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.

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.

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.

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.

Ivan Granovski

Produção

Producer, distributor and director, based in Buenos Aires. He produced Todos mienten y Rosalinda, by Matías Piñeiro, and Accidentes gloriosos, by Mauro Andrizzi and Marcus Lindeen, which won an award at Venice in 2011. In 2012, he began a close relationship with Brazil. Soon after, he began developing a project co-directed by Michael Wahrmann and Diego Lerer, Donde mueren los elefantes. He premiered more than six independent Brazilian films in Argentina in 2014 and 2015. He is currently directing the first edition of the LoboLab co-production event and is in the post-production phase of his directorial debut, Los territorios.

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.

Mauricio Kinoshita

Comissão de Seleção

He holds a postgraduate degree in Administration of Cultural and Creative Organizations from the University of Buenos Aires, a degree in Cinema from FAAP and a specialization in Psychoanalytic Semiotics from PUC-SP. He has worked in the production of films directed by Hector Babenco, Tizuka Yamasaki and Guilherme de Almeida Prado, and since 2002 has produced the International Film Festival in São Paulo. He has also had brief stints in theater and publishing, as well as in short documentaries. His short film Hibakusha: Herdeiros Atômicos no Brasil was one of the winners of the Prêmio Estímulo in 2005 and won an award at É Tudo Verdade in 2007.

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.

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.

Miguel Machalski

Tutor | Palestrante

Born in Buenos Aires to a Polish father and an English mother, he has lived in Paris for many years. He is an international specialist in all aspects of developing and creating film scripts: analysis, consulting, teaching and writing. He gives workshops and consultancies in different countries and has published three books on audiovisual writing.

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.

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.

Barbara Sturm

Palestrante

She has been working in the film marketing market since 2007. She has a degree in cinema and participated in the international distribution programs CICAE Training and Berlinale Talent Campus. She worked as a programmer at Cine Belas Artes, as acquisitions director at Pandora Filmes, and worked at the marketing agency Pipoca Digital. In 2017, she took over as content director at Elo Company, where she is responsible for curating and negotiating projects and content, and coordinating the ELAS Seal – a consultancy firm that promotes Brazilian feature films directed by women. She teaches the course The Film Distribution Market, which has had more than 15 classes and 100 students, and is a member of the collective ASAS.BR.COM.

Geraldine Chaplin

Palestrante

Born in 1944. British actress and eldest daughter of Charles Chaplin and Oona O’Neill, she was eight years old when her family moved from the United States to Switzerland. She was first seen on screen when her father cast her in the film Limelight. Her first credited role was in Jacques Deray’s The Ransom, and international fame came with David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago. She developed an important collaboration with the Spaniard Carlos Saura. She worked on more than 140 films and television productions.

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.

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.

Jorge Forero

Palestrante | Produção

Colombian film producer, director and programmer, he is the founder of the company Burning Blue. He has produced films such as La Tierra y la Sombra, by César Acevedo (2015, Caméra D’Or Award at Cannes) and Siete Cabezas, by Jaime Osorio (2018). He directed Violencia (2015), selected for the Generation section of the Berlin Film Festival.

Juliana Vicente

Palestrante

She is a director, producer and founder of Preta Portê Filmes. She graduated in Cinema from FAAP and EICTV in Cuba and directed the short film “Cores e botas”, which was shown worldwide in more than 50 festivals. As a guest director, she was part of the Berlinale Talents group (2015) at the Berlin Festival, the same year she was awarded with the co-production “A Terra e a sombra” at the Cannes Festival. In 2016, she was awarded the Rumos Itaú Cultural grant for the production of the film “Diálogos com Ruth de Souza”, currently in production, and is developing the script for her first feature film, “Cores de maio”, which was awarded the Spcine Doctoring grant and participated in BrLab 2017. On TV, in 2017 she launched the documentary series “Afronta!”, in partnership with Canal Futura and directed the 13th season of the series “Espelho”, by Lázaro Ramos, shown on Canal Brasil.

Maria Carlota Bruno

Palestrante

Since 1989, she has held various positions at VideoFilmes, an independent production company created by Walter and João Salles. In 2011, she became an executive producer at the company, and produced projects such as Últimas conversações, the latest documentary by Eduardo Coutinho, and Paulina, by Santiago Mitre, a Brazil-Argentina co-production that won the FIPRESCI award at Cannes in 2015. She was also the executive producer of Walter Salles’ latest project, Jia Zhangke, a man from Fenyang, shown at the Berlinale. The documentary was released in Brazil in September 2015 and will be released internationally through the French distributor MK2.

Paula Gastaud

Palestrante

Paula Gastaud is the acquisitions director at Sofa Digital, a leading VOD aggregator in the Latin American market. With over 15 years of experience in the international production and distribution market, she is a consultant and speaker for programs and institutions such as: Locarno Industry Academy, EICTV-Cuba, Projeto Paradiso, BrLab, AMACC, Marché du Film’s Producers Network, and Festival de Cine de San Sebastián.

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”.

Thierry Lenouvel

Palestrante

He holds a degree in Cinema and Contemporary Literature. Through Les Films du Sémaphores, he has distributed films by Pedro Almodóvar, Youssef Chahine and Emir Kusturica, among others. He has worked as an independent press agent for over 150 titles. He co-founded the Cinemed Film Festival in Montpellier and founded the Amiens Script Development Fund and Final Cut in Venice. In 2001, Thierry founded Ciné-Sud Promotion, a company dedicated to promoting arthouse films, which has produced 30 films that have won over 200 international awards.