More than 35 years of experience in the audiovisual industry, veteran of festivals and international markets. He started as a sales executive at Icaic, Cuba. Based in Brazil since the 1990s, he was sales director at Grupo Novo. Founder and CEO of Mexican distribution company Latinofusion. In 2011 he created Habanero Film Sales, an independent company based in Brazil that acts as an international sales agent for Ibero-American films.
Passionate about arthouse cinema in all its forms, Ana Alice de Morais is the cofounder of the Brazilian company 3 Moinhos, responsible for the production and coproduction of various titles in Latin America, screened at festivals such as the Berlinale and the IFFR. As a producer, she has taken part in numerous international labs and residencies, such as Rotterdam Lab, Buenos Aires Talent, Berlinale Talent, and the Binger Film Lab. Since 2018, she has been based in Tiohtià/Montreal, Canada, where she holds the position of coartistic director of RIDM – Montreal International Documentary Festival, as well as its professional market, the Forum RIDM. She also works as a mentor, advisor, selection committee member, and jury member for several events in the film industry.
He has worked as an intellectual property lawyer since the beginning of his career. With 15 years of experience, he became involved in the arts through DNRF, providing dedicated legal services to some of the largest theaters and museums in Brazil. Currently, he serves as the coordinator of the Clearance department at DNRF, leading the analysis of issues related to copyright and personality rights in culture and entertainment, including audiovisual projects, museums, and collections. He is also responsible for reviewing contracts involving talents, artists, and cultural equipments. André has been a professor and lecturer and holds a master's degree in Economic Law.
He is an administrator, specialized in Entrepreneurial Management, and a partner/director at Olhar Filmes. He has served as a reviewer for the Cultural Foundation of Curitiba, was one of the directors of the Kinoarte Film Festival in Londrina, and was a guest lecturer on Cultural Project Development in the Graduate Program in Radio and Television Creation and Production at Pitágoras College in Londrina
With 20 years of experience in post-production, Ariadne Mazzetti has been a managing partner of Mistika Post since its founding in 2011. From 2017 to 2020, she was part of the board of UNINFRA, an association that advocates for the interests of audiovisual infrastructures, and is a member of the infrastructure council of SIAESP, the Audiovisual Industry Union of the State of São Paulo. She is currently the financial director of the Brazilian Academy of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts, and in 2023 and 2024, she served as a juror for the International Emmy Awards. She is also the executive producer of films and series, such as the award-winning "Pacarrete" (2019) and "O Caso Escola Base" (2023), which won the Grande Prêmio Otelo in the "Best Documentary Series" category in 2024. She actively participates in national film festivals, guiding producers on new technologies related to audiovisual production.
He is a professional with over ten years of experience in the audiovisual sector, specializing in the production and co-production of feature films and series, both national and international. He has worked on projects for players such as Netflix, HBO MAX, GNT, Canal Brasil and Multishow. Today he works at Kromaki as head of the international development and co-production area.
She holds a degree in Journalism from PUC-SP, a postgraduate degree in Cultural Policy Management from the University of Girona and a specialization in Contemporary Cultural Management from the Instituto Singularidades. She has over 15 years of experience in projects in the areas of education, art and Brazilian culture. She is part of the management, curation and programming team at Itaú Cultural Play and has been an audiovisual producer at Itaú Cultural since 2013.
Master's degree (UFRJ) and PhD student (PUC-Rio) in Communication, researching women's cinema during the military dictatorship. She has worked for 10 years in the pay TV and VoD market, focusing on Brazilian cinema. She was editor of the Porta Curtas website, curator of Canal Curta! and, since 2019, she has been part of the Canal Brasil team, where she coordinates the Content Acquisition and Projects area.
