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.

Emmanuelle Déprats

Comissão de Seleção

Born in Paris, she graduated in Cultural Management from the University Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. She has always worked with cinema and was responsible for audiovisual training and qualification projects, support programs for new talents and co-production platforms, such as the Paris Project. Between 2013 and 2016, she worked at the French National Film Agency, the CNC, where she coordinated the international fund Aide aux Cinémas du Monde and launched the international distribution program ACM Distribution. She has lived in Rio de Janeiro for three years and works as a curator, translator and consultant.

Elzemann Neves

Comissão de Seleção

Screenwriter and playwright, he is also a professor at the Academia Internacional de Cinema and Belas Artes. He won awards at the Paulínia Festival and the Brazilian Film Festival in Miami for the screenplay for “Depois do Almoço” (2010), a short film shown at the Berlin Film Festival. He also wrote the short film “Lia e o Anjo” (2013) and the documentary Anhangabaú da Feliz-Cidade for the Quadrennial of Scenic Architecture in Prague, the year Brazil won the Triga de Ouro. In Germany, he completed an artistic residency at the ZK/U Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik and presented the video installation “People Like You Appear To be Multiplyin” at the Berlin Art Week. In the theater, he wrote and directed the plays “Josefina Canta”, “Quando Eu Era Bonita” and “Mão e Pescoço”.

Fábio Leal

Direção | Comissão de Seleção

Director, screenwriter, actor and casting director. He has been the curator of Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife since 2013. Between 2013 and 2016 he was the Communications Coordinator at Vitrine Filmes. He directed the short films “O Porteiro do Dia” (2016) and “Reforma” (2018), which premiered at the 51st Brasília Film Festival, where he received the awards for Best Actor and Best Screenplay, in addition to 12 other festival awards. He is currently writing the script for the feature films “Cosplay”, with which he participated in the 9th edition of BrLab, and “O Vale dos Homossexuais”, selected for Brasil CineMundi in 2020.

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.

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.

Giovani Barros

Comissão de Seleção

Giovani Barros is a director and casting producer. He has directed short films that have been screened at several national and international festivals. His latest short film, Carne Fresca, won best short film at the Rio Film Festival, within the Première Brasil Novos Rumos section. He works as an assistant director on feature films and also as a casting producer for films, series, and soap operas. He has been a member of selection committees for the Espírito Santo State Department of Culture (SECULT-ES), Riofilme, and the curatorial team of the São Paulo International Short Film Festival.

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.

Jaqueline Souza

Comissão de Seleção

Screenwriter and consultant. Her horror feature film script, Incubo, was selected for the Sesc Novas Histórias 2018 Laboratory and was part of the Paradiso Project Screenplay Incubator, under the guidance of Anna Muylaert. She is a screenwriter for the Netflix series Boca a Boca, created by Esmir Filho. She has developed series and feature films with the production companies Gullane Entretenimento, RT Features and Vermelho Profundo. She is the founder of Tertúlia Narrativa, an online platform for film scripts, storytelling and audiovisual narratives.

Joelma Oliveira Gonzaga

Comissão de Seleção

Executive and creative producer and partner at Laranjeiras Filmes. She studied Art with an emphasis on Cinema at the Federal University of Bahia and Screenwriting at EICTV. She has produced feature films such as Todos os Paulos do Mundo (2017), by Rodrigo de Oliveira and Gustavo Ribeiro; Cinema Novo (2016, L’Oeil D’Or Award at Cannes), by Eryk Rocha. She has worked as a consultant and juror for funds and festivals, such as BrLab and Cabíria Festival, and is part of the Paradiso Project talent network. She is currently producing Incubo, the debut feature film by Renata Martins, selected for Rotterdam Lab 2020.

Julia Katharine

Comissão de Seleção

Actress and director. She has acted in films such as Desterro, by Maria Clara Escobar; Os cuidado que se tem com os cuidado que os outros deve ter com seus mortos (Best Supporting Actress at the Guarnicê Film Festival) and Lembra Mais dos Corvos, directed by Gustavo Vinagre. For the latter, she received the Helena Ignez Award from the Mostra de Cinema in 2018.

