Jury and Guests

Jury

Guests

Cláudia Lucas Chéu

Playwright, Poet
Feature Film Competition

Cláudia Lucas Chéu is a novelist, poet, playwright, and screenwriter. She published the theatre plays Glória ou como Penélope Morreu de Tédio (2011), Violência — fetiche do homem bom (2013), A Cabeça Muda (2014), Veneno (2015). In poetic prose, she published Nojo (2014). In poetry, the books Trespasse (2014), and Pornographia (2016). In 2017, the book Ratazanas was published as poetry (Brazil). In 2018 she published her first novel Aqueles Que Vão Morrer. Other published books since are A Mulher-Bala e outros contos (2019), Confissão (poetry, 2020), Mulher Sapiens (short stories and essays, 2021) and A Vida Mentirosa das Crianças (2021). She has just released Ode triumphal à Cona (poetry, 2022) and Orlando — Tratado Sobre a Dignidade Humana (2022, TNDMII). The book Confissão was shortlisted for the Oceanos Award in 2021.

Jesse James

Cultural Programmer
Queer Art Competition

Jesse James (Vancouver, 1987). He lives and works between Lisbon and Ponta Delgada as a cultural programmer and independent curator. He co-founded Anda&Fala - Cultural Association, a multidisciplinary structure working from São Miguel in the Azores. Since 2011, he leads the artistic direction of Walk&Talk, the association's flagship project, an annual arts festival. In December 2020, he inaugurated vaga, a new cultural space in Ponta Delgada with a year-round program around the arts and knowledge. He is co-founder and part of the Fabric Arts Festival's curatorial team in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA. He has a degree in Tourism and Leisure from ESTH / IPG - specialization in Communication and Cultural Planning, and postgraduate in Curatorial Studies at FCSH, at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Photo: Mariana Lopes

Joana Frazão

Filmmaker
Documentary Competition

Joana Frazão was born in Lisbon in 1980. She graduated in Communication Sciences at FCSH, has a master’s in English and American Studies from FLUL, and a PhD in Comparative Studies with a thesis on cinema e museum. She attended the documentary course of the Ateliers Varan at Gulbenkian and worked as an assistant for Jorge Silva Melo. Alongside Raquel Marques, she directed the documentaries A Casa que eu Quero and Todos os Dias da Nossa Vida; and alongside Ana Eliseu, a series of experimental short films. Joana collaborated with Artistas Unidos, TNDM II, and Doc’s Kingdom. She works regularly as a translator, mainly for theatre.

Luciana Fina

Filmmaker, Artist
Queer Art Competition

Luciana Fina was born in Italy and lives and works in Lisbon since 1991. Filmmaker and visual artist, she has developed an extensive body of work for cinema, museums, theater and galleries. After working with Cinemateca Portuguesa as a film programmer, she made her debut as director in 1998, taking part in the generation that revitalized the documentary genre in Portugal. Between 2002 and 2003, with the installation CCM at the Fundação Gulbenkian and the triptych CHANTportraits at Museu do Chiado, focusing on themes of migration and portraiture, she began her career in exhibition spaces with film and site-specific installations. Her films, installations and site-specific works have been shown internationally at film festivals and in artistic contexts. She is represented in the collection of the CAM — Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and in the Collection Nouveaux Médias at the Centre Georges Pompidou.

Nathalie Mansoux

Filmmaker
Documentary Competition

Nathalie Mansoux is an author-filmmaker. She studied social anthropology at the Paris University X – Nanterre, and ISCTE, in Lisbon, where she works and lives since 2001. Through anthropology and cinema, her personal work explores human livelihood, its struggles and uncertainties, in that transitory time in which filmed territories turn into other places, with different values, both tangible and symbolic. She also works at a trainer in filmmaking and cinema awareness, namely with the Royal_Cine project, and Apordoc’s educational project. She directed, among others, Deportado (2012) and Il sogno mio d'amore (2018).

Photo: Sergio Sciammarella

Nuno Nolasco

Actor
Feature Film Competition

Nuno Nolasco was born in Lisbon in 1987. He graduated and held a master’s in Theatre by the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. In theatre he worked with stage directors Angélica Lidell, Romeo Castelucci, Carlos Pessoa, Alexis Henon, Maria Duarte, Ricardo Neves-Neves, John Romão, among others. On the screen, he was the leading role in Mar Infinito, by Carlos Amaral (Mostra de São Paulo, IFF Indianapolis); participated in Bem Bom, by Patrícia Sequeira (three nominations for best actor in a supporting role), and in Tornar-se um Homem na Idade Média, by Pedro Neves Marques (Ammodo Tiger Award at the IFF Rotterdam). He also worked with filmmakers Gabriel Abrantes, André Santos and Marco Leão, Vasco Araújo, among others.

