International Jury
LÉA BARON
BEATRIZ MBULA
Philippa Ndisi-Hermann
Léa Baron joins the Cinémathèque Afrique of the French Institute in 2019 to follow the film projects of the Africa2020 Season, but also to coordinate the restoration of films and work on their valorisation in the world, in connection with their property rights.
She graduated with a Master’s degree in International Cooperation in Africa and the Middle East from the Institut des Mondes Africains at the Sorbonne Paris 1. Between 2017 and 2018, she worked for the Alliance Française de Kaolack in Senegal, where she is in charge of film programming.
Beatriz Mbula is a screenwriter and actress. She is currently studying the Master’s Degree in Specialised Screenwriting for Series at ECAM, with a scholarship from Netflix, while she is developing her next production with Fasten Films. In 2021 she was part of the group of writers who are working on the adaptation of Hija del Camino by Lucía Mbomio (fiction series for Netflix). In 2020 she debuted with the web series Asunto Casting, scripting, acting and directing the project, playing a black girl who finds it difficult to be an actress in Spain. This participation opened different doors for her to highlight the importance of the correct treatment of diversity in fiction, both in audiovisual projects and in talks and trainings (DonesVisuals, FCAT, GenderMediaLab).
Beatriz graduated in Gestural Interpretation at RESAD in Madrid in 2018. She spent a year at ESTC in Lisbon where she performed in Sul under the direction of the Chilean company Teatro Niño Proletario. After graduating she travelled to Equatorial Guinea with Ntozake Shange’s play Para Nenas Negras que han considerado el Suicidio cuando el arcoíris es suficiente. She also acted in the play A nosotros nos daba igual, directed by Ricard Sorell, at the Teatro Español in Madrid. Together with Astrid Jones and Claudia Coelho, they form the multidisciplinary collective Otra Arena, made up of five actresses and artists of African descent who, together with them and the production company Cameres i Acció, have just written and directed the pilot of their next work entitled Las Chicas Son.
Born in 1985 in Bonn, West Germany, Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann was raised beneath the tall, tall trees of Nairobi, Kenya. She has lived in South Africa, Belgium, France, Kenya, Ethiopia, Germany, Senegal, England and the Netherlands and she is currently based in Nairobi.
An alumna of Berlinale Talents 2016, IDFA Summer School 2013 (Amsterdam), Produire au Sud (Nantes), she is also a fellow of RAW Académie 2016 (Dakar). She makes healing films to inspire and transform audiences globally. Multi-disciplinary, she straddles fiction, documentary, artist films, photography and poetry, specialising in intimate and poetic narratives about childhood, memory, intergenerational patterns and the natural world.
Philippa has garnered various awards including but not only, The Ecumenical Jury Prize at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2017 for Seeds and Best Documentary at Academy Qualifying, Durban International Film Festival 2018 for New Moon, a feature-length documentary essay shot in Lamu, Kenya. Most of her films, she has shot, directed, recorded sound for, produced and promoted herself.
AECID Jury
Elvira Cámara López, president of the AECID/ACERCA jury, is accompanied by the jury members Mage Allegue and Esther Jodar (ACERCA Programme, AECID).
ELVIRA CÁMARA LÓPEZ has a degree in Law and Art History from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, having worked as a Court Attorney prior to her firm commitment to the world of art, the conservation and dissemination of heritage and museums. She also holds a Master’s degree in Museography and Exhibition Techniques.
She has been a member of the Faculty of Museum Curators since 2005. Her professional career has been developed in the Subdirectorate of Heritage Protection of the Ministry of Culture, in the Department of Drawings and Prints of the Museo Nacional del Prado and in the Department of Collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Her research activity has focused on issues related to heritage and ways of accessing museum collections, as well as on enhancing the visibility of the production of women artists.
During the period 2012/2015 she was director of the Miró Mallorca Museum in Palma de Mallorca, having curated several exhibitions on the work of contemporary artists and on the figure of Joan Miró.
She is currently Head of the Area of Cultural Activities at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, AECID, dependent on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with responsibility for the Area of Visual Arts and Film Library.
Andalusian Jury
Inmaculada Marrero
Sonia López Truyo
BLANCA REY
Sonia López Truyo has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Seville. She started her professional career in radio, as an editor and presenter, and then worked in audiovisual editing in various media and private production companies. She left the technical field to work in film production and advertising, before joining the university, first as an audiovisual technician and then as a cultural activities technician at the Centre for Cultural Initiatives of the University of Seville, the position she currently holds.