Larissa Figueiredo

Comissão de Seleção

She studied in France, Switzerland and Argentina, and dedicates her work to the intersections between cinema, education and the care of the body, soul and earth. Her first feature film, The Bull (2015), premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. She has worked as a screenwriter, director and editor on film and television projects. As a teacher, she has lectured in schools and universities, was an advisor for EICTV and coordinator of the International Film Academy. She is currently dedicated to the post-production of two projects of her own, both produced by her production company, Cazumbá Filmes.

Leticia Santinon

Comissão de Seleção

Audiovisual curator who worked at the São Paulo Cultural Center programming movie theaters, was a member of the Cinema Curation Committee of the Municipal Culture Circuit and dissemination manager at Spcine between 2017 and 2020. In 2020, she curated and programmed the Filme Filme streaming platform and is currently the release manager at Vitrine Filmes.

Marcela Esquivel

Produção | Comissão de Seleção

Costa Rican and founder of La Feria Producciones, she is a communicator, student of Anthropology, and graduated in Cinema from EICTV. As a director and screenwriter, she produced the documentary series “Mujeres y Territorios”. She was the producer of Princesas Rojas (2013), executive producer of “Agosto” (2019) and co-producer of “El Baile de la Gacela” (2018). She is currently developing the projects “Los Superlimpios”, by Roberto Jaén, and “Chicharras”, by Luna Marán, a co-production between Costa Rica and Mexico. All of her productions have received awards at the main festivals and events in the audiovisual market.

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.

Maria Carla Del Rio

Comissão de Seleção

Independent producer, member of EAVE and graduated in production from EICTV, she currently lives in Havana. She has been at Nuevas Miradas EICTV – the only lab in Cuba for film projects in development – ​​since 2014, and from 2017 to 2019 she worked as a director. In 2021, María Carla is designing the Film Production Course for CIBEF (Ibero-American Center for Photography and Cinema). Among her productions, we can highlight “La Música de las Esferas” (Best Documentary and Best Production Award, Muestra Joven ICAIC 2018; Best Documentary Award at Recontres de Cinemas Martinique 2019); “La Opción Cero” (Hot Docs 2021, IDFA Luminous 2020); “Obra de Choque” (in production, with support from Ibermedia, Sundance, WCF and Aide aux Cinemas du Monde). In 2015 he founded Marinca Filmes, a production company focused on auteur cinema.

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.

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.

Thamires Vieira

Produção | Comissão de Seleção

Thamires Vieira is a director and producer. She has a degree in Cinema and is a member of APAN. She has been working in the audiovisual market for ten years and has produced series, as well as several short and feature films, some of which have won awards and been shown at important national and international festivals. She has also produced and curated exhibitions and festivals in various formats. She currently coordinates Terá Filmes, developing projects in partnerships and co-productions.

Yuri Peixoto

Roteiro | Comissão de Seleção

He was born in Fortaleza, where he graduated in Cinema from the Federal University of Ceará. He has curated short film festivals and themed film exhibitions. He has directed and written three short films. He is currently developing his first feature-length screenplay, Campo Amor Rocha, to be produced by RT Features and directed by Nina Kopko. With this project, he was selected for the CENA 15/Porto Iracema das Artes Screenplay Laboratory, the Paradiso Screenplay Incubator, the Sesc Novas Histórias Laboratory and the BAL-LAB of the Biarritz Amérique Latine Festival.

Agustina Llambi Campbell

Tutor

She is the production director of films such as “Born and Raised” and “Leonera” and “Carancho”, by Pablo Trapero; “La Rabia”, by Albertina Carri. She is the executive producer of “Excursiones”, by Ezequiel Acuña; in 2011 she was one of the founders of La Unión de los Ríos. She is the producer of “Los salvajes”, by Alejandro Fadel; “El cielo del centauro”, by Hugo Santiago; “La patota”, “El estudiante” and “La cordillera”, by Santiago Mitre; “Los vagos”, the debut film by Gustavo Biazzi; and “Muere, monstruo, muere”, by Alejandro Fadel. She is currently developing projects by Martin Rejtman, Santiago Mitre and Pablo Stoll.

