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Film director, producer, and screenwriter. Her debut feature film, Destello Bravío ( Mighty Flas, 2021), was premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and received several awards at the Málaga Film Festival and the San Sebastián Film Festival, among others. Ainhoa holds a PhD in Film Theory and Analysis from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a degree in Audiovisual Communication (UCM), and a diploma in Film and TV Directing (TAI). The magazine Variety highlighted her as one of the ten emerging filmmakers in its "Spanish Talents on the Rise" feature during the European Film Market at Berlinale 2021. She is currently developing her next feature film, Niña, no juegues, a project supported by a grant from the Spanish Film Academy. In addition to her work as a director, she has been a professor and speaker on film language at universities and public and private institutions for several years. She also conducts immersive audiovisual projects with feminist and non-normative perspectives in rural areas.

Irené Escolar (Madrid, 1988) has participated in 22 films, numerous TV series, and over 30 plays, collaborating with some of the most renowned directors in the Spanish and European film and theater scene. Her first starring role in a film, Un otoño sin Berlín ( An autumn without Berlin), earned her a Special Mention at the San Sebastián Film Festival and the Goya Award for Best New Actress. After appearing in Competencia Oficial (2021), directed by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn and starring Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, she joined the cast of Jonás Trueba's latest film, Tenéis que venir a verla ( You have to come and see it, 2021), and Las chicas están bien ( The girls are alright, 2022), directed by Itsaso Arana, which was part of the Official Selection at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Other notable titles in her filmography include El séptimo día ( The 7th day, Carlos Saura, 2003), Los girasoles ciegos ( The blind sunflowers, José Luis Cuerda, 2007), and Bajo la piel de lobo (Samu Fuentes, 2017). Her portfolio also includes the project Escenario 0, in which she serves as performer, creator, and executive producer alongside Bárbara Lennie, and the series Dime quién soy, where she plays the lead role, premiered in 2020 at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Among her recent works are the play Finlandia, directed by the acclaimed theater director Pascal Rambert, the TV series Largas sombras, directed by Clara Roquet for Disney+ and Las abogadas, as well as the film Ariel, by Lois Patiño. In 2019, she won the Theater Award of the Community of Madrid. She has also received the Ojo Crítico Award from Radio Nacional and has been nominated for the Max and Valle Inclán Awards on three occasions. Most recently, she was honored with the Best Performance of the Year Award at the Vitoria Television Festival this September.

Christopher Small is a film critic, programmer, and publisher living in Prague. He has overseen the Locarno Critics Academy since 2017 and since 2023 is responsible for the publications of the Festival, including its daily magazine, Pardo. For four years, he was the international curator for the documentary VOD platform DAFilms.com and the festival association Doc Alliance. He was on the Selection Committee for Sheffield DocFest from 2019-21 and curated the festival's 2020 retrospective "Reimagining the Land". As a writer, he has regularly contributed to a number of international outlets and has been translated into a dozen languages. He also co-founded and programmed the independent cinema Kino Petrohradská in Prague from 2021-23. He is the founder, co-editor, and publisher of Outskirts Film Magazine, a yearly print publication devoted to the cinema of the past and present.

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CHEMA GARCÍA IBARRA

Director and screenwriter. He has directed and written El ataque de los robots de Nebulosa-5 (The attack of the robots from Nebula-5, 2009), Protopartículas (Protoparticles, 2010), Misterio (Mistery, 2013), Uranes (2014), La disco resplandece (2016), Leyenda dorada (The Golden Legend, 2019, co-directed with Ion de Sosa) and Espíritu Sagrado (The Secret Spirit, 2021), all of them domestic sci-fi films made without professional actors. His works have been selected for festivals such as Cannes Directors' Fortnight, Locarno, Sundance, Berlinale, San Sebastian and Mar del Plata. Among his more than two hundred awards are two honourable mentions at Sundance, a Jury Mention at San Sebastian and the “Vanguardia y Género”competition prize at BAFICI. Since 2015 he has been teaching the course ‘Anti-filmmaking’ as part of the Diploma in Documentary Filmmaking at ECAM (Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid).

ESTHER GARCÍA LLOVET

Esther García Llovet was born in Málaga in 1963 and has lived in Madrid since 1970, where she studied Film Directing at T.A.I. and Clinical Psychology at the Complutense University of Madrid. She is the author of the novels: Coda (Lengua de Trapo 2003), Submáquina (Salto de Página 2009), Las crudas (Ediciones del Viento 2009), Mamut (Malpaso 2013), Cómo dejar de escribir (Anagrama 2017), Sánchez (Anagrama 2019), Gordo de Feria (Anagrama 2021), Spanish Beauty (Anagrama 2022), english translation at Foundry Editions and Los Guapos (Anagrama 2024). She has written chronicles and articles for “El País Dominical”, “El Viajero de El País”, “Jot Down” and “El Asombrario”. As a playwright she has written the play Yo voy a poner tu cara en los mapas and Maserati , soon to be released. As a photographer she has made the covers of the books Sánchez, Gordo de Feria, Spanish Beauty and Los Guapos. In video she has exhibited the piece Más lista que idealista at the Centro Cultural Conde Duque in Madrid (season 2023-2024). She is currently in the process of adapting her last four novels into film scripts and finalizing Las jefas.

