Cinema in Transgression Jury |
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. |
Maria Inês Opinião |
Portugal |
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Maria Inês Opinião was born and raised in the center of Portugal, having moved to the capital city of Lisbon aged 18 to study law, from which she quit. She has graduated from the Lisbon School of Theater and film in Film - Scriptwriting.
She has worked as boom operator and sound recordist in several projects. She entered the workshop “FILM LETTERS: Writing Myself in a Female Tongue”, by Margarida Leitão.
To God’s Will (Carolina Rebelo, 2024), her school scriptwriting debut film, has been featured in several portuguese film festivals, such as FEST - New Directors, CaldasFilmFest, Revoluções Curtas - Filmin and vistacurta - shortfilm festival in Viseu. 9 to 5 (Helena Miranda, 2023), on which she served as sound recordist, debuted at IndieLisboa and has won 2nd place at Marmostra Festival.
She has been working with writer and director Inês Oliveira on her next few projects.
Currently, she is doing an internship at Doclisboa’s communication department, getting her master’s degree in Communication Sciences, and developing her next project. |
João Mirage |
United Kingdom / Hong Kong |
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João is an ethnographic filmmaker and a researcher. He's been working for various socially engaging organisations focusing on social justice and environmental awareness since 2007 – using audiovisual tools to trigger cultural exchange and mediate dialogue between people.
Since 2011 he developed a solar powered itinerant cinema project sponsored by Italian NGO Bambini Nel Deserto. With 'Cinema du Desert' he has had the possibility to travel and work in West Africa and Central Asia. An MA in Visual Anthropology with the University of Manchester led him to undertake fieldwork in the Peruvian Amazon that culminated in the feature documentary ‘The Mirror of the Spirit’ (the first part 'Afluentes' was very well received in ethnographic festivals world wide).
Ever since João has been based between UK, Hong Kong and Lisbon as a audiovisual freelancer. |
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