Anita Rocha da Silveira

Comissão de Seleção | Tutor

Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Anita Rocha da Silveira has written and directed three short films: O Vampiro do Meio-Dia (2008), Handebol (2010, FIPRESCI Prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen), and Os Mortos-Vivos (2012, Directors’ Fortnight). Her first feature film, Mate-me por Favor (2015), was screened at the Mostra Orizzonti at the Venice Film Festival, SXSW, New Directors/New Films, among others. Medusa (2021) is her second feature film, and premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. It has subsequently been screened at festivals such as TIFF, Festival do Rio (Best Film, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress), Tromsø International Film Festival (Best Film), Indie Lisboa (Special Jury Prize) and Sitges Film Festival (Best Director), among others.

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).

Carla Saavedra

Comissão de Seleção

Born in Bolivia and living in São Paulo since 2005, Carla graduated in cinema from FAAP in 2009. Her short film “O ESPÍRITO DO BOSQUE” (2017) won the Best Actress in a Short Film award at the 45th Gramado Film Festival, the TNT Acquisition award at the 28th São Paulo International Short Film Festival and the Best Teen Short Film award at the International Children’s Film Festival. She is currently developing her first feature film, “A SOMBRA DO CÃO”, which was awarded the PRODAV 04/2015, was selected for Buenos Aires Talents 2016 and won the Brasil Cinemundi 2016 award.

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.

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.

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.

Ivan Melo

Produção | Palestrante

A founding partner of Cup Filmes, a production and distribution company for independent films, he was the executive producer of the São Paulo Film Festival and artistic director of the Paulínia Festival and Audiovisual Center. He has produced feature films such as Welcome to São Paulo (2004), by Leon Cakoff and Renata de Almeida; Electric Body (2017), by Marcelo Caetano; Alvorada, by Anna Muylaert and Lo Politi; Fronteira, by Juliano R. Salgado; and Bob Cuspe – We Don’t Like People, by Cesar Cabral, among others. He is currently developing new projects with filmmakers Gregório Graziozi, Marcelo Caetano, Ilaine Melo, Cristiano Burlan and Cesar Cabral.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Wahrmann

Produção | Comissão de Seleção

Director and producer, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, he has lived in Brazil since 2004, and graduated in Cinema from FAAP/SP. His short films “Avós” (2009), “Oma” (2011), “The beast” (2016) and his feature film “Avanti Popolo” have been shown at numerous international and national festivals, such as Cannes Fortnight, Berlinale, Rotterdam and Brasília, and have received more than 60 awards over the last few years. He is a partner at Sancho & Punta, for which he has produced feature films such as “Los territórios”, by Ivan Granovsky (Rotterdam 2017); “Invisible”, by Pablo Giorgelli (Venice, Orizzonti, 2017), “Elon não Acredita na morte” (Rotterdam, 2017), by Ricardo Alves Jr.; and associate producer of “Zama”, by Lucrécia Martel (Venice, 2017), among others.

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.

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.

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.

Annemie Degryse

Tutor

Born in Belgium in 1968, Annemie lived in France as a child and returned to Belgium in 1983. She studied Fine Arts and graduated in Film Studies (animated film) at the Royal Academy of Art Ghent in 1992. She then started working on the film “Taxandria” by Raoul Servais as an intern and continued as a studio and production assistant at Anitrick/PDG & Partners until 1994. From 1993 to 1997 she directed the Raoul Servais foundation, through which several animated shorts (student and professional films) were produced. From 1998 to 2000, Annemie was responsible at Cartoon – an initiative of the MEDIA Programme of the European Community – for the pre-production and organization of Cartoon Movie. Before returning to production, from 2000 to 2003, she was general manager of Flanders Image (VAF). She currently produces animations at Studio Lunanime.

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 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.

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.

Marta Machado

Tutor

Marta Machado produced animated films for over 20 years with Otto Desenhos Animados, from Porto Alegre, and was responsible for the production of the feature films “Até que a sbórnia nos separe”, “WoodStock: sexo, orégano e rock’n’roll” and the co-production with Spain “Bruxarias”, as well as series, short films and advertising content. She was president of the Brazilian Association of Animated Cinema (ABCA). She has a degree in Communication from UFRGS, a master’s degree in Business Administration from USP and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Public Administration at FGV/EAESP. She is a Production professor in the undergraduate course in Cinema at UFSC.

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.

