Jury and Guests

Jury

Guests

Anabela Moreira

Actress
Feature Film Competition

Anabela Moreira was born in 1976 in Lisbon, and she is an actress and filmmaker. She premiered as an actress in the short film O Amor É Kitsch, by Rita Nunes, and has performed in over 30 films. She worked with director João Canijo in Noite Escura, Mal Nascida, Obrigação, É o Amor, Fátima, Mal Viver, and O Dia Do Meu Casamento which she co-wrote; with João Botelho in O Fatalista, Carlos Conceição in Nação Valente, Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt in Diamantino, among others. She is currently in the main cast of the TV series Sangue Oculto, broadcast by SIC, and will soon perform again in the theatre play O Diário de Anne Frank, by Marcos Medeiros.

Photo: Jens Koch

André Cabral

Dancer
Short Film Competitions

André Cabral was born in 1990 in Barreiro, he is a professional dancer and dance teacher. He started his training in 2006 in Hip-Hop, and then under the orientation of Vasco Alves. He frequented the graduation in Contemporary Dance at Escola Superior de Dança in Lisboa, and did an internship at CPBC, under the artistic direction of Vasco Wellenkamp. He performed, among others, with Clara Andermatt, Rui Horta, Paulo Ribeiro, Miguel Moreira, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Victor Hugo Pontes, and Catarina Miranda. Since 2013 he collaborates regularly with the Batida projects and, beyond the stage, with visual artists, photographers, and filmmakers. He gave his first steps as an actor with filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues (Fogo-Fátuo, 2022) and Carlos Conceição (Nação Valente, 2023).

Bernardo Mendonça

Journalist
Feature Film Competition

Bernardo Mendonça, journalist, has worked for Expresso for over two decades, writing about social themes related to anti-racism, feminism, and LGBTQIA+. In this context he received the Media Award 2008 from rede ex aequo, and the ILGA Media Award in 2021. He’s the author of the podcast “A Beleza das Pequenas Coisas”, since 2015, in which he invests on the diversity of voices and identities. For this podcast he received the “Best interview podcast” and “Best podcast of the year” awards at Festival Podes, in 2021. Co-author of the videocast “Muito Mais do Que Sexo”; of the segment "Vamos Falar de Sexo” at SIC’s Jornal da Noite; and author of the TV show “Verdade ou Consequência”, at SIC Notícias. He believes empathy is the best lens through which to gaze the world.

Francisco Frazão

Artistic Director
Documentary Competition

Francisco Frazão (Lisbon, 1978) is the artistic director of Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon municipality theatre, dedicated to experimentation. From 2004 to 2017 he was a theater programmer for Culturgest, where he headed the PANOS project (for new dramaturgies and youth theatre). From 2000 to 2004 he took part of Artistas Unidos’ Readers Commission. He has written and lectured on theatre, cinema, and literature. He translated, among others, Beckett, Pinter, Tim Crouch, Chris Thorpe, Annie Baker, Dennis Kelly, and Zinnie Harris.

Gertrudes Marçal

Producer
Documentary Competition

Gertrudes Marçal works for RTP – Public Broadcasters, since 1981. Senior Producer with experience in various formats: entertainment, fiction, documentary, concerts, classical music, opera. As original creator and author, she is now developing a six-episode documentary about the planet’s dynamic, for RTP2. She is graduated in Geography – Territorial Planning and Management, with a Post-Grad in Local and Regional Development, and another Port-Grad in TV Production, and, most recently, she attended a course at Valencia University: “Microcredencial Universitaria en creación de documentales - De la idea a la pantalla”.

Joana Alves

Curator
Feature Film Competition

Joana Alves was born in Porto in 1989. Graduated in Tourism, her professional path spanned through communication and cultural production in music, theatre, and cinema. She co-curated the exhibitions “Mulheres e Resistência – Novas Cartas Portuguesas e outras lutas” (2020) and “Adeus, Pátria e Família” (2022), this last one about gender and homosexual repression during the dictatorship, both held at Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade. Since 2022 she takes part of the duo SAPATRUX, alongside Hérika Nogueira. A dyke takeover Dj set in queer parties exploring the dynamics between Portugal and Brazil. With a monthly residency at VALSA and throughout different venues across Lisbon.

