the Berlinale and Munich Film Festivals, curated the first dffb Film Festival and taught at the University of Brasilia, the European Film College and the MET Film School in Berlin. In 2020, he was selected for the EAVE Puentes program. In January 2017, Fred started working for One Two Films as a Project Manager. He is now the company’s second Producer.

Mar Medir

Palestrante

Mar Medir, coordinator of Catalan Films, has a degree in Advertising and Public Relations (UAB, 2003), and in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature (UB 2012). She also completed postgraduate courses in Line Production, Executive Production and Project Development at ESCAC. Since 2005, she has worked in the area of ​​executive production at companies such as Oberon Cinematogràfica, El Kinògraf and Inicia Films. Mar has participated in projects such as Luisa no está en casa, by Celia Rico (Biennale di Venezia 2012); Elisa K, by Judith Colell and Jordi Cadena (San Sebastián International Film Festival 2010); The Milk of Sorrow, by Claudia Llosa (Golden Bear, Berlinale 2009); The Plague by NeusBallús (Berlinale 2013, Lux Awards 2013) and GodkaCirka by Àlex Lora (Sundance Film Festival, 2013). For three years she was the manager of Pro-Docs, the association of documentary producers.

Iole Maria Giannattasio

Palestrante

Iole Maria Giannattasio is responsible for international and legal affairs and the research centre of the Direzione Generale (DG) Cinema e Audiovisivo of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

Iole represents Italy at Eurimages – European Cinema Support Fund, the European Audiovisual Observatory and EFARN – European Film Agencies Research Network.

Iole is the author of several publications on the film and audiovisual industries and markets and is a contributor to Film Magazine 8 ½ – numeri visioni e prospettive del cinema italiano, published by Cinecittà SpA.

She was part of the team set up by the DGCA to manage the new tax incentives for the film industry in force since 2009.

Between 2004 and 2009, she worked as a media analyst at the Osservatorio Italiano dell’Audiovisivo of Cinecittà Holding S.p.A and then at the Centro Studi of Cinecittà Luce S.p.A.

Lucas Soussumi

Palestrante

Having worked in the audiovisual market for over 15 years, he holds a postgraduate degree in Creation and Management of Creative Enterprises from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. He works in collaboration with national and international entities in the creation and management of market events and training activities. He is the project manager for Brasil Audiovisual Independente – BRAVI. He has been working at Brazilian Content since 2018, seeking to integrate international actions with those carried out in Brazil. In 2021, he took over the executive management of the program.

Julia Duarte

Coordenador

Julia Duarte worked in music production and book editing before entering the audiovisual industry in 2006, when she began working for the São Paulo International Film Festival. Until 2017, she collaborated with the festival in various ways, including film selection. Between 2013 and 2015, she was the executive manager of the Cinema do Brasil program. In Portugal since 2016, Julia has been an international consultant for some Brazilian films and is a partner in the VOD platform spamflix.com, aimed at the online exhibition of authorial films worldwide.

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.

Gerardo Michelin

Palestrante

With a degree in Communications, in 2007 he founded LatAm cinema, a website specializing in the Latin American film industry and one of the main sources of information on the sector at a pan-regional level. Throughout his career he has been a jury member at several competitions, including the Animadrid, SANFIC and Sonora festivals. He has also given lectures on the specialized press in the film industry and moderated conferences and round tables at events such as the San Sebastián International Film Festival, Distrital, Enlace – Red de Festivales Mexicanos de Cine, BrLab, Festival de Lima, SANFIC and BAFICI, among others.

Sandra Gómez

Palestrante

Active in the Latin American film industry for almost fifteen years, she has a solid background in acquisition and distribution of independent films, programming and exhibition with a focus on audience development for arthouse films. She is the founder of the production and distribution company Interior XIII and the exhibition space Cine Tonalá Bogota. Her films as a producer include Greatest Hits by Nicolás Pereda (2012), and Te Prometo Anarquía by Julio Hernández Cordón (2015). She serves as the local manager of the Locarno Industry Academy in Mexico and Panama and works at MUBI Mexico.

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.