Phil Parker

Tutor | Palestrante

Phil Parker is one of Europe’s leading content development consultants – his productions include “Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit” and Terry Prachett’s “Hogfather”. He co-wrote “Manou”, an animated film currently in production; and developed the German/Brazilian action feature “Bach in Brazil” with director Ansgher Ahlers, which ran for 16 weeks in German cinemas in 2016. He founded the UK’s most successful screenwriting course, whose graduates include BAFTA, Palme d’Or and Oscar nominees. He is the author of “The Art and Science of Screenwriting” and is currently working on projects in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany and the UK.

Zé Brandão

Palestrante

Zé Brandão is a founding partner of Copa Studio, one of the largest cartoon production companies in Latin America. He is the executive producer and screenwriter of the series “Irmão do Jorel”, by Juliano Enrico, a ratings champion on Cartoon Network. He is the producer, author and director of the series “Tromba trem”, shown in more than 20 countries. He was the animation director for the series “Historietas maravilhadas (para crianças malcriadas)” and is the executive producer of three new animated series that will premiere in 2018 and 2019. He is the coordinator of the project “Estúdio escola de planejamento de planejamento de natureza”, which offers free courses in Rio de Janeiro.

Anna Muylaert

Palestrante | Direção | Roteiro

In the early 1990s, Anna worked on the creation and scripts of programs such as “Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum” and “Mundo da Lua”. In 2002, she directed her first feature film, “Durval Discos”, which won her several awards. After that, she directed five more features, including “Que Horas Ela Volta?” (2015), which won over twenty awards worldwide. Anna develops complex stories and characters that, like the society in which they live, are constantly changing.

Antônio Prata

Palestrante

Antonio Prata was born in São Paulo in 1977. He has published twelve books, including “Meio intelectual, meio de esquerda” (Editora 34, 2010) and “Nu, de botas” (Companhia das Letras, 2013). In 2013, he was selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 best Brazilian writers under 40. He writes columns on Sundays for the newspaper “Folha de S. Paulo” and works as a screenwriter for Rede Globo, where he was part of the team for the soap operas “Bang bang” (2006) and “Avenida Brasil” (2012), “A regra do jogo” (2015) and the series “Os antigos” (2016) and “Sob pressão” (2017). He is currently developing his first series as a titular author for Globo, “Pais de primeira”, a comedy about the changes that the birth of a first child brings to a couple’s life. The series was created and written with Chico Mattoso, Thiago Dottori, Bruna Paixão and Tati Bernardi.

Arnaldo Branco

Palestrante

Arnaldo Branco, wrote and directed the series “Overdose” (MTV); was a screenwriter for TV Globo; is the screenwriter for the series “Irmão do Jorel” (Cartoon Network), “Oswaldo” (Cartoon Network), “Tromba trem” (Cartoon Network, TV Brasil), “Gigablaster” (Gloob), “Greg news” (HBO), “Terminadores” (Band, TNT and Netflix) “Juacas” (Disney XD, SBT).

Arthur Protasio

Palestrante

Arthur Protásio is a storyteller and lover of stories. He is a scriptwriter for TV Globo and creative director of Fableware, an independent production company specializing in the development of multiplatform and transmedia content. His portfolio includes the soap opera “Geração Brasil”, nominated for a Digital Emmy Award; the collaborative TV show “Lazinho com você”; Virtual Reality experiences, “Angest” and “O rastro VR”; the books “Negra cicatriz” and “Jogador de mil fase”; the games “Cavaleiros do zodiaco: cosmo cards”, “Holodrive”, “GUTS” and “Sword legacy: omen”, finalist at the BIG, Indie Prize and Quo Vadis festivals and winner of Best Narrative at SB Games.

Carolina Jabor

Palestrante

Carolina Jabor has been a director, producer and partner at Conspiração since 2000. “Aos teus olhos” (2018), her second feature film, highlights the controversial theme of lynching on social media. Well received by critics, the film toured the national and international festival circuit, being elected by the jury as the best fiction film at the 41st edition of the São Paulo International Film Festival and winning four trophies at the Rio Festival. Her debut feature film, “Boa Sorte” (2014), starred Deborah Secco and João Pedro Zappa. ​In 2008, co-directed with Lula Buarque de Hollanda, she released the documentary “O Mistério do samba”, about the Velha Guarda da Portela, selected for the Cannes Film Festival and voted best documentary at the Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro.​ ​On TV, she directed episodes of the series “Magnífica 70” (HBO), about the universe of Boca do Lixo during the dictatorship. She produced and directed episodes of the series “A Mulher invisível” (Globo), winner of the International Emmy in the comedy series category.​ In 2018, Carolina was the artistic director of “Desnude”, the first TV series from the Hysteria platform, a group formed only by women within the Conspiração.

