ILDA SANTIAGO (Brazil)

She was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, studied journalism and film at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF). As a journalist, she wrote for the newspapers O Globo and Jornal do Brasil. She is one of the founders and partner at Grupo Estação, a company that, for the past 30 years, has worked with the distribution and exhibition of art house films in Brazil. She is the executive and programming director of the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival. In 2013, he was part of the jury at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.

HERNÁN MUSALUPPI (Argentina)

He was born in Buenos Aires in 1971. He is a film producer and teacher. In his beginnings, he produced such films as Silvia Prieto, Freedom and Crane World, among others. In 2001, he founded with Natacha Cervi the independent company Rizoma, which in just a few years became one of the most acknowledged production companies in the region. Since then, its more than thirty films have been distributed commercially around the world. He is the president of the CAIC (Argentine Chamber of the Film Industry), and is a member of ACE (Ateliers du Cinéma Européen), apart from teaching in the Production departments of the National School of Film Experimentation and Making (ENERC) and the Universidad del Cine. In 2012, he published El cine y lo que queda de mí, his first book.

PIERRE MENAHEM (France)

He started his career in the film industry in 1997 working at Celluloid Dreams as director of sales and acquisitions, supervising the marketing of a catalogue of 200 titles of acclaimed directors and attending all principal festival and markets. He founded Scalpel Films in 2004 and then created a sales division in production company MPM Film. During this period he served as jury member in several festivals (San Francisco, Jerusalem, Palm Springs, and Annecy). As an expert in international sales he participated in many workshops such as Produire au Sud (Bogotá, Bangkok, Recife, Buenos Aires, Nantes), The Producers Network (Cannes), Mediterranean Films Crossing Borders (San Sebastian, Berlin, Malta), and EAVE. He is also a programmer at the Belfort International Film Festival and a consultant to the Film Office of the Rotterdam Film Festival.

27 de April de 2016