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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 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.
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
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.