Cristina Padiglione

Palestrante

Author of the blog “TelePadi”, a partner of “Folha de S. Paulo”, Cristina Padiglione has been writing about TV since the prehistory of pay TV in Brazil and streaming services. Over the last 30 years, she has followed the gigantic (r)evolution of the production and distribution of audiovisual content in the country, in different formats and screens. She wrote columns and reports on television content for the newspapers “Folha de S.Paulo” and “O Estado de S. Paulo”, where she also edited the TV supplement for ten years, and for the now-defunct newspapers “Folha da Tarde” and “Jornal da Tarde”. While still at “Estadão”, she also wrote the blog “Teleguiados”, and was a professor of TV Criticism modules in the postgraduate course in Cultural Journalism at Faap, between 2010 and 2015.

Duca Rachid

Palestrante

Duca Rachid began his career as a novelist in Portugal with “A banqueira do povo” (The People’s Banker), directed by Walter Avancini. With director and author Walter Dürst, Duca worked on “Tocaia grande” (Tocaia grande) on TV Manchete and “Ossos do Barão” (Barão’s Bones) on SBT. That was when he met Walcyr Carrasco, with whom he collaborated on “O cravo e a rosa” (2000) and “A padroeira” (2001). In 2005, together with Alessandro Marson and Júlio Fischer, he wrote “Sítio do picapau amarelo” (Story of the Yellow Woodpecker). In 2006, he began a partnership with Thelma Guedes, with the remake of the soap opera “O profeta” (The Prophet). The partnership continued with “Cama de gato” (Cat’s Bed) in 2009, “Cordel encantado” (Enchanted Cordel) in 2011, and “Joia rara” (Rare Joia) in 2013.

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.

Felipe Braga

Palestrante

Felipe Braga is in the role of breeders of the series “Lov3” (Amazon), “Samantha!” (Netflix) and “Sintonia”
(Netflix), the biggest Brazilian streaming success — besides “Latitudes” (Warner) and “A Vida Fora dos
Campos”, both nominated for the International Emmy. Selected by Variety as one of two “New Emerging Talents in Latin America”, it is credited with films such as “Marighella” (2021), “Legalize Já” (2017) and “Cabeça a Prêmio” (2009). Felipe is a partner with Rita Moraes of LB Entertainment, a company dedicated to the development of intellectual property, leader of SXSW for four years, and also a member of ABRA and the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Fernando Bonassi

Palestrante

Fernando Bonassi was born on November 16, 1962, in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a screenwriter, playwright and author of several books – among them, the novels “Subúrbio” (Ed. Objetiva) and “Luxúria” (Ed. Record), the children’s book “Declaração universal do moleque invocado” (Ed. Cosac Naify/SENAC) and the book of short stories “SP Brasil” (Ed. Dimensão), the last two finalists for the Jabuti Award. In cinema, his highlights include the screenplays for “Carandiru” (directed by Hector Babenco) and “Cazuza – o tempo não para” (directed by Sandra Werneck and Walter Carvalho); and in theater, the productions of “Apocalipse 1,11” (with Teatro da Vertigem) and “Arena Conta Danton” (directed by Cibele Forjaz). Winner of the DAAD (German Exchange Service) arts scholarship, with which he lived and wrote in Berlin in 1998. He was a columnist for the newspaper “Folha de São Paulo” from 1997 to 2007, and developed, in partnership with Marçal Aquino, the series “Força-Tarefa”, “O Caçador”, “Supermax” and “Carcereiros”, for Rede Globo de Televisão.

Giuliano Cedroni

Palestrante

Giuliano Cedroni began his career in content in photojournalism, and then moved to reporting until he became editor-in-chief of “Trip” magazine. In 2007, he left the newsroom to study screenwriting in Argentina, and then began developing projects for TV and cinema. Since then, he has written and coordinated script rooms, produced “Oscar Freire 279” (Multishow), “Passionais” (Mais Globosat), “Copa Hotel” (GNT), “Outros tempos 1 e 2” (HBO), “Work in Progress 1 e 2” (Arte1), “O guia” (NatGeo) and “FDP” (HBO), winner of the APCA Award in the Fiction Series genre. For cinema, he wrote the documentaries “Coração vagabundo”, “Trinta” and “Motoboys – vida loca”. He recently created and coordinated the script room for “Coisa mais linda” for Netflix, confirmed to premiere in 2019, and directed the documentary series “Rompendo em silêncio” (HBO), set to premiere in 2018.

