More than 35 years of experience in the audiovisual industry, a veteran of festivals and international markets. He was a Sales Executive for ICAIC, Cuba. International sales manager at Grupo Novo, Brazil. Founder and CEO of the Mexican distribution company Latinofusion. Since 2011, he has been the general director of Habanero Film Sales, a Brazil-based international sales agency specialized in Ibero American films.
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, Barcelona Fire!! and Buenos Aires ABC Bafici. In 2012, he founded the world sales agency The Open Reel, focused on the the promotion, distribution and sales of feature films, shorts and documentaries of all kinds of genre, but with a particular attention to the new form of expressions of contemporary cinema.
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, supported by the Colombian Film Development Fund and the Film Fund of the Aquitaine Region in France.
Eugenia Campos Guevara is an Argentine film producer and founder of Gentil Cine. She assiduously develops co-production 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.
Graduated 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 films and short films by Paraguayan and Latin American directors, some of them Paz Encina, Marcelo Martinessi and Pablo Lamar, Lucrecia Martel, Pablo Giorgelli and Lucia Puenzo.
Gregorio Rodriguez 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 co-productions 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 did 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 the projects for the Industry. She works as producer and distributor in Switzerland, specializing in audience development and outreach/impact strategies. With Let’s Doc! she organizes the annual documentary week all over Switzerland. She offers training for pitches, project development, production and audience design. As “green consultant” she commits to a sustainable film production and distribution in Europe.
Ingrid Lill Høgtun has among others Produced Sudanese feature “You Will Die at Twenty”, “Lion of The Future” Venice 2019, Norwegian “Dead Snow”, Premiere Sundance 2009, and has co-produced Polish "Essential Killing" by Jerzy Skolimowski, Jury´s Special Award & Best Actor, Venice 2010, Egyptian “Cactus Flower”, Best Actress Dubai 2017, “Amal”, Egypt & Lebanon, Opening Film IDFA 2017, “1982”, Lebanon, Premiere Toronto 2019, “Day After…”, Bangladesh, Premiere IDFA 2021, “Costa Brava Lebanon”, Lebanon, and Indian “Once Upon a Time in Calcutta”, both premiered in Venice in 2021, as well as “Backstage”, Tunisia & Morrocco, premiere Venice 2023. Currently she is co-producing the Feature Films “MA - The Women”, Myanmar, "A Road With No End", Indonesia, and “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 and consultant. Audience designer born in Barcelona and based in Berlin since 2001. She works at the Berlinale World Cinema Fund as a fund coordinator and evaluator. She also designs and conducts seminars and training courses on aspects of audiovisual production, film project financing, marketing, distribution and audience design.
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. Founding member of Ribelabs. 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 2022, she releases Bajo un Sol Poderoso (dir. Kiki Álvarez) at the Havana Film Festival and will have its International premiere at the Toulouse Film Festival 2023.
Jorge Cohen is a 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 5 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 1,000,000 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).
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 sector ssuch 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.
Director of DocSP – International Documentary Meeting of São Paulo (2015-2023) 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 (2010-2023). 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.
Lukas Valenta Rinner is an 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.
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 or 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.
Brazilian, living in Germany since 1989, developing activities in Latin-American film production, publication and curating in international festivals. Was a film correspondent for Latin America, Spain and Portugal and Member of the Selection committee of the International Festival of Locarno, Switzerland from 2000 to 2008 and a consultant for Latin American films for Director’s Fortnight from Cannes and for International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. He is Founder and Artistic Director of CineLatino Festival in Tübingen/Stuttgart, one of the most important platforms for the Spanish and Latin American cinema in Germany. Has founded the independent film production company Cachoeira Films, Tübingen in 1999, where he dedicates himself to the production, consulting and international promotion of Latin-American filmmakers. In 2007 he founded the independent film production company Autentika Films, Berlin, with Gudula Meinzolt.
Film critic, curator, researcher and teacher. He is part of the curatorship teams of Mostra CineBH and the coproduction meeting Brasil CineMundi. Since 2017, he has been mentor of Talent Press at the Berlin Festival and coordinator of Talent Press Rio, a training program for critics from Portuguesespeaking countries held within the scope of Rio 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.
Film producer, journalist and master in Cultural Management. Co-founder and first president of API - Associação Gremial de Produtores Independentes de Chile (2016-2018), Executive Secretary of the board of directors of the Chilean Film Academy (2021-2023), and university professor. She also co-founded and served as Programmer of Chilean theatrical releases at DCI Distribución (2016-2020). Specialized in national and international co-productions, she has worked on debut films since 2011 through her company Pinda, established in Santiago, Chile. To date, he has made the feature films “La visita” (2014) by Mauricio López with Argentina, “El primer de la familia” (2016) by Carlos Leiva, “Mala junta” by Claudia Huaiquimilla (2016) and “La skin in spring” ” (2024) by Yennifer Uribe with Colombia. Currently, he is post-producing with Brazil “Sangre de mi sangre” by Rafaela Camelo, in co-production 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.
Thomas Micoulet studied Film Production at La Fémis Paris and Filmakademie Ludwigsburg in Germany. He is the co-founder 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.
Coordinator and programmer of the Work in Progress program at Málaga Film Festival. Artistic and Industry Director of FIDBA – Buenos Aires International Documentary Festival, and Director of Buenos Aires Doclab. He coordinated the INCAADocumentary Incubator, and the Ventana Sur Documentary Area. As a professor, he teaches Directing II at the Master in Documentary Film at the Universidad del Cine and is a director and project tutor at Observatório, School of Documentary Film. Producer of more than 20 documentaries and partner of Neko, a distributor of Auteur Cinema. Since 2010, he has created IMPOSIBLE Films, his own Auteur Documentary Production House, from which he supports and produces first and second films by directors with a personal.