JURIES OF COMPETENCES
OFFICIAL COMPETITION
GISELLA RAMIREZ
Production Designer and Art Director. She graduated from the Faculty of Communication of the University of Lima, specializing in audiovisual communication and, after a few years dedicated to cinema, she decided to study the Master of Production Design and Cinematographic Art Direction at the ESCAC film school in Spain. He has participated in feature films and short films screened and awarded at major film festivals. His most recent films include Song Without a Name, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, La Última Tarde and Autoerotica.
RUBEN CORRAL
Programming coordinator for ZINEBI – Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival, he has collaborated with the Gijón International Film Festival, the UNAM International Film Festival (Mexico) and the Indiana University Cinema (USA). He participated in the evaluation committee of the Fund for Film Development (Proimágenes Colombia) 2021 and has been a speaker at film industry activities.
festivals such as DocLisboa (Portugal) or Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland).
YAELA GOTLIEF
Director and producer. She has a degree in Communication Sciences and graduated from the Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires. In 2020 he was part of the Di Tella University Film Program. His works have been exhibited at Punto de Vista, ArcoMadrid, Lima Film Festival, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Bienal Arte Joven, among others. His first film "There is no return home" won the competition of the festival Al Este (Colombia), Cosquín (Argentina) and
the Festival made by women (Peru).
RODRIGO MORENO
Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer at Arrebato Cine and teacher at the Peruvian School of Cinema and Arts
EPIC visuals. His films have participated in festivals such as the BAFICI International Independent Film Festival of Buenos Aires, the Uruguayan Film Festival, the Santiago de Compostela International Film Festival, the Sao Paulo Latin American Film Festival, the Lima Film Festival and screened at La Cinemateca. Mexicana, Espacio INCAA, Cine Arte Alameda, and the Brussels Cinema Palace, as well as at microbudget film festivals such as Indie Berlin, Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, and New Filmmakers New York. In 2019, he co-directs Llauca, a television fiction miniseries premiered in 2021 by Latina, and co-writes the screenplay adaptation of The Gifts: A Family Men's Story for the physical theater company. Currently in post production.
Magdyel Ugaz
Magdyel Ugaz del Castillo is a Peruvian actress and television presenter. Among her various works in film, theater and television, she is best known for her starring role as Teresa Collazos in the television series Al fondo hay lugar, while in film, she played Doña Peta, the mother of soccer player Paolo Guerrero, in the Guerrero biopic, the movie.
MARCELA GAMBERINI
Bachelor of Arts from the University of Buenos Aires. He has worked at UBA XXI, the UBA distance education program, since 1986. He was a teacher at various institutions, including the ORT Tertiary Institute, the UBA Image and Sound career, the Buenos Aires National College, the School of film critic The Lover (of which she was co-founder); dictating subjects such as Semiotics, Communication, Literature and Film Theories. He was a jury at various national and international film festivals. He collaborated for more than fifteen years in the film magazine El lover, among other magazines. He published articles in various cinema and communication books. He is currently actively collaborating on the site Con los ojos abierta, in Subjetiva cine and in other media.
ALEXANDRA VAZQUEZ
Film critic, screenwriter and professor in the cinematography career at the Columbia University of Paraguay. Master in Cinematographic Criticism graduated from Aula Crítica, in Barcelona, and Lic. in Cinematography from the Columbia University of Paraguay. write for
the critical magazine El Espectador Imaginario de España, with international circulation, and for La Pistola de Chéjov, a virtual critical space. Editor of La Rabia, a feminist film critic publication, and member of AICA, International Association of Art Critics - Paraguay Chapter.
Producer, Director and Film Critic. Born in Peru and currently residing in Madrid. She studied at Universidad Lima and later did a Master's degree in Film Directing at Escuela TAI, author of projects such as "Gardemia, a look at Psoriasis in Peru", "Sileno", "The Last Journey" and "Círculo", producer of “Túnel de Lavado” and “Before silence” (currently in production). Today, she is the Founder and CEO of the Madrid-based audiovisual production company Ayllu Films, a member of APRECI (Peruvian Film Press Association) and CIMA (Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media).
SOPHIA ALVAREZ
PRESS
ITINERANT
LORETA GANDOLFI
Dr. Loreta Gandolfi is Associate Professor at the Center for Film & Screen Studies, University of Cambridge. She worked as an international programmer for several international films. festivals and is currently Senior Curator at the Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival in Colombia. She is a member of the European Film Academy and an External Expert at Eurimages, Council of Europe.