Charlotte Uzu is a senior producer specialized in the production and international financing of documentary and feature films for cinema and TV. Uzu regularly participates in study programmes (Femis, Ina, St. Denis – Paris 8, Alba, Beyrouth, Talent Doc Bolivia), selection committees and juries (Ficco Mexico, JCC Carthage, Dragon Forum Krakow, Paris Project, Residency of the Cinéfondation of the Cannes Film Festival, IDFA Forum Amsterdam, Extravagant India Film Festival Paris, Cinemundi Mostra Cine, Brazil, Docs DF Mexico, BAM Colombia, Cinema du Monde). Uzu is a graduate from the University of Montreal, Canada / UDLA Puebla, Mexico (Master of Arts, Anthropology) and Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (Post-graduate in Audiovisual Production), a member of the Academy of the European Film Awards, of the Association Le Deuxième Regard, and of the board of the Science and Television Association.
She has a degree in Cultural, Theatre and Film Studies. For almost two decades she headed Berlinale Talents, a leading global training platform for filmmakers of all disciplines. Under her leadership, it became the world's largest film community, a global network of talent initiatives and residency programmes. Christine is trained in systemic consulting, organisational development and coaching. Since 2021 she is one of the directors of an academy, consulting and coaching company based in Berlin, Germany. In 2023 she started a new initiative with her colleague Christine von Fragstein: Fair Play – New Leadership in Film and Culture. She is a team member of the new Green Visions Potsdam festival for sustainable living, launched by former Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick in May 2024.
She works as a director, screenwriter, editor, producer and teacher. Her debut feature film, Swirl (2011), was premiered and awarded at Venice Film Festival, and the film was also screened at Toronto, San Sebastian, and more than 50 festivals. Her shorts and other features films – While We Are Here (2019) e Faraway Song (2022) – were also screened at prestigious film festivals around the world, such as Rotterdam, Locarno, Bafici, Marrakech, RIDM, Art of the Real. In 2015, Daad – Artistic Residency Program held a retrospective of her work at Arsenal Cinema (Berlin, Germany).
Born in 1973, Cosimo Santoro is an Italian distributor, former festival programmer, and film critic. Member of the EFA and consultant for First Cut Lab, during the years, he has served several juries (Berlinale Teddy Awards, San Francisco Frameline, Lisbon Queer Lisboa, Prague Mezipatra and lately Tarragona REC and Madrid Margenes, among others) and gave industry masterclasses at several events including Bogota BAM, Tel Aviv TLV Fest, Ficci Cartagena, Barcelona Fire!! and Buenos Aires ABC Bafici. In 2012, he founded the World Sales Agency The Open Reel. Several are the talents scouted in these years: among them French Damien Manivel, Spanish Jaione Camborda and Diana Toucedo, Brazilian Juliana Rojas and Daniel Nolasco, Colombian Joan Gomez Endara, Romanian Stefan Constantinescu and Italian Simone Bozzelli.
Born in Sao Paulo and graduated in Cinema from ECA-USP, she is responsible for editing films by directors such as Andrea Tonacci, Carlos Reichenbach, Edgard Navarro, Joel Yamaji, Carlos Adriano, Paula Gaitán, Raquel Gerber, among others. Her partnership with Carlos Reichenbach began with Alma Corsária (awarded at the Brasília Film Festival) and resulted in several subsequent films, such as Dois Córregos, Garotas do ABC, Bens Confiscados and Falsa Loura. With Andrea Tonacci, her life partner, she coordinated the production company Extrema Produção Artística and was responsible for the editing of Paixões, Serras da Desordem and Já Visto, Jamais Visto, among others. More recently, she has worked alongside young directors such as Adirley Queiroz, Thiago B. Mendonça, Eryk Rocha, Renata Martins, Djin Sganzerla, Jo Serfaty, Ana Carolina Marinho, Karol Maia, Juliana Rojas, Natália Keiko and Sabrina Fidalgo.
He is the CEO of the distribution company Embaúba Filmes and Embaúba Play. He began his career in film club in the 1990s. He was coordinator and programmer of two important movie theaters in Belo Horizonte, Cine Humberto Mauro and Cine 104 and curator of several festivals, as Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival of Belo Horizonte and Semana Film Festival.