Photo: Raquel Pimenta

Marta Simões

DOP
Queer Art Competition

Marta Simões graduated in Cinema at ESTC in Lisbon, having concluded her final year at Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. She participated as Director of Photography in Flores (NYFF, Festival de San Sebastián), Super Natural (Berlin International Film Festival, Fipresci award) both directed by Jorge Jácome; A Mordida (NYFF, TIFF, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur), Tornar-se um Homem na Idade Média (International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ammodo Tiger Short Award) both by Isadora Pedro Neves Marques; and Nha Mila (Locarno Film Festival, New Directors New Films) by Denise Fernandes, among others. Besides her work as DOP, she has participated in developing and writing several projects.

Mia Tomé

Actress
Short Film Competitions

Mia Tomé is an actress, voice artist and creator. She had a scholarship from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian to study at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, in New York. She graduated from the ESTC and holds a master’s degree in Artistic Education from FBAUL, where she researched the theme “Film and Education”. She was the author and presenter of the CanalQ TV show “Querem Drama?”, and of “Por uma canção” for radio Antena 3. She is now working on the project “Projeto Natália”, that celebrates the centennial of Portuguese poet Natália Correia. Since 2021 she is developing another project in Arizona on women from the North-West.

Puta da Silva

Artist, Activist
Queer Art Competition

Puta da Silva is an immigrant afro-transvestite multi-artist whose career started in Brazil as a teacher, actress, and stage director. Graduated in Theatre by the Federal University of Uberlândia with a master’s in Theatre and Communication by Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, she immigrated to Lisbon in 2016 where she decided to explore the musical world. She creates musical, performative, and multimedia works, which combine bands, DJs, audiovisual, poetry, and dance, to portray her experience of migrating to Europe. Puta da Silva is also the co-founder of Casa T Lisboa, a housing association for LGBTQIAP+ people, focusses on immigrant and racialized Transvestigender populations.

Photo: studiofaya

Rafaela Jacinto

Artist
Short Film Competitions

Rafaela Jacinto is an artist, activist, and a stage and literature queer noncompliant. "A música está na minha cabeça" is their third book, following “Regime” (2020) and “Fiz uma coisa má” (2021), both published by Douda Correria. Born in Lisbon in 1994 and graduated in Theatre by the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (2016), they specialized in History and Culture of Religions by the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (2019). They also studied Documentary Film and worked in the past decade with filmmakers Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel.

Susana Nobre

Filmmaker
Competição Documentários

Susana Nobre é licenciada em Ciências da Comunicação na Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Fez o curso de Realização de Cinema com a colaboração da The London Film School, no âmbito do Programa de Criatividade e Criação Artística da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Fundadora da produtora Terratreme (antiga Raiva), realizou os filmes Cidade Rabat (2023), No táxi do Jack (2021), Tempo Comum (2018), Provas, exorcismos (2015), Lisboa-Província (2010) ou O que pode um rosto (2003), que têm sido mostrados em diversos festivais como Berlinale (Forum), Cannes (Quinzena dos Realizadores), Roterdão, Viennale ou Vila do Conde.

Teresa Coutinho

Actress
Queer Art Competition

Teresa Coutinho (1988) is an actress, creator, performer, and playwright. She created SEM MEDO (2023), SOLO (2022), DISTANTE, by Caryl Churchill (2021), O ETERNO DEBATE (2020), among others. She worked as an actress with Christiane Jatahy, Tim Crouch, Catherine Marnas, Rogério de Carvalho, Ricardo Neves-Neves, Nuno Cardoso, Raquel Castro, Carlos Avillez, among others. She was assistant stage director for Tiago Rodrigues, Gus Van Sant, Faustin Linyekula, Natália Luiza, Mónica Calle, and Beatriz Batarda. She coordinates the 'Clube dos Poetas Vivos' at TNDM II and the Book Club at Batalha Centro de Cinema. Founding member of the Ação Cooperativista. She is preparing her next creation, O Fim Foi Visto (2024).

Adrian Stölzle

Filmmaker

Adrian Stölzle, born in 1991, is a German filmmaker currently based in the south of Germany. During his studies in Psychology and Arts he lived in Würzburg, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon, and Recife. Since October 2017 he is studying Film at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. His film "Cidade Lúcida" will be screened in Panorama.