She carries out cultural management tasks, is a regular jury member for the script and short film project prizes awarded by the University of Seville, and is responsible for programming the film and audiovisual activities offered by this institution every year. As a programmer, she frequently proposes programmes from the so-called “other cinemas” to the CICUS, including the stimulating African cinematography.
Inmaculada holds a PhD in Political Science and is Professor of International Relations at the University of Granada. She is currently Executive Secretary of the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies and former Vice-Rector for Students at the University of Granada. She studied postgraduate studies at the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales of the University of Geneva and has been a Fulbright scholar at the American Studies Institute at the University of Delaware (USA).
She also has professional experience in foreign institutions, such as the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht and the Geneva Center for Security Studies. She has given lectures, courses and seminars at various universities and institutions around the world.
Her latest publications include From financing needs to criminal terrorism: The role of terrorist financing in crime-terror relations (Oñati Social-Legal Series 2022); Soldados del Terrorismo Global (Tecnos, 2021). Jihadism, Foreign Fighters and Radicalization in the European Union (Brunner-Routledge, 2019), Global System Dynamics in the Relationships between Organized Crime and Terrorist Groups (Ed. Vincenzo Ruggiero, Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks, Routledge, 2019), among many others.
Blanca Rey is a producer and cultural manager with a degree in Audiovisual Arts (Production) from the Universidad Nacional Experimental de las Artes and a degree in Arts from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. She was director of the Fundación Distribuidora Nacional de Cine Amazonia Films, the institution responsible for the organisation of the Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival of Margarita. She directed the First International Film Festival of Caracas in 2014 during her tenure as head of the Secretariat of Culture of the Capital District. As president of the Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela, between 2016 and 2017, she designed and developed the project for the recovery of the institution’s film archive. She achieved its reincorporation into the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and the Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Archivos de Imágenes en Movimiento, of which she was part of the executive committee.
With her company El Perro Andaluz 2.0, she executive produced two non-fiction series for Venezuelan television, specialising in themes related to identity and intangible heritage. She has written and directed 23 animated short films for children. She participated in the production of two feature films by Patricia Ortega, Yo, Imposible and Mamacruz. In 2019 she settled in La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz), where she combines her audiovisual work with cultural management. She directs her first feature-length documentary, La vida en un Baile, a biopic about the flamenco dancer David Morales. Since 2022 she has been assistant director of the women’s film festival GENERAMMA.
FCAT LAB Jury
RAFAEL GARCÍA
PAZ PIÑAR
ANDREAS ROTHBAUER
In 1995 he started working at Laserfilm. He soon moved to the technical area and since then has supervised the subtitling of more than a thousand films, series, shorts, and has been its director since 2008. Since 2012 he has been collaborating with the San Sebastian Festival as a member of the jury of companies awarding the WIP Latam and Europe awards. Through Laserfilm he has supported various festivals such as FIBABC, Márgenes, Festival de Cine Italiano de Madrid, Cortogenia and of course the FCAT.
She studied Audiovisual Communication at the Universidad de Sevilla and Film Directing at the Madrid Film School (ECAM). Paz has worked in production and direction of TV, cinema and advertising; work that he has combined with writing and directing personal projects in the fields of fiction and documentary. She has been a member of the Film Production Aid Committee of the ICAA (Ministry of Culture) and a member of the Evaluation Committee for Production Subsidies in Andalusia (Department of Culture). In 2008 she joined RTVA’s Financed Production Department and since 2020 she has been Head of RTVA’s Film Department.
Since December 2012 Andreas Rothbauer is the founder and Co-CEO of PICTURE TREE INERNATIONAL (PTI) with headquarters in Berlin. Prior to seting up PICTURE TREE INERNATIONAL, Andreas was working for KIRCH MEDIA/BETA FILM ( 2000-2012) and had a temporary post at the EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG XIII. – Information Society.
He holds a Master Degree in ‘Audio-Visual Management’ as well as ‘Political Science’ and studied in Berlin, Wellington (NZ) as well as Rome. Andreas Rothbauer is part time teaching film marketing and financing at various film institutions and has been a jury member for various film funding bodies in Germany and abroad.