Filmmaker and programmer, she studied cinema at the National University of Colombia. As a producer, she has been known for supporting authors whose vision and voice explore new perspectives, such as Ciro Guerra, Oscar Ruiz-Navia, Nicolas Pereda, Julio Hernadez-Cordon and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Our Movie is her first documentary feature film, released in DOCNYC.
She was born in Mexico, 1990. Filmmaker and producer. Her work focuses on experimental video and non-linear narratives, using analog and databending tools in her practice. With Colectivo Colmena she produced the feature films Mostro (Locarno 2021), Todos los Incendios (Locarno 2023) and Lumbrensueño (Venice 2023). Her first short film as a director Un Punk Ejemplar (2023), had its world premiere in the Umbrales Competition during 13rd Ficunam and was part of the Latin American Competition of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. In 2024, she joined Kino Rebelde, an agency specialized in developing festival strategies and implementing creative distribution techniques for independent films. Along with María Vera she founded Frenesí Films, a dynamic and enthusiastic space to redefine creativity and emphasize the inherent power of storytelling and experimentation.
She is an Argentine film producer and founder of Gentil Cine. She assiduously develops coproduction projects and alliances with foreign companies to promote the production and distribution of Latin American cinema. Some of her titles as main executive producer include The Daughters of Fire by Albertina Carri, Long Time No Sleep by Agustín Godoy and The Face of the Jellyfish by Melisa Liebenthal. She is currently developing the upcoming projects of Clarisa Navas and Maximiliano Schonfeld, among other directors.
She has a degree in Marketing from the Autonomous University of Asunción. She held international film production workshops, including the IV Executive Production Course at the Carolina Foundation/Casa de América – Madrid, Spain – 2006, Puentes – Eave 2015-2016. She worked on feature and short films by Paraguayan and Latin American directors, such as Paz Encina, Marcelo Martinessi and Pablo Lamar, Lucrecia Martel, Pablo Giorgelli and Lucia Puenzo.
She worked as a casting director in film and television for over ten years, in France and Quebec (Canada). She has also coordinated various co-production platforms and some Industry programs of the Cannes market for many years. Since 2011, she is in charge of La Fabrique Cinéma de l’Institut Français.
She is PhD in History and a renowned Mexican producer. She began her career as a producer alongside Ofelia Medina with the acclaimed short film Un Bel Morir (2005). Among the films she produced, Cancion sin Nombre stands out, premiering at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs of Cannes, 2019. She debuted as a documentary director with A Common Sequence at the Sundance Film Festival 2023. In addition to her work as a producer, she was a judge at festivals and international markets such as Tribeca, Proimágenes, Guadalajara (FICG), Ventana Sur, among others. The programs under his direction enjoy wide international recognition in the audiovisual industry, and his leadership contributes to the promotion and strengthening of independent cinema around the world.
He is a Dominican producer, graduated from EICTV. Specialist in authorial projects that highlight the diversity of the Caribbean and Latin America through narratives that explore identity, with priority on masterpieces and second films, as well as coproductions between Latin America and Europe. He was selected in programs such as Eurodoc, Locarno Producer's Lab, Talents Guadalajara and Santiago Lab. His films were shown at festivals such as Sundance, BFI London, Rotterdam and La Habana.
She has been working for over 20 years in cultural management in areas such as investigation, promotion, organization of festivals, distribution, exhibition e production. Several experiences in Latin America and Africa reinforced her interest and commitment for cultural diversity and cultural exchange. Since 2004 Gudula has been working on coproduction and distribution with the production companies Mil Colores Media e Autentika Films. Together with Paulo de Carvalho and Autentika Films, she about 20 coproductions, feature length documentaries and fiction films in different roles and stages, especially with directors and producers from Latin America and with European partners. Their films have won awards in Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam and Venice. From 2005 to 2010 she was manager of the Mannheim Meetings of the International Film Festival of Mannheim – Heidelberg, Germany. From 2010 to 2020 she was head of Industry at the International Film Festival Visions du Réel in Switzerland. She now collaborates there reading and selecting film projects. Gudula works as producer and distributor in Switzerland, specializing in audience development and outreach/impact strategies. With Let’s Doc! she organizes the annual documentary month all over Switzerland. She offers training for pitches, project development, production and audience design/impact distribution. As “green consultant” she commits to a sustainable film production and distribution.