Ana Correia aka Peperan

Filmmaker

Ana Correia aka Peperan, began her career as a YouTuber in 2010 and has since worked as a director, screenwriter, videographer and video editor. She was co-creator and director of the web series #CasaDoCais for RTPLab, which reached more than 2 million views on YouTube and RTP Play. She continued her work as a director and in 2023 she joined the production company The Playground where she created advertisements for brands such as Vodafone and Fox and co-wrote and co-directed the new series of short videos “Nuvem”, which premieres on the 22nd. September on Fox and Fox Comedy. She will participate in the debate “We on the screen. LGBTQI+ representation in the media”.

Ana María Jessie Serna

Filmmaker

Ana María Jessie Serna is a filmmaker, visual anthropologist, and historian. She did her MA in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Her audiovisual pieces narrate the lives of black, indigenous queer and trans people, through processes of collective healing, human rights, and historical memory. Her film "Because I Know How Beautiful My Being Is" competes for the In My Shorts award.

Andrei Zinca

Producer

Andrei Zinca studied Film and TV Photography in Romania, and Directing and Film Production at USC, in Los Angeles. In 1988, he moved to the U.S., where he established himself as a leading Director/Producer for the Hispanic U.S. and Latin American TV markets. He is the producer of "Who I Am Not", competing this year in our Documentary strand.

Benjamin Deboosere

Filmmaker

Benjamin Deboosere (1984, Brussels) makes socio-political work with a playful approach. Their films have been shown at various international film festivals as Tallinn Black Nights (BNFF), Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Africadoc Bénin, Festival du Film Documentaire de Saint-Louis, Message to man, Brussels Art Film Festival, Achtung Berlin among others. Their first fiction short Of Not Such Great Importance won the Kryzstof Szot Award at the Lublin Film Festival 2019 (PL), the Jury and Audience Award at Ongezien Kort 2020 (BE) & Best Short Film Award at Working Title Film Festival 2020 (IT). Deboosere's film "The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Who Lived for Twenty and Eight Years All Alone on an Inhabited Island and Said It Was His" competes for the Queer Art award.

Benvindo Fonseca

Dancer

Benvindo Fonseca studied at the Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa, at the Escola da Fundação Gulbenkian, and in New York, London, and Paris. He was a soloist on the Companhia de Dança de Lisboa and Ballet Gulbenkian - where he was the principal dancer -, having worked with big references like Mats Ek, Jiri Kylian, Hans Van Manem, Orad Naharin, Itzik Galili, Vasco Wellenkamp, Olga Roriz, Paul Taylor, Christopher Bruce, and Nacho Duato. He was a Co-Founder and Artistic Director/Choreographer of Ballet Contemporâneo de Lisboa. As a choreographer, he developed projects for Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, "O Bando", Teatro Experimental do Porto, Ballet Gulbenkian, Companhia de Bailado Contemporâneo, Almada and Évora Dance Companies, Conservatório Nacional, Escola Superior de Dança, Academia de Dança Clássica Pirmin Treku, Stadttheater Hildesheim, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Compañía Úrsula López. "Cidade Lúcida", documentary about his trajectory, will be screened in Panorama.

Bruno Maia

Neurologist

Bruno Maia, 41, neurologist, works at São José Hospital in Lisbon. He works at a Neurocritical Care Unit and dedicates himself to the research and treatment of severe and acute neurological diseases which cause shifts in conscience, such as cranio-cerebral injury, stroke, or cerebral infections. He is doing his PhD in this area at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is one of the participants on the debate “Inside Oliver Sacks's Head”.

Carolina Franco

Journalist

Carolina Franco has written on culture, youth, and human rights. She firmly believes everything is connected. She is a journalist collaborator at the mediatic literacy project PÚBLICO na Escola, and co-editor of Shifter, a magazine about reflection and criticism on technology, society, and culture. She studied Social Sciences in Porto, where she was born, has a post-grad in Art Curatorship, and is now completing her master’s in Anthropology – Visual Cultures, with a thesis on the importance of trans representativity in the audiovisual. She will be conducting a talk with Benvindo Fonseca, after the screening of "Cidade Lúcida".

Cláudia Galhós

Journalist

Cláudia Galhós was born in Lisbon, in 1972. Since 1994, she has worked and collaborated with several newspapers, websites, radio stations and magazines in Portugal and abroad. She will be moderating the debate “Yvonne Rainer: cinema and dance”.

