Jury and Guests

Jury

Guests

Diogo Nóbrega

Professor and Researcher
Portuguese Short Film Competition

Teaches Film Analysis at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto and is a researcher at the Centre for Research in Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR). He holds a PhD from NOVA University Lisbon and was a visiting researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. His work lies at the intersection of cinema, philosophy and political theory, and has been presented at international conferences and published in leading journals in various countries. He is the author of Deleuze and Democratic Perversion (Figura I), Solar System – Documenta, 2025.

Joana Ferraz

Lawyer and Writer
Official Competition

A lawyer and writer, she works in the legal department at RTP, where she oversees and negotiates contracts relating to production, copyright, licensing and the exploitation of audiovisual content. She is also co-author and presenter of a radio show on RDP Internacional, Guia de Viagem. In 2011, she won the FNAC New Talents Award for her short story Maria Uma Breve História, which was adapted to cinema in 2018. In 2020, she published her first novel, Cassiopeia, with Coolbooks, part of Porto Editora. In 2026, Rosa Almerinda with Urutau. Her writing draws inspiration from human experiences and the narratives that emerge from everyday life.

Joana Gusmão

Producer and Film Programmer
Official Competition

Studied English Literature at Porto University and holds an MA in Text and Performance Studies from RADA/King’s College. She was production coordinator at Terratreme Filmes and in 2014, she co-founded the production company Primeira Idade having co-produced The Metamorphosis of the Birds by Catarina Vasconcelos. She joined Doclisboa in 2015 working as a production director and then executive director. She’s a programmer at Porto/Post/Doc since 2022. At the invitation of Batalha Film Centre, she programmed the ‘Seleção Nacional’ film series, dedicated to Portuguese cinema and its history, in collaboration with Carlos Natálio and Luísa Sequeira.

Juan Luis Toboso

Curator
Official Competition

He develops curatorial projects both independently and in collaboration with art centres such as the IVAM – Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Culturgest-Porto, Azkuna Zentroa and Artium in the Basque Country, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, and the Sarria Triennial in Lugo, amongst others. Toboso was curator of the Galeria Municipal do Porto (2019–2024) and a jury member for acquisition awards and international competitions, such as the international selection for the 24th Cerveira International Arts Biennial and the 31st Curtas Vila do Conde. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Zaragoza, and a visiting lecturer at ESAP – Porto School of Art.

Lia Chaves

Student
Portuguese Short Film Competition

Born in Viana de Castelo, she holds a degree in Literature and Interartistic Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. She undertook an internship at the Casa Comum of the University of Porto’s Rectorate, where she organised two cultural events. She is currently studying for a Master’s degree in Literary, Cultural and Interartistic Studies at the same faculty, where she is seeking to deepen her knowledge in her areas of greatest interest: cinema, literature, and feminist, queer and postcolonial studies.

Mariana Bártolo

Filmmaker
Portuguese Short Film Competition

Mariana Bártolo is a filmmaker, performer, and multimedia artist who lives between Germany and Portugal. She finished her studies at KHM - Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2020. “Seagulls cut through the sky” (2023), co-written and co-directed with Guillermo García López, premiered in Cannes at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes program “Directors Factory, North Portugal”. Her other short films, ”Mansa” (2021) and “Whale Beards” (2021), were screened in several international festivals. She has been involved in various productions mainly associated with documentary and performance, and develops parallel projects in the areas of photography, installation, and drawing. She is currently working on her new experimental documentaries “At the table” and “The loss of the night”.

Photo: João Brites

Abril Xavier

Protagonist
Portuguese Short Film Competition

Abril Xavier is one of the protagonists of the film "Abril, Helena's Daughter", by Maria Moreira and Victor Hugooli, which integrates the Portuguese Short Film Competition.

Anne Gauldin

Co-Scriptwriter

Anne Gauldin is a feminist artist, graphic designer, and business entrepreneur. She received her M.A. through the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Los Angeles Woman's Building, exploring prehistoric archaeological sites in Western Europe and contemporary feminist art and education. Gauldin served as the Slide Librarian at the Woman's Building overseeing the archives and the Center for Feminist Art Historical Studies collection created by Arlene Raven and Ruth Iskin. Gauldin was a founding member of The Waitresses and Sisters Of Survival performance art collectives, worked as a typographer in the Women's Graphic Center and ran her own successful graphic design company for many years. Recently she collaborated with Cheri Gaulke as a producer and writer of the 2018 documentary film Gloria's Call. Gauldin's work has been exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally.

António Manso Preto

Artista and writer
Queer Focus

A Portuguese artist and writer currently living in Amsterdam. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts—Multimedia (FBAUP) and a master’s degree in Critical Studies (Sandberg Instituut). His work focuses primarily on writing, publishing, and installation, through an approach that is both archival and emotional. His recent practice explores the possibility of a homosexual semiotics, cruising as a symbolic practice, and the lover as a character in an earthly mysticism.

