JÚRI 2022
JURY OF FEATURE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Ana Rocha, Portugal, director
Born in Lisbon, she studied and lived in London. Still in Lisbon, she worked for 12 years as an actress and was also a Painting student at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon. Later she went to the London Film School where she completed her master’s degree in Cinema. It is a field where she has made a name for herself internationally. With a passion for stories and people, she has delved into fiction and realism in a marriage she felt was right from the start. By observing different worlds and modes of expression, Ana Rocha de Sousa touches on an array of areas. She started in the plastic arts, art management, photography and acting. She subsequently discovered this same union and juxtaposition through the strength of cinema. She debuted her first feature-length fiction film in 2020 called ‘Listen’ which won several national and international awards. She has progressed her career in multiple areas.
André Rui Graça, Portugal, professor at Universidade da Beira Interior
André Rui Graça is an invited teacher in the Cinema and Sciences of Culture Courses of the University of Beira Interior, a researcher at CEIS20 of the University of Coimbra, and CICANT of the Universidade Lusófona, and a consultant. He did his master’s degree and PhD at the University College London and an MBA at the University of Coimbra. He has presented his work internationally and been published frequently, both in the academic field and outside academia (mainly, but not only, on Portuguese cinema, the intersection between cinema and economics/the market and cinema theory). Among other works and articles about cinema and culture, he is one of the authors of the History of Cinema (2021, Edições 70), coordinated by Nelson Araújo, and the author of: Portuguese Cinema: Consumption, Circulation and Commerce (1960-2010) (2021, Boydell and Brewer).
José Barahona, Portugal, director
He graduated at Lisbon’s Theatre and Cinema School in 1992, and completed his studies in Cuba and New York. In 2013 he became a partner of the Brazilian producer Refinaria Filmes and was a programmer and producer of the Mostra Cinema Português Contemporâneo (Contemporary Portuguese Cinema Display) which took place in several Brazilian cities. He was an external reviewer of the Audio-visual Sector Fund, in Brazil, and was the Brazilian co-producer through Refinaria Filmes of the feature-length films Pedro e Inês and Raiva. Among his work as a director, especially noteworthy are the films Milho (Corn), which won an award at CineEco 2009, O manuscrito perdido (The lost manuscript), Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você (I was in Lisbon and remembered you) and Alma clandestina (Clandestine soul). In 2020 he debuted Nheengatu, which was the opening film of the Doclisboa festival that year and won awards at various festivals.
JURY OF SHORT AND TV INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Nuno Barros, Portugal, Lipor
A Biology graduate at the University of Porto, he has spent most of his career working on Environmental and Sustainability issues. He has worked for several years at LIPOR in the fields of Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability, carrying out projects in several areas, namely Agenda 21 and SA8000. He spent four years in the United States where he worked at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in the areas of training, educational support and visitor assistance. He is currently part of the Communication, Marketing and Sustainability Department, where he is in charge of the management of internal and external communication resources and where he continues to carry out Social Responsibility projects. He is delighted to be part of the CineEco Festival Jury for the 5th time.
Ana Melo, Portugal, Universidade Minho
Teacher and researcher at the University of Minho/Communication and Society Study Centre, and a PhD in Communication Sciences, master in Sound and Image, and specialised in script-writing, she teaches advertising, strategic and territorial communication, creativity and script-writing. She has been a journalist, copywriter and creative director. She is interested in the interaction between advertising, citizenship and participation as a form of resistance and activist resilience. Born at the foot of the Serra da Estrela mountains, she has a strong connection to the land and nature, cultivating her own plot of land and tries to be an ecologically sustainable citizen, alive to the alternative ways of living and behaviours.
Fernando Vasquez, Portugal, Director of Cinematographic Programming at FEST -New Directors | New Cinema
Born in the city of Porto, Fernando Vasquez graduated in Cinema at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and took a post-Graduation course in journalism at the London School of Journalism. After working on several cinematographic productions he became a cinema journalist and critic for several publications in the United Kingdom, Portugal and Brazil, such as the “Independent on Sunday”, “Bulb Magazine” and “Revista Sai”. Since 2010 he has worked in FEST - New Directors | New Cinema (www.fest.pt) as a Cinematographic Programming Director. Between 2012 and 2016 he also accumulated several functions at Nisi Masa - European Network of Young Cinema, where he was Director of the Debating Department and Editor-in-Chief of the “Nisimazine'' magazine, where he supervised several workshops for cinema critics in festivals such as Cannes, Rotterdam, Venice and San Sebastian, among many others. Fernando Vasquez also frequently works with several independent producers and authors to define international distribution strategies for cinema. In recent years, Fernando Vasquez has been a member of various juries for film contests, projects and pitching sessions at events such as Kort Film Festival (Norway), Shortwaves (Poland), Valleta Film Festival (Malta), Primer Test and Rec Film Festival (Spain).