Talita Arruda

Comissão de Seleção | Palestrante

Distributor, researcher and curator. She is currently studying for her master’s degree at UFRB and studies the distribution of contemporary black cinema. She works for Fistaile, a company that promotes the encounter between audiences and audiovisual projects. She collaborates with spaces such as Lab Negras Narrativas, Sessão Vitrine Petrobras, Locarno Industry Academy, BrLab, El Público del Futuro and EFM Toolbox (Berlinale). She is a member of APAN, Andai and ABPA.

Marina Tarabay

Tutor | Comissão de Seleção | Palestrante

She is a distributor, communicator, and researcher. She graduated in Social Communication from ESPM and holds a postgraduate degree in Journalism from Cásper Líbero. She has a master’s degree from Facom/UFBA with research on audiovisual reception, studying the audience of streaming platforms. She has worked for companies such as Vitrine Filmes and Elo Studios. She founded Fistaile, a distribution and audience design company. She has worked on projects funded by RioFilme, Spcine, MinC, and Göteborg Film Fund grants. She has attended training and market spaces such as Torino Film Lab NEXT Audience Design, Berlinale Talents Rio Audience Design, Locarno Industry Academy, Seminario Públicos y Audiencias del Futuro (Ficunam), Open Doors Locarno, and EFM Toolbox Programmes (Berlinale). She was part of the BrLab team, as a member of the selection committee and audience design consultant. She is associated with ANDAI (National Association of Independent Audiovisual Distributors).

Fiorella Moretti

Palestrante

After heading the Communications Department at the PUCP Cultural Center in Lima, Moretti joined the independent production company Mantarraya. During his nine years as head of production, Moretti collaborated with filmmakers such as Carlos Reygadas and Amat Escalante. In 2007, he took over as head of distribution at Mantarraya, building one of Mexico’s most important arthouse film distributors. In 2015, together with Hedi Zardi, he launched Luxbox, a production company based in Paris. Luxbox represents the films of directors Karim Aïnouz, Sharunas Bartas, Bruno Dumont, Benjamin Naishtat and Bela Tarr, among others.

Bobby Allen

Palestrante

Based at MUBI’s global headquarters in London, Bobby Allen is the company’s Senior Vice President of Production and as such is responsible for the development and production of MUBI’s films worldwide. With over 20 years in the global film and entertainment industry, prior to MUBI, Bobby was an independent film producer and Vice President of Sales and Acquisitions at Celluloid Dreams, Head of Production at MTV Films Europe and Head of Acquisitions at Film Four. He has also held executive roles in international film sales and acquisitions at companies such as Lionsgate and Mayfair Entertainment.

Didar Domehri

Palestrante

Founder of the production company Maneki Films and the label Full House, she served as head of international sales for film distribution at Playtime and is now vice-president of the Unifrance Film Producers Committee, group leader of the European producers’ workshop EAVE and member of the CNC investment committee. Among the 16 films she has produced are Casa de Antiguidades, by João Paulo Miranda Maria (2020, Official Selection at Cannes and TIFF); Les Filles du Soleil, by Eva Husson (2017, Official Competition at Cannes and TIFF); and Paulina, by Santiago Mitre (2015, Grand Prix at Cannes Critics’ Week).

Paula Cosenza

Palestrante

An international producer, she has worked with HBO, FOX, Warner Bros and Sony Pictures. She has produced independent productions that have been screened and awarded at the Cannes, Berlinale, San Sebastian, Sundance and Telluride festivals. Among them: ‘Casa de Antiguidades’, by João Paulo Miranda Maria; ‘Araña’ and ‘Violeta went to Heaven’, both by Andrés Wood; ‘Ausência’, by Chico Teixeira; and ‘Tropicália’, by Marcelo Machado. As a distributor, she has acquired and released titles such as “Parasite” by Bong Joon-ho and “The Square” by Ruben Ostlund. She was named by Variety as a “Latin American Producer to Watch”.

Denise Gomes

Palestrante

He has worked for over thirty years in the areas of advertising and content production. In addition to TV series and documentaries, his film productions through Bossa Nova Films include Casa de Antiguidades (2020), by João Paulo Miranda Maria, which was part of the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival; Una Espécie de Família (2017), by Diego Lerman, Best Film at the Chicago International Film Festival and Best Screenplay at the San Sebastián Film Festival; and Ausência (2014), by Chico Teixeira, shown at the Berlin Film Festival and winner of four awards at the Gramado Film Festival, including Best Film.

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.