MELINA LION
Peruvian director based in Lima and New York. His first film, Canción sin Nombre, premiered at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2019, was Peru's candidate for an Oscar and was nominated for the Goya Awards in the Best Ibero-American Film category. The film has been selected at more than 100 international festivals, obtaining around 50 awards, including Best Director at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Best Film at the Stockholm Film Festival and the Cinevision Award for Best Emerging Director at the Stockholm Film Festival. Munich. A graduate of Columbia University, New York, her short film, El Paraíso de Lili, had its international debut at the 47th New York Film Festival.
TERESA PEREIRA
Teresa Pereira is a filmmaker, interdisciplinary artist, and landscape architect from the United States. His video work incorporates experiential narratives in the landscape and themes of social, ecological, cultural connections in the environment. He has a master's degree in landscape architecture focused on ecological restoration. His short films have been screened at film festivals, exhibitions, and conferences in the United States, and have been used as a qualitative tool for urban design. He has collaborated with Soundwalk Collective in multiple audiovisual installations, and has presented at MALI and Fundación Telefónica during COP20 in Lima. She is currently a Fulbright researcher working on a documentary in Peru about the unique ecosystem of the lomas in an anthropogenic context, with narratives from communities working to protect them.
EXPERIMENTAL THIS
ALFREDO RUIZ
Dedicated to film programming and training in different spaces. He studied film festival programming at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in the Basque Country. He has collaborated with festivals such as Codec, Ficunam, Feciba, Open City Documentary Festival. He is currently the Director of the Cinematography Degree at the Escuela Superior de Cine in Mexico City.
MARIA NELA LEBEQUE
Cuban curator, film programmer and performer based in Uruguay. Founder and programmer of Young Cuban Cinema in the South, which since 2017 has been held in Uruguay and Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has given talks and programmed film selections
exhibited in Brazil, Cuba, Uruguay, Argentina and Spain and served as a jury at several film festivals, including the FICDH in Buenos Aires, the International Festival of Film Schools in Uruguay and the Unified Filmmakers Climate Shorts in Germany. He is a member of the FAC Film Laboratory in Montevideo, a collective dedicated to the investigation and creation of experimental practices.
JORGE CASTRO
Born in Cuzco. Photographer and documentary filmmaker graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the Centro de la Imagen. Specialized in editing. Director of No Hay Banda Productions, audiovisual and film production company, located in Cusco. In 2020, his short film "Written from the Paqarina" won in the ExperimentalalEste competition. Director of the Audiovisual Assembly, a project that develops documentary workshops with an intergenerational approach in areas of great transformation, winner of the 2019 Audiovisual Cultural Management contest. He has made several documentary and experimental short films. Currently, he is working on his first documentary feature film where he uses the
analog format and the intervention of the family archive.
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EMERGING PERU
FIORELLA PENNANO
Film, theater and television actress, distinguished for her participation in films such as "Rosa Mística", "Como en el Cine" and "Larga Distancia". He graduated with honors in acting from York University in Canada and has since continued to invest in his development as a
artist and producer at Animalien.
NICOLAS CARRASCO
Peruvian producer, film critic, programmer and distributor. He was a student of the Critics Academy of the Locarno Festival (2015), Talents Buenos Aires (2016), the Flaherty Film Seminar (2019 and 2021) and RAW: Arché Residences → MRG/ / Work (2020). He was programming assistant at Transcinema (2015 - 2016), and programmer at MUTA (2017 - 2018). She was assistant director of Videofilia (and other viral syndromes) (2015), by Juan Daniel F. Molero, winner of the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Festival, and the documentary Lima Grita (2018) by Dana Bonilla and Ximena Valdivia. He has participated in the production of the films Masabu (2016) by Carlos Benvenuto, La Migración (2018) by Ezequiel Acuña, El Anti-Faz (2018) by Enrique
Mendez, among others.
ROASTED SONALY
Degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Lima. Creator of the television program Costumbres, which she has hosted and directed for more than 20 years. She is Meritorious Personality of Culture, a title awarded by the Ministry of Culture, in 2015. Specialist in intangible heritage of Peru, writer and columnist. In 2020 he has published the book of experiential chronicles "Customs, the true spirit of Peruvians". She is the director of Special Projects at Ayni Producciones. In 2021, she has created the Mother Wisdom proposal for the Bicentennial Project, and has directed three short films inspired by Bicentennial Women Making Homeland.