JÚRI COMP. LONGAS E CURTAS-METRAGENS LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA E PANORAMA REGIONAL
Adriana Neymer, Brazil, artistic director and programmer at FESTin
Adriana Niemeyer has been the artistic director and programmer of the Portuguese-Language Travelling Cinema Festival (FESTin) since its creation in 2010, and a journalist. Brazilian, she has lived in Portugal for 15 years. She was a correspondent of the Estado de São Paulo newspaper, GloboNews and Rádio Vaticana – among others – in Argentina and Italy. She also worked in Austria and the Balkans for the Expresso and Rádio Renascença. She is currently a correspondent for Rádio França Internacional and the Il Faro di Roma newspaper in Lisbon. In the Portuguese capital she produced the “120 Years of Fernando Pessoa” documentary and the “Semana de Clarice Lispector”. She has organised several premieres/galas of the International Association of Foreign Journalists, the Chapitô Women Clowns Festival and the ACIDI Photography Exhibition. She supervised the press coverage of several cinema festivals, such as Venice, Taormina (Sicily), Viennale and Belgrade.
Bruno Lourenço, Portugal, director
He studied Cinema at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School and graduated in Communication Sciences at the Autonomous University of Lisbon (UAL). He has worked since 1995 in cinema in the areas of production and directing. He has worked with an array of different directors including Miguel Gomes, Manuel Mozos, José Fonseca e Costa, Eugène Green, João Nicolau and Telmo Churro. He has written and directed two short films, Tony and OSO.
Luísa Lopes, Portugal, Deputy Director of Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente.
Assistant Director of the Academic Theatre of Gil Vicente, University of Coimbra (UC); Culture and Patrimony Advisor at the UC and Science Museum [2005-2017]; Cinema and Festival Extensions Programmer; Financial Management Director and Cinema, Sciences and New Technologies Programmer, Coimbra National Culture Capital 2003/MC; Jury member in the “Botanical Missions in Africa” films; Management of ProUrbe and City Council/Culture, Policies/Active Citizenship; Jury member in the TCVAAC cinema contests (2010-2014); Member of the Cultural, Quality and Management Council; TAGV Artistic Services [1997-2001]; Collaborated with DRCNorte; Cultural Departments: RUC, TEUC, Photography Meetings, among others; Part of the management bodies of the CAOPC/Anozero-Arts and Architecture Biennial and the Lusophone Scene Association, an association for cultural exchange amongst Portuguese-speaking countries.
YOUTH JURY
Maria Mendonça
Maria Isabel Mendonça (1994, Seia) has a master’s in Architecture from the Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP), since 2017. She is a researcher at the Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (CEAU-FAUP), where she develops research work in the field of spatial planning and the construction of the rural landscape. PhD student and scholarship holder of the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, she is preparing a thesis on "A raia de Ribacôa. Dialectics of settlement organisation and rural landscape construction", supervised by Marta Oliveira (CEAU-FAUP) and co-supervised by Virgílio Borges Pereira (FLUP and CEAU-FAUP).
She also has a degree in Music - Piano and Keyboard, from the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE-IPP), in 2019. She founded the projects "Re: Flexus Trio" (2018) and "Ningue Ningue" (2020), the latter in partnership with the musician César Prata about oral root music.
Francisca Gouveia
She was born and raised in Coimbra, having fostered her connections with her maternal roots in Seia. She is 18 and is currently finishing the Secondary Course in Dance at the Artistic School of Coimbra Music Conservatory. She has been dancing since she was 4 years old, and it is a passion that demands profound dedication and continuous work. An assiduous attender of workshops, courses and national and international contests, she believes all artistic manifestation is the highest form of human expression.
João André Jorge
João André dos Santos Jorge is 18 years old and is attending the Photography Course at Tomar Polytechnic Institute. He has a deep passion for photography and video. He shares his photographs on his Instagram page (@joao_andre_fotografia). He did an Erasmus project in Spain lasting 6 months, where he worked as a director, cameraman, sound technician, among other multimedia areas.
Margarida Branquinho
Born in Seia, she is 21 years old and is devoted to social causes. She is a graduate in Language, Literature and Culture, with the specialisation of English/American and Portuguese studies, from the Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty of the NOVA University Lisbon. She studied Modern Languages for one semester at the ELTE University in Budapest. She is an ardent fan of poetry, novels, cultures but above all the important fight against social injustices. She has attended CineEco since her early years and feels it is now time for her voice to be heard in its community and to grasp the opportunity to expand her knowledge in an extremely important area for the young people of the world.
Maria João
Maria João Almeida is 23 years old and lives in Santa Comba de Seia and is currently studying in Vila do Conde, at the Media Arts and Design School. She finished her Professional Technical Course in Motion Design and Special Effects, moving on to her Multimedia degree at the same school. She has a passion for the arts and finding out where creativity can take each one of us, and as such seeks to evolve permanently.
Pedro Dinis Silva
Pedro Dinis Silva was born in Vila Cova à Coelheira, Seia. He grew up “gripped” by the piano, comics and the wonders of farmlands and nature. He quickly realised he was more at ease with words than with numbers, and he enrolled at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra, where he graduated in Journalism and Communication. He was part of the University of Coimbra Newspaper, A Cabra, where he took on the role of director, and joined the team of writers of Espalha-Factos, where he wrote for the Music section. Along the way he developed an immense fondness for culture and the arts, in particular music and cinema, about which he has written his ideas in a range of places. Today he is completing his master’s degree in Communication, Art and Culture at the University of Minho.
