International jury
CARLOS REVIRIEGO
VALÉRIE OSOUF
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Since January 2017, he has been working at the Spanish Film Archive as Deputy Director and Director of Programming. As a journalist, he coordinated the film section of El Cultural (El Mundo) from 1999 to 2016 and was Editor-in-Chief of Cahiers du cinéma, Spain from 2007 to 2010, during the years of its foundation. He currently continues to write in the pages of El Cultural, on whose website he runs the blog Otras pantallas, and in the magazine Sofilm España.
As a teacher, he teaches Contemporary Film Aesthetics and Film Criticism at various universities and audiovisual academies: ECAM, UAV, UCM, Universitat Blanquerna, etc., and often gives Master Classes on Film Studies at cultural institutions. For three years he has been Artistic Director of the Film Department and Coordinator of the Film Masters at the Escuela Universitaria TAI (Madrid). He is currently a member of the Programming Committee of the German Film Festival of Madrid. He has also been part of the programming team of the Mapfre 4+1 Festival and DocumentaMadrid.
He is the author of the book In praise of the distance. Two views on a territory (Bren Entertainment, 2009), and has collaborated on several collective books, including The poets of cinema (Litoral, 2003), Spanish cinema for the new century, The Contemporary Perspective (Thessaloniki, 2007), Nouvelle Vague, The ways of modernity (Seminci, 2009), Fatih Akin. The wandering home (Gijón Festival, 2009), The Universe of Clint Eastwood (Notorious Ediciones, 2009) and The Measure of The Times. Spanish Short Films in The 2000s (ALCINE, 2010).
He has been on the official juries of numerous competitions in Spain and abroad, such as the Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Argentina), the Curtas Vila do Conde Festival (Portugal), the Cali International Film Festival (Colombia) and the Ljubljana International Film Festival (Slovenia), among many others.
A documentary filmmaker based in Paris, Valérie Osouf spent her youth in Dakar. For many years, she has focused her film work on French colonial history and its contemporary resonances (No Comment, the country where we never arrive, 1997 – Cameroon Autopsy of an Independence, 2008 – National Identity, 2012 – I remind you, you remember, 2014), before making a portrait of filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako in his living and film spaces, from Mali to China, via Russia and Mauritania.
Since last year, she has been developing with writer Patrick Chamoiseau a feature-length documentary on human movements, After Babel, produced by Eyal Sivan (Memento Films), freely inspired by Edouard Glissant’s novel Sartorius.
Valérie is also an activist and teacher. She campaigns for the defence of the rights of people in exile and persecuted by the police in France. She teaches documentary filmmaking at the Beijing Film Academy (China) and at the Cinéfrabrique school in Lyon. She is a member of the administrative council of the French Society of Filmmakers (SRF) and participates as a videomaker in the exhibitions of The School of Mutants, a collective created by Hamedine Kane and Stéphane Verlet-Boottero, selected for the next Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art.
With filmmaker Dyana Gaye, she has curated Tigritudes, a Pan-African and African diaspora film anthology of 126 films produced between 1956, the year of Sudan’s Independence, and 2021, which will be shown widely.
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese is a filmmaker and visual artist hailing from Hlotse, Lesotho. His works are a complex investigation of identity and its amorphous quality in relation to time. Indeed, Mosese’s art is a layered exploration of the physical cycles of life, death and rebirth in relation to human subjectivity.
A self-taught filmmaker, his feature-length, visual essay film Mother, I am Suffocating. This is My Last Film About You, was selected for Final Cut in Venice, winning six awards. It premiered at the Berlinale Forum in 2019 and continues to be showcased in film festivals (including FCAT in 2019) and exhibitions, including MoMA and BOZAR Brussels. Mosese was one of three filmmakers selected for Biennale College Cinema with his second narrative feature film, This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection, which won over 30 awards, including the Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking at Sundance Film Festival 2020. It was also selected at FCAT 2020.
Mosese’s most recent work is a seven-channel video installation entitled Bodies of Negroes: Sculpting God commissioned by Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), and a four channel video installation titled New God commissioned by Humboldt Forum (Berlin).
Mosese served as a juror for several film festivals, including the Berlinale International film festival, Rotterdam and Locarno. He has been invited to be a guest lecturer for several institutions like Cambridge university.