She has produced, among others, the Sudanese feature You Will Die at Twenty, awarded the Lion of The Future in Venice, 2019, the Norwegian feature Dead Snow, premiered in Sundance, 2009, and has coproduced the Potish feature Essential Killing by Jerzy Skolimowski, awarded Jury´s Special Award & Best Actor in Venice , 2010. She has also produced the Egyptian feature Cactus Flower, awarded Best Actress in Dubai, 2017, and the other films: Amal (Egypt & Lebanon), that was the Opening Film at IDFA, 2017; 1982 (Lebanon), premiered in Toronto, 2019; Day After… (Bangladesh), premiered in IDFA, 2021; Costa Brava, Lebanon (Lebanon) and Once Upon a Time in Calcutta (India), both premiered in Venice in 2021, as well as Backstage (Tunisia & Morrocco), premiered in Venice, 2023. Currently she is coproducing the feature films: MA – The Women (Myanmar), A Road With No End (Indonesia), My Father’s Scent (Egypt), all in post-production, as well as The Difficult Bride (Bangladesh), Sam (Philippines), The Station (Yemen & Jordan), and Eldorado (Morrocco), all in pre-production.
Sociologist and cultural manager, lecturer, consultant and audience designer. Originally from Barcelona, she has lived and worked in Berlin since 2001. Since 2009 she is the coordinator of the Berlinale-World Cinema Fund, a high-profile film funding initiative. As an independent professional, she designs training programmes that include workshops, lectures and project consultancy in the areas of financing and audience development, aimed at both academic and industry professionals. She also works as a jury member or project selector for institutions in Spain, Latin America and beyond. Trained in audience design through Eave and TFL, she provides individual project consultations for filmmakers, mentors future audience designers, and collaborates with film projects (spanning series, animation, fiction, and documentary) to strengthen their connection with audiences. Her work extends globally to initiatives such as DOC:CO (Colombia), Cariforum (Caribbean), Berlinale Talents and Berlinale Coproduction Market, European Film Festival (Kyrgyzstan), Vilnius Meeting Point, Estonian Film Institute, Midpoint, Ouaga Film Lab (Burkina Faso), Taller de Impulso DCP (Cantabria, Spain), Fonprocine (Dominican Republic), Locarno Open Doors, Brasil CineMundi Nuevas Miradas (Cuba), BAM (Colombia), among others.
He is a founding partner of the independent production and distribution company CUP Filmes. He was a producer and programmer of the São Paulo International Film Festival, artistic director of the Paulínia Film Center, and has produced various film festivals and screenings. He was a partner at Africa Filmes, which coproduced films such as The Second Mother and Don't Call me Son by Anna Muylaert. At CUP, he produced between others Body Electric by Marcelo Caetano, Alvorada by Lo Politi and Anna Muylaert, The Mother by Cristiano Burlan, Tinnitus by Gregório Graziozi, Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People by Cesar Cabral, and more recently Baby, by Marcelo Caetano.
Since 2018 she has directed the chair of Production at the International School of Film and TV in San Antonio de los Baños – EICTV, Cuba. Since 2019 she has been the director of the Nuevas Miradas project development laboratory. From 2013 she became a partner and founder of the film production and training company Galaxia 311 SAS (Colombia). Since 2015 she has been part of the Eave network of producers. She specialises in working with debut films and coproduces with multiple countries. Among her filmography are La Defensa del Dragón, released in the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, La Venganza de Jairo (dir. Simón Hernández), Audience Award at the Sitges Festival 2019 and Regreso al Mar de mis Muertos – WIP – selection in Goes to Cannes 2022. In 2023 she premiered Bajo un Sol Poderoso (dir. Kiki Álvarez) at the Toulouse Film Festival.
