Jury
Júri | International Competition
ANABELA OLIVEIRA
Assistant professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro and researcher at Labcom. Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, she guides her scientific research in the scope of interartistic studies, namely in the relations between literature and cinema, literature and architecture, and also in the cinematography of Manoel de Oliveira, Fellini, and Jacques Tati. She teaches several seminars in the field of film discourse analysis and the dialogic relations between cinema and other arts. She has presented papers in multiple colloquia and publications in national and international magazines. She participated in conferences at the universities of Paris III, Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Utrecht, Warsaw, Lublin and Gdansk. Participation in juries and workshops at film festivals and film school exhibitions (Avanca, MIFEC, Ourense Film Festival, Festfilm-Montpellier, Cinanima, São Tomé Fest Film. Arroios Film Festival, Porto Femme International Film Festival) and in the national juries of ICA (2014-2019). Director of RIOS - International Documentary and Transmedia Film Festival. Author of the books Entre Vozes e Imagens - a presença das imagens cinematográficas nas múltiplas vozes do romance português (anos 70-90), Porto, Edições Pena Perfeita, 2007 and Federico Fellini - a inevitabilidade da arte, Editora DebatEvolution, 2020.
ŞIRIN FULYA ERENSOY
Şirin Fulya Erensoy is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellow at Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Her academic work includes gender and genre cinema, video activism as an alternative media practice, and censorship in Turkey’s documentary cinema. She has lectured in Film and Television departments and has been part of many organizational committees for academic conferences and film festivals, including last year’s conference on Teaching Women’s Filmmaking, at Istanbul’s Bilgi University. She was the host of independent news outlet Medyascope TV’s English news bulletin This Week in Turkey from 2019-2021. She also has practical experience in documentary production as a producer, director, and editor.
LESLIE-ANN COLES
Leslie-Ann Coles is an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker. She is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada, the Writers Guild of Canada and she is a longstanding member of ACTRA. In 2021, Telefilm Canada awarded Coles two script-development grants: for the feature screenplays “Soiled Dove,” winner of 12 finalist international screenwriting awards and ranked in the top 1% of over 50,000 screenplays on Coverfly, and “Love in Vein.” She also received a Creation Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts for her short film “The Curtain,” which she wrote and will direct in winter 2021. Coles is an alumna of the Women in the Director’s Chair program and is the founder and executive director of The Female Eye Film Festival (FeFF) established in 2001. She evaluates and selects independent films from more than 2,500 international entries every year; she has become intimately familiar with the local and international filmmaking communities.
INÊS OLIVEIRA
Born in 1976, in Lisbon, the city where she lives and works. She studied Sculpture, Drawing and Jewelry (Ar.Co), Cinema (ESTC and FCSH). She took the Videoart course at the Gulbenkian Foundation with Chantal Akerman, Haroun Faroki, Jean Pierre Gorin – among others. She created theoretical and practical theater seminars with Luís Miguel Cintra, Peter Stein and Rogério de Carvalho, and Dance at the C.E.M.. She worked as a sound editor and assistant director, and taught Cinema seminars (ESTAL, IST, etc). She has participated as a video artist in theater plays by directors such as António Pires and Maria João Luís. Since 2003, her main activity has been script writing and film directing. Her films have been awarded and shown in dozens of international festivals such as TIFF-Toronto, Nouveau Cinemas Nouveau Medias, Angers, Torino FF, Mostra de São Paulo, DocLisboa, Vila do Conde, IndieLisboa.
HEIDI BASCH-HAROD
Heidi Basch-Harod is the Executive Director of Women's Voices Now (WVN), a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization that uses film to drive positive social change that advances girls' and women's rights globally, and the founding editor of WVN’s digital publication, The WVoice. Heidi is a producer of the award-winning documentary Honor Diaries, and also of the acclaimed short film In Search of America, Inshallah. In 2021 she became an Emmy Award-winning producer for the series, Girls' Voices Now with Here TV. Heidi is a scholar of the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa, specializing in women's movements of the region. She is a published author, both online and in print. Heidi lives in Los Angeles, CA, with her family.
MALIKA ZAIRI
After working in the child protection sector for fifteen years, Malika ZAIRI decides to follow her passion for cinema. From 2014, in perfect autodidact, she writes, directs, produces, and distributes many short films selected to professionalize and follow several training courses at the European Film Production Training Center in Paris: feature film writing training, directing of actors training.
In 2020, she created and chairs the first international child protection film festival, held at the end of July 2021in Paris.