Gustavo Gontijo

Palestrante

Executive Development Producer at O2 Filmes since January 2021, Gustavo Gontijo has a long career in the entertainment and development area. Before that, he worked at Globo (the largest content producer in Latin America) since 2000 when he was hired as an author/screenwriter. In 2014, with the creation of the Weekly Drama division dedicated to drama and comedy series, he was named its Content Manager. During his tenure, he helped conceive and develop hits such as the medical drama “Sob Pressão”, the adventure “Ilha de Ferro”, the drama about education “Segunda Chamada”, Brazil’s first big-budget supernatural drama “Supermax” (and its spin-off in Spanish), the comedy “Mister Brau”, the Emmy-nominated “All the Women in the World” and the best series of the year 2017, according to MIPDramas in Cannes, “Carcereiros”, in addition to twenty other programs, in a total of more than 30 seasons aired. Gustavo was also responsible for the international expansion of these programs, taking Globo series, for the first time, to the biggest international festivals of the format, such as Berlinale, TIFF, SXSW, Canneseries, Seriesfest and many others. Gustavo was also behind the conception and implementation of Casa dos Roteiristas, a physical space with 13 script rooms dedicated exclusively to the development, writing and production of series, with the greatest Brazilian screenwriters, such as Jorge Furtado, Bráulio Mantovani, George Moura, Cláudio Paiva, Marçal & Bonassi, Mauro Wilson, Lucas Paraizo, Antonio Prata and many others. From 2019 to 2020, he was content manager at Globo Filmes with a main focus on feature films.

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.

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.

Julio Rojas

Palestrante

Julio Rojas is a screenwriter for films such as “Mi mejor enemigo”, nominated for the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film (2006); “En la cama”, Espiga de Oro for Best Film in Valladolid, and nominated for the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film (2007); “La vida de los peces”, Colón de Prata for Best Screenplay in 2010, in Huelva; Goya 2012 for Best Ibero-American Film; and “La memoria del agua” at Venice Days, 2015; among others. He has been a director of fictional content for TV, a professor at several Chilean and foreign universities, and a visiting professor at the International School of Cinema and Television of San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba, for over fifteen years. Julio Rojas is also a script consultant, and his analysis has included internationally awarded films. He is currently the fiction development coordinator for “Fábula”. As a writer, he has just published his first novel “El visita extranjero” (Penguin Random House, 2018).

Keka Reis

Palestrante

Screenwriter and playwright Keka Reis studied Radio and Television at Unesp and began her career at MTV in the 1990s, where she wrote, produced and directed TV programs of different types and formats. She has worked as a freelance screenwriter since 2006 and has written animated series for Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Discovery Kids, Gloob and Disney Channel. She was a member of the eighth class of the Sesi/British Council Dramaturgy Center and released her first book, “The Day My Life Changed Because of a Chocolate Bought in the Maldives”, in 2017 by Seguinte, a young publisher of the Companhia das Letras group. The book’s sequel is scheduled to be released in the second half of 2018.

Lucas Paraizo

Palestrante

Lucas Paraizo is a screenwriter with degrees from PUC-Rio and EICTV/Cuba; a postgraduate degree from the Catalunya Film School and a master’s degree in Performing Arts from the University of Barcelona. For TV, he wrote the series “A teia”, “O caçar”, “O rebu” and “Justiça”, and is currently the final editor of the series “Sob pressão”. He is the author of the book “Palavra de roteirista” and a screenwriting professor at PUC and EICTV. For cinema, he wrote “Laura”, “Gabriel e a montanha” and “Domingo”, by Fellipe Barbosa; “Divinas divas”, by Leandra Leal; “Aos teus olhos”, by Carolina Jabor; “Macabro”, by Marcos Prado; and “Divino amor”, by Gabriel Mascaro.

Manuela Bernardi

Palestrante

Manuela Bernardi is a writer and screenwriter. She has written for series on TV Globo, GNT, Multishow, TBS and History Channel. She was a consultant for the NETLABTV contest in its 2017 edition, having taught the Social Video workshop in three cities. She recently developed a mobile series for Studio+. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from PUC-Rio and a master’s degree in screenwriting (MFA in Writing for Screen and Television) from the University of Southern California (USC), in Los Angeles, obtained through a Fulbright/CAPES scholarship.