Founding partner and currently general director of Geração 80, an audiovisual production company that, since 2010, has aimed to connect generations and produce national cinema. Cohen understands the role of a producer as the place to reinvent paradigms and create sustainable models of cultural production. He produced most of the production company's films, with emphasis on Meu Semba (2024), Nossa Senhora da Loja do Chinês (2022), Ar-Condicionado (2020) and Independência (2015), his work circulated in dozens of film festivals in the five continents. In 2023, he produced 52 episodes of the series Njila for M-Net, making his debut in television production. Cohen is the mentor of the Cine Geração project that shows African cinema and the Cine Zunga project that aims to bring cinema to one million spectators. Jorge has a master's degree in Global Cultural and Creative Industries from Soas, London University (2018) and a master's degree in Business Administration from the Univ. Catholic Church of Lisbon (2009).
Master in Cultural Heritage, Landscapes and Citizenship from the Federal University of Viçosa and Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique) and a graduate in Audiovisual from ECA-USP, she works as a producer and executive producer in independent productions, focusing on authorial films and international coproductions. Among her recent productions are Filme Particular, by Janaína Nagata (IDFA 2022 – The Beeld & Geluid Reframe Award), Os Delinquentes, by Argentine Rodrigo Moreno (Cannes Film Festival 2023 – Un Certain Regard), A Flor do Buriti, by Renée Nader Messora and João Salaviza, winner of the Ensemble Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2023 and Tudo o que Você Podia Ser, by Ricardo Alves Jr. (Rio Festival 2023 – Best Director). In 2024, after nine years as a producer at Sancho&Punta, she created Quarta-Feira Filmes, an independent production company specializing in authorial film productions and international partnerships. She is an alumni of Berlinale Talents 2019 and a graduate of the Eave Producers Workshop 2023.
Specialist in Finance and Auditing from FGV SP and Specialist of Sales and Negotiation from PUC RS. It has extensive experience in the television, open TV and movie theater. Did part of the SBT Technology Management team for 8 years and currently services post-production clients at O2.
Cinema Graduate with over 15 years of experience in the audiovisual industry. Has edited more than 200 episodes of series for channels such as Discovery, Warner, and Globoplay, as well as feature films, documentaries, commercials, and trailers for platforms such as Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney. Currently is the Creative Director of the trailer team at The End.
He is a public administrator from the University of Chile, with a master’s in Public Policy and Government from Flacso, with more than 20 years of specialization and research in economic, the creative industry, and the creative sectors within Chile and Latin America. A scholar in prestigious Universities he was invited by the Public Policy Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. He designed and led the Corfo Film and Audiovisual Industry Promotion Program in Chile. A founding member of the Council of Art and the Audiovisual Industry of Chile. He has advised more than500 film and television companies and projects to define business models and strategies for new content in Ibero-America. He has been the ministerial adviser on economy and culture. He was executive secretary of the Interministerial Committee for the Creative Economy and main promoter of strategic actions in Latin America for sectors such as cinema, publishing, fashion, and music, among others. He is an advisor to the International Content Committee of the Industry Zone of the Malaga International Film Festival.
In her work as a producer, she produced the award-winning short films Chão de Fábrica by Nina Kopko and Até a China by Marão, and the feature films Amor, Plástico e Barulho by Renata Pinheiro, Libelu – Abaixo a Ditadura by Diógenes Muniz and Bizarro Peixes das Fossas Abissais by Marão. As distributor, she coordinated the release of more than 30 feature films, including Sem Coração, A Hora da Estrela (4k), Veríssimo and Histórias que o nosso Cinema (Não) Contava.