Cristiana Vale Pires

Psychologist

Cristiana Vale Pires is a cis woman, intersectional feminist, and queer movement ally. She is graduated in Psychology, with a master’s and PhD in Anthropology. Founding member of Kosmicare where she collaborates as psychologist and project manager. Researcher at CEDH and assistant professor at FEP-UCP. She has worked with drug issues since 2009 and in the past few years she has collaborated in research initiatives and intervention responses that aim to offer visibility and ethical answers to the experiences and lives of both cis women and queer individuals who are drug users. She is one of the participants on the debate “Chemsex and drug use in the queer community”.

Donatienne Berthereau

Filmmaker

Donatienne Berthereau was born in Montreuil in 1993. After completing a Film Studies degree at Sorbonne Nouvelle, she graduated in Film Directing from La Fémis in 2021. Her short films mix fiction and documentary styles, featuring young women trying to find their way in life. Her film "Nuits blanches" competes for the Best Short Film award.

Photo: Mateo Berthereau

Franck Finance-Madureira

Journalist

Franck Finance-Madureira is a French journalist and film critic. He runs FrenchMania, a magazine and website dedicated to French and French-speaking cinema and writes for Têtu, the main French LGBTQI+ media and for Trois Couleurs, a monthly magazine. He’s the president-founder of the Queer Palm, the LGBTQI+ Cannes Film Festival Award which he created in 2010 and of the Queer Palm Lab that will be launched at the end of 2023. He is also the director of programming for the international’s Istanbul Crime and Punishment Festival. He was a member of numerous international juries (Berlin, San Francisco, Guadalajara, Tel Aviv, Lisbon, Torino, Belgrade, Milano …). He will be conducting a talk with Philippe Besson, before the screening of "Arrête avec tes mensonges".

Photo: Déborah Puente

Gabz404

Filmmaker

Along with Gustavo Deon, Lau Graef, and Luka Machado, Gabz404 integrates the Intransitivo collective: four trans individuals who develop their work in the artistic and cultural areas, so as on memory and cultural heritage. They seek spaces where their voices and presence are central for their narratives, both in front and behind the cameras. This year, he participates in a talk after the screening of "Intransitivo: um Documentário sobre Narrativas Trans".

Photo: Marine Bataglin

Gisela Casimiro

Writer and Activist

Gisela Casimiro was born in Guinea-Bissau in 1984. She is a writer, artist, performer, curator, translator and activist. She will be participating in the debate “Yvonne Rainer: cinema and dance”.

Greg Fearon

MarCom Profissional

Greg Fearon is a digital marketing and communications professional with 20+ years' experience promoting festivals, documentaries, books, podcasts and academic events for clients around the world. Since 2019, Greg has been leading the overall digital strategy for the Oliver Sacks Foundation, which is
devoted to increasing understanding of the human brain and mind through the power of narrative non-fiction and case histories. Through the foundation, he has collaborated with a range of partners including PBS, Zeitgeist Films, Kino Lorber, Steeplechase Films, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, Audible, Penguin Random House and Macmillan/Picador.

Greg Thorpe

Festival Director

Greg Thorpe is a writer, curator and the Festival Director of GAZE International LGBTQIA Film Festival, Ireland, which has been running for 31 years in Dublin.

Jakub Dylewsk

Filmmaker

Along with Edmund Krempiński, Jakub Dylewsk is the co-director of "Edge", competing in the In My Shorts strand.

João dos Santos Martins

Artist

João dos Santos Martins (Santarém, 1989) is an artist based in Lisbon and Paris whose work encompasses a wide range of forms, including choreography, exhibition and publication. He will be participating in the debate “Yvonne Rainer: cinema and dance”.

Joana Matias

Researcher

Joana Matias (she/her) is a researcher at Instituto de História Contemporânea, NOVA-FCSH / IN2PAST - Laboratório Associado para a Investigação e Inovação em Património, Artes, Sustentabilidade e Território. She studies the gay and lesbian press in Portugal, the history of gender and sexuality, queer material cultures and uses of the past. She has a master's degree in Gender Studies from Paris 8 University and a PhD candidate in History at NOVA-FCSH.

Jorge Jácome

Filmmaker

Jorge Jácome (b. 1988) is a filmmaker and artist based in Lisbon. He graduated in Direction and Edition at ESTC (Lisbon) and holds a post-graduation at Le Fresnoy (France). In his works, which blurs the lines between documentary and fiction, he investigates relations between utopias, melancholy, disappearance and desire. He will be participating in the debate “Yvonne Rainer: cinema and dance”.