She is currently working on two feature film projects about child protection and women’s rights. Very committed to these two themes, she has just created the first international festival of women’s rights to be held in Paris in 2022.
Competição Nacional
EKIN ASAR
Ekin Asar was born in Ankara. Studied Communication with film studies focus in İstanbul. Continued her education with Comparative Arts and Media Studies Masters in Amsterdam. She learned hands-on filmmaking at New York Film Academy. She has produced videos and films which have become part of film festivals and art exhibitions. Because of her deep love and passion for cinema, she assumed different roles within the film industry such as film curator, festival coordinator, filmmaker, and jury member.
MIGUEL JANUÁRIO
±MaisMenos± is an intervention art project by Portuguese visual artist and graphic designer Miguel Januário (b. 1981) that began in the scope of an academic thesis in 2005 and later gained a life of its own. It offers a critical reflection on the model of political, social and economic organisation inherent to contemporary urban societies. Conducting a clinical dissection of reality that plays with the system of dualities intrinsic to the Western ideological edifice, the project’s programmatic expression is conceptually reduced to an equation of simplicity and excluding opposites: more/less, positive/negative, black/white. Under the ±MaisMenos± banner the artist has been producing thought-provoking, cutting-edge work both indoors and outdoors in a variety of media – from video to sculptural installations, from painting to performance. Besides numerous illegal public art interventions in several countries, the project has also been showcased in solo and group exhibitions in multiple contexts. His work is represented in various private collections.
ÉRICA RODRIGUES
Faleiro Rodrigues is a filmmaker, curator and lecturer. She holds a BA in Film and Video (Directing) by the University of the Arts London and an MA in Television Drama (Directing) by Goldsmiths. She is a PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London. Her work as a filmmaker granted her a Skillset Millennium Fellowship Award for a series of documentaries on the role of art in the life of refugees. Amongst various roles in the film and television industry, she worked as assistant editor for the BBC series Storyville. She has taught both in the UK and Portugal, and has designed and taught film history, film practice and the history of film censorship courses at Nova’s Summer School. She was film curator at the Barbican Arts Centre, collaborating with Mike Leigh, Emir Kusturica, John Malkovich, and Kazuo Ishiguro, amongst others, and curating numerous exhibitions and installations by filmmakers and visual artists. She is founding director of UTOPIA - UK Portuguese Film Festival, supported by Instituto Camões, last year celebrating its 11th edition. In 2017 she created Underscore, a festival of music, sound, moving image and archive. Faleiro Rodrigues’ research has recently focused on the Audiovisual Essay, around which theme she organised a symposium in Lisbon in 2019. In 2020 she secured a grant from ICA in Portugal to direct a documentary on Portuguese pioneer women filmmakers.
Competição XX Element
LUÍSA PINTO
Ph.D. in Artistic Studies, Arts/Theatrical and Performative Studies by the University of Coimbra. Master in Theatre/Staging, by Escola Superior Artística, do Porto - ESAP. Director, Professor of Theatre at ESAP and UTAD. Researcher at the Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo - ESAP. Artistic Director of the Narrativensaio-AC Theater Company. As a director she has staged more than thirty plays, with public presentations all over the country and also in Spain and Brazil, where she usually directs theater workshops. In addition to training in theater, in 1989 she completed the Fashion course at the Gudi Fashion School, was awarded by the Institute of Foreign Trade of Portugal - ICEP with an internship in Paris, where she specialized in costume design. Between 2007 and 2015 she was Artistic Director of the Teatro Municipal de Matosinhos Constantino Nery. Since 2006 she researches and performs Theatre in Prison Context projects, all with public presentations outside the prison walls, among them: 10 women 10 shows, in partnership with Paulo Pimenta, Nunca Mais, Sicrano de Bergerac, O Filho Pródigo. She was an author and presenter of television programs for RTPN. She was choreographer of the documentary Rompendo os Muros da Prisão and codirector of the film Concerto-O Filho Pródigo.
RUI PEREIRA
Born in Leira, Rui Pereira graduated on Communication and Directing. Regularly participates as festival organizer at MONSTRA, Doclisboa or Festa Mundial da Animação. He has initiated the project Shortcutz Leiria, where he is short films programmer.