She holds a degree in Film from Faap and also completed postgraduate studies in Screenwriting and International Distribution at Ucla (USA) and DFFB (Germany). She also participated in the training programs Locarno Industry Academy, Berlinale Talents and Torino Film Lab. Lidia worked for several years in the production and programming of film festivals in Brazil and the United States, being the coordinator of Ambulante California, created by Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, and the programming director of HBrFF, focused on Brazilian independent cinema in Los Angeles. She also worked in development at the American production company Ambush Entertainment (films by Noah Baumbach, the Daniels, Marielle Heller etc.). For seven years she managed sales, acquisitions and festivals at the American agency FiGa Films. Later she led the international department of O2 Play, the distributor of O2 Filmes. She recently cofounded and is a partner in the international distribution company MoreThan Films and is a mentor and workshop leader for the Berlin Film Festival's EFM Toolbox Diversity Program, as well as a consultant for the IFF Rotterdam Pro Hub and Locarno Open Doors, and program manager for the Locarno Industry Academy in Brazil.
Director of DocSP – International Documentary Meeting of São Paulo since 2015 and of Good Pitch Brasil since 2020. Founder director of DocMontevideo, (2009-2023). Member of the Advisory Board of the TAL Latin American Television Network since 2010. He has coordinated training programs and international calls of documentaries for Al Jazeera English, Proimámages Colombia and has participated as Jury and consultant in funds and film festivals in more than 10 countries. Master in Documentary Creation, Pompeu Fabra University (Spain, 2006-07). Responsible leader of the BMW Foundation since 2020.
Austrian producer, director and screenwriter. He is founder of Nabis Filmgroup, with branches in Buenos Aires and Vienna and Berlin. As its producer he is involved in the production of recent films like The Klezmer Project (Berlinale Encounters –Best First Feature), Animal (Locarno – Competition), Cocote (Lorcano FF – Best Film SOL). He is currently producing hand-picked first feature films and projects of renowned directors like: Radu Jude, Maureen Fazendeiro and Manuel Abramovich.
She is a film programmer at IMS and have an BA in Audiovisual Studies. For the past 20 years, she has been developing projects involving curation, programming, and production for institutions such as the Cinemateca Brasileira, MIS – Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo International Film Festival, Sesc_Videobrasil Contemporary Art Biennial, Latin American Film Festival of Sao Paulo, and Sesc São Paulo, among others. She is a reviewer for documentary projects from Latin America for FireLight Media. She has been part of the curatorial committees for the Festival Curta Kinoforum, Mix Brasil – Festival of Diversity Culture, and the Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival, CitronelaDoc and FIM – International Festival of Women in Cinema. In 2018, she coproduced the feature film Gyuri, directed by Mariana Lacerda, about the work and life of photographer Claudia Andujar and the Yanomami struggle. She served as a jury member for the 32nd edition of Curta Kinoforum and and ComKids 2023. She currently is an integral part of the Programmers Of Color Collective and sits on the advisory board of Instituto Nicho 54.
After studies of science of film and theatre, history of art, ethnology and philosophy, work as a film critic and author of several books about actors and cinema. Producer, writer and director of several documentaries mainly for German TV. Since 1992 commissioning editor for cinema at Arte G.E.I.E., and sinse 1994 he is head of the cinema department. In 2000 he was named as head of the cinema department at ZDF/arte and from 2016 to 2019 he was head of fiction at ZDF/arte. For ZDF/arte he was also coexecutive and associate-producer of more than 100 movies by directors like Lars von Trier, Srdan Golubovic, Carlos Reygadas, Bela Tarr, Aki Kaurismäki, Yesim Ustaoglu, Michelangelo Frammartino, Jessica Hauser, Barbara Albert, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and many others. Since 2019 he works as expert for drama series and movies and as group leader at the Biennale College Cinema. He is a Jury member at several festivals and permanent member of the selection committee of the Luxembourg Film Fund. He is currently, in development of a limited drama series.