AECID jury
Elvira Cámara López
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
ANDRÉS VEGA MORENO
NOCEM COLLADO
INÉS NOFUENTES
Andrés Vega Moreno has been the director of Andalesgai: Andalusia’s International LGBTI Film Festival since its tenth edition, after having held various technical and coordinating positions in the event, which was launched in 2005.
He holds a degree in Technical Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Huelva and combines his work as a professional trainer in the video games sector with the organisation of Andalesgai and its different cycles.
In addition, he has led workshops on the creation of LGBTI micro-films using timelapse and stop motion techniques, as well as the creation of audiovisual materials adapted to the new digital film formats. He defines himself as a short film enthusiast, a format that is very present in the festival he directs.
She was born in Granada and from a very young age, her passion for images, travel, and anthropology has led her to develop her professional activity as a documentary filmmaker, director and photographer, focusing on the social issues of women.
She has travelled almost the entire Asian continent. These trips have given rise to several exhibitions of photographs, including Women on the Silk Road, Miradas de Islam, and Yemen, la Arabia Feliz (Yemen, the Happy Arabia).
Her first documentary Cartography of Loneliness (2011) has been selected for several international film festivals and was recognised as one of the best European documentaries in Hamburg, Cambridge, Bologna and Bilbao.
Her second documentary, Woman and Water, has a more poetic texture, but it is still a vindictive plea about who has the right to water. It has been selected for important national and international film festivals, and has won the Green Film Network, the National Documentary Award at Ecozine, the Espiello Award for Best Documentary, the Silver Biznaga at the Malaga Festival, Best Documentary at NOVMA, the Nonviolence and Environment Film Festival in Colombia, the Jury Award at the 40th Ekoptofilm International Film Festival in Slovakia, and the Meridiana Arts Award for Best Director of Social Documentary Film.
Executive producer, teacher and project advisor, Inés Nofuentes holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication with a specialisation in executive production from the International Film and Television School (EICTV) in Cuba.
She has worked in different branches of film production in Spain and Latin America. Has produced several feature films which have premiered and been awarded around the world including Ixcanul (Silver Bear, Berlinale Official Competition), I Promise You Anarchy (Locarno), and Gunpowder in The Heart (Huelva Film Festival, SXSW 2020, PLATINO PRIZE 2020 pre-selection).
Her projects have been selected in international markets and meetings such as Ventana Sur, Berlinale Talent, Brasil Lab, Dok Leipzig, Mar del Plata, San Sebastian, etc. She teaches film production courses and workshops in different countries including EICTV and collaborates with different festivals as a consultant and jury member.
Currently, with Curuxa Cinema, she is developing projects in Argentina, Guatemala and Spain.
FCAT LAB Jury
GABOR GREINER
FAISSOL GNONLONFIN
THIBAUT BRACQ
After his studies of Cultural Management in Vienna, Birmingham and Chicago, Gabor GREINER worked as a journalist and film critic. In 2003, he moved to Brussels to take charge of the distribution support department of the MEDIA Program at the European Commission’s Film Fund. In 2009, Gabor became acquisitions executive at the international sales agent, The Match Factory. In August 2010, Gabor moved to Berlin to take over acquisitions of the French-German sales company, Films Boutique, winner of the Golden Bear in 2017 and 2020 and the Golden Lion in 2011 and 2016. Gabor is a member of the European Film Academy.
In 2011, Faissol Gnonlonfin founded his production company, Merveilles Production in Benin, which produces documentaries, fiction and TV series. He became an executive producer at VraiVrai Films (France) in 2014 and then at the Burkinabe company Les Films du Djabadjah in 2015. Since then, he has been developing audiovisual and cinematographic works by young African, European and Caribbean writers/directors within these companies. Faissol Gnonlonfin is an executive producer and production manager of feature films and series in sub-Saharan Africa. These productions have been selected for several international festivals and have received numerous awards.
Thibaut Bracq is graduated in Literature, philosophy and in management of the Cultural Organizations. He has a large experience in guiding and supporting emerging directors and producers in the development of their projects. He worked for different festivals and programs, as film programmer, or as coordinator/head of training programs and workshops: Paris project at Paris Cinéma IFF, Angers Premiers Plans Film Festival & Angers Workshops, La Fabrique program in Cannes, Alliance for Development & Open Doors at Locarno IFF, Ulaanbaatar IFF, Jump In in Poitiers IFF, etc. He is currently head of the Atlas Workshops, the industry event and platform of Marrakech IFF.