Jury
Documentary
Fernanda Polacow
Screenwriter, Director and Script Consultant I Brazil
Fernanda is a Brazilian screenwriter, director and script consultant. Her latest film, Big Bang Henda, a hybrid short, premiered at Doc Lisboa 2023 and toured dozens of festivals. Her first feature film as a screenwriter, Mosquito, was the opening film at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (2020), won the Prize of Critics at the São Paulo International FF (2020) and many others around the world.
She develops, writes and directs for TV, streaming and cinema. As a script consultant, she is part of the Torino Script Lab and mentor at IndieLisboa Lab, the project development workshop at the IndieLisboa Film Festival. She is a co-founder of MUTIM (Women in Film Association in Portugal), a mother and an amateur percussionist.
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Nicolas Brevière
Producer I France
After his debuts with producer Anatole DAUMAN in the French Association of Film Producers (AFPF), Nicolas BREVIERE has created LOCAL FILMS to accompany François Ozon in the production of two short films. Since then, he has produced more than 120 films (short and feature films, creative documentaries) promoting innovative and demanding auteur cinema. He also directed a feature film, “Plus haut”, in 2002 and wrote a book on the production of French films of the 80s entitled “Golden Eighties” and published by CARLOTTA in 2024. Nicolas BREVIERE is a member of ACE (Ateliers de Coproduction Européenne), UNIFRANCE, and the SPI (Syndicat des Producteurs Indépendants).
Jorge Cadena
Director I Colombia
Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1985, Jorge Cadena first studied photography in Buenos Aires. In 2016, he obtained a Bachelor's degree in cinema from HEAD - Geneva with his film El Cuento de Antonia, which won the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Festival. He then obtained his Master's degree at ECAL/HEAD in 2018 with Soeurs Jarariju, which received a special mention at the Berlinale. In 2019, he was selected to take part in the EFP Future Frame program in Karlovy Vary, the TIFF Lab in Toronto in 2020 and Berlinale Talents in 2021. He directed Flores del Otro Patio in 2022, which was nominated for the European Film Awards and the Colombian Film Prize (Macondo), and won Best Swiss Short at Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, the Grand Prix at Bristol Encounters and the Special Jury Award at SXSW. He is currently writing his first feature film.
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