Leonardo Amorim

Filmmaker

Leonardo Amorim was born in Maceió (Brazil). He is a director, screenwriter, editor, cultural producer, and curator. He is currently artistic director of the queer film festival Mostra Que Desejo and is developing his first feature film. He competes in the Short Film Competition with "Queima Minha Pele".

Louis-Barthelemy Rousseau

Filmmaker

Louis-Barthélémy Rousseau was born in 1993 in Paris, where he stills leave. He has a master's degree of Philosophy of sciences before integrating La Fémis in the Directing program in 2019. He competes in the In My Shorts Competition with "Combien danseront sur ta langue".

Maria Beatriz Castelo

Filmmaker

Maria Beatriz Castelo, born in Lisbon, graduated in Cinema from Universidade Lusófona in 2022. Throughout her academic career, she has carried out some projects such as advertisements and a fashion film. Her short film "Vanette" competes in the "In My Shorts" strand.

Miguel Ángel Fajardo

Filmmaker

Miguel Ángel Fajardo is a scriptwriter. He completed studies at the EICTV (Cuba) and at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) where he is currently a PhD student in Film Studies. He has worked as a Script Doctor with Ibero-American short and feature film writers. He collaborates as a film critic in the Colombian magazine Cero en Conducta. His film "Buscó a Satanás, Encontró la Familia" competes for the Best Short Film award.

Patric Chiha

Filmmaker

Born in Vienna in 1975, Patric Chiha studied Fashion Design in Paris and then Film Editing at the INSAS film school in Brussels. His films have screened at several festivals like Venice and Berlinale, and this year he opens our festival with "La Bête dans le jungle".

Photo: Elsa Okazaki

Pedro Cabral

Neurologist

Neurologist, Pediatric Neurologist. He was the director of the Neurosciences Department of the West Lisbon Hospital Center (CHLO), and founding member of the Portuguese Society of Neuropediatrics and of the Portuguese Council for the Brain. He always had a special interest in epilepsy and in developmental and behavioral neurologic disturbances. He is the coordinator of the CRER CHLO-CHULC (Refractory Epilepsy Reference Center which gathers the CHLO and the pediatric wing of the Central Lisbon University Hospital Center – Dona Estefânia Hospital). Author of “O Paradoxo do cérebro. Memória, autismo, identidade” (Temas e Debates, 2021, PEN award - essay 2022). He is one of the participants on the debate “Inside Oliver Sacks's Head”.

Pedro Pina

YouTube

Pedro Pina has lived and worked outside of Portugal throughout his 30+ year career. He graduated at UCP in Lisbon and has an MBA from INSEAD, Paris. He joined Google in 2013, and in 2021 he was picked to lead the operation of YouTube in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He is also a global exec sponsor for PRIDE@YouTube, he leads for Google the LGBTQ+ chapter across the region of EMEA, and he is a Board Member of OutRight Action International. He will moderate the debate "We on the screen. LGBTQI+ representation in the media".

Philippe Besson

Author

Philippe Besson, a household name in France, has published some twenty novels with les éditions Julliard, including Son frère (adapted for the cinema by Patrice Chéreau), L'arrière-saison (Grand Prix RTL-Lire), Arrête avec tes mensonges (prix Maison de la Presse), Le Dernier Enfant and Paris-Briançon. He will be participating in talk with Franck Finance-Madureira, before the screening of the film "Arrête avec tes mensonges", based on his homonymous novel.

Photo: Charlotte Krebs

Rui Guerreiro

Nurse

Rui Guerreiro holds a master’s degree and is specialized in medical-surgical nursing. As a nurse, his main areas of interest are those of HIV infection and sexual health among men who have sex with men. He is one of the participants on the debate “Chemsex and drug use in the queer community”.

Sara Lindquist

DOP

Sarah Lindquist is the DOP of Labor, a film in Competition in the Queer Art strand.

Sebastian Gernens

Assistant Director

Sebastian Gernens is assistant director of the film "Cidade Lúcida", screening in the Panorama Strand.

Solène Salvat

Actress

Solène Salvat is the main actress of "Nuits Blanches", film competing for the Best Short Award.

Tove Pils

Filmmaker

Filmmaker of the film "Labor" (Queer Art Competition). In their work, Pils seeks to widen the notion of sexuality and gender. Filmmaking is a way for Pils to create a structure for exploring what they and their community long for and strive to create: spaces to explore sexuality, open relationships, queer rituals and gender beyond the binary.

Photo: Sara Lindquist