SUNCINE

Jury

Eduardo Trías

Eduardo Trías

Official section

Graduate in Information Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Production director of Producadora Andaluza de Programas. Head of the Audiovisual Department of the Public Company for the Management of Cultural Programmes, belonging to the General Directorate of Cultural Development and Promotion of the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Andalusia. Deputy director of the Fundación Audiovisual de Andalucía, belonging to the RTVA group (Canal Sur). Deputy Director of the Andalusia Film Commission. Director of the Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva. Director of the Almería Western Film Festival. (AWFF). Director of the documentary series “Rodar en Andaluz” (5 episodes) on the history of independent cinema in Andalusia. Expert in the development of the Andalusian Film Law and the Andalusian Strategic Plan to promote the film industry. Advisor at the Spain Film Commission and in the pre-production of several documentary projects.
Rita Leistner

Rita Leistner

Oficial section

Rita Leistner is an award-winning Canadian photographer, filmmaker and writer. She is known for her long-form documentary portrait projects in photography and film, and for the range and breadth of her subject matter. The themes she has covered include soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan; psychiatric hospital patients in wartime; American women wrestlers; loggers and tree planters in Canada; and recently, her darkly poetic pandemic series Infinite Distance (co-created with filmmaker Don McKellar). Her feature documentary film Forest for the Trees won the 2022 Suncine Human Ecology Prize. She resides in Toronto and Montreal and is represented by the Stephen Bulger Gallery for art and Green Planet Films for film. https://ritaleistner.com/
Ricard Belis

Ricard Belis

Official Section

I have been a television producer for 35 years, specialising in directing documentaries. I was part of the founding team of the Sense ficció programme on TV3.
What motivates me most to make documentaries is giving a voice to those who normally don’t have one, so that they can be heard. Only in this way does journalism fulfill one of its main duties: that of reporting by contrasting the data, giving a voice to everyone and questioning the predominant discourse exercised from power. Among my most recognised works are Tortura, més enllà del dolor (1998), winner of the UNDA award at the Monte Carlo Festival; Los niños perdidos del franquismo (2002), a documentary with which we won the Premi Nacional de Periodisme and the FIGRA prize; Ramon Perera, l’home que va salva Barcelona (2006), winner of the bronze medal at the New York Festival, and more recently Avi, et trauré d’aquí! (2013), The Institutions of fear (2015), Jo també vull sexe! (2016), winner of the ONCE Tiflos award, and La diva i la vida. Begoña Alberdi (2023).
Rafa Ruiz

Rafa Ruiz

Views Section

Journalist specialised in culture and environment since 1992. After 25 years at El País and El País Semanal, in 2012 he founded, together with Manuel Cuéllar, the digital magazine El Asombrario (today associated with the newspaper Público), of which he is coordinator. He was one of the founders in 1994 of APIA (Asociación de Periodistas de Información Ambiental), which today has more than 200 members. He is director of the gallery dedicated to emerging art Mad is Mad, opened in 2005 in the Chueca district of Madrid. Author of the “Toletis” series of story books for boys and girls of all ages, the collection of poems Hierba and the story book Sol Nulo, published by MadLibro.
WWF

WWF

Wiews Section

WWF Spain is the Spanish section of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). It is one of the largest global organisations dedicated to nature conservation, with headquarters in more than 100 countries. Its mission is to stop the environmental degradation of the planet and build a future in which human beings live in harmony with nature, through the protection and conservation of biodiversity and the reduction of our ecological footprint. Every year, this organisation awards a documentary from the Mirades section. The organisation’s communication team joins as a member of the jury for this section.
Cinthia  Pereira

Cinthia Pereira

Views Section

An environmentalist and technician in Environmental Chemistry, she is a professor at the University of Barcelona (UB), where she teaches classes in Experimental Sciences in Early Childhood Education and Primary Education, and in the university classrooms programme for seniors (AUGG-UB). At UPF she teaches classes on Design of Innovative Learning Environments and Introduction to Educational Research in Natural Sciences in the master's degree in secondary education and baccalaureate. She has worked at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) of the UAB, collaborating with international organisations such as UNESCO, the communication team of the European Forest Institute (EFI) and the Jane Goodall Institute. She also collaborated with the Business and Climate Foundation (FEC) and with the Department of Environmental Services of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB). She is the founder of the Green Drinks of the Official College of Environmental Scientists of Catalonia and organises field trips to protected natural areas (ENP) for students of all ages.
Mamen Boué