Marcia Vinci

Palestrante

Partner and producer at Coiote Produções, with over 20 years producing and leading independent projects for TV and cinema, Márcia specializes in fiction and documentary series. The executive producer clearly understands the needs of channels, ensuring that her projects have quality and focus on results. She has worked at Radar, Mixer, Canal GNT/Globosat and O2 Filmes. Among the main projects she has worked on are the fictional series “Felizes para sempre?”, “Psi”, “Lili, a ex” and the documentary series “A verdade de cada um” and “A vaga” and the feature films “Pearl Fishers”, “Gretchen – filme estrada”.

Mariana Trench

Palestrante

A graduate in Journalism, she studied Dramaturgy at Sala Beckett, in Barcelona, ​​Spain. She works as a screenwriter and script doctor for film and television projects. She has written nine TV series, including “Pedro e Bianca” (winner of the International Emmy Kids Awards, in 2014).

Marton Olympio

Palestrante

Marton Olympio is a director and screenwriter. He began his career in 2010 with the series Musas, on Canal Brasil, 26 programs written and directed by him. He then wrote the screenplay for both seasons of the series Natália on TV Brasil, nominated for best series at the Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro. Marton is the author of the last season of Cidade dos Homens (2018), a collaborator on the series Rio Negro (2019) and one of the new authors of the series Os Experientes (2020), all for TV Globo. In 2018, he wrote and directed the series A Dona da Banca (2021), for Cine Brasil TV, yet to be released. He returned to Rede Globo in 2020 as the head of the room for the series Marielle Franco. He wrote the script for the film Sequestro Relâmpago (2018), for Globo Filmes, and the feature film Alemão 2 (2020), for RT Features. In 2022, he will direct his first feature film in partnership with Gullane, As Tres Senhoras do Tempo. He was the coordinator of the Lab Novos Talentos at Gullane and has been a tutor at Flup Narrativas negras for the past three years, opening up opportunities for new black authors and screenwriters in Brazil. He is currently the head of the series Anderson Spider Silva for Paramount and the Hub de Conteúdos Narrativas Negras at VIACOMCBS.

Paulo Lins

Palestrante

Paulo Lins is a poet, novelist, screenwriter for film and television, and a professor with a degree in Portuguese and Brazilian Language from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of the books: “Under the Sun”, “City of God” (a novel that inspired the adapted screenplay nominated for an Oscar), “These Poets”, “Since Samba is Samba” and “Once Upon a Time”. As a screenwriter, he has worked on the films: “Orfeu da Conceição”, with Cacá Diegues; “Quase dois irmãos”, with Lúcia Murat (winner of the APCA Award for Best Screenplay); “Once Upon a Time”, with Breno Silveira; and “Estrada 47”, by Vicente Ferraz. For television, he co-wrote the screenplay and directed the series “Cidade dos Homens”, with Kátia Lundi. He worked on the script for the series “Suburbia” with Luiz Fernando Carvalho, and as a screenwriter for the series “Carcereiros”, as well as collaborating on the soap opera “I love Paraisópolis”, both productions by Rede Globo.

Pedro Aguilera

Palestrante

Pedro Aguilera is a screenwriter who graduated from ECA-USP. He created and is the screenwriter for “3%”, an original Netflix series. Since 2007, he has been writing for TV in projects such as “SOS Fada Manu”, nominated for the International Emmy Awards, “Haunted Stories”, “Vida de estagiário” and “Sítio do picapau amarelo”. He wrote the feature films “Copa de elite”, “La vendetta” and “Haunted Stories”.

Pedro Esteves

Palestrante

Pedro Esteves is one of the names that make up the small team of scriptwriters for the Porta dos Fundos channel. An actor for 15 years, he has always had a knack for humor. After a few years producing comedy videos on the Internet, he ended up working on the Sensacionalista channel team, where he further developed his talent for comedy. Today he works alongside Fabio Porchat, João Vicente de Castro, Gregório Duvivier and Antonio Tabet in creating the channel’s videos, as well as series, films and other major projects.

Phil Parker

Tutor | Palestrante

Phil Parker is one of Europe’s leading content development consultants – his productions include “Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit” and Terry Prachett’s “Hogfather”. He co-wrote “Manou”, an animated film currently in production; and developed the German/Brazilian action feature “Bach in Brazil” with director Ansgher Ahlers, which ran for 16 weeks in German cinemas in 2016. He founded the UK’s most successful screenwriting course, whose graduates include BAFTA, Palme d’Or and Oscar nominees. He is the author of “The Art and Science of Screenwriting” and is currently working on projects in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany and the UK.

