Jury and Guests
Andreia C. Coutinho
Illustrator, Education Mediator
Queer Art Competition
Andreia C. Coutinho is an illustrator and education mediator. Graduated in Painting by F.B.A.U.L and Master of the Arts in Illustration by the Kingston University London. Author of the zine Hair (Sapata Press 2018), and a frequent collaborator in various independent publishing projects in Portugal. Member of the UNA - União Negra das Artes. She’s been working in museums since 2010, with experience in Portugal and the UK, and collaborates with several mediation educational projects in museums, since 2013. She is one of the founding members of the activist collective for curation and active citizenship Colectivo FACA.
Cristina Carvalhal
Actress, Stage Director
Feature Film Competition
Cristina Carvalhal graduated in Theatre-Education (ESTC) in 1986, and works as an actress for theatre, film, and television. Awarded Best Theatre Newcomer-1989 and Best Female Performer-1993 (Sete newspaper). She directs the theatre company Causas Comuns since 2011, through which, among others, she created the shows Uma Família Portuguesa, presented in Turku, European Capital of Culture 2011, and A Orelha de Deus, SPA Award for Best Theatre Play 2010. Teacher in several universities. Co-founder of the Escola de Mulheres theatre company (1995). She directed the film Armários Vazios, based on the work of author M. Judite de Carvalho, Ukbar Filmes/RTP (2022).
Diogo Camões
Casting Director
Short Film Competition, "In My Shorts" Competition
Diogo Camões (Lisbon, 1984) studied Film Directing at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and did an internship at Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid, and was a fellow of the INOV-ART Program. He starts working as a casting assistant in films such as Mistérios de Lisboa, by Raoul Ruiz and Night Train to Lisbon, by Bille August. As a casting director he worked, among others, in Diamantino, by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, Légua, by Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra, A Semente do Mal, by Gabriel Abrantes, and On Falling, by Laura Carreira. He is now general director of the Portuguese Film Academy, where he works since 2017, having been responsible for the coordination of innumerous initiatives, among them two partnerships with Netflix focused on the inclusion of under-represented communities in film.
Jorge Braz Santos
Assistant Director
Queer Art Competition
Jorge Braz Santos was born in Lisbon in 1977 and studied Cinema at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. He started working in 1999, mainly as assistant director, editor, casting director, and continuity, in films by Vítor Gonçalves (A Vida Invisível, also as co-writer), João Pedro Rodrigues (Odete), João Salaviza (Arena), Catarina Ruivo (Daqui Pra Frente), Mário Barroso, Julião Sarmento, among many others.
June João
Actress
Short Film Competition, "In My Shorts" Competition
June João (FKA João Abreu) works (mainly) as an actress and performance artist. Between theatre, cinema, and visual arts, she collaborated in projects by Teatro Praga; Pedro Penim; Tita Maravilha; Ontroerend Goed; João Polido; André Godinho; Ricardo Branco; Leonardo Mouramateus; Rita Barbosa; Alice dos Reis; Isadora Neves Marques; among others. Alongside filmmaker Tomás Paula Marques, she co-created the performance-screening When We Dead Awaken, presented at Batalha Centro de Cinema, and they are about to premiere a feature film they co-wrote together. Notably, she is the hostess of the Karalhoke event.
Madalena Fragoso
Filmmaker, Producer
Short Film Competition, "In My Shorts" Competition
Madalena Fragoso was born in Lisbon in 1992. She is a filmmaker and producer working mainly in producing short and feature films, having collaborated with filmmakers such as Mário Barroso, João Mário Grilo, Ivo Ferreira, João Vladimiro, Marta Mateus, Joana Cunha Ferreira, André Godinho, Flávio Gonçalves, and Tatiana Ramos. She premiered her debut feature film, A Casa e os Cães, in 2019, and is currently finishing her next film, As Flores. She is the founder and programmer of the online film platform NOVOCINE.
Márcio Laranjeira
Filmmaker
Feature Film Competition
“I’m from the suburbs of a small northern town. Raised by my mother, within a social environment of which Cinema was not a part of. But she used to drop me there, when we went to town. And when the time came, with sacrifice, she let me go. I made my films: about mothers and children; being gay, being Fora de Quadro; hope, when A Ilusão Permanece; also, being Uma Rapariga da Sua Idade. I will endure writing the theatre play and the film I’m developing, and not abandoning O Prostituto Português nor my Acting students. And now, also for my mother, I will premiere my Casa-Abrigo, taking it where Cinema didn’t arrive.” M.L.
Maria João Gama
TV Host
Documentary Competition
Maria João Gama is graduated in Modern Languages and Literature/Portuguese Studies, with a post-grad in Education Sciences, and a master’s in African Literatures. As a director and screenwriter, she produced several documentaries for RTP, among them "Amália, Amá-la", "Gostava de Vos Ver Aqui", and "Mariema, Uma Carreira". Works that offer a unique gaze upon iconic personalities of the Portuguese artistic and cultural panorama. Since 1992 she has ventured in front of the cameras as a TV host, having conducted dozens of programs for RTP. Besides television, she was a teacher and wrote “O Universo Feminino em António Aurélio Gonçalves”.
Paula Monteiro
Activist
Documentary Competition
Paula Monteiro was born in 1989, but it took her over 30 years to find and meet herself, an ongoing process. She continues her (de)construction path, that she believes will last her whole life. She is graduated in Social Education and still questions if it’s utopian to believe in a fairer and more equal world, where Human Rights are effectively respected. Queer and pansexual woman, more and more frequently she uses the term lesbian to name herself, as a political claim. She is now part of the Clube Safo Association directors board, but she started doing activism in 2021, still without the pretention of naming it as such.
Pedro Gomes
Artist
Queer Art Competition
Pedro Gomes was born in Mozambique in 1972 and lives and works in Lisbon. MFA by the Chelsea College of Art in London. Advanced Course of Visual Arts at the Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, Ar.Co, Lisbon. Fellow from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. He has been exhibiting since the 1990s. His work is represented in public and private collections in Portugal and abroad, such as CAM - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Coleção António Cachola, Elvas; Coleção EDP, Lisbon; MUDAS, Madeira; PLMJ, Lisbon.
Renata Ferraz
Filmmaker, Artist, Researcher
Documentary Competition
Renata Ferraz is a filmmaker-artist-researcher. Having worked as a stage actress for two decades, she felt seduced my multimedia art, cinema, and queer studies. Moving between worlds, her activity today is focused on researching shared creation in film (Labcom/UBI and CIEBA/Ulisboa), and in directing films with non-hegemonic narratives and characters. Instead of making films about people, she prefers to make them with them. As she is developing the script for her next film, her previous film Rising Sun Blues continues to make its career.
Tita Maravilha
Actress, Stage Director
Feature Film Competition
Tita Maravilha, actress, programmer, singer, performer, and clown. As a political body, her artistic process brings forward the pain and delight of being a dissident body. Graduated by the University of Brasília in 2018. Brazilian, living in Portugal since 2018, she develops, alongside artist CIGARRA, the electronic music and performance project “TRYPAS-CORASSÃO”. Filmmaker and curator of Precárias: Performance festival. Among others, she acted in “The Anger, The Fury”, by Sónia Baptista; “Mina”, by Carlota Lagido; and “On Revelations and Muddy Becomings”, by Odete. She won the 5th edition of the Amélia Rey Colaço scholarship with the project “Es Tr3s Irms”.