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.

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.

Giancarlo Nasi

Tutor

Film producer, founder and former president of the Chilean Academy of Cinematographic Arts, and member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as tutor and panelist at some of the world’s most prestigious festivals. Specialized in international co-productions, he has worked with 15 countries on more than 20 films through Quijote Films. Among his most notable productions are Land and Shade by César Augusto Acevedo, winner of the Caméra d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival; The Settlers by Felipe Gálvez, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, winner of the FIPRESCI Prize and Chile’s submission for the 2023 Academy Awards; The Blue Trail (2025) by Gabriel Mascaro, which competed in the official section of the Berlinale and won the Silver Bear; and his most recent production, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo by Diego Céspedes, awarded the Grand Prix of Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival, the FIPRESCI Prize at the Brussels Film Festival, and selected as Chile’s submission for the 2026 Academy Awards and Goya Awards.

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.

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.

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.

Mariana Rondón

Tutor

Her film “Pelo Malo” (2013) won the Concha de Oro at the San Sebastián Film Festival and 44 other awards at festivals such as Thessaloniki, Torino and Mar del Plata. She also directed “Postales de Leningrado” (2007) and “A la Media Noche y Media” (1999). She was invited to the MacDowell Colony and Rockefeller Foundation/The Bellagio Center residencies with her next project, Zafari. She produced “El Chico que Miente”, which premiered in the Generation section of the Berlin Film Festival in 2011, and “Contactado”, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2020, both directed by Marité Ugas. In Visual Arts, she works with robotics and electronic art.

Sarah Calderón

Tutor | Palestrante

Co-founder and CEO of The Film Agency, a marketing and services consultancy specializing in the film industry that serves more than 50 clients in Spain and abroad, including the Venice Biennale, Cannes Film Festival, Gaumont, Netflix and The Match Factory. She has more than fifteen years of professional experience in the audiovisual sector in different positions, including Head of International Sales at Coproduction Office in Paris and Distribution Coordinator at Karma Films in Madrid. In addition to The Film Agency, she also works as Co-Director of Marketing Studies and tutor at EAVE.

Agata Czerner

Palestrante

After graduating in Italian Philology in Krakow, Poland, she moved to Italy and began working for the Torino Film Festival and Torino LGBT Film Festival. In 2011, she joined TorinoFilmLab as a project manager for a number of training programs, such as Script&Pitch, AdaptLab and Story Editing, and later became head of operations, coordinating the activities of the TFL.

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.

Alfredo Calvino

Palestrante

With 30 years in the audiovisual market, he has worked in the areas of promotion, distribution and sales. He worked in the international sales department of ICAIC, founded Latinofusion in 2011 and created Habanero Film Sales. He was responsible for the premiere of films such as Strawberry and Chocolate (1993), by Juan Carlos Tabío and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Madame Satã (2002), by Karim Aïnouz, Lavoura Arcaica (2001), by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Santa y Andres (2016), by Carlos Lechuga, Señorita María (2017), by Rubén Mendoza and Perro Bomba (2019), by Juan Cáceres.

Amanda Kadobayashi

Palestrante

Graduated in Cinema and Audiovisual from Universidade Federal Fluminense, she currently works at Vitrine Filmes as a licensing and production coordinator. She is a producer of the feature film Casa da Mata, in development, and in 2021 she developed Vitrine LAB, a training course in audiovisual distribution – currently in its second edition. In 2020 she was selected to participate in the Locarno Industry Academy – Panama. As a collaborator at Bubbles Project, she worked on the production of the feature films Benzinho, by Gustavo Pizzi (Sundance 2018); Família Submersa, by María Alché, (Best Film at the San Sebastián Festival, in 2018); Pendular, by Julia Murat (FIPRESCI in the Panorama section of the 2017 Berlinale), among others. In 2013 she won the World Bank’s call for university productions in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, through which she co-directed, wrote and produced the short film Operação Chorume. Through the same initiative, he produced the documentary feature film Maré Leste, by Daniel Soares.

