Experts and Tutors

ADVISORS

ANDREA QUERALT

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Born in Spain, based in Paris, she has been a member of the production company 4A4 Productions since 2015. She has co-produced films such as Pepe by Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias (Silver Bear Berlinale 2024), O que arde by Oliver Laxe (Jury Prize at Cannes Un certain Regard 2019), Sobre todo de noche by Víctor Iriarte (Venice Days 2023), Matadero by Santiago Fillol (Locarno 2022) or Avant la fin de l'été by Maryam Goormaghtigh (ACID Cannes 2017). She is currently producing the upcoming films of Oliver Laxe and Ben Rivers. In 2020, she was the French representative of Producers on the Move. She has taught workshops at the Master's Degree in Creative Documentary at institutions such as Pompeu Fabra University, the international centre for contemporary culture Tabakalera San Sebastián, Márgenes Madrid, ESAV Marrakech and Harvard Film Study Center.

CHRISTINA DEMETRIOU

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Born in the UK, Christina holds a BA in Media and Communications and an MA in Gender, Media, and Culture Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. After moving to Berlin, she worked at Coproduction Office from 2017 to 2021, managing the festival strategies for both new and catalogue titles. She has also programmed and curated film events in various contexts, including the pop-up screening series LUNAR, which she founded in 2015, the Arctic Film & Moving-Image Festival (Norway), and the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (UK). In 2021, Christina founded the boutique sales agency Oyster Films, which represents innovative and artistically driven new cinema. The Oyster catalogue includes Miryam Charles' award-winning debut feature Cette maison, named one of Sight & Sound's 50 Best Films of 2022. The agency also represents artist-filmmaker Valentin Noujaïm and Ayoung Kim, whose XR film Delivery Dancer's sphere won a Prix Ars Electronica award and was acquired for the Tate collection. Christina also works as a press officer for arthouse films.

CINTIA GIL

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Born in Portugal, Cíntia Gil was the director of Doclisboa, in Portugal, and Sheffield DocFest (UK). Gil created the cinema club “Artistic Differences”, with Jenny Miller and Christopher Allen, at UnionDocs (NY), and joined the programming team of Cannes Directors Fortnight. Cíntia has curated film series and exhibitions, and has taught seminars, lectures and workshop in different institutions, such as Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico, EICTV in Cuba, and HGK Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in Germany, among others. She is a member of the Board of Apordoc – Portuguese Documentary Association and has served on juries in festivals such as Berlinale, Cairo, Mar del Plata, Jerusalem, Taiwan, FidMarseille, DokuFest, and Ficunam, among others.

LOLA MAYO

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Lola Mayo is a screenwriter and film professor. Through her production company, Lolita Films, founded 25 years ago, she has written and produced auteur films in collaboration with director Javier Rebollo (Lo que sé de Lola, La mujer sin piano, E l muerto y ser feliz). She is the screenwriter of recent releases such as En la alcoba del Sultán (Javier Rebollo, 2024) and El amor de Andrea (Manuel Martín Cuenca, 2023). She teaches Audiovisual Narratives at Carlos III University of Madrid, in the Screenwriting Diploma program at ECAM, and at the Audiovisual School Lens. Additionally, she is a regular advisor at various labs and residencies, including Márgenes, Documenta Madrid, CIMA One to One, the Spanish Film Academy's Residency Program, the Navarra Residency, and the DAMA Second Version Lab.
LOUISE MARTIN PAPASIAN

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After she studied philosophy in Paris and Buenos Aires and obtained a Master's Degree in Documentary Creation at the INA (French national audiovisual institute), she directed her first short film Appelé (2021). The film was selected for several festivals, including Visions du Réel, Golden Apricot and Festifreak La Plata. She has been a member of the FIDMarseille selection committee since 2021. She graduated from the film school Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola's Master's Degree in Creation in 2023. She has served on several juries (Beirut Shorts, Cinehorizontes, Go Short Nijmegen, FICValdivia), and she has recently contributed to the magazines Sabzian and Fidback.

NADINE ROTHSCHILD

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Nadine Rothschild is a producer and international sales agent.
Her career as a producer includes the debut films such as La Imatge Permanent by Laura Ferrés, which premiered at the Locarno international competition, won the Golden Spike at the SEMINCI 2023 festival and was nominated for a Goya and three Gaudí Awards. She has also produced Un lugar común by Celia Giraldo, which is currently touring Spanish festivals. She is the co-founder of the production company Materia Cinema. She has more than 15 years of experience in international sales. Since 2020, she has been sales director at Coproduction Office, where she managed the sales of Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund (Palme d'Or 2022 and nominated for three Oscars), as well as the latest films by Ulrich Seidl, Lou Ye, Jessica Hausner and Michelangelo Frammartino. Previously, she was head of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American operations at UniFrance in 2019 and 2020, sales director at Celluloid Dreams in Paris and marketing director at WestEnd Films in London. She has worked with directors Fernando León de Aranoa, Ralph Fiennes, Jeremy Sa ulnier, Tomm Moore, Takeshi Kitano or Xavier Legrand, among many others. Nadine is Argentinian and German. She has spent half her life in France, where she studied film at the University of Paris Denis Diderot and at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, specialising in film production and distribution. She participated in EAVE Puentes in 2020.
NATALIA MARIN

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Natalia Marín (Zaragoza, 1982) is a filmmaker, producer and teacher. Her artistic work began in 2008 when she created the experimental film and video collective "Los hijos" with Javier Fernández Vázquez (director and producer of Anunciaron tormenta) and Luis López Carrasco (director of El año del descubrimiento). His work has been screened at festivals and art centres around the world such as Locarno, TIFF Toronto Film Festival, Viennale, FID Marseille, Jeonju International Film Festival, Mar de Plata Festival, Centre Pompidou, among others.  In 2019 she won the Best Film Award in the Escáner section of Márgenes with her short film La casa de Julio Iglesias. As a programmer, she has been a member of the selection committee of the San Sebastian Film Festival and has coordinated the programming of Filmoteca Española for the last six years. As a teacher, she specialises in hybrid forms of non-fiction, mentoring projects at the film school EQZE (Elías Querejeta Zine Escola) and collaborating annually with the international film and TV school EICTV San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba). She also works with the film schools of Catalonia and Madrid, (ESCAC and ECAM, respectively) among others.



