Awards and jury 2024
AWARDS
Peace and Justice
The festival's honorary award recognises the work of those who are committed to human rights and justice through audiovisuals. This year it goes to:
Red Carpet Human Rights Film Festival
The first film and human rights festival in Palestine, which advocates cinema and culture as one of the pillars to defend identity and territory, as well as move towards peace. The Palestinian producer Mohammed Shat will accompany us to represent the festival.
Official Sections
Best Fiction Feature Film
JURY:
Elena Escura
Rafa Molés
Tess Van Bommel
LET THE RIVER FLOW by Ole Giæver (Norway)
SPECIAL MENTION FROM THE JURY: RED ROOSTER by Enrique García-Vázquez (Spain)
Best Documentary Feature
JURY:
Almudena Verdes
Gabi Ochoa
Nuria Baeza
THE WHITE GUARD by Julie Elien (Canada)
Best Fiction Short Film
JURY:
Maite Gil
Navarro Sea
Miguel Crespo
LOCAL RISCALDAMENTO by Manuel Vitali (Italy)
SPECIAL MENTION FROM THE JURY: LION DREAMS by Jordi López Navarro (Spain)
Best Documentary Short Film
JURY:
Carlos Laullon
Marc Ferri
Pepa Sastre
PUYUELO by Sara Sarrablo Asensio (Spain)
SPECIAL MENTION FROM THE JURY: WHERE CHILDREN DON'T DREAM by Stefano Sbrulli (Peru, Italy)
Best Valencian Short Film
JURY:
Coke Arijo
Claudia Estrada
Iván Fernández de Córdoba
Honorato Ruiz
PASSING TERUEL by Manuel Omonte (Spain)
SPECIAL MENTION FROM THE JURY: 13 by Máriam Zelaia (Spain)
Best Valencian Short Screenplay (EDAV)
JURY:
Pau Martínez
Ada Hernandez
Ricardo Macián
TROLEIG by Luis E. Pérez Cuevas
JURY
Screenwriter and director. It received the Berlanga Award for Best Fiction Short Film with Hàbitat, and the Berlanga for Best Director with his first work Mara's holidays. He currently combines his projects with teaching at Nucine and the Actor School.
Director and screenwriter. He founded the production company SUICAfilms with Pepe Andreu, from where they have directed and produced award-winning projects such as Five Days to Dance y Lobster Soup. In addition to its documentaries, SUICAfilms has produced successful fiction films such as Guillem's death, which won the Berlanga Award for Best Film, and Water by Elena López Riera, premiered in Cannes.
Since 2021, Tess van Bommel works as a project manager for Movies that Matter's international support programme, providing support to human rights film festivals in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East with funding, workshops and advice. He also coordinates the secretariat of the Human Rights Film Network, a network of more than 50 human rights film festivals around the world. As part of the Movies that Matter Festival, Tess works on one of the competition's main programs, Activist, which presents documentaries about human rights defenders, who are invited to the festival to participate in an impact and networking program.
Director and screenwriter. Graduate in Communication and Cinematography in Spain and London. He has participated in around 100 projects, including feature films, video clips, documentaries, fiction series, advertisements and TV Movies. In 2011 he founded Silence Comunicación, a communication agency dedicated to carrying out advertising work. Currently, she teaches the Master's Degree in Fantastic Cinema and is a professor of the Degree in Screenwriting at the UOC University (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya).
Playwright, screenwriter and director. Co-writer and director of the film Love is not what it was (2013) and co-creator and co-writer of the series No traces (2023) from Prime Video. It received the Berlanga Award for Best Documentary Series 2023, for Report by À Punt Media.
Theater, TV and film actress. Candidate for Best Leading Actress at the Goya 2023 for the feature film Water. He has participated in more than 30 series and films, such as «The one that is coming, Acacias 38, o The heirs of the land, on Netflix. He is currently filming two new series: L'Alqueria Blanca, for Àpunt Media, and The legacy for Netflix.
