Bárbara Bergamaschi |
Brazil / Italy |
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Bárbara Bergamaschi Novaes is an Italian-Brazilian filmmaker and researcher, based in Lisbon. She has a PhD in Literature, Culture, and Contemporaneity from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). She holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Communication and a master’s degree in Performing Arts, both from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with a period in exchange program at the Université de Paris 8–Licence en Cinema.
Bárbara is also a film critic, a member of ABRACCINE and Fipresci (International Federation of Film Critics). Her films as cinematographer and/or director, including Blue Animal (2021), House of Dolls (2020), Animalaise (2019), Being Boring (2015), and Gigantic (2014), have been screened in Portugal, Brazil, India, and France.
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Victoria Catarino |
Portugal |
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Victoria Catarino is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Rio de Janeiro and based in Lisbon.
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completed her undergraduate degree in Social Sciences at the Federal Rural Faculty of Rio de Janeiro, holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, and a degree in Audiovisual Production from Escola 35mm.
She works primarily with creative writing, experimental sound, performance, analog photography, and audiovisual production.
The artist produces and directs short films and aims to revive the vibrancy of this format in the industry. Her first short film, Pele (2022), was selected by national festivals such as the Porto Femme International Film Festival and the Lisbon Indie Film Festival, and was a semifinalist at the Moldovan Serbest International Film Festival. |
Inês Dust |
Portugal |
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Inês Dust (Lisbon, Portugal; 1997) is a filmmaker and media artist. She first studied Media Production (Southampton Solent University, 2018), and then Sociology (FCSH-UNL, 2022). Currently in a Masters in Visual Antropology.
Her works include Coming Out (2021), a documentary about the stories of LGBTQIA+ people, which she directed and produced in Barcelona. Through an IGLYO grant, she held a series of intergenerational conversations within the community, which resulted in a mini-series, DiversIDADES (2022). In artistic residency with Queer Art Lab, she developed a documentary about the rebirth of Trumps ( a queer nightclub in Lisbon) and what it means to be a queer artist in Portugal - “A Queer Planet” (2022).
In 2024, she was selected for the European Mentoring Programme of Collectif 50/50 and MUTIM with the project she’s currently working on, “Safo: do Inicio ao Futuro” (Safo: From the Beginning to the Future), where she had the opportunity to participate in the Les Arcs Film Festival and pitch the project to industry professionals.
In 2024-25, she co-directed the project ParticipAction!, where she mentored high school students in short-film production focused on human rights and citizenship.
She dedicates her life to working on issues related to social rights, gender, sexuality, and art. |
Raúl Jardín |
Peru |
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Raúl Gómez, better known as Raúl Jardín, is a Peruvian musician with a strong presence in Lima’s experimental music scene since the late 1990s, when he founded the duo Jardín with Orlando Ramírez. With hypnotic rhythms and industrial textures, the duo quickly became a reference in Lima’s emerging experimental music scene, leading Raúl to perform at festivals in Peru, Chile, Argentina, Spain, Luxembourg, and Portugal.
Through his work, Raúl Jardín explores the soundscape of everyday life, creating compositions that evoke field recordings and oscillate between the real and the imaginary, incorporating elements such as locomotives, space battles, hammers, submarines navigating the sea, and interrupted radio transmissions. As a solo artist, he also stands out in composing music for dance, theater, and opera, using a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments. Additionally, his sensitivity, technical expertise, and extensive experience as a sound technician bring diversity to his musical career.
Alongside his solo work, he is part of the duo Shaolines del Amor with Peruvian musician Tomás Tello, a group that has explored Expanded Cinema, with performances at Tavira Cineclub and, more recently, at Casa do Comum.
Since 2016, Raúl has lived in Tavira and, more recently, at Quinta da Fornalha
, in Castro Marim, where he worked as an organic farmer. At the end of 2024, he moved to Lisbon, where he completed an artist residency at Hangar C.I.A., performed DJ sets at Casa do Comum, and created the project Bam de Luar with multi-instrumentalist musician Demba D’jabaté. |
Bruno Soares |
Portugal |
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The fascination with the image began at the age of 16 while working with photographer Luis Cruz, the moving image emerged at the age of 18 when he made still photography for a cinema film for the first time, and from then on the decision to make films became clear and the choice easy. He completed his degree in Cinema in Lisbon and in between he had the opportunity to work in the area in different departments of several teams, gaining experience and above all understanding the challenges inherent to each film project from different perspectives.
He thinks in images and the sequence of movements, colors, framing, scales comes naturally to him in an act almost as involuntary as breathing. Had the opportunity to direct for the first time at the age of 22, in a short film outside the curriculum entitled “Politics”.
The need to improve himself, to understand how to put into practice what comes naturally to him made him once again decide to accept the opportunity, for which he applied years before, to do a postgraduate degree in Barcelona at ESCAC, instead of continuing on the path already begun in cinema in Portugal, thus learning new languages, new aesthetics, new objectives and giving him a greater understanding of the entire production process, accumulating experiences in advertising, cinema, documentaries and music videos. (Busan International Film Festival 2020).
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