Jury and Guests

Jury

Guests

Cy Lecerf Maulpoix

Journalist, Activist
Official Competition

Cy Lecerf Maulpoix has been part of queer and climate justice collectives in France since COP21. As an independent journalist, he has written about social struggles, migrations, queer culture and literature through interviews, investigations published in the general and specialized press. Author of Écologies déviantes (Cambourakis 2021), and Edward Carpenter et l'Autre Nature (Le Passager Clandestin 2022), he is currently pursuing several writing projects on the links between sexual liberation struggles, ecology, and anti-capitalism.

Photo: Marie Rouge

Isabel Roma

Producer
Official Competition

Isabel Roma was born in 1977 in Porto and works as a TV producer at RTP. She started by working in tourism, her initial qualification. Television came by chance, which led her to study audiovisual communication. In the meantime, she also graduated in information sciences. She works at RTP since 1999, where she has produced contents in music, theatre, and documentary, so as large-scale special events organized by the public broadcaster. In parallel, she is a researcher in genealogy, participates in podcasts about music, and collaborates informally on the promotion of musical projects.

Joana Caetano

Researcher
Casa Comum Award

Joana Caetano is a collaborator at the CETAPS - Centre for English and Anglo-Portuguese Studies and is doing her PhD at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, with a project financed by the FCT [Ref. SFRH/BD/140673/2018]. As a researcher, she has dedicated herself to Utopian and Science Fiction Studies, Feminist Studies, and Anglo-American Literatures. She publishes articles in diverse reference magazines and often participates in scientific and cultural events.

João Vladimiro

Filmmaker
Official Competition

João Vladimiro was born in 1981 in Porto. He graduated in Graphic Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. In dance/performance he highlights: Circolando (1999-2012), Madalena Victorino, Karine Ponties, and Joana Providência. Of his cinematic adventure: Pé na terra (2006) – Best Portuguese Director short film award, IndieLisboa; Jardim (2008), Lacrau (2013) – Best Portuguese Feature and Árvore da Vida, Indie Lisboa; Anteu (2018) – four main awards at three Portuguese festivals. These films were screened in festivals such as: Fid Marseille, Mar de Plata, Viennale, Seville, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Rotterdam, and Buenos Aires, always in the main competitions.

José Paulo Santos

Filmmaker
Casa Comum Award

José Paulo Santos was born in Coimbra in 1979 and lives in Matosinhos. He has worked in independent filmmaking since 2013. Some of his films include ...além da sala de espera, that is part of the National Film Plan, Circunstâncias, Observador, 13h and 1965 | Panreal, um edifício de Nadir Afonso. They have been screened in over 100 international film festivals, and won over 40 International Awards. He has served as a jury in several international film festivals. He is currently doing his PhD at Vigo University, where he is directing a film on the poet Avelino Díaz, in a Galician Argentinian production.

Paulo Brás

Performer, Bookseller
Casa Comum Award

Since 2009, Paulo Brás has simultaneously developed, and often in an impure fashion, a path in both the letters and the performing arts. He participated in Queer Porto 1 with the installation "only connect", about quotation as a means to preserve memory in queer culture. In 2001, alongside Ricardo Braun, he opened Livraria aberta, Porto’s first queer bookshop, and the only one in activity in the country.

Ary Zara

Filmmaker
Prémio Casa Comum

Ary Zara has a degree in Cinema and Multimedia Communication by Universidade Lusófona in Lisbon. After the career of his first short film, he's currently working on his next film project.

Bernardo Nabais

Filmmaker
Casa Comum Award

Bernardo Nabais is a Portuguese journalist, producer, and filmmaker. However, he started as an actor, having worked with stage directors Jorge Silva Melo, Rogério de Carvalho and Luís Miguel Cintra. As a producer, he was part of the fiction series Ministério do Tempo and the program Duplas à Portuguesa. As a journalist, he directed the documentary series Primeira Pedra. In film, he was part of the art direction team for the film Ruth, directed by António Botelho.

Carlos Lobo

Filmmaker
Casa Comum Award

Carlos Lobo is a photographer, musician, researcher, and programmer in the field of photography. He directed several short films, shown at festivals such as Porto/Post/Doc, and at CAAA - Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitetura (Guimarães), being also one of the founders of the latter.