Rita Azevedo Gomes

Filmmaker
Feature Film Competition

Since her first feature film, The Sound of the Earth Shaking (1990), Rita Azevedo Gomes has developed an independent approach to cinema. Her filmography includes Fragile as the World (2001), The 15th Stone (2004), A Woman’s Revenge (2011), Correspondences (2016), The Portuguese Woman (2018), Danses Macabres, Skeletons, and Other Fantasies (2019), co-directed with Pierre Léon and Jean-Louis Schefer, and The Kegelstatt Trio (2022). She also develops artistic projects in theatre and opera. Former film programmer at the Cinemateca Portuguesa.

Rodrigo Díaz

Producer
Short Film Competition & In My Shorts Competition

Rodrigo Díaz is a Chilean producer who graduated from the University of Chile. They participated as a judge at the 66^th San Sebastián Film Festival in the Nest Film Students category and attended the Rotterdam Lab 2021, organized by IFFR. They have produced several short films including Austral Fever (fiction), which premiered at the 76^th Venice Biennale, and also won the special mention of the jury at the 67^th San Sebastián Film Festival, Corrupted (hybrid), which premiered at Hot Docs 2022, and The Melting Creatures, which premiered at La Semaine de la Critique 2022.

Rui Madruga

Producer
Documentary Competition

Rui Madruga, 54-years-old, is a producer in the Contents Development coordination, in the documentary department, at RTP – Public Broadcasters, since October 2017. From 2004 to 2017 he was a technician in the self-promotion department. He elaborated several promos that were aired in the various RTP channels. Between 1992 and 2004 he was an editor for documentaries and news reports for RTP. He graduated in Film, Video and Multimedia Communication and holds a master’s in Film Studies, from Lusófona University.

Rui Palma

Photographer
Short Film Competition & In My Shorts Competition

Rui Palma is a photographer based in Lisbon. His work was exhibited in venues such as Galeria Foco, Senhora Presidenta, Queer Lisboa, Rivoli - Teatro Municipal do Porto. He took part of the VII Bienal Jovens Criadores, and of the Encontros da Imagem residency. He collaborated with magazines such as Vogue Portugal, FuckingYoung! and Vice.

Sandra de Almeida

Programmer
Short Film Competition & In My Shorts Competition

Sandra de Almeida was born and raised in Lisbon. Passionate for the arts and trained as an architect, she soon realized that her journey had to go through cinema, a refuge and safe haven since early. In 2005 she started that journey as a video producer, and in 2008 she started working in communication and marketing at Castello Lopes Multimédia. In 2010 she accepted the challenge and embraced the Shortcutz Lisboa project in which, among others, she is director and programmer. Besides this project, she still splits her time between film communication and digital communication.

Vasco Araújo

Artist
Queer Art Competition

Vasco Araújo was born in 1975 in Lisbon, where he lives and works. He completed his first degree in Sculpture in 1999 at FBAUL (Lisbon University School of Fine Art) and attended the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Maumaus in Lisbon, from 1999 to 2000. Since then, he has participated in various solo and group exhibitions both in Portugal and abroad, also taking part in residency programmes, such as Récollets, Paris (2005), and the Core Program (2003/04), Houston. In 2003, he was awarded the EDP Prize for New Artists. His work has been published in various books and catalogues and is represented in several public and private collections, such as the Art Institute Chicago or the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, among many others.

Adrián Silvestre

Filmmaker
Feature Film Competition

Adrián Silvestre (Valencia, Spain, 1981) studied Film Direction and History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture in Madrid and Cuba. He explores the limits between reality and fiction, and his films tend to be preceded by a process of close collaboration with specific communities where gender perspective is transversally implemented, and the empowerment of the participants is fostered.

André Godinho

Filmmaker
Short Film Competition

André Godinho (Lisboa, 1979) is a Portuguese filmmaker. He studied cinema at ESTC and attended the documentary course Les Ateliers Varan at FC Gulbenkian. He creates video for theatre, dance and opera plays, mainly with the companies Teatro Praga and Cão Solteiro, where he works as video-director, actor and co-creator.

Breno Baptista

Filmmaker
Short Film Competition

Breno Baptista (Fortaleza, 1989) is a filmmaker and screenwriter. His films have been screened at festivals such as Janela Internacional de Cinema in Recife, Tiradentes, For Rainbow or Porn Film Festival, in Berlin.

Eric Geynes

Actor
Short Film Competition

Eric Geynes is a british actor. He voices Jim in the short film The Perpetrators, by Richard Squires.

Esther Rollande

Actress
Feature Film Competition

Esther Rollande is one of the main actresses of the film Les meilleurs.

Guto Parente

Editor
Panorama

Guto Parente is the editor of the film Panteras.