Ariene Ferreira

Carolina Rapp

Palestrante

As production manager at Globo Filmes, he is responsible for the selection, curation and management of film and series co-productions. He has over 10 years of experience in the audiovisual market, having worked at Conspiração Filmes and Urca Filmes.

Daniela Aun

Palestrante

A film executive at Gullane Entretenimento, she recently produced the feature films Depois que Você Foi, by Flávio Botelho; A Última Floresta, by Luiz Bolognesi; Aldeotas, by Gero Camilo and As Verdades, by José Eduardo Belmonte, all of which are in the final stages. She is currently involved in the production of the animated film Arca de Noé, by Sérgio Machado, and is preparing the feature film Favela High Tech, by Karim Ainouz, and is about to be released in theaters, Fendas, by Carlos Segundo, the first feature film produced by her production company Aun Filmes, a co-production with France.

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.

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).

Elisa Fernanda Pirir Ruiz

Palestrante

She works at Mer Films, one of Norway’s largest independent film production companies, where she produces feature films and documentaries and is responsible for non-European co-productions. Some of the company’s co-produced titles include Pájaros de Verano by Ciro Guerra and Cristina Galleo (2018, Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes); Divino Amor by Gabriel Mascaro (2019, Sundance and Berlinale); La Región Salvaje by Amat Escalante (2017, Venice); and Every Thing Will Be Fine by Wim Wenders (2015, Berlinale). She is also the company’s Head of Television and responsible for the Mer Film talent programme.

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.

Fay Breeman

Palestrante

She is the manager of the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR. She graduated from Utrecht University in 2011, with a Masters in Film and Television and a Bachelors in Journalism. She was a member of the IFFR short film selection committee and has worked for the industry and co-production markets departments of the Netherlands Film Festival, Go Short, Cinekid and IFFR. Fay is a graduate of EAVE Puentes 2019.

Felipe Lopes

Palestrante

Trained in Cinema by the Fluminense Federal University and specialized in Business Management and Marketing by ESPM, Felipe Lopes has been in the audiovisual market for more than ten years, working in the areas of production, distribution, festivals and public management. In May 2019, he assumed the direction of Vitrine Filmes and has since then released films such as Bacurau (2019), by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, A Vida Invisível (2019), by Karim Aïnouz, and The Lighthouse (2019), by Robert Eggers. In October 2020, he will be at the side of Silvia Cruz, partner of Vitrine Filmes.

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.

Jeske van der Slikke

Palestrante

She is the coordinator of the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR, where she coordinates the HBF+Europe programme, among others. She graduated from Utrecht University in 2014 with a Masters in Film and Television. She then worked for a Dutch production company as a project manager, where she was responsible for coordinating development projects and international co-productions. She started working for the Hubert Bals Fund in 2017.

Lidia Damatto

Coordenador | Palestrante

Lidia Damatto graduated in Cinema from the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP), and also studied screenwriting and entertainment at UCLA (USA) and new distribution models at DFFB (Germany), in addition to having participated in the training programs Locarno Industry Academy and Berlinale Talents. She worked in development at the American production company Ambush Entertainment in Los Angeles and at film festivals, coordinating the first edition of Ambulante California and managing the programming of the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival. Between 2015 and 2020, she worked as a sales and acquisitions manager at the American agency FiGa Films, also serving as a consultant in pitching, development and production laboratories. She is currently part of the team at O2 Play, a distributor part of the O2 Filmes group, managing the sale of Brazilian productions in the international market and the purchase of foreign productions for release in Brazil. She also co-founded and is a partner in the international consulting and representation company MoreThan, based in Barcelona.

Marina Pompeu

Palestrante

A filmmaker graduated from the Universidade Federal Fluminense and with a postgraduate degree in Audiovisual Production from the École Supérieure d’Audiovisuel de Toulouse, she joined Canal Brasil in 2013, evaluating and negotiating national content. She currently coordinates the team responsible for negotiating co-production contracts, evaluating pilots, analyzing scripts, monitoring original content and interacting with agents in the audiovisual market.