Valencian screenwriter, director and producer. She started as a photographer and designer to make the move to film in 2020, despite a severe form of deafness, starting film and screenwriting school. He has written and directed several short films, including The whore's chair, with 20 awards and 45 selections, finalist for the Berlanga Awards. His last work, The silence of Alma, has been selected in more than 15 festivals.
Graduate in journalism and audiovisual communication. Coordinator of the regional collective Acció Ecologista-Agró Horta Nord.
Secondary school teacher and member of Per l'Horta.
Audiovisual production. He has been manager of a communications and advertising company for 13 years, performing branding and artistic direction of graphic projects, including advertising spots for clients such as À Punt. He currently runs his own production company, Incomedia Producciones, where he has carried out the artistic direction of the transmedia project Max Aub Map and has co-produced the animated short film Estic bé mama, both nominated for the Berlanga Awards. Additionally, he has worked in the artistic direction of projects such as The silence of a pati, winner of Docs Valencia 2021, the documentary Paco Roca, drawing life, and the production of the animated short film Embrace and Bone.
Director and screenwriter. For more than 15 years he has combined his work as an independent audiovisual producer with the creation and direction of digital content and advertising campaigns for recognized brands. His projects have won numerous awards and have been selected for national and international festivals. His short film My Condition It has been especially successful, with more than 50 festival selections and multiple awards. Currently, he is working on new projects as a director and screenwriter, including short films Millimeters y The written time, as well as the development of his debut film The three steps. Responsible for the audiovisual department of the Malaga Film Festival and the Melilla Film Week.
Director and screenwriter graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. In addition, he has a Master's Degree in Artistic Production, a Master's Degree in Documentary Film and acting training in the Meisner Technique. His first fiction feature film, the wolves come out, was awarded Best Fiction Screening. Furthermore, your project The flowers that you pluck received various recognitions, including the award for Best Short Film Category C and Best Valencian Short Film at the Cinema Jove festival.
Since he began his film career in 2015, he has not stopped embarking on new projects. In addition to obtaining a university degree and a master's degree in film editing during his five years of study at ESCAC, he has more than five fiction short films behind him, most of them having toured festivals. He has also ventured into documentaries, music videos and advertising. Currently, he is working in the post-production department of a series produced by Nanouk Films that will soon be broadcast on RTVE and TV3. He loves directing, writing and editing, the three disciplines in which he has specialized over the years.
He studied graphic design, photography, filmmaking and scriptwriting at the International School of Cinema and Film Direction in the City of Light. In 2015 he began his professional career with Crossing the meaning. In 2016, his short film A place It was selected at the Goya Awards among the 15 best works of the year. It has received several awards such as Best Fiction Short Film at the V edition of the Berlanga Awards. Furthermore, for TV he has made programs such as Zoom y The meu lloc al món.
He has developed all types of audiovisual works, as a director and screenwriter. He has directed the feature films Bala Perdida, El Kaserón, Reset and Inocente. He has participated in directing fiction series for TV and documentaries for film and TV, obtaining different awards.
Director, screenwriter and producer. Graduated in film scripting from EICTV (Cuba) and the García Berlanga Screenwriters School. It has long documentaries with international awards, short films, advertising spots and series for different TV channels. Likewise, he is dedicated to teaching, is a jury member at various festivals, a script analyst for the Institut Valencià de Cultura (IVC) and president of APREMIA (Association for the Recovery of International Audiovisual Memory).
Screenwriter of fiction series for TV. He has participated in the writing of more than 1000 series episodes. He has been a co-writer of the feature films Love is not what it was (2013), premiered in the Official Section of the Malaga Festival and The Inca (2017), premiered at the Miami International Festival. He has also written and directed the short films Ha 3 children and 1 dress (Venezuela) and all straight (Spain). He develops his work writing and consulting scripts between Spain, Miami and Latin America. It is part of EDAV (Escriptors de l'Audiovisual Valencià).