Andrea Cals

Comissão de Seleção

Audiovisual curator, she was the creator and director of the feminist exhibition Século XXI: Mulheres, Ação!. For eleven years she worked as coordinator and curator of the Première Brasil exhibition at the Rio Festival; she was a member of the curatorial committee of the Brasília Festival of Brazilian Cinema, the Brazilian Film Festival in Israel and Curta Cinema (Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival). She was a curator, presenter and producer of the Curta! Channel. For nine years she directed and presented the radio program Cinema em Sintonia, which specializes in Brazilian cinema. She was part of CurtaFlix and is currently the curator of the Cine Coletivona exhibition, in partnership with the Museu da Maré.

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.

Fernanda Vidigal

Produção | Comissão de Seleção

Specializing in Production at the International School of Cinema and TV (EICTV/Cuba), she graduated in Cinema and Audiovisual from Centro Universitário UNA, Talento Paradiso and Berlinale Talents Guadalajara. She was a member of the Brazilian delegation in the Visitors Program of the European Film Market, at the Berlinale 2021. She was part of the Official Jury at the 7th Lumiar Inter-American Festival, is a member of the Cinefrequência Collective, in São Paulo, and collaborates with the Piauí-based company Estúdio Volante. Founder of the production company Carapiá Filmes, based in Belo Horizonte, she develops films with emerging Latin American directors.

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.

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.

Kariny Martins

Comissão de Seleção

Curator, researcher, screenwriter, director and partner at Cartografia Filmes. She holds a master’s degree in Cinema and Video Arts from the State University of Paraná, and has researched “Speculative Fiction in Brazilian Black Cinema”. She holds a PhD in Communication from the Federal Fluminense University, specializing in curatorship. Her research interests range from speculative fiction, curatorship from a decolonial perspective and contemporary Black Cinemas. She is a Regional Advisor (South) for APAN.

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.

Mannu Costa

Produção | Comissão de Seleção

Audiovisual director, partner at Plano 9 Produções (PE) and professor in the Cinema course at UFPE. For 15 years she has worked as Producer, Executive Producer, Production Director, in addition to having directed and written short films and TV programs. She participated in the “Berlinale Talents” in 2014. She is currently involved in the finalization of two feature films, a TV series and is developing her first documentary feature “Letters to the Past”. Among her most recent works, the highlights are “Amores de Chumbo” (Dir. Tuca Siqueira), “Xingu, Cariri, Caruaru, Carioca” (Dir. Elizabeth Formaggini), “Em nome da América” ​​(Dir. Fernando Weller), “Eles Voltam” (Dir. Marcelo Lordello), “Marias” (Dir. Ludmila Curi) and “Paterno” (Dir. Marcelo Lordello).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tatiana Leite

Tutor | Produção

Tatiana Leite is a film programmer and producer. Through Bubbles Project, she has produced 11 feature films, including Malu, by Pedro Freire; Benzinho, by Gustavo Pizzi (both premieres in the Official Competition at Sundance); Puan, by Maria Alché and Benjamin Naishtat, (Best Screenplay and Best Actor at San Sebastián); and Rule 34, by Julia Murat (Golden Leopard at Locarno).

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.

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.

Angelica Cantisani

Palestrante

Born in 1984 near Milan. She graduated in Foreign Languages ​​for Communication and Information at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan; in 2008 she obtained a Master’s degree in Communication and Film Promotion. In 2008 she began working for the Film Commission Torino Piemonte, as International Coordinator of Events and Projects. From 2011 she worked as Office Director for Film Europe-EUFCN, the Association of the European Film Commissions. The association currently has 90 members from 30 European countries and is one of the most important organizations involved in the promotion of European Cinema. She joined the Torino Film Lab in 2016 and is now the lab’s Creative Consultant

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Juliette Lepoutre

Speaker

Juliette Lepoutre comes to film production after 15 years in high tech. She cofounded MPM Film then Still Moving in 2015. Her credits includes Adrian Sitaru, Béla Tarr, Julia Murat, Panos Koutras, Paz Encina, Omar El Zohairy, Maya Da Rin, Ala Eddine Slim, Maha Haj, Amanda Nell Eu, Marcelo Caetano, Mariana Rondón. Her latest film from Portuguese director Pedro Pinho, O Riso e a Faca won Best Actress Prize in Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2025 official selection. Lepoutre is an expert in different production labs such as BAL, Berlinale Talents and BrLab. She is a member of the French Académie des César and the European Film Academy.

Kristina Aschenbrennerova

Palestrante

Program Manager of the Pop Up Film Residency, she is also a programmer for the Art Film Fest Košice (since 2010) and Slovak Queer Film Festival (since 2017), focusing on cinemas from the Far East. Furthermore, as a member of the National Film Centre of the Slovak Film Institute team, she is responsible for promoting Slovak cinema and coordinating events.

Leonardo Mecchi

Produção | Palestrante

Leonardo Mecchi is the founding partner of Enquadramento Produções. He is the producer of films such as Los Silencio, by Beatriz Seigner (Cannes Film Festival – Directors’ Quinzena); A Febre, by Maya Da-Rin (Locarno Festival); A Morte Habita à Noite, by Eduardo Morotó (Roterdã Festival); e Mormaço, by Marina Meliande (Roterdã Festival). He is also associate producer of >O Processo, by Maria Augusta Ramos (Berlim Festival).

Marina Vilela

Palestrante

Marina holds a Law Degree at the University of São Paulo, currently studies Advertising and Marketing at Mackenzie University in São Paulo. Specialized at Entertainment Law, Executive Production for tv and movies and Third Sector. Experience in alternative dispute resolution, such as arbitration and mediation. Advises various agents of the Brazilian audiovisual industry.

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.

Mylena Mandolesi

Palestrante

An executive producer for over 20 years, she started out coordinating work for advertising agencies and their clients: photography, events, films and TV. She traveled around Brazil and the world and immersed herself in the digital universe: websites, apps and games. Today she is part of the collective c/as4atro and has produced series and feature films, both fiction and documentaries, in addition to consulting and courses throughout Brazil.

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.

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.

Vinícius Lobo

Palestrante

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.