João Pedro Rodrigues

Filmmaker
Opening Night

João Pedro Rodrigues started by studying Biology with the aim of becoming an ornithologist, before dedicating himself to Film Studies at Escola Superior de Cinema de Lisboa, where he graduated. His work is dedicated to the exploration of human desire, in all its aspects and forms, reflecting the diversity of cinema history, from classic fiction to documentary and experimental. His films have been screened and awarded at major international festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Locarno, and Berlin.

João Rui Guerra da Mata

Opening Night

João Rui Guerra da Mata is the screenwriter and art director of the film Fogo-Fátuo.

Joseph Wilson

Filmmaker
Short Film Competition

Joseph Wilson is a queer artist, activist and drag performer, living amongst the eclectic East London community. His work explores LGBTQI+ narratives, taking inspiration from his own lived experiences as well as documenting the people and places around him, amplifying their voices and celebrating their stories through his art.

Kevin Magne

Producer
Queer Art Competition

Kevin Magne is the producer of the film Travesía Travesti.

Korlei Rochat

Filmmaker
In My Shorts Competition

Korlei Rochat grew up in Lausanne and completed her bachelor’s degree in Film Directing at ÉCAL in 2019.

Luciënne Venner

Filmmaker
Short Film Competition

Writer and director Luciënne Venner graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2017. In her work, she creates worlds related to dreams and fantasies, and desire, eroticism and sexual identity are important themes.

Maurício Chades

Filmmaker
Short Film Competition

Maurício Chades is a Brazilian visual artist and filmmaker. Master’s in Art and Technology and Bachelor in Audiovisual from Universidade de Brasília, studying an MFA at the SAIC - School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Decomposition, death rituals, speculative fiction, interspecies relationships and tensions between city and forest are some of the subjects that cross his production.

Micheal Rice

Filmmaker
Panorama

Micheal Rice is a filmmaker, producer, choreographer and creative director for stage and film. His uncompromising vision is to bring the stories and art of LGBTQI+ communities of color to the forefront of society, fusing art and activism.

Photo: Christopher Marrs

Nicolás Videla

Filmmaker
Queer Art Competition

Nicolás Videla was born in Santiago de Chile in 1988. Multidisciplinary artist and university professor with studies in Audiovisual Direction and Social Communication, whose projects range between cinema and performance, with a special focus on memory and gender issues. As a drag queen performer, she goes by the name Amnesia Letal, having been part of different plays and art collectives promoting as a cultural management space for art, performance, and counter-sexuality.

Photo: Andrea Villalon

Olympe de G.

Filmmaker
Queer Art Competition

Olympe de G. is a pornography and pornophony director. Since 2015, she dreams of a more body positive, respectful, open, sincere and creatively ambitious pornography. She creates explicit contents out of love, passion and convictions, to propose creative alternatives to mainstream porn.

Patrick Muroni

Filmmaker
Documentary Competition

Patrick Muroni is a Swiss filmmaker who graduated in Cinema at the Lausanne University of Art and Design. He won the artistic encouragement prize of the city of Renens during his studies. After his training, he directed Un matin d'été, his first self-produced short fiction film, selected in several festivals around the world. He then directed his second short, Les Sentinelles. Ardente·x·s is his first feature-length documentary film, selected at Visions du Réel in Nyon.

Photo: Réal

Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro

Filmmaker
In My Shorts Competition

Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro (Belo Horizonte, 1993) works as a cultural producer and filmmaker in Lisbon. He studied Filmmaking in Paris, at ESEC, and holds a master’s degree in Multimedia Art from FBAUL (Lisbon). His main work and study fields are related with non-fiction and hybrid narratives through themes such as identity, memory and urban imagery.

Pedro Henrique França

Filmmaker
Documentary Competition

Pedro Henrique França is a filmmaker, screenwriter, journalist and "artivist". He has made several documentaries, ads, video clips and series. Founder of the production company Representa, the focus of his work is on the diversity of bodies and narratives in order to promote representation and human rights.

Raphaëlle Pérez

Actress
Feature Film Competition

Raphaëlle Pérez is the main actress of the film Mi Vacío y Yo.

Ricardo Branco

Filmmaker
Short Film Competition

Ricardo Branco (Amarante, 1992) has made several short films. His first feature film, Nossos Ossos, in development, was selected for the Torino FilmLab 2020 and the Eave+ 2020 programme. He also works regularly as a writer, script supervisor and assistant director, and is the creator and curator of the cultural festival Escrever nas Margens.

Photo: Rafael Amambahy

Richard Squires

Filmmaker
Short Film Competition

Richard Squires is a London-based visual artist and academic who works predominantly with film, drawing and animation. His work is shown internationally in galleries, broadcast and at film festivals.

Sacha Amaral

Filmmaker
Short Film Competition

Sacha Amaral is a Brazilian scriptwriter and filmmaker, based in Argentina. He graduated from Universidade Nacional de Artes – UMA, where he currently teaches dramaturgy.

Ticiana Augusto Lima

Producer
Panorama

Ticiana Augusto Lima is the producer of the film Panteras.