Series Pitching

Noe Mendelle co-founded and manages the SDI, a research and production centre based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She directed more than 30 films, and ten years ago she concentrated her efforts on production. She works with French and Portuguese producers at AfricaDoc, an initiative to strengthen African documentary production. The SDI invests in training new directors and in producing and distributing films. Its products have been shown on British TV and at major international festivals including Sundance, IDFA and Visions du Réel. Since 1980 it has worked on documentaries for various media.

Aldo Garay (Uruguay) is a director. He is currently working as a film maker at the Uruguayan channel Tevé Ciudad. He has made dozens of one-off reports, series of reports and feature-length films for the cinema including The wait (2002), Near the clouds (2006), The circle (2008) and The wedding (2011). In 2006, the Bafici Festival mounted a retrospective of all his work in the Foco space. He began his studies in the audiovisual field in 1990, and in 1996 he was awarded a scholarship by Televisión Española for a course in production and direction of TV fiction in Madrid.

Mariana Oliva (Brazil) is a filmmaker and coordinator for co-productions and new international projects at TAL. She was one of the creators of the series Mi país, nuestro mundo, a co-production among nine Latin American countries. In the last year she coordinated four international co-productions. Her last short film, Humanoids, was shown at major international festivals. She has a master’s degree in documentary direction from the Edinburgh College of Art, and she qualified in journalism at PUC-SP.