Jury
Graduated in Audiovisual Communication from Pompeu Fabra University, she has developed her career as a sound engineer, mainly in documentary films, applying her technical and narrative knowledge to projects with social and cultural impact such as “Mal de caña” (Som Batabat, Mayo Films), “Alexina B.Vides en Composició” (Digital Films, Les Films Figures Libres) or “Les Culpables” (Boogaloo Films - in development), among others. She is currently part of the technical team of Catalunya Film Festivals, coordinating “Contraplà”, a film making project aimed at children and young people. A lover of the mountains since childhood, she practices mountaineering and climbing.
She is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. She co-created and directed the photography of the feature documentary "Dabruneba", developed in various international laboratories. She has a stint at the camera rental company Servicevision and works as a second assistant cameraman in the film industry in fiction and documentary productions such as "The Walker", by Tsai Ming-Liang, or "Adentro del Ruido", by Martina Juncadella, among others. Passionate about climbing and the mountains, she gradually orients her filmmaking practice towards these environments while starting her first documentary project as a director.
She is a director, screenwriter and producer. She has developed her career between the United States and Spain. In recent years she has written, produced and directed several creative documentaries: “Once Upon a Place” (USA), a hybrid between reality and fiction that won more than fifteen awards, including a Biznaga de Plata at the Malaga Film Festival. She was a co-writer of the Emmy Award-nominated television documentary “Mr. Trump, pardon the interruption” (USA-Spain). Her other documentaries are “On Vampyres and Other Symptoms” and “The Minorcans, 250 years of survival”. From 2013 to 2018, she lived in New York, where she worked as a video journalist, screenwriter and producer for several television stations and production companies in the USA and Spain. She is currently based in Barcelona, where she works for several production companies.
He holds a PhD in Art History and is a retired professor at the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, where he has taught in areas related to art education and audiovisual media. He is a rock climbing and mountaineering instructor at the Catalan School of Mountaineering (ECAM) and a co-founder of the production company Estimball Films, with whom he has made more than half a dozen documentaries on the history of climbing and mountaineering in Catalonia, including: “Pirates” (2011), “Pioners” (2014), “Repte en el Saraghrar” (2019), “Expansió. De Montserrat als Alps” (2022) and “Obrint camí. Kangtega 84” (2024).
Journalist. His career began between 1985 and 1989 with collaboration in local media such as Regió 7 and Ràdio Manresa and later with Radio Lleida, where he held the position of head of news for the station between 1987 and 1989. That year he joined the TV3 delegation in Lleida as a reporter and participated in the teams deployed to the Gulf War, the Balkans War and other international conflicts, as well as producing reports for the programs “Actual”, “30 Minuts” and the “De Vacances”. In 2000, he was appointed head of the TV3 News Society section. Between 2004 and 2017 he directed the program “Tot un món”, focused on cultural diversity and immigration in Catalonia. Since July 2017, he has been the director of the TV3 documentary program ‘30 minuts’. He is currently a member of the Executive of the Platform for Language and the Diversity Commission of the CCMA.