Matthieu Darras

Palestrante

Designer and leader of several consulting and development programs for active films and talents around the world, notably First Cut Lab, Pop Up Film Residency and Full Circle Lab. Previously, he founded and directed the European Network of Young Cinema NISI MASA, wrote for the film magazine “Positif” for fifteen years and was artistic director of TorinoFilmLab until 2018. He has also worked as a programmer for the Critics’ Week in Cannes, a consultant for the Venice Film Festival, a delegate for the San Sebastián Film Festival and director of the Bratislava Film Festival.

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”.

Paula Gomes

Palestrante

Audiovisual distributor and producer with a degree in Marketing from Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo, she is the co-founder of Olhar Distribuição. She previously worked as an executive producer on short and feature films and television content, and was coordinator of the Southeast Regional Office of the FSA Public TV Content Production Line from 2014 to 2016. She is a member of the Steering Committee of AVEC/PR (Cinema and Video Association of Paraná) and is a city councilor for Culture in Curitiba, representing the audiovisual area.

Priscila Santos

Palestrante

A cultural producer with a degree in Public Policy Management from the University of São Paulo, she currently coordinates the independent distributor Pandora Filmes, linked to the Belas Artes Group. Responsible for coordinating curation, sales, formulating distribution strategies and producing national and international film releases, she has worked on the release of more than 40 feature films, including Greta (2019), by Armando Praça, Adoniran, Meu Nome É João Rubinato (2018), by Pedro Serrano, The Square (2017), by Ruben Östlund, and Parasite (2019), by Bong Joon-ho.

Rodrigo Chacon

Palestrante

Graduated in Law from PUC-SP and post-graduated in Entertainment, Media and Intellectual Property Law from the OAB School of Law, he works at CQS Advogados advising the various agents of the Brazilian audiovisual industry, such as Brazilian and international producers, broadcasters, distributors and programmers. He also teaches as a guest professor in courses focused on the audiovisual area, in places such as the International Academy of Cinema and the Cinema Institute.

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.

Sandino Saravia Vinay

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Film producer based in Mexico by Cinevinay, and in Uruguay by Malbicho Cine. His name appears in the credits of films such as El Baño del Papa (2007), by Cesar Charlone and Enrique Fernández (Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival), Agua Fría de Mar (2010), by Paz Fábrega (winner of the Tiger Award in Rotterdam), Roma (2018), by Alfonso Cuarón (winner of the Oscar for Best Director, Cinematography and Foreign Language Film) and Divine Love (2019), by Gabriel Mascaro (selected for the World Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival), among others.

Sandra Gómez

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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.

Victor Sanchez

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A speaker at audiovisual production seminars in more than fifteen countries, he has specialized in digital content since 2000 with the Terra Networks group. A delegate for Next Limit Technologies, a Madrid-based company that won the Technical Oscar in 2008, he worked in the California region for 6 years and specialized in software for animation and visual effects. He was the co-production and distribution coordinator for IBERMEDIA from 2002 to 2010, and in 2016 he returned to the program, where he currently holds the position of Technical Unit Coordinator, among other functions.

Vincenzo Bugno

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Since 2002, he has worked at the Berlinale in various capacities, including as a member of the selection committee and festival delegate. From 2006 to 2009, he was a member of the Locarno Film Festival’s programming committee and head of the Open Doors section. He is also the head, co-founder and jury member of the World Cinema Fund, which was established in 2004 by the Berlinale and the German Federal Cultural Foundation with the aim of supporting film production in regions lacking the infrastructure for a strong film industry. He is also the curator of the FeatureLab at the Torino Film Lab.

Vinícius Lobo

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Content analyst at Globo Filmes, he has worked in the audiovisual market since 2015, having worked for the independent production companies TvZERO and Bananeira Filmes, and for the International Advisory Office at ANCINE.