Ricardo Laganaro

Palestrante

Ricardo Laganaro, partner and chief storytelling officer at Árvore Experiências Imersivas, created the entrance experience for the Museu do Amanhã, 360º clips and videos with over 60 million views, and directed the VR documentary “Step to the line”. The short film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Festival and was cited by “Time” Magazine as one of the 5 best pieces of mobile VR content of the year. In 2018, he was one of the creators of the installation “Objects in Mirror AR Closer Than They Appear”, nominated in the “StoryScapes” category at Tribeca. He has spoken at events such as SXSW, CCXP and the 2017 UN General Assembly.

Sabina Anzuategui

Palestrante

Writer and screenwriter. Author of the novels Calcinha no Varal (2005) and O Afeto ou Caderno sobre a Mesa (2011). Screenwriter of the films Absence (Chico Teixeira, 2014) and Jogo das Decapitações (Sérgio Bianchi, 2013), among others. PhD from ECA-USP with the thesis O Grito de Jorge Andrade (Ateliê Editorial, 2013).

Tatá Lopes

Palestrante

Tatá Lopes is an actress, producer, writer, and screenwriter. She is the author, producer, director, and actress of the show Surto, which ran for 9 years and had over a million viewers. She is the author of the book “Crônicas de um blog deserto” (Chronicles of an abandoned blog). Together with Adeline Ramalho, she co-authors the comedy channel “Minutos de Sabedoria” on YouTube, which has over a million views. She also wrote the series “Canalhas” on GNT. She is co-author of the play “Em casa a gente conversa” (We talk at home) and also of “O que a gente não disse” (What we didn’t say). She was a screenwriter for “Zorra” on Rede Globo for 5 years. She is co-host of the podcast “Humor Globo”. She was also a screenwriter for the program “Fora de Hora” and the podcast of the same program.

Zé Brandão

Palestrante

Zé Brandão is a founding partner of Copa Studio, one of the largest cartoon production companies in Latin America. He is the executive producer and screenwriter of the series “Irmão do Jorel”, by Juliano Enrico, a ratings champion on Cartoon Network. He is the producer, author and director of the series “Tromba trem”, shown in more than 20 countries. He was the animation director for the series “Historietas maravilhadas (para crianças malcriadas)” and is the executive producer of three new animated series that will premiere in 2018 and 2019. He is the coordinator of the project “Estúdio escola de planejamento de planejamento de natureza”, which offers free courses in Rio de Janeiro.

Aline Mazzarella

Palestrante

She has a degree in Cinema from UFF and a master’s degree in Visual Arts from IUAV/Venice. Since 2014, she has been a partner and responsible for Business Development at Estúdio Giz, an audiovisual production company based in Rio de Janeiro. She is the producer of the feature films “Paulistas”, by Daniel Nolasco (Dok Leipzig, 2017); “Sick sick sick”, by Alice Furtado (co-production with Ikki Films/FRA, Baldr Film/HOL), currently in post-production. She is the co-producer of “El alma quiere volar”, by Diana Montenegro (cinema co./COL), in post-production; and “Los abismos”, by Agustina San Martín (Caudillo Cine/ARG), in development.

Ariene Ferreira

Camila Nunes

Palestrante

With a degree in Cinema, Camila Nunes began her career at Grupo Polo de Imagem / Pacto Audiovisual / TAL – Televisão América Latina, working in the areas of directing vignettes, promotional spots, documentaries and also in the executive production of content projects. She worked on the talk show “Irritando Fernanda Young”, on GNT, as an assistant director, and was the executive producer of the miniseries “Duas histéricas na Terra Santa”, on GNT. Since 2012, she has worked as an executive producer for the Entertainment department of the production company bigBonsai. Among her most recent productions are the documentary series “My life is circus”, on HBO Latin America, and “Palavras últimos,” on the Curta! channel. She is currently working on the musical documentary “O barato de Iacanga” in post-production for GNT. He is currently developing five international co-production fiction projects with the production companies Rizoma Films and Le Tiro from Argentina, Manufactura de Películas and Treból Films from Chile and Animal Tropical Cine from Mexico.

Dag Hoel

Palestrante

Dag Hoel began his career as a photojournalist in Central America. He converted to film production in the late 1990s and has produced several films for the international market. He specializes in co-production with Norwegian entities and financing, and has a track record in Latin American films. He works as a script consultant for documentaries and fiction. In addition to his work in the film industry, he is also a non-fiction writer, most recently focusing on the international arms industry.

