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.

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.

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.

Emmanuelle Déprats

Comissão de Seleção

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

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.

Fernanda de Capua

Comissão de Seleção | Palestrante

Fernanda De Capua created and directed the sitcom Insustentáveis, wrote the screenplays for the series A História Delas and Turma da Mônica – Origens, and the feature films A Suspeita and Virtuosas. She was a consultant for the scripts for Saudade Fez Morada Aqui Dentro, Gabriel e a Montanha, and for more than 20 projects in the Prodav 04 labs. Among her achievements as a producer, the films Sonhos de Peixe, Casa Grande and Quem Matou Eloá stand out.

Flavia Candida

Comissão de Seleção

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

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

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

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

Giovani Barros

Comissão de Seleção

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

Jaqueline Souza

Comissão de Seleção

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

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).

Marcel Beltrán

Comissão de Seleção

Director, film editor and project consultant. He is a regular lecturer at EICTV (Cuban International School of Cinema and Television) and Chavón | School of Design. He has taught workshops for the Cinémathèque Française, IFF Panama, DGCine and served as a juror in laboratories and funds such as Nuevas Miradas EICTV and FDC Proimágenes Colombia. He is part of the experimental film residency team Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm) in Canada. During the 32nd Miami International Film Festival he held a showcase of his work as part of the Cuban Independent Emerging Film/Video Artist. In 2018 he premiered his first documentary feature film entitled “La música de las esferas”, which has been widely screened at international festivals.

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.

Moira Toledo

Comissão de Seleção

Filmmaker, Bachelor of Cinema from FAAP-SP/2002, Master in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP/2004, PhD in Communication Sciences from ECA/USP-SP/2010 and post-doctorate in Education from UFRJ/2013 – in progress. He teaches the following subjects: Editing, Film Direction, Sound and Image Editing and Film Direction – TCC for students of the Undergraduate course in Cinema; and Criticism in Communication, for students of the courses of Cinema, Radio and TV, Advertising and Public Relations at FAAP. He also works as a speaker at MinutoEscola and Festival do Minuto. Founding partner of the company Ouroboros Cinema e Educação. He has been working for seventeen years as a consultant and implementing social projects involving audiovisual education for NGOs and institutions such as: Kinoforum Cultural Association (Kinoforum Workshops), Buriti Filmes, Instituto Criar, Festival do Minuto Workshops/Minuto Escola Project, SESC, Casa Redonda, Colégio Dante Alighieri, and Centro de Cultura Judaica; and for institutions linked to public agencies such as Fábricas de Cultura (SEC-SP), Centro da Juventude (SPP-SP), São Paulo Departments of Culture (SEC and SMC), Porto Alegre Department of Culture, Recife Department of Culture, among others. Among the projects carried out during this period, the following stand out: holding lectures and workshops for more than 3,000 public school teachers for the Festival do Minuto/MinutoEscola; designing and implementing the KinoOikos website for Kinoforum (2007); the pedagogical design of the Video Workshops and the Tela Br Portal, for Buriti Filmes (2008); and the holding of lectures and workshops for public school teachers for the SMC of Porto Alegre, in the model Audiovisual Literacy project implemented there (2008-2013).

Paulo De Carvalho

Palestrante | Comissão de Seleção

Producer and programmer, he is the artistic director of the CINELATINO Festival in Germany and was a delegate for Latin American films for the Directors’ Quinzaine in Cannes, DokLeipzig and Locarno. Through the production company Autentika Films (Berlin), he has made several co-productions with Latin American countries: Querência (Helvécio Marins Jr., Brazil, 2019), Breve historia del Planeta Verde (Santiago Loza, Argentina, 2019) and Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos (José Luis Torres Leiva, Chile). He participates as the leader of the Creative Nucleus of the production company Filmes de Abril (São Paulo). Since 2010 he has participated in the organization of Brasil CineMundi in Belo Horizonte.

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.

Vitor Graize

Produção | Comissão de Seleção

Director and audiovisual producer, partner at Pique-Bandeira Filmes. He produced Arabia (2017), by Affonso Uchôa and João Dumans, shown in competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and at more than 50 festivals; awarded Best Film at the 50th Brasília Film Festival. He is also responsible for the production of Light in the Tropics, by Paula Gaitán, in post-production; Before My Eyes (2018), by André Félix; Teobaldo Morto, Romeu Exilado (2014), by Rodrigo de Oliveira; and the series Social Housing – Projects of a Brazil (2018). He directed (with Rodrigo de Oliveira) the feature film As Horas Vulgares (2011), the medium-length film Olho de Gato Perdido (2009) and the short film Hotel Cidade Alta (2016). He is currently producing Os Primeiros Soldados, by Rodrigo de Oliveira, selected by BrLab in 2018; and is developing the film Park Hotel, by Amanda Devulsky and Pedro B. Garcia.

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.

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.

Marcelo Gomes

Tutor | Palestrante

Director and screenwriter, his first feature film, Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005), won an award at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. In partnership with Karim Aïnouz, he co-directed I Travel Because I Need to and I Come Back Because I Love You (2009), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and co-directed with Cao Guimarães The Man of the Crowds (2014), which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2014. His next film, Joaquim (2017), was selected for the competitive section of the Berlin Film Festival in 2017. His latest film, Estou me Guardando pra Quando o Carnaval Chegar (2019), won the Critics’ Prize at É Tudo Verdade.

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.