JESSE CUMMING

Jesse Cumming is a curator, writer, and researcher. He’s Associate Curator for the Wavelengths section at Toronto International Film Festival, having previously served as the section’s Programming Associate. He has served as a programmer with Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and as a consultant with the Berlinale Forum and Open City Documentary Festival. Independently, he has curated, co-curated, and presented programmes with the Museum of Modern Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Tallinn Photomonth Biennial, Anthology Film Archives, the ICA London, and more. In 2016 he developed Vertical Features, a Toronto screening series dedicated to non-fiction film and video. His writing has appeared in Cinema Scope, The Brooklyn Rail, MUBI Notebook, Filmmaker Magazine, Hyperallergic, Canadian Art, Another Gaze, C Magazine, Berlin Art Link, and more. He was a founding collective member of MICE Magazine, a publication dedicated to Moving Image Culture, Etc., and formerly served on the steering committee of the Toronto Film & Media Seminar. He holds an MA in Communication & Culture from York University, and was formerly a Media Lecturer with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Cairo Campus.

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EVA MIR

Eva Mir is a playwright, stage director, and screenwriter. Among her works are Héroes en diciembre (Calderón de la Barca Award 2019) and La Conmoción, both premiered at the CDN in Madrid. Her play Lockdown was premiered in Washington D.C., and she directed Gente Sencilla by Anna Gschnitzer at the Teatro Español. In the audiovisual field, she was part of the writing team for El Internado: Las Cumbres during its second and third seasons, and her play Héroes en diciembre participated in the 2022 Adapta Book Festival for its adaptation into a film. That same year, she was part of the project forum at the San Sebastián Festival with the series King Mama. She has received creation grants such as the INAEM Current Dramaturgies Grant, the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s Mobility Grant for authors in Avignon, France, the European Residencies Program of the CDN in Berlin, Brussels, Madrid, and Vilnius with her play Un cuerpo se desplaza, and the writing residency at La Chartreuse in Villeneuve-les-Avignon, France. Additionally, she has been part of the jury for various national awards, including those from INAEM, SGAE, and ESCAC. In recent years, she has premiered the plays Insomnio and Senyoreta Júlia in Valencia and won the International Comedy Award from Teatro Español and Naves del Matadero for Añoranza y siesta. In 2024, she premieres Jalando at #MEETYOU Festival in Valladolid and Baby no more for the VVAA collective at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya. While preparing the premiere of PRÓDIGO in Valencia and Madrid, she has begun writing 'Los que miran', her new play at the Sala Beckett in Barcelona.

PABLO CALDERA

Pablo Caldera (Madrid, 1997) has a degree in Philosophy and is a PhD student at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he researches contemporary mutations of the image. Writer and cultural critic, he has collaborated with media such as ICON - El País, CTXT, A*Desk, Filco or EXIT. In 2023 he founded the space kaminker.es. He has published the book El fracaso de lo bello (La caja books, 2021) and participated in collective books such as He aprendido que tienes que rezar por lo que no conoces (Pepitas de calabaza, 2022) and Arte en la era digital (Filosofía&Co, 2023).

PAULA LOSADA

Paula Losada (Barcelona, 1999) is a dancer and actress, creative in all its forms, amateur photographer, collector of the 'just in case I need it' par excellence. Graduated from the high

performance ballet school Corella, she will become part of the Barcelona Ballet in 2019, performing that same year an artistic residency with Fabula Collective (between Brescia and London) where she will not only discover her interest but she will start her journey to an interpretative and performative facet. In 2022 she released Las Niñas de Cristal (Netflix), a film directed by Jota Linares, and other projects such as Flechas, a short film by Imanol Ruiz de Lara for COSMO or El Balneari, directed by Eloi Román. Recently, we can see her in La Promesa (La 1), playing Jimena de Los Infantes (2022-2024). During her career as an artist and performer, she has been lucky enough to work with Cristiana Morganti (Tanztheater Wuppertal, Pina Bausch), Ohad Naharin (Gaga Home Lab), José Agudo (Akram Khan), Alejandro Moya (Peeping Tom Company), Andrea Jiménez (Sacar algo de la nada, at Espacio La Ventana), Lucas Condró (Asymmetrical Motion), Philippe Bosher (LAMDA Auditioning in English), Arturo Bernal (Bases of the game and physical dramaturgy), Lidia Casanova (character creation, Stanislavski), among many others. Currently, she is taking the Timbre4’s year round course in Madrid, with Lautaro Peroti (actor, director and teacher), always in search of new ways to explore and create. Someday, she would like to be able to transform her writings into stories that will be shown on movie screens or stages.

PAULA RUÍZ

Paula Ruiz, from Alicante, began to fall in love with art when she was only 7 years old, when the violin crossed her path at the Conservatory of Music in her hometown. But as art knows no limits, at 17 she moved to Madrid to study theater at the RESAD, where the magic of the stage caught her completely. After finishing her studies, she began to work in various companies and to jump on the boards of emblematic stages such as Teatro Español, Matadero or Canal. But Paula is not satisfied with just one artistic language, and her interest in movement led her to contemporary dance, where she fused the role of dancer-musician-actress in several productions. She also delved into the world of music, as bassist and backing vocalist for artists such as Natalia Lacunza, “Ganges” or “Hinds”. In 2022, she took the leap to her own personal indie pop project, Mira Paula, where she shines as a composer and performer, showing that her talent is as versatile as a Swiss Army Knife in an artistic version.

YAGO TORRES

Yago de Torres is a screenwriter and film critic. Born in Madrid in 1995, he graduated with a degree in Media Studies from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and later completed his studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he specialized in Film Direction. Upon returning to Madrid, he focused on Acting Direction and pursued a master's degree in Film Criticism at the Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de Madrid (ECAM). After contributing as a critic to online platforms such as Revista Mutaciones, he began working in 2021 as a regular collaborator for Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, providing coverage of festivals such as the Seville European Film Festival, MajorDocs, and IndieLisboa. In 2022, he premiered FANÁTICO on Netflix, his debut series as co-creator and screenwriter. He is currently involved in the development of fiction projects for various production companies, while also collaborating with Órbita Cine, an educational program at ECAM that uses film projects as an educational tool across different subjects, enhancing creativity and learning in educational institutions.

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