Deborah Osborn

Palestrante

Deborah Osborn, who holds a Master’s degree in Film from Goldsmith College-University of London and is a Chevening Scholar from the British Council, began her career working in the Film Department at MIS-SP. She is a founding partner of bigBonsai, responsible for the Creative Production of the production company’s entertainment projects. She has served as a jury member and speaker at several festivals, such as SXSW, Gramado Festival, Mostra Olhar de Cinema (Curitiba), Rio Market (Festival do Rio), Cine PE in Recife and the São Paulo International Short Film Festival. Deborah was the curator and producer of the film festival and workshop “Kevin Macdonald – um olhar plural” (Kevin Macdonald – a plural look), in partnership with Festival Cultura Inglesa, which took place in June 2017 at MIS-SP. In the same year, she was the only Brazilian representative selected to participate in the EAVE Producers’ Workshop, one of the main meetings of the European network of audiovisual entrepreneurs. He also teaches the “Documentary for Cinema and TV” course every six months at the B_arco Cultural Center in partnership with journalist Flávia Guerra.

Erica Barbiani

Palestrante

After a PhD in Sociology, Erica Barbiani left academia with a desire to tell stories. Plots, she suspected, were a better way to capture audiences’ attention. Since 2003, she has been producing films for Videomante, an Italian-based company. Her recent productions include Carlo Zoratti’s “The Special Need,” co-produced by DETAiLFILM, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and won the Golden Dove at Dok Leipzig, and “The Good Life,” the first documentary by Italian author Niccolo Ammaniti. Erica has two published novels: her latest work, “Guida sentimentale per camperisti,” will be published next October by Einaudi. She is currently writing the screenplay for “Wishing on a Star” with Slovak director Peter Kerekes and works as a selector for training programs such as the TorinoFilmLab and the Biennale College Cinema.

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.

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.

Gilberto Toscano

Palestrante

Graduated in Law from the University of São Paulo – USP and post-graduated in Entertainment Law from the Escola Superior de Direito da OAB/SP. He is a partner at the law firm Cesnik, Quintino & Salinas Advogados, and previously worked in business and legal affairs at O2 Filmes. Toscano advises broadcasters, producers, distributors, digital platforms, talents and other agents in the entertainment market. He is a speaker and professor at several events and courses on Entertainment and is vice-president of the Copyright, Intangible Rights and Entertainment Commission of the OAB/RJ.

Gustavo Steinberg

Palestrante

He has worked in film since 1995 as an executive producer, producer, screenwriter and director. He has produced six feature-length films, having also written four and directed two of them. He has just completed the animation for the feature film “Tito and the Birds”, selected for the official competition at the Annecy Film Festival in 2018. His other films have won awards for Best Film at the Tribeca Festival (New York), Best Documentary Opera Prima at the Latin American Festival in Los Angeles, Digital Award at the 60th Venice Film Festival, Official Selection at the 37th New York Film Festival, among many others. He conceived and produces the BIG Festival (Brazil’s Independent Games Festival), the first independent games festival in Latin America. He also conceived and produces the largest festival for new music talents in Brazil, Dia da Música.

Ivan Melo

Produção | Palestrante

A founding partner of Cup Filmes, a production and distribution company for independent films, he was the executive producer of the São Paulo Film Festival and artistic director of the Paulínia Festival and Audiovisual Center. He has produced feature films such as Welcome to São Paulo (2004), by Leon Cakoff and Renata de Almeida; Electric Body (2017), by Marcelo Caetano; Alvorada, by Anna Muylaert and Lo Politi; Fronteira, by Juliano R. Salgado; and Bob Cuspe – We Don’t Like People, by Cesar Cabral, among others. He is currently developing new projects with filmmakers Gregório Graziozi, Marcelo Caetano, Ilaine Melo, Cristiano Burlan and Cesar Cabral.

Julia Alves

Produção | Palestrante | Comissão de Seleção

A graduate from ECA-USP, she has been working on independent projects for TV and cinema since 2009. She began producing renowned directors, such as Bruno Barreto, Cao Hamburguer and Eliane Caffé. She created Punta Colorada de Cinema in 2014, through which she co-produced Ricardo Alves Jr.’s first feature film, “Elon não Acredita na Morte”; Adirley Queirós’ new feature film, “Era uma vez Brasília”; “Los territórios”, by Ivan Granovsky; “Invisible”, by Pablo Giorgelli, in addition to being an associate producer of “Zama”, by Lucrecia Martel (Venice 2017).

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.

