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Alan Berliner

Alan Berliner (United States) is one of America’s most acclaimed independent filmmakers. His films First Cousin Once Removed (2013), Wide Awake (2006), The Sweetest Sound (2001), Nobody’s Business (1996), Intimate Stranger (1991), and The Family Album (1986), have been broadcast all over the world, and received awards, prizes, and retrospectives at many major international film festivals, have become part of the core curriculum for documentary filmmaking and film history classes at universities worldwide and are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Andrés Di Tella

Andrés Di Tella (Argentina) directed Montoneros, una historia (1995), Macedonio Fernández (1995), Prohibido (1997), La televisión y yo (2002), Fotografías (2007), El país del Diablo (2008) Hachazos (2011), ¡Volveremos a las montañas! (2012), Máquina de sueños (2013), El ojo en el cielo (2013) and 327 cuadernos (2015). His work spans installations, performances, video art and TV programs in Argentina, USA and UK. He was the founding director of the BAFICI.

Bruni Burres

Bruni Burres (United States) is Senior Consultant for the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Program, a mentor and media expert with Greenhouse Film Centre and a freelance film producer and media consultant. Previously, she was the director of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, which she also co-founded. In partnership with the International Center for Transitional Justice she produced the documentary The Siege (2011), which explores the lasting cultural and political impact of the 1985 siege of the Palace of Justice in Colombia. For the past 20 years she has been working at the intersection between human rights and arts and culture as a curator, producer, and consultant.

Claudia Rodríguez Valencia

Claudia Rodríguez Valencia (Colombia) is General Director of Preciosa Media. Social Communication graduate with an emphasis on Educational Communication, with professional studies in Colombia and Italy. Her specialization is in the design and development of educational and entertainment media, consulting for broadcast strategy, as well as acquisitions and sales for overseas audiovisual content. She has worked in the selection process and on the juries for many film and broadcast festivals and for funding programs.

Elizabeth McIntyre

Elizabeth McIntyre (United Kingdom) is the CEO and Festival Director of Sheffield Doc/Fest, one of the world’s leading documentary festivals. She began her career in production with credits such as the award winning The Lost Children of Berlin, moving to Factual commissioning at Discovery Networks international, with credits such as The Great White Silence in association with the BFI. She is a Board member for WFTV and sits on the BAFTA TV committee.

Eryk Rocha

Eryk Rocha (Brazil) directed in 2002 Rocha que Voa, his first feature film. In 2006 he directed his second feature, Intervalo Clandestino. In 2009 his film Pachamama was shown and awarded in many festivals. In 2011 he premiered his first fiction feature, Transeunte. In 2015 he directed Campo de Jogo. In 2016, he premiered Cinema Novo, his seventh feature film, at the Cannes Film Festival, in which he was awarded with the L’Oeil D’Or for best documentary film.

Giba Assis Brasil

Giba Assis Brasil (Brazil) was born in Porto Alegre, 1957. He has a degree in Journalism. Partner of the production company Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre. Film professor at Unisinos. Editor of 18 feature films, as The man who copied (2003), Silver Salt (2005) and Before the world ends (2010); dozens of shorts, as Barbosa (1988) and Island of Flowers (1989); and more than 50 television programs, including the series Decameron (2009) and Sweet Mother (2014).

Kathleen Lingo

Kathleen Lingo (United States) is the coordinating producer of The New York Time’s Op-Doc series. Before joining The Times in 2013, she worked as a freelance producer, camera person and editor. Last year, she won an Emmy as part of the team for “A Short History of the Highrise” produced by The New York Times and the National Film Board of Canada. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago.

Kim Busch

Kim Busch (Germany) has been working for DOK Leipzig since 2011 in different positions. Since 2014 she is working as a programme coordinator for the festival and cooperations around the world. She has a master’s degree in Media and Communication Sience and worked for several production companies specialized on documentary and fiction films throughout Germany and the regional film and media funding institution MDM in Leipzig.

Marta Andreu

Marta Andreu (Spain) is the academic coordinator of DocMontevideo. She is the academic coordinator of the master’s in creation documentary course at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She teaches port-graduate documentary film courses at the Universidad Rovira y Virgili in Tarragona. In 2004-2005 she coordinated a Spanish documentary cinema retrospective for Cinéma du Réel. She analyses documentary scripts for the Centre de Desenvolupament Audiovisual. In 2004 she founded Estudi Playtime in order to devote her time to producing creation documentaries. She has a degree in audiovisual communication and a master’s in creation documentary from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Paula Vaccaro

Paula Vaccaro (Argentina-UK) has a career spanning more than two decades in media (radio, newspapers, digital platforms, TV and film), in 2009 she founded the production Pinball London, London, UK, where she worked with renowned directors like Sally Potter, Emir Kusturica, Guillermo Arriaga, Jim Jarmusch, Mira Nair, Lucia Puenzo and Aaron Brookner among others. She teaches at Kingston University and provides impact production workshops, such as the ones in the Argentina editios of GoodPitch.

Raul Niño Zambrano

Raul Niño Zambrano (Netherlands) works since 2008 at the Program Department of IDFA, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. His expertise relates in particular to Latin American documentaries and shorts for what he has been invited to many festivals and events as a jury or tutor. He is also the curator of IDFA’s Student Documentary Competition. Other fields of interest include data visualization and multimodal metaphor.

Verónica Fiorito

Verónica Fiorito (Argentina) has a solid career in the field of producing and directing TV & Film, her training is consolidated with a degree in Audiovisual Production and Management. She has developed a career in cultural management becoming Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Culture of Argentina. She directed and took part in the team that designed and launched the Pakapaka channel, the signal dedicated to children and Canal Encuentro.