Jury
Mexico
Mandarava Bricaire
Filmmaker and Visual Artist - Italia, France
Italian-French filmmaker and visual artist, her work was exhibited at Museo Vittoriano, Modern Art Museum in Costa Rica, featured in Vogue Italia, GastroLab Mexico. Co-founder of Mercuria films, her most recent work as a producer and co-writer was selected at Locarno Film Festival, New York Film Festival, won best international short film in 5 countries and selected in more than 50 festivals around the world. She is currently developing her first feature film.
Alex Lora
Director - Screenwriter and Editor - Spain, United States
Alex Lora is a disabled director, screenwriter, and editor from Barcelona, currently based in New York, where he studied film on a Fulbright Grant. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has won seven New York Emmys, two Gaudí Awards, and has been nominated for both the Goya Awards and the Student Academy Awards. Lora’s work has been screened at Sundance in the official competition three times, with his short film The Masterpiecewinning the Grand Jury Prize in 2024. His filmography includes Enterrados (2009), Us (2011), Odysseus' Gambit (2012), Only Solomon Lee (2013), Godka Cirka (2014), Thy Father's Chair (2015), Ways (2016), The Fourth Kingdom (2019), Savage Land (2020) – where he served as screenwriter and editor, We Are Living Things (2021) – also as screenwriter and editor, Unicorns (2023), and The Masterpiece (2024). His work has received over 100 awards at film festivals worldwide.
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Antonios Vallindras
Director - Greece
Antonios Vallindras was born in Athens and raised in various cities both in Greece and abroad. He studied economics in Athens and has worked as an Account Executive for Ogilvy Greece. In 2014, he decided to change careers and focus on filmmaking. He holds an MA in Directing Film and Television from Bournemouth University and has directed four short films. His film The Life of a Sober Man (2016) was nominated in the UK for the RTS Student Television Award. He has worked on numerous projects as a director and producer and as assistant director and co-producer in the film Amerika Square (dir. Yannis Sakaridis). He took part in the START – Create Cultural Change program of the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and is a co-founding member of the Ladies’ Fingers directing duo. His latest film, White Christmas 1948 (2022), received funding from the Greek Film Center and the Microfilm program ran by the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. He has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by Artworks (2022). Currently he is working on his new short film, Kiatochella.
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