JURIES

Social Sciences graduate and Master of Artistic Animation. Senior Technician at the Municipality of Seia, Portugal. Programmer and head of the Local House of Culture. Director and founder of CineEco, the only international film festival dedicated to environmental issues in Portugal for the last 21 years. He has taken part in the jury for the Green Film Network in several international festivals on environmental issues.

Professor at the School of Communication Science at UBA (University of Buenos Aires) and at IDAC (Institute of Cinematographic Arts). He was a script consultant in many fiction films and documentaries. He co-directed the documentaries Habitación Disponible and El Tiempo Encontrado, which were screened on different international festivals. In 2016 he finished Los Sentidos, his third film.

Medical Doctor, Full Professor and Responsible Academic Officer of Socio-environmental Health and Final Training in Rosario's Medical College, Nat. University, and Director of the Socio-environmental Health Institute there as well. Since 2015 he has been the Director of the Medical Education Program of the National University of Chaco Austral. He is also an activist for the right to a dignified living, a drapetomaniac and a founding member of Club de Mayo.

General coordinator of the independent study program on Food Sovereignty at the Nutrition School of Buenos Aires University. Honorary chairperson of the Doctors of the World management committee in Argentina, member of the Executive Secretariat of the Argentinean Federation of Nutrition graduates and a legislative councilor as well. Her research has been published in scientific journals and the mass media. Her professional career earned her countless mentions and many awards.

Director, producer, scriptwriter, and editor graduated from the ENERC - INCAA, where he teaches documentary production and editing. With his film producer company Cyclope Cine, he has written, directed and produced three feature films: Rastrojero, utopías de la Argentina potencia; Ensayo, fragmentos de Sarah Kane y 7 Salamancas all released and awarded in Argentina and abroad, and screened in various countries. Currently, he is in the final process of editing of the documentary Calquín, memoria de un sueño.

He studied Filmmaking in Argentina and Cuba. After living for a decade in Barcelona, Prague and Munich, and working on dozens of TV and film productions, he premiered his first feature film, Huicholes: Los últimos guardianes del Peyote, awarded in 9 international festivals. Currently, he is a producer in the series Raíces de la Fe and Viviendo Religiones.

Director, screenwriter and producer of films and advertisements. Creative director of the company Torneos y Competencias, and filmmaker of Los ángeles, Soy Huao, Arrieros and Los del suelo. He is currently working with Greenpeace in their agroecology campaign and doing pre-production on the works of fiction Que todo se detenga, based on the novel by Gonzalo Unamuno, and Limpiavidrios by José Supera.

Journalist and writer. She collaborated with several newspapers, such as Página 12, La Nación and Clarín; she also worked as an editor for general interest and food magazines, and as a radio reporter. She carried out a research into food industry and production, and published Malcomidos in 2013 through Editorial Planeta. Nowadays she works in book editing and is engaged in a new press research on the same topic.

Teacher, floral therapist and plastic artist. During her professional career as a painter, she received important awards. In 2007, together with more people, she founded the “Consejo de Vecinos” (Council of neighbors), origin of the current NGO “Conciencia Solidaria” (Solidary Awareness), which she led until 2012. Nowadays, she is the current secretary of this organization.

Master's student in Cultural Industries Management and Policies (Quilmes National University), Social Communications Sciences graduate (UBA), and Producer and Director (IDAC). Specialist and researcher in cinema and education, edu-communication, animation industry, and cultural industries. Director of Signis Argentina and Industria Más Cultura. Member of Cine Mundo Chico, a project for film debates. CONACAI consultant (Advisory Council for Audiovisual Communication and Childhood).

Lawyer and Master on Public Administration, University of Buenos Aires. Specialist in Design of International Technical Cooperation Programs -UNC ILPES/ECLAC- United Nations. University professor in Human Rights, Right to the City and Right to Housing. Executive Director for Argentina in the Baltasar Garzón International Foundation. He has worked in consultancies in the field of public policies programs and projects related to the right to land and housing.

Art History graduate from La Habana University and an INCAA Film Library member. She directed various short films such as Massamba (2015), Palimpsesto (2011) and Ghabbana Men's Revolution (2010), and also the miniseries La corrosión de la memoria (2013). She has worked in the International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema and in the Programming Department of The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC).

Social Communication Sciences graduate from the University of Buenos Aires. She is a cultural journalist, specialized in film and literature. Since 2012, she is part of La Nave de los Sueños group as producer and programmer. In 2013 and 2014, she was a programming assistant in the Bariloche Audiovisual Festival. She also compiled the book Latidos, El pulso del cine argentino about the Argentinian cinema.

He studied filmmaking in Córdoba and Guadalajara, directed short fiction films, documentaries and animations. Programmer of the Cortópolis Festival and member of the production team of Anima Festival. Founder, organizer, producer, programmer and member of the shortlisting jury of Cineminuto Córdoba. He is a teacher and gives film workshops in schools.

With a career in contemporary dance, she started delving into video-dance and became a pioneer of this genre in Argentina. Several of her short films have been awarded, like Temblor (best editing, awarded by the Secretary of Culture of Argentina) and Chámame (awarded with the La mujer y el cine, La Noche del Cortometraje, IMZ/Cinedans - Amsterdam prizes). Founder and director of the International Festival VideoDanzaBA. Her first feature film, Reflejo Narcisa, premiered at the BAFICI film festival in 2015.