Mamen Boué

Ñ & MX Section

Feature film and television producer. She is head of acquisitions at MOVIE FILMS BCN and post-production coordinator (audio and video) between producers and studios. She is also a dubbing supervisor and coordinator between studios and clients, and a sound controller in M&E/mixing/linguistic QC sessions in Madrid and Barcelona. She has a wealth of knowledge on audiovisual production companies in Spain. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Productors Audiovisuals de Catalunya (PAC) association, patron of the Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia (Barcelona) and member of the Acadèmia del Cinema Català.
Samuel García

Samuel García

Ñ & MX Section

With Chilanga and Oaxacan roots, and an inheritor of a Mexican filmography resulting from so many hours of watching and talking about films, he decided to study journalism to get closer to the glass screen. Along the way he earned a master’s degree in visual communication. This led him to spend more than 24 years in the media in Mexico. For more than two decades he has been part of the live inventory of Canal Once (MX). He is currently head of Multimedia Content Management at the El Once International Signal, where he creates and curates social media content, produces audiovisual content and holds alliances with important film festivals to bring the genre closer to millions of viewers in Mexico and the United States.
Sebastià Mery

Sebastià Mery

Ñ & MX Section

He is an audiovisual producer with extensive experience in fiction production. His vocation for discovering talent has given him a unique perspective on cinematographic creation and storytelling. He collaborates with different companies in the sector, such as Lavinia Services and Motion Pictures, and directs his own company, Life & Pictures and Ambar Pictures. He has a long track record in international markets and specialises in structuring financing and exploitation. For 2 years he has coordinated the Barcelona Film Commission and different cultural programmes of the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, related to the film and publishing sector (Pantalla BCN and LAAB). He is a member of the Board of PAC.
Elise Petitjean

Elise Petitjean

Monarca Section

Elise Petitjean es parte del comité organizador de Greenmotions, festival de cine en Friburgo de Brisgovia, Alemania. Greenmotions cubre temas como el medio ambiente y la sostenibilidad, y, más allá de las películas, ofrece un lugar de intercambio con talleres y charlas con la meta de concientizar, conmover e inspirar a todos y todas para pasar a la acción. Elise participa localmente desde hace años en diversos proyectos de apoyo a personas refugiadas y desfavorecidas. Entre dichas actividades se encuentran el apoyo en el aprendizaje de idiomas y el empoderamiento a través de actividades deportivas, tales como la natación y la bicicleta, así como el asesoramiento para afrontar obstáculos de la vida cotidiana.
Carlos Alberto López

Carlos Alberto López

Monarca Section

Graduated from the film and TV school in the city of Rosario (Argentina), he has worked in the media since 1991. He is currently a cameraman and news editor for the channel Somos Rosario (communication services company), and runs an image workshop at the l’Instituto de Periodismo in the city of Rosario. He has been working in documentary cinema since 1986, creating an image bank that recovers film material and contributing his archives to television projects on a national and international scale. He has also worked on the technical team of several fiction films alongside Héctor Molina and Gustavo Postiglione, among others. Recently, he released the documentary El Rosariazo (2006-2022), in which tells of the struggle of the Argentine people against the dictatorship and the fight for freedom in the late 1960s. A series of four episodes on the daily life of a society that cannot resolve social class differences, La teoría de lo posible.
Patricia Martí Puig

Patricia Martí Puig

Monarca Section

Patricia Martí Puig has more than 15 years’ experience leading marine conservation projects on an international scale. She has a doctorate from the University of Bologna, focusing on marine protected areas of the Mediterranean Sea. She has actively worked in regions as varied as the Mediterranean, Atlantic, Pacific, Caribbean, Red Sea and Indian Ocean, specialising in the blue economy, coral reefs and marine protected areas. Her notable experience in marine environmental communication is reflected in her creation of and participation in key short films, such as Zoe and her adventures in the Mediterranean Sea and Cuida la costa de Alicante, which demonstrate her commitment and passion for communicating essential environmental issues to the general public. Multilingual and with notable facilitation and diplomacy skills, Patricia is also the founder and head consultant of Oceanogami, a marine environmental consultancy specialised in the blue economy.