ELSA CERQUEIRA
Elsa Cerqueira, winner of the Global Teacher Prize Portugal 2021 with the project "Filosofia com Cinema". Philosophy Professor, Master in the Area of Education Philosophy, postgraduate in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, she is a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Nucleus for Children and Adolescents (NICA) at Açores University. She coordinates the National Cinema Plan of the Amarante Highschool and is vice-president of the Amarante Cineclube. As a member of the juries, in 2021, the festivals “Curtas” of Vila do Conde, “Beast” and “UBICinema”, she was also a pre-selection jury for the candidate films for the National Animation Award of the World Animation Festival that this year will take place in Amarante, between 25-31 October. The last article published in the book “Cinema e Formação: conceções estéticas e pedagógicas”, is entitled “Filosofia para as crianças (FcCpC): O Sapateiro de Vasco Sá e David Doutel“. Federal University of Góias, Brazil, Feb. 2021. She is a blog creator.
Prémio Lutas e Direitos das Mulheres
CARLA CERQUEIRA
Carla Cerqueira has a degree in Social Communication, with a post-graduate degree in Communication Science - Information and Journalism, she has a Ph.D. in Science Communication - Communication Psychology specialty and a post-graduate degree in Science Communication - Gender and Media Studies by the University of Minho. She is currently an assistant professor at the Lusophone University of Porto, an integrated researcher at CICANT - Center for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies, and collaborator at CECS - Center for Communication and Society Studies. Over the years of research, she has developed projects and initiatives in the area of gender, diversity, and media studies. It is also in this field that she has published in national and international books and magazines, oriented theses, organized the most diverse scientific events and participated as a trainer and consultant. She was vice coordinator of the Gender and Communication Section of the European Research Association in Education and Communication (ECREA). She is part of several research projects, she is part of the GAMAG (Global Alliance on Media and Gender) Europe Network, coordinating the Research & Policy team. She is also part of the direction of the APEM - Portuguese Association of Studies on Women. In addition, she participates in various scientific and non-governmental organizations in the areas of human rights, gender equality, and feminism. It is part of the RTP Opinion Council representing the NGOs of the IEC Advisory Council - Commission on Citizenship and Gender Equality.
MARIA JOSÉ MAGALHÃES
Assistant Professor at FPCEUP, a researcher at CIEG and CIIE, Ph.D. in Education Science. She received the Carolina Michaelis de Vasconcelos research award on Women's Studies (1990), and has several scientific publications (books and articles in national and international journals). The main research areas focus on gender studies, feminism, social movements, and gender-based violence (including femicide). Led the international project “Bystanders: developing bystanders responses to sexual harassment among young people” (sexual harassment prevention. Principal Investigator of the CEINAV International Project (2013-2016), member of the European Observatory on Femicide (2018-) and founder and scientific coordinator of the Observatory of Murdered Women of UMAR, OMA-UMAR (2004-2010). Currently, she coordinates the BO(U)NDS Project - Laços e Limites: estudo longitudinal sobre a prevenção da violência de género nas escolas (financed by FCT) and coordinates the ART'THEMIS+ UMAR Project, financed by the State Secretariat for Citizenship and Gender Equality. She also coordinates the international project FEM_United: Preventing femicide in Europe. She has also developed, together with other researchers, research in the field of feminist art criticism, including published projects and articles.
ANA CATARINA PEREIRA
Ana Catarina Pereira is a teacher at the arts and letters faculty at Beira Interior University, she has a Ph.D. in Communication Science from the same university. She currently coordinates the project filming yourself and seeing yourself in the mirror: the use of writing by Portuguese-speaking documentary filmmakers, funded by FCT, with a large team of researchers from Portugal and Brazil. She is a member of UBI’s Equality Commission and she’s a LabCom researcher, she has a degree in Communication Science from Lisbon New University and has a master’s degree in Human Rights from Salamanca University. She is the author of two books, A Mulher-Cineasta: Da arte pela arte a uma estética da diferenciação and Estudo do Tecido Operário Têxtil da Cova da Beira. Ana Catarina co-organized the works Cinema e Outras Artes (volumes I, II, and III), Movies (Ir)refletidos, UBICinema 2007/2017, Geração invisível: Os novos cineastas portugueses, e Colectânea de Poesia - Poetas do Fundão, she is also the author of seveval scientic articles published in nacional and internaconal magazines. She is curator and jury of several film festivals; One of the founders of the International Conference on Film and Other Arts, held annually at UBI; and coordinator of the Sopcom’s Film Studies GT. She worked for several years as a journalist, collaborating with Focus magazines, Notícias Sábado and Notícias Magazine (Diário de Notícias), Jornal I, among others. She founded and directed the online magazine Magnetic Magazine and was director of the Culture Sciences (UBI) course.
