BUENOS AIRES · FROM MAY 31st TO JUNE 7th, 2017
  

JURIES

International Feature Films Official Competition

Ondřej Moravec
A member of the programming team of the Prague-based One World Film Festival, the biggest worldwide human rights documentary film festival. He studied screenwriting at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) and Media and Journalism at the Charles University. A documentarist, he worked for four years as a reporter in the Culture section of the Czech Television and was the programming director of the film festival Čačikano about Romani culture.
Anabella Museri
A Political Science graduate, she is currently working towards her masters in Criminology. In 2007, she joined the prisons and criminal justice team at the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), which she headed until mid 2015. Ever since, she has been developing a line of work to articulate actions combining art and human rights, searching for new partnerships, spaces and creative strategies with the aim of promoting the human rights agenda.
Yvonne Welbon
A Senior Creative Consultant at Chicken & Egg Pictures, founder of the Chicago-based non-profit Sisters in Cinema and an award-winning independent filmmaker. She has produced and distributed over 20 films. Welbon received a B.A. from Vassar College, an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. at Northwestern University. She is also a graduate of the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women.

International Short and Medium-Length Films Official Competition

Mabel Bellucci
An essay writer, journalist and queer feminist. A member of the Study Group on Sexualities (GES) from the University of Buenos Aires Gino Germani Research Institute and of the publishing collective Herramienta. Author of Historia de una desobediencia. Aborto y feminismo (Capital Intelectual, 2014). She has written articles for the Argentine newspaper Página/12 (“Las 12” and “Soy” sections), among others, and is a contributor to the blog Damiselas en apuros (“damsels in distress”) and the digital magazine Furias.
Clara Isasmendi
She received filmmaking and teaching training in Buenos Aires. As a teacher, she worked in schools and literacy programs for adults. She was a camera director and TV editor in Italy. She was also a programmer for youth, children and animation film festivals. For the past 7 years, she has co-directed and programmed the International Festival of Political Cinema (FICiP). As the president of the Asociación FICiP, she works in film distribution for festivals, documentary editing and subtitling. She has been a juror for other festivals in Italy, Paraguay and Argentina.
Victoria Solano
A documentarist and journalist, winner of the 2014 Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award for her documentary 9.70. She studied journalism in Argentina and filmmaking in Colombia. She worked as a filmmaker for several media, such as Telesur, RCN, Canal Capital, among others. She is currently finishing her first documentary feature, Sumercé, and working as part of the production crew for the documentary series Los presidentes que no fueron.

Latin American Documentary Films Official Competition

Ricardo Casas
An Uruguayan, documentarist, filmmaker and producer. He worked for the Cinemateca Uruguaya and created the Escuela de Cinematografía. He is the director of Divercine, a children and youth international film festival of Uruguay, and Atlantidoc, an international documentary film festival of Uruguay. He has published the books Diez años de video uruguayo, 1985-1995 and 25 años de Divercine and has been a juror for both local and international festivals.
Soledad Cortés
A TV and radio content advisor, documentary filmmaker, project and pilot creator. She worked for Televisión Pública and Televisión Nacional de Chile for 17 years, and for the documentary TV show El mirador (TVN). She headed Producciones San Salvador and pursued academic research, particularly in communication, television and gender, human rights and formal and popular education. She was involved in the foundation of cultural magazines and communities.
Orly Yadin
Executive Director of the Vermont International Film Foundation. She is also a producer of documentaries and animation films. In 2001 she founded Footage Farm Ltd - an archival footage collection based in London with international clients. She has also taught documentary film history in universities in England and Vermont. In 1995 she co-founded Halo Productions specializing in animation films. Many of Halo’s films won international awards, including Silence, short-listed for the Academy Awards.

Signis - Argentine Catholic Association for Communication

Gabriela Cicalese
A teacher and academic researcher with a PhD in Communication, she directed the La Crujía Communication Center (2009-14) and currently directs the Good Youth Practices and the Job Market Short Film Festival, the Audiovisual Arts Teaching program at ENERC/UNSAM and the Academic Development department at Image Campus. She has written books on community communication aimed at broadening the scope and application of rights.
Elisa Vidal
A high-school, higher education and special Literature teacher. She did an specialization in Education, Languages and Media (UNSAM, 2008), and contributed to several cinema-related publications. Member of SIGNIS, she has been a juror for the following festivals: DerHumALC (2008); Nueva Mirada (2004 and 2014); Divercine (2010); Mar del Plata (2014); Pantalla Pinamar (2013); Cine Migrante (2015); Hacelo corto (2014).
Gustavo Winkler
Filmmaker, producer and teacher. He graduated from the National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC) and obtained a teaching degree in Audiovisual Arts from UNSAM. He directed and produced several award-winning short films (Love Story Bondi, El asilo de la Bestia, among others). He is a workshop instructor at “Matanza, ¡Vamos a Filmar!” and “Matanza Filma” and a coordinator of the Tapiales International Film Festival (TAFIC).

RAFMA. Argentine Network of Audiovisual Festivals and Exhibitions

Made up of film festivals and audiovisual exhibitions across Argentina, this network was created with the aim of strengthening existing cooperation ties and forging new ones. Its final purpose is achieving a collaborative way of working which will grant a deeper and increased access for the viewers to independent audiovisual productions, multiplying thus the makers’ areas of expression.

Julio Caloggero
A CIEVYC graduate, filmmaker and general director of the Tapiales International Film Festival (TAFIC). He has coordinated the municipal Audiovisual Training and Production workshop “Matanza, ¡Vamos a Filmar!” since 2013. As a filmmaker, he is responsible for the short films Esfúmate, Los Cueveros, Love Bondi Story and El año pasado en Tapiales. He has been a juror for the Rosario Latin American Video Festival, Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre, Tandil Cortos, Libercine and FESAALP, to name a few.
Federico Sykes
A Sound and Image Design graduate (Universidad de Palermo), he is the general director and founder of the Argentina International Deaf Film Festival. He coordinates audiovisual projects for the deaf community as part of the accessible content production house Access Media Argentina. He teaches film in Argentine Sign Language for deaf people. He is the only deaf person trained in the audiovisual arts in the country.
Fabiana Urricelqui
Born in Pehuajó, she left her hometown at the age of eighteen to study Sound and Image Design at the University of Buenos Aires, finishing her studies in 2015. She has worked as an editor for two independent feature films and is now part of the Pehuajó International Film Festival staff, where she is a programmer and production assistant.