Mariana Brasil

Palestrante

I built my career in production for major production companies in the sector, such as: O2 Filmes, TV Cultura, among others. Over the past ten years, I have taught in laboratories, given free courses and provided consultancy services to independent producers throughout Brazil, especially in cities outside the Rio-SP axis. I have worked with Brlab, Icuman Lab, Porto Mídia, Barco, Frapa, Ancine, Sebrae, etc. At the same time, I participated in the selection of projects in federal public notices or in business rounds at the largest film festivals in the country, selecting projects for several national and international players. Over the years, I have acted as a point of intersection in negotiations between players, producers and authors-screenwriters. This expertise has enabled me to master tools for negotiating rights and contracts and has brought me closer relationships with the most diverse players in the market. In 2019, I went to England to study the agency market in the United States and Europe. I immersed myself in this universe, studied the associations of these professionals around the world and in 2020, upon returning to Brazil, I worked as an executive at ABRA – Brazilian Association of Screenwriters. That’s how Mari Brasil Agenciamento was born in 2021. An agency created by an executive producer with almost 30 years of experience in audiovisual production. The aim is to represent screenwriters and their projects, connect them to the business models of executives from the main companies in the entertainment industry and provide better business, bringing more security and peace of mind to both screenwriters and market players.

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.

Michael Wahrmann

Produção | Comissão de Seleção

Director and producer, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, he has lived in Brazil since 2004, and graduated in Cinema from FAAP/SP. His short films “Avós” (2009), “Oma” (2011), “The beast” (2016) and his feature film “Avanti Popolo” have been shown at numerous international and national festivals, such as Cannes Fortnight, Berlinale, Rotterdam and Brasília, and have received more than 60 awards over the last few years. He is a partner at Sancho & Punta, for which he has produced feature films such as “Los territórios”, by Ivan Granovsky (Rotterdam 2017); “Invisible”, by Pablo Giorgelli (Venice, Orizzonti, 2017), “Elon não Acredita na morte” (Rotterdam, 2017), by Ricardo Alves Jr.; and associate producer of “Zama”, by Lucrécia Martel (Venice, 2017), among others.

Molly O’Keefe

Palestrante

Molly oversees all aspects of TFI’s Artist Programs, with a focus on grants and workshops. Notable programs include Through Her Lens: Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program, AT&T Untold Stories, Tribeca All Access, TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund, IWC Filmmaker Award, and TFI Latin America Fund, for which she manages filmmaker relationships, program implementation and evaluation, expense management, industry outreach and mentoring, and event production throughout the year and at the Tribeca Film Festival. Prior to joining TFI in 2015, Molly was the Director of Development and Production at Sundance Productions, where she developed series for CNN, FX, HBO, Ovation, EPIX, Sony, and Paramount. Before returning to New York, she worked for Ben Stiller’s Los Angeles-based production company Red Hour Films and produced Roger Kumble’s critically acclaimed play “Girls Talk” starring Brooke Shields and Constance Zimmer in West Hollywood. She graduated from Emerson College.

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.

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.

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”.

Sébastien Onomo

Palestrante

French producer, graduated from the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA). He founded Special Touch Studios with Olivier Laouchez. He produced Le Gang des Antillais by Jean-Claude Barny and Funan, which won an award at the Annecy Festival in 2018. In parallel, he teaches at university programs (Paris 3, Paris 7) and major schools such as INA, FEMIS and Les Gobelins.

Silvia Cruz

Palestrante

She holds a degree in Business Administration from ESPM and worked at the independent distributor Pandora Filmes, contributing to the creation of the Cineclube do Belas Artes. She produced the project “Vá ao Cinema”, which screened more than 20 national films in the state of São Paulo. She worked at the distributor Europa Filmes, releasing national films, and at the production company Coração da Selva, as an executive producer. In 2010, she founded Vitrine Filmes, distributing more than 100 titles, such as “O som ao próximo”, “Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho” and “Aquarius”. In 2011, she started the Sessão Vitrine project, which has received support from Petrobras since 2016 and has released 30 films to date.

Sofia Marquez Moreno

Palestrante

Sofia currently works for the Mexican production company Alebrije Producciones, where she is responsible for sales of its catalog, which includes more than 140 titles. She was previously the sales manager for Mundial Sales, the international sales division of IM Global based in Mexico City, focused exclusively on Latin American and Ibero-American cinema and co-production and co-financing for television. Previously, Sofia served as head of international sales at the Mexican Film Institute and, before that, was head of distribution for Canana, one of the leading independent distributors in Latin America. She graduated with honors from the Carlos III University in Madrid, and holds a master’s degree in Film Industry.

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.