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 Pedro Afonso |
Portugal |
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Born at 1964, January 31, João Pedro Afonso is a sixty year's old street philosopher by choice, and a physicist by heart.
He has a degree in Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Physics engineering) and dabbled many years in the academy. He is the author of an algorithm for SAT solvers to find short-circuits in very large logic circuits presented at DATE 2017, which some thought to be a serious contender for a Ig Nobel award, and a current moderator in a Facebook group of quantum physics with 300 thousand members. He likes science, mathematics, puzzles, chess and other games, books, animation, science fiction and fantasy, children, to debate, to program, to swim, to draw, and much much more. He dislikes conflicts, mosquitoes and yellow soup. His most recent project is to grow a beard and see how the facial hair self-organizes. He wants to learn how to read Inca Quipus to see if there is an hidden meaning in the knots formed but so far, he only got a new understanding for the difficulties of long hair users like women.
I define culture not only as the flavor of our way of life but also as our main tool to prepares us to life. Open societies demand openess to ideas, discussions, contexts, and freedom to discuss alternatives. Cinema is one of the major arts to do that. |
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