Photo: Josh Kroll

EJ Marcus

Actor
Official Competition

EJ Marcus is the lead actor on the film "Something You Should Know About Me", by Andy Fidoten, which integrates the Official Competition.

Carla Cruz

Visual Artist and Teacher
Panorama

Carla Cruz is a visual artist and professor at the University of Minho. She co-founded the ZOiNA collective and coordinated the feminist project All My Independent Wo/men. Since 2007, she has been an active member of the Association of Friends of Praça do Anjo, and in 2011, she launched the Finding Money project. In 2019, she founded the study group “Leituras Feministas” (i2ADS) and co-edited the book Conversas Desalinhadas (2025). Together with Cláudia Lopes, she conducts artistic research on non-human temporalities, recently exhibited at CAAA. She has been exhibiting since 2001, and her work is included in collections such as the Municipal Collection of Porto and the Norlinda and José Lima Collection.

Helena Costa

Protagonist
Portuguese Short Film Competition

Helena Costa is one of the protagonists of the film "Abril, Helena's Daughter", by Maria Moreira and Victor Hugooli, which integrates the Portuguese Short Film Competition.

Hal Moskowitz

Activist
Queer Resistance

Hal Moskowitz is a veteran gay-rights activist and one of the earliest community leaders in the fight against HIV/AIDS, dedicating more than three decades to frontline advocacy, education, and organizing. As the longest-serving member of the Board of Directors of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), he helped shape the organization’s volunteer, education, and development programs while supporting communities devastated by the epidemic. A committed member of ACT UP, he brought civil disobedience, public pressure, and relentless activism to the struggle for treatment access and government accountability. He later helped found Gays Against Guns, coordinating high-visibility actions in Washington, D.C., New York City, and at gun manufacturers’ headquarters. Professionally, Moskowitz dedicated his career to helping children and adults with special needs gain mobility through advanced seating, design, and positioning expertise, and he authored training curricula including a widely used Trans introduction to clinical practice. He and his husband, John Murphy, co-chair the LGBTQ+ Caucus for Democrats Abroad Spain, mobilizing U.S. voters across the country. Lifelong New Yorkers, Moskowitz and Murphy, now live in Madrid.

Andy Fidoten

Filmmaker
Official Competition

Andy Fidoten is a New York filmmaker, former punk, and proud transsexual. His short films have screened at MoMA, the London Short Film Festival, and Final Girls Berlin. Before turning to film, he toured the country with feminist rock outfit T-Rextasy.

Cheri Gaulke

Filmmaker
Panorama

Cheri Gaulke is a pioneer in the feminist art movement in Los Angeles and an award-winning filmmaker whose films have screened in national and international film festivals. Gaulke's work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Museum of Contemporary Art (LA), in a Smithsonian-touring exhibition, and in settings all over the world. Known for her solo performance art, she also co-founded the collaborative performance groups Feminist Art Workers and Sisters Of Survival. "Acting Like Women" is her feature film debut.

Photo: Annie Sprinkle

Guard TheO Pressed

Activist
Noites no Passos

Guard TheO Pressed is an American LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS activist focused on workplace discrimination, HIV treatment and prevention, marriage equality, and environmental justice. After becoming HIV positive in 2000, he served on the National Board of the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, expanded financial planning and life insurance access for people living with HIV, testified in the PrEP discrimination case GLAD v. Mutual of Omaha, and administered San Francisco’s HIV/AIDS Provider Network. His recent work raises awareness of LGBTQ environmental issues and climate change.

Lexie Bean

Filmmaker
Official Competition

Lexie Bean (they/he) is a trans multimedia artist whose work revolves around themes of bodies, homes, cyclical violence, and queer identity. They have been working with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault for over 15 years - generating events, writings, books, and short films - with a special focus on fellow trans and childhood sexual abuse survivors. “What Will I Become?” is Lexie's co-directed debut feature documentary.

Maria Moreira

Filmmaker
Portuguese Short Film Competition

Maria Moreira is a film director and producer with a bachelor’s degree from ESAP and a master’s degree in Film from UCP. Her work focuses on documentary filmmaking and real-life stories. She directed “Sónia” (2022), which premiered at IndieLisboa, and the series “(IN)VISIBLE” for Canal180. In 2025, she received the Pascaud–Filmaporto Grant to develop “Meio-Tom”. In 2026, she co-directed “Abril, Helena's Daughter”, winner of the Novíssimos Award at IndieLisboa 2026 and the MUTIM Award. She also works in production, programming, and cultural mediation.

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Transdisciplinary artist
Queer Focus

A transdisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance, writing, film and the visual arts. His work is structured around cycles and long-term projects, combining conceptual research, formal experimentation and a strong self-reflective dimension. In 2025, he was awarded the VS – Ernesto Sampaio Literary Prize for his book *The Year the Locusts Ate*. His publications include *Essays on Holiness* (Sr. Teste, 2021), *The Book of Daniel and Other Texts* (Urutau, 2024) and *The Importance of Being – An Anthology* (Sistema Solar, 2025).