Photo: Mattia Sangiorgi

Catarina de Sousa

Producer
Casa Comum Award

Catarina de Sousa (Portugal, 1985) is a filmmaker, journalist and a cinema and visual arts producer. Master in Communication Sciences from Universidade do Minho, with training at the Documentary Workshops at Ateliers Varan, France. She was artist-in-residence at UnionDocs, in New York, and a scholarship of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. As a journalist, he worked for Agência de Notícias LUSA and Barcelona Televisió, and collaborated with Mídia Ninja, from Brazil.

Filipe Martins

Filmmaker
Casa Comum Award

Filipe Martins is film director, professor at Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design (Porto) and researcher at the Philosophy Institute of the University of Porto. Post-doctorate in Philosophy (FLUP), PhD in Communication Sciences (UM), master in Contemporary Culture and New Technologies (UNL) and graduated in Art and Communication (ESAP). He wrote and organized several books on Cinema and Narrative. His filmography includes films in the genres of fiction and documentary, selected and awarded at several international film festivals.

Griet Pauwels

Eco-feminist
Queer Focus

Griet Pauwels, eco-feminist, is a member of The Quinta Project (Marvão). Along with Stephan Dahl, she participates in the Festival in the talk following the exhibition of the film Three (or More) Ecologies.

João Gabriel

Artist
Casa Comum Award

João Gabriel is a young promise of contemporary Portuguese painting. His work is marked by the presence of the male figure, eroticism and desire from American pornographic films of the 70s and 80s.

Joaquim Castro

Filmmaker
Special Screenings

Joaquim Castro is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and film editor. In 2020 he is an Oscar candidate as editor and sound designer with the documentary Democracia em Vertigem, by Petra Costa, which was the opening film of the Sundance Film Festival, in 2019. His first feature as a director was Dominguinhos, now streaming on Apple TV, and that won the Audience Awards for Best Documentary at the Grande Prémio do Cinema Brasileiro, in 2015, having been selected for many film festivals in Brazil and around the world. He also worked in many awarded documentaries on Brazilian musicians.

Laurence Turcotte-Fraser

Filmmaker
Official Competition

Laurence Turcotte-Fraser is a filmmaker and cinematographer based in Montreal, Canada. Multifaceted artist, her aim is to bring humanity and justice to the forefront of her work. Her previous projects include cinematography on fiction films and directing of short films Le temps d'ériger un clocher, Marée and Domino. The End of Wonderland is her first directorial feature film. This documentary, which was completed over seven years, gives space to a voice often unheard, that of trans sex workers.

Photo: Émilie L Côté

Loren Chatterton

Production Manager
Official Competition

Loren Chatterton is the production manager of the documentary La fin de Wonderland.

Lucas Weglinski

Filmmaker
Special Screenings

Lucas Weglinski has worked for over 20 years as a filmmaker and visual artist. He created two films alongside Tunga: Quimera (Cannes, Sundance, MoMA, MALBA), and Medula (Beaubourg Collection). He was audio-visual curator of the exhibition Ventos Fortes (with Alberto Renault and Heloisa Buarque de Holanda, in 2010). For the UN he organized several audio-visual exhibitions for Rio+20, in 2012. In 2021 he releases his first feature as a filmmaker and editor, Máquina do Desejo - 60 Anos do Teatro Oficina. He just released his second feature, A Música Natureza de Léa Freire. He directed over 12 short films, and produced another five, which were selected in important film festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, Guadalajara, and Havana.

Renata Ferraz

Filmmaker
Official Competition

Renata Ferraz was born in São Paulo, Brazil. She majored in Scenic Arts (UNESP) and worked as an actress for 20 years. She was a part of theatre research groups and performed with nationally and internationally renowned theatre directors. The violence suffered both in her hometown and her profession, as well as her passion for moving images led her to escape to Lisbon. She began with creations in video art and afterwards, fictional shorts. She considers the processes pertaining to film construction a space for experimentation and investigation. In Lisbon, she also attained a master’s degree in Multimedia – Audiovisual (FBAUL) and a doctorate in Performative Arts and Moving Images (Ulisboa).

Stephan Dahl

Echo-queer activist
Queer Focus

Stephan Dahl is the founder of the Quinta Project, an ecoqueer experimental space located in the Alto Alentejo. Organised along ecovillage principles, the project is a hybrid project: The land project, a 5.5 hectare farm, is the place of practice for Quinters and we hold gatherings with topics such as queering permaculture, ecofeminist and ecosensual exploration, research and various creative weeks here. In addition, the community work is organised online to allow for Quinters from everywhere to join the project, connect with each other and engage with the ideas through thematic and functional “pods".