JURY 2024
Filipe Lopes
Filipe Lopes is a composer with strong affinities for electroacoustic music and new technologies, having received various commissions throughout his career. He has worked in the field of electroacoustic music composition and multimedia installation, also collaborating in the realms of cinema and theater. In 2013, he won the European ECPNM award for real-time electronic music works with a piece using the software he designed, “Do Desenho e do Som”. In 2016, he received a distinction at the Athens International Animation Festival for the original music he composed for the short film Macabre (2015), and in 2024, his string quartet Clusia Rosea (2018) was selected for the World New Music Days Festival. From September 2010 to August 2012, he led the Digitópia project at Casa da Música, and from September 2015 to December 2017, he coordinated the educational service of the Matosinhos Jazz Orchestra. He has been a Ph.D. holder since 2016, in Digital Media, from the University of Porto, and since 2009, he has taught at various higher education institutions.
Currently, besides his creative and pedagogical work that combines music and digital technologies, he is an Assistant Professor at the School of Media Arts and Design, an integrated researcher at CIPEM/INET-Md, a collaborating researcher at ID+, and the Director of the Department of Image Arts at ESMAD.
Iván Villarmea Álvarez
Iván Villarmea Álvarez is a critic, researcher, professor, and film programmer. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Zaragoza and currently works as an assistant professor of film history at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). He published the book Documenting Cityscapes: Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film (2015) and co-edited the volumes Memories in Motion: History and Trauma in Ibero-American Cinemas (2023; with Silvana Mariani and Júlia Vilhena), New Approaches to Cinematic Space (2019; with Filipa Rosário), and Playing with Memory: Portuguese Cinema in the 21st Century (2014; with Horacio Muñoz Fernández). He won the María Luz Morales Prize from the Galician Audiovisual Academy in three editions (2020, 2021, and 2023), served as vice-president (2020-2022) and secretary (2022-2024) of the Association of Moving Image Researchers (AIM), co-directed the digital film criticism magazine A Cuarta Parede (2013-2017), and co-founded the Cineclube de Compostela in 2001.
LUCIANO BARISONE
Film-club host, journalist and film critic for specialist magazines (Filmcritica, Cineforum, Duellanti) and newspapers (La Stampa, Il Manifesto), he founded the magazine Panoramiques, which he directed several years. He has written monographs on Catherine Breillat, Robert Guédiguian, Clint Eastwood, Naomi Kawase, Nicolas Philibert, Les Films d'Ici and Sydney Pollack. Since 1997, he has collaborated at numerous international film festivals, including the Locarno International Film Festival and the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica of Venice. From 1999 to 2004 he worked as consultant and reader of projects for the Swiss Fund Montecinemaverità.
In 2002, he founded the Alba Infinity Festival, for which he has acted as artistic director until 2007. In 2008, 2009 and 2011 he acted as tutor at the Master Documental of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. From 2008 to 2010 he has been the artistic director at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence. Between 2011 and 2017 he’s been the director of Visions du Réel in Nyon.
He has acted as member of the jury at Cannes (Caméra d'or 1997), Marseille (Fid, 2000), Valladolid (Seminci, 2003), Buenos Aires (Bafici, 2004), Lisbon (DocLisboa2004), Pamplona (Punto de Vista, 2008), Tel Aviv (DocAviv, 2008), Paris (Cinéma du Réel, 2009), Yerevan (Golden Apricot International Film Festival, 2010), Jihlava (2010), Toronto (Hot Docs, 2011), Sderot (Cinema South Festival, 2011), Sarajevo (2011), IDFA Amsterdam (2011), etc…
Currently he’s an artistic producer and an international consultant for cinema markets and international film festivals.