All films are nominated for the
Grand Jury Prize
Fátima Vieira is Vice-Rector of the University of Porto (Culture, Museums, and U.Porto Press).
A Full Professor at the Faculty of Arts, where she has been teaching since 1986, Fátima Vieira was a member of the General Council of the University of Porto from 2012 to 2014 and has served on various scientific councils and committees since earning her PhD in 1998. She was Director of the Department of Anglo-American Studies from 2008 to 2010 and President of the Utopian Studies Society / Europe from 2006 to 2016.
Raquel Schefer is a researcher, filmmaker, programmer, and Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Audiovisual at Sorbonne Nouvelle University. She holds a PhD in Film and Audiovisual Studies from Sorbonne Nouvelle, with a dissertation on the history and aesthetics of revolutionary cinema in Mozambique. She also holds a Master’s degree in Documentary Film from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences from NOVA University Lisbon.
Paula Miranda studied Fine Arts, and during her studies she discovered that films don’t edit themselves—and that editing is a profession. She has been working as a film and audiovisual editor since 2001, first in advertising and later in cinema, documentary, and any other format that sparks her interest. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies at NOVA FCSH, with a particular focus on the role and representation of women in film and audiovisual media. She is also the founder of the association MUTIM, where she has served as president since 2022.