PAMELA BIENZOBAS

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Chilean-French critic, producer, programmer and consultant. Member of the feature film selection committee of the Locarno Film Festival. She has a long career as a consultant for funds, labs, residencies and industry events, selecting, evaluating and advising projects at different stages, from development to post-production. She has collaborated with Abycine Lanza, CineGouna Platform, First Cut Lab, Doha Film Institute, Biennale College Cinema, Torino Film Lab, visions sud est, La Fabrique Cinéma, among many others. She has also moderated meetings in festivals such as FICX Gijón, IFFRotterdam or Berlinale Forum. As a critic, she has published in magazines, newspapers, books and specialised sites for more than two decades.

EXPERTS

EMILIO TOMÉ

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Born and based in Madrid, he develops his work between performing arts and audiovisual creation. His documentary piece I'm still here (2012) was presented in living arts contexts. Together with filmmaker Sergio Oksman, he wrote the screenplay for A story for the Modlins (2013). The film won more than 70 international awards including Clermont-Ferrand, Karlovy Vary and the Goya for Best Documentary Short Film. He directed and wrote the feature film Sinfonía de verano: retrato de una ciudad (2018), produced by Veranos de la Villa/MAD. He developed the expanded film project Home Cinema (2022) supported by Fabra i Cots/BCN. He has been part of the selection committee of Documenta Madrid and has directed "El lugar sin límites", a performing arts festival at the Centro Dramático Nacional. He teaches dramatic text at the ECAM (School of Cinematography and Audiovisuals of the Community of Madrid) and he is also a tutor for documentary film training. 
MANUEL PALOS

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He has worked as an editor in the section of culture for several newspapers, as an editor in advertising agencies and as an assistant director/producer in films and television series. He has also collaborated in cultural publications and has been a lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid and the Carlos III University of Madrid. Thirteen years ago, he joined Avalon, an independent film production and distribution company. He started as head of communications for the Home Video division, then he worked as head of press for the company, and later he was the director of marketing and communications. During this time, he has been in charge of films by directors such as Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold, Ruben Ostlund, Jacques Audiard, Isaki Lacuesta, Carla Simón, Aki Kaurismäki and Víctor Erice, among many others. He currently coordinates the distribution department and the launch of all Avalon's premieres. He also attends European festivals and markets (mainly Cannes and Berlinale) as part of the acquisitions team.

PABLO MARÍN

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Pablo Marín (Buenos Aires, 1982) is a filmmaker and writer. As an independent researcher and curator, he has presented programmes on Argentinean cinema in the United States, Canada, Spain, Austria, Finland and Switzerland. He has translated books by Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage and John Waters, among others, and his volume on Argentine experimental cinema, "Una luz revelada. El cine experimental argentino", was published in 2022. His film Resistfilm (2014) won the best Avant-Garde Film at Filmadrid, while Trampa de luz (2021) was awarded the Principal Online Prize of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.

RAW TUTORS

INÉS CALERO

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Inés Calero studied journalism at the University of Valencia and obtained a Master's Degree in Documentary and Transmedia Reporting at the Carlos III University of Madrid. In 2022, she specialised in film curating at the film school Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE), where she was a student researcher at the San Sebastian Film Festival archive. She is co-founder, together with Laura García, of Docs&Talks, a podcast dedicated to the analysis of non-fiction cinema, as well as teaching workshops on autofiction. She has also collaborated with the podcast contents of Dirdira Lab's expanded platform and between 2020 and 2021 she co-directed Última Fila, a current cinema podcast on Valenciaplaza. She has programmed the exhibition "Somewhere from here to heaven", curated by Garbiñe Ortega at Azkuna Zentroa, and collectively at the Tabakalera cultural center in San Sebastián. She has worked in the industry department of the San Sebastián International Film Festival and in the production team of the Dock of the Bay festival. Her interests revolve around filmographies of the self and the hybridisation of film languages. She is currently responsible for festival distribution at Begin Again Films, which she combines with the independent production and circulation of several non-fiction projects.
PATRICIA SARAMAGO

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Born in lisbon in 1975. graduated from the lisbon theatre and film school. She works mostly as an editor, but also as assistant director, and also directed some videos. has occasionally taught training courses. She has edited several award-winning and internationally recognised films by directors such as Pedro Costa, Rita Azevedo Gomes, Alberto Seixas Santos, Eloy Enciso and Aly Muritiba.
STEfANIE BAUMANN

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Researcher at CineLab/IFILNOVA (NOVA University of Lisbon), where she coordinates the working group Thinking Documentary Film. She taught philosophy, aesthetics and contemporary art theory at University Paris VIII, Ashkal Alwan Beirut, the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Fine Arts in Dresden, and Maumaus (Lisbon). She has collaborated with artists such as Esther Shalev-Gerz, Marie Voignier and Mounira Al Solh.

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