Photo: ̶m̶i̶g̶u̶e̶l̶ bonneville

Miguel De

Filmmaker
Portuguese Short Film Competition

Miguel De (Ovar, 1992) is a transdisciplinary artist who works with photography, writing, performance, music and video. He holds a Master’s degree in Photography from the School of Arts at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2022) and a Bachelor’s degree in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies from the Escola Superior Artística do Porto (2013). He lives in Braga.

Odete

Multidisciplinary artist
Queer Focus

Odete is the pseudonym of Levi Gabriel Carvalho, a multidisciplinary artist who works in writing, music, theatre and the visual arts. He has been researching and working on forging links between ‘effeminate’ narratives, ranging from Baroque castrati to 19th-century dandies. In recent years, he has created the productions "As Mulheres que Celebram as Tesmofórias" (TNDMII/Teatro Variedades), "On Revelations and Muddy Becomings" (MAAT), and "Nacionalismo" (TBA). He has written the books "The Elder Femme and Other Stone Writings" and "They Lied to You About the Eunuchs".

Photo: Renato Chorão

Ricardo Braun

Programmer and bookseller
Queer Focus

With a degree in Sound and Image from UCP, Ricardo Braun served as an assistant to Nuno Cardoso, Rogério de Carvalho, and João Pedro Vaz in dramaturgy and directing. In 2012, he founded OTTO and co-directed "Katzelmacher", based on the play and film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He has directed plays based on works by Jean Anouilh and Ben Jonson/Stefan Zweig, and has translated works by Marius von Mayenburg, Lars Norén, and Ödön von Horváth. He co-curated the “Mythologies: Sacred Places, Mythical Times” series for the Batalha Film Center. He writes regularly about cinema. From Tuesday through Saturday, he works as a bookseller at Livraria aberta.

Sister Adora Bull

Activist
Noites no Passos

Sister Adora Bull began her work as a Sister in San Francisco in 2007. She has served as Board Sexytary, chaired the SF Order’s 31st Anniversary and Hunky Jesus celebration, led SF Fog Rugby as its first Rugger Nun, and co-founded Chicago’s Second City Sisters. Inspired by sacred-cow iconography, her ministry builds bridges between commoonities through mootual aid and support for marginalized groups. She advocates for immigrants, Indigenous peoples, trans rights, worker protections, and democracy, while organizing joyful fundraisers for community causes. Her primary moo-ssion is keeping the herd safe, connected, and cared for.

Sister Lida Christ

Activist
Noites no Passos

Sister Lida Christ, an American drag activist, has been a member of the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence since 2013. She is a fierce believer in what is right and just. Since coming out at age 14, she has shed light on diversity and equality. She lives every day honestly, from kitsch to kink, centering a mission to perpetuate honesty, promulgate love, respect, and to stand as a beacon in the shadow of society's storm. She looks forward to serving her community in creative ways, growing as a being of light, and supporting those who need a lift.

Sister Tilda NexTime

Activist
Noites no Passos

Sister Tilda NexTime has been a fully professed Sister for ten vibrant years in San Francisco. Their personal ministry is rooted in the transformative power of art and self-expression. Using their face as a canvas and makeup as their medium, they become a living piece of art to inspire others. Through bold creativity and unapologetic fabulousness, they empower people to see themselves as masterpieces: unique, radiant, and worthy of love and celebration.

Sofia Afonso

Filmmaker
Portuguese Short Film Competition

Sofia Afonso has a degree in Cinema from the School of Arts of the Universidade Católica do Porto. She began her studies at the Soares dos Reis Art School, where she specialised in Video. She also attended the Cinema Degree at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema de Lisboa. After “Ma Mer” and “Rostos de Casa”, “The Red I Sowed” is her graduation project, and her third film.

Tomás Basilio

Filmmaker
Portuguese Short Film Competition

Tomás Basílio is a Portuguese artist and filmmaker. Having completed a Master’s degree in Film at the Universidade Católica do Porto, his work moves between narrative cinema and expanded cinema. His practice is deeply influenced by childhood memories and by the experiences he has lived as a queer person.

Victor Hugooli

Filmmaker
Portuguese Short Film Competition

Victor Hugooli is a self-taught Portuguese-Brazilian filmmaker who creates audiovisual work focused on processes guided by listening, the ethics of care, and responsibility toward the image. He directed “Ensaio da Loucura” (2024) and co-directed “Abril, Helena’s Daughter” (2026), a documentary that won the Novíssimos Award at IndieLisboa 2026. In 2026, he was selected for the IndieLisboa Lab and the international DIP laboratory, where he develops new projects and creative methodologies.