With a degree in Communication, with an emphasis on radio and television from FIRB, Milena has been in the audiovisual market since 2014, initially working in the production of accessibility resources and digital cinema packages. In 2019, Milena migrated to streaming distribution, working for large Brazilian aggregators and coordinating AVOD, TVOD, and SVOD launches across LATAM. She is currently a Program Analyst and Coordinator of Paradiso Multiplica at Projeto Paradiso, a non-profit institute that invests in the training of Brazilian filmmakers.
She is a documentary producer and director. Founder of Errante, one of the most relevant documentary film producers of Chile. Her works address/approach social, indigenous, human rights and art themes. His filmography includes Malqueridas, Best Film at the Venice International Critics Week 2023; and Allende mi Abuelo Allende, directed by Marcia Tambutti Allende, Best Documentary Award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival; among many other renowned works. Executive director of the Chilean documentary corporation CCDoc and deputy director of the Chiledoc sector brand, both non-profit organizations that have influenced the national and international visibility of Chilean documentaries. Juror at several film festivals and advisor to international funds. Professor at the Carrera de Cine y TV at the University of Chile. Member of the Cinema Academy of Chile and the United States.
She is a sales agent based in Germany. At the beginning of her career in film she worked in film festivals before starting working in local and world distribution. Since 2011 she has operated internationally as sales and festival agent with her own company Patra Spanou Film. With a focus on arthouse film productions she discovers and supports new talents like Alina Grigore (Blue Moon), Sebastián Muñoz (El Príncipe), but also represents films by established directors like Volker Schlöndorff (The Forest Maker) or Paul Negoescu (Men of Deeds). Her current lineup includes among others the Bafici winner The Pleasure Is Mine by Sacha Amaral (ARG/BR/FR), the IFF Rotterdam title The Paragon by Micheal Duignan (NZ). Also she represents Até que a Música Pare by Cristiane Oliveira, the second cooperation with the director after A Primeira Morte de Joana. Other Brazilian films in her catalogue are O Acidente by Bruno Carboni, Turma da Mônica Laços by Daniel Rezende, Rifle by Davi Pretto.
Project development & financing executive, delegate producer of international co-productions at Uma Pedra no Sapato since 2014. From 1997, Patrícia has worked in development, research, financing, line producing, assistant direction and production of more than 50 films by established portuguese directors such as Miguel Gomes, Filipa Reis, Marco Martins, Leonor Teles, Sérgio Tréfaut, Catarina Mourão and Margarida Cardoso, presented and awarded in major international festivals and markets. She has a degree in Communication Studies (specialisation in Film Studies) and is a Eurodoc alumna.
Artistic director of the Cinelatino Festival in Germany. He was a programmer for the Locarno Festival, DokLeipzig and a consultant for Quinzaine de Cannes. Through Autentika Films (Berlin), together with Gudula Meinzolt, he makes several co-productions with Latin America and Africa, such as: Yo Ví Tres Luces Negras, by Santiago Lozano (2024, Colombia), premiered in Berlinale 2024; Los Angeles, by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña (2024, Chile); Nunkui, by Verenice Benitez (2024, Ecuador); and Our Land, our Freedom, by Meena Nanji and Zippy Kimundu (2023, Kenya). He teaches at EICTV, Cuba – Workshop on Strategies for Project Development. He is an international consultant for the Projecta Selection Committee in Ventana Sur. He is currently artistic advisor for the Open Doors – Locarno Film Festival. He is an advisor and consultant for projects at the Extremadura Cinematographic Residency, Spain.
Film critic, curator, researcher and teacher. He is part of the team of the coproduction meeting Brasil CineMundi since 2016. He has been mentor of Talent Press program at the Berlin Film Festival and coordinator of Talents Rio, held within the scope of Rio's Intl' Film Festival. He currently writes the column Janela Crítica, in the Valor Econômico newspaper, and is a professor of the Cinema and Audiovisual course at ESPM-Rio.
