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.

Beatriz Carvalho

Comissão de Seleção

Producer. She graduated in Cinema from FAAP, studied Documentary Mise en Scène at the École Supérieure D’Études Cinématographiques – ESEC (Paris, France) and has a postgraduate degree in Executive Training in Cinema and Television from FGV (São Paulo, 2006). Executive producer and production director of feature films and television series, such as Sobre Rodas (Mauro D’Addio, 2017), Um Casamento (Mônica Simões, 2016), Zoom (Pedro Morelli), Boca (Flavio Frederico), Estamos Juntos (Toni Venturi), Carmo (Murilo Pasta), Fim da Linha (Gustavo Steinberg) and the series Passionais (Henrique Goldman), Contos do Edgar (Pedro Morelli) and Som e Fúria (Fernando Meirelles).

Davi Pretto

Direção | Comissão de Seleção

Davi Pretto (Porto Alegre, 1988) wrote and directed two feature films, both premiered at the Berlin Festival, in the Forum section: CASTANHA (2014) competed at festivals such as Rio de Janeiro (Best Film Novos Rumos), Bafici (Feisal Award Special Mention), Edinburgh, Hong Kong and Havana; RIFLE (2016) won awards at festivals such as Jeonju (Grand Prize), Brasília (Critics’ Award, Best Screenplay and Best Sound), Istanbul (Best Cinematography) and Salvador (Best Film). In 2018, he was invited to the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence.

Eva Morsch Kihn

Palestrante | Comissão de Seleção

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

Flavia Candida

Comissão de Seleção

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

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

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

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

Francine Barbosa

Comissão de Seleção | Tutor

Francine Barbosa is a screenwriter. In the film industry, she was part of the screenwriting teams for the feature film “A Cidade Aqui Dentro”, directed by Matias Mariani, and for Dea Ferraz’s third feature film, “Castela” (currently being financed). The script for the feature film “Azul Violeta”, written with Maurilio Martins, was selected for development by PRODAV FSA 05/2016. In television, she was a screenwriter for the series “A Revolta dos Malês” and developed serial projects for several production companies. She has participated in selection committees for audiovisual projects such as ProAC-SP and the Ministry of Culture, as well as short film festivals. She has been a screenwriting teacher since 2015.

Marcela Lordy

Direção | Comissão de Seleção

Director and screenwriter, her filmography includes Sonhos de Lulu (2009), A Musa impassive (2010), Aluga-se (2012) and Ouvir o Rio: uma Escultura sonora de Cildo Meireles (2012). Her short film Ser o que se é (2018) became a digital phenomenon with 5 million views in one month. On TV, she directed episodes of the children’s series Julie e os fantasmas, winner of the 2011 APCA and nominated for the 2012 International Emmy Awards; and of Pasionais (2014), broadcast on Globosat.

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.

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.