Graduated in Audiovisual Communication at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. She started working in Paris for the distribution company Capricci in 2013. Joining forces with Thierry and Farid Lounas, she decided to create the distribution company Capricci Cine in Spain in 2014, which she has run ever since. In addition, she collaborates with Sofilm Spain magazine and helps also in organizing the Sofilm Summercamp festival held in Nantes. She is a specialist in French cinema, and, inspired by Henri Langlois’ legacy, she has distributed contemporary auteur films in Spain, as well as films by filmmakers of such a stature as Serge Bozon, Albert Serra, Aleksei German, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Serguéi Paradzhánov or Ado Arrietta, among others.

Founded Andergraun Films in 2003, a production company set out with the purpose of making audiovisual projects of her own together with the director Albert Serra. Since then, she has produced the following full-length films: HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS and BIRDSONG (both released at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight), STORY OF MY DEATH (Golden Leopard at Locarno International Film Festival) and THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV (Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival). She has also produced various audiovisual pieces for the contemporary art world: THE THREE LITTLE PIGS for DOCUMENTA13 in Kassel, Singularity for the Venice Art Biennale, LORD WORKED WONDERS IN ME  for the CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona) and THE NAMES OF CHRIST for  the MACBA (Museu D’art Contemporàni de Barcelona), amongst others. She combines audiovisual work with the direction of a prison theatre company.

Felipe Lage runs Zeitun Films. He has participated in the production of several feature films, such as TODOS VÓS SODES CAPITÁNS (YOU ALL ARE CAPTAINS, Oliver Laxe, 2010), ARRAIANOS (Eloy Enciso, 2012), O QUINTO EVANXEO DE GASPAR HAUSER (THE FIFTH GOSPEL OF KASPAR HAUSER, Alberto Gracia, 2013), COSTA DA MORTE (COAST OF DEATH, Lois Patiño, 2013), POZOAMARGO (Enrique Rivero, 2015) and MIMOSAS (Oliver Laxe, 2016). All of these films received awards at some of the most important film festivals in the world. Zeitun Films is a Spanish film production company born with a strong commitment to art and culture, and with the willingness to support films engaged with cinema at large.

Paco Poch is a producer and founder of MALLERICH FILMS, a low-budget and auteur-film production company. He also directs PACO POCH CINEMA, a distribution company willing to distribute the touching work of filmmakers featuring newfangled and intense messages. It is also committed to the distribution of pure cinema, which has hardly been shown in our country. Since its creation in 2009, it has tried to maintain a distribution line based on filmmakers they admire. Furthermore, PACO POCH CINEMA contributes to the development of some projects in their scriptwriting phase.

Mercedes Martínez-Abarca has been working at International Film Festival Rotterdam since 2009, where she is currently a programme advisor. For five years she has coordinated the Holland Film Meeting Co-Production Platform (Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht). She has also worked for the sales agency Fortissimo Films and has collaborated in various festivals and co-production markets.
 

Member of the Selection Committee for Competition and Panorama Programme Manager for the Berlin International Film Festival (since 2006-7), Paz Lázaro is also the delegate for Hispanic films and serves as an Expert for the European Film Academy since 2012.
She holds a Degree in Spanish Philology, English Philology and Sociology. As a script consultant she has collaborated for The Match Factory, the Spanish Film Commission (ICAA) in Spain, ICAU in Uruguay, and FOPROCINE in Mexico for IMCINE.
Prior to the curating festival experience, she was engaged in Film Production over the years with feature films such as Nómadas (Spain, 2000), Sobre el arcoiris (Spain, 2003), as well as Theatre Production with Constanza Macras‚ Dorky Park Company (No Wonder, Sure).

Ramiro Ledo Cordeiro is head, shareholder and co-founder of NUMAX. He is responsible for NUMAX Cinema and NUMAX Distribution. NUMAX cinema combines the planning of premiering films in their original version with avant-garde screenings and new digital restorations of film classics. NUMAX Distribution is an independent distribution company in contemporary art-house cinema. Amongst its last releases there are works such as Rita Azevedo Gomes’ A VINGANÇA DE UMA MULHER (2012), Pedro Costa’s CAVALO DINHEIRO (HORSE MONEY, 2014), Oliver Laxe’s MIMOSAS (2016) or Milagros Mumenthhaler’s LA IDEA DE UN LAGO (THE IDEA OF A LAKE, 2016). NUMAX Bookshop and NUMAX Laboratory, a graphic, video and communication studio, is part of the project as well.

Head of RiverLab, a distribution and film programming enterprise specialized in Spanish art-house cinema. He is the founder and director of Márgenes Film Festival, Spanish Cinema on the Margins. He was also in charge of production and headship of Hispasat4k Festival, Exhibition of European Cinema by Madrid LUX and Majadahonda Visual Festival. He is also a coordinator for exhibitions like “Cine Español en Ruta” and “14,4kms, Dialogue between two shores”. He is a member of the executive committee of the Filmmakers Union and has been head of FILMAD, a coordinating entity of film festivals in Madrid from 2008 to 2014. MÁRGENES is an exhibition and distribution platform specialized in the most independent, edgy and innovative Spanish and Ibero-American cinema, which was born as a proposal to greenlight the most innovative, attractive and hidden side of today’s Ibero-American cinema.