She is a film producer, journalist and has a master's degree in Cultural Management. Cofounder and first president of API – Association of Independent Producers of Chile (2016-2018), executive secretary of the board of directors of the Chilean Film Academy (2021-2023), and university professor. She also cofounded and served as Programmer of Chilean theatrical releases at DCI Distribución (2016-2020). Siecialized in national and international co-productions, since 2011 she has worked on debut films through her company Pinda, established in Santiago, Chile. To date, he has made the feature films La Visita (2014) by Mauricio López (coproduced with Argentina), El Primero de la Familia (2016) by Carlos Leiva, Mala Junta by Claudia Huaiquimilla (2016) and La Skin in Spring (2024) by Yennifer Uribe (coproduced with Colombia). Currently, she is post-producing with Brazil Sangre de mi Sangre by Rafaela Camelo, in coproduction with Moveo Filmes, and developing Un Sunday a Month by Casandra Campos.
She began her career in production at Ciné Sud Promotion. She started Parati Films with the goal of creating a cinematic exchange program, most notably between France and the countries of Latin America. The dynamism of the four areas of Parati Films – event organization, subtitle & translation, production and teaching production management – has resulted in collaborations with countless professionals from the world of cinema and international festivals. One such example is the Cannes Film Festival, where since 2011 Parati has been the official partner of the Institut Francais and Séverine is in charge of the selection of projects and the coordination of the La Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde program. She also teaches International Coproduction at the EICTV (Cuba) and Film Production at the master level in Paris. She is focusing part of her work also on Crok Cine – the Education and the Image Project – focus on social mix in France, using auteur cinema as a tool.
He is a Brazilian film producer and a partner in Minas Gerais’ based company Filmes de Plástico. He has produced some of the most important films in the new wave of Brazilian cinema, like award-winning titles The Day I Met You, Temporada, In the Heart of the World, Baronesa, Elon Doesn't Believe in Death, The Hidden Tiger, She Comes Back on Thursday and Araby. In 2018, his production The Dead and the Others won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival’s section Un Certain Regard. It was his fourth film selected in the festival, after three previous entries at the Directors’ Fortnight. In 2022, his film Mars One was selected as the Brazilian entry for the Oscars®. He also had films selected to important film festivals like Rotterdam (a total of 11 selections throughout the years, including two Tiger Competition titles, in 2017 and 2019), Locarno (two selections this past decade), Berlinale, AFI, New Directors/New Films, Art of the Real, Montreal, Durban, BFI, Munich, Torino, Viennale, FID Marseille, Toulouse, Belfort, 3 Continents Nantes, Biarritz, Athens, Mar del Plata, Lima, Cartagena, Ficunam, Bafici, Jeonju, Melbourne, Macao, among many others.
He studied Film Production at La Fémis Paris and Filmakademie Ludwigsburg in Germany. He is the cofounder of the French company Haut Les Mains Productions. His producer’s credits include Anna Roussillon’s award-winning documentary I Am the People (2014), which was featured in the Acid Programme at the Cannes Film Festival; Poisonous Roses by Ahmed Fawzi Saleh which premiered at Rotterdam IFF, awarded more than 16 times and Egypt’s Oscar nominee of 2020. Recently, he has produced Philip Scheffner's last feature titled Europe,which premiered at Berlinale 2022. He is a member of the CNC’s selection committee for short films. As a producer, he was part of IDFAcademy, Berlinale Talents, and Eave Puentes.
Curator of feature fiction films at Globo Filmes, he has been working in the film market since 2015, having worked for the production companies TvZERO and Bananeira Filmes, and for the International Advisory Office of Ancine. He has experience in the development, monitoring and artistic and financial viability of projects.
Director of Fidba, Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival. Programmer and coordinator of WIP in the Malaga Film Festival. He was coordinator for five years of the Incubadora de Documentários program in Incaa and Ventana Sur. As a filmmaker, he directed the films Nublado and Sin Patrón, and is currently working on editing his new feature film Manada. As a producer, since 2008, he has worked with directors with a strong authorial perspective who have participated in festivals such as Visions du Réel, Cinema du Réel, DocLisboa, Dokpoint, Berlín, Mar del Plata, FidMarseille and Cannes.