Awards and Jury 2025

Cuban filmmaker, curator, and researcher, she graduated from the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, and is a doctoral candidate at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Her first feature film The man who always did his part Her short films have been shown at many festivals. She has taught and programmed in Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Spain, where she is currently based and developing her new film. Overnight.

Professor of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the University of Valencia. She holds degrees in Audiovisual Communication and Hispanic Philology. She is the director of the international R&D&I group CITur (Cinema, Imaginary, and Tourism). She has also directed the Film Classroom at the same university. Her professional activity revolves around two main areas: film studies and digital communication. She has served as a jury member for photography, documentary and fiction film, and screenwriting competitions with Arte SOSlidario, the Mainel Foundation, and the University of Valencia.

Celia Riera is a director of photography trained in Audiovisual Communication, who began her career participating in different phases of the audiovisual process and developing her vision in short films and video clips such as Brave Journey June Kaleidoscope. She ventured into documentary with the series Cooks and cooks for Valencian television and in 2020 he received the Best Photography Direction Award from the Valencian Audiovisual Academy for The recipe for balance, premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival. His first feature-length documentary was Almost Ghosts, awarded at the Arizona Festival and presented at SEMINCI. He has worked on pieces such as Bull Run, the first tokenized documentary, and debuted in feature-length fiction with DystopiaAmong his latest works are the documentary series A Barbaric Life e Report, as well as the short A Shit Therapy, nominated for the 2024 Goya Awards.

A graduate in Art History, he specialized in Film Direction at the School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of the Community of Madrid (ECAM), participating in multiple audiovisual projects (short films, advertising, documentaries, music videos), in the direction and production departments, combining this work with festival coordination and teaching. He has been a member of the Film Academy since 2022. In 2014, he founded the audiovisual production company Plan Secreto and as a director, he has directed music videos for groups such as Arizona Baby and Ángel Stanich, advertising and short films such as Thursday, Moving o Locks He is a producer of the documentary feature films Old Rock (2013), Folk! A look at traditional music (2018), and Commoners (2022). He is currently working on the documentary feature film The lost rooms, of which he is director and co-producer, while writing the fiction feature film Classroom 87In parallel, he works as a coordinator for film festivals such as Notodofilmfest, Rueda con Rueda, and Cibra, and has been a member of the Selection Committee for the Valladolid International Film Week (SEMINCI) from 2013 to 2022. He also teaches at the university.

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Bebé Pérez is a Cuban filmmaker based in Valencia. She has directed six fiction short films, two feature-length documentaries, and one fiction feature film. Of particular note is the short film Soul, starring Ana de Armas, and the creative documentary Néixer, selected at the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival, Alfàs del Pi, and awarded the Audience Award at the Ciutadà and Compromés Film Festival. Goodbye, Mister Marshall, his debut feature-length documentary, premiered at the Havana Film Festival, the Dominican Global Film Festival, and played in commercial theaters in Madrid and Valencia. In 2020, his first feature-length fiction film premiered at the Monterrey Film Festival and the Girona International Film Festival. Windmills.

She graduated in Audiovisual Communication and earned a Master's degree in New Communication Trends. She completed her professional studies in music and trained with Walter Murch at the ECAM seminar on film editing, and at the Madrid Film Institute on film and feminism. She has been an editor on TV programs, fiction series, and documentaries, and has been part of various production teams for television programs, something that awakens in her a passion for directing and telling her own stories. A member of CIMA, she was a jury member of the Official Section of the 2023 Elche International Independent Film Festival.

After graduating in Journalism from the University of Valencia and becoming involved in television and screenwriting there, she studied a master's degree in scriptwriting for fiction series at the ECAM (Spanish National University of Valencia) and production at the RTVE Institute. She works in the content department at Bambú Producciones and has trained at Sony Music Vision. She has also trained in gender perspective studies as an editor for various newspapers and magazines, and at institutions such as the Women's Institute. She has been nominated for several screenwriting festivals, including the Cinema Jove Festival in Valencia, the Humans Lab, Mecal Barcelona, the Skyline screenwriting section in Benidorm, the Alicante Film Festival, and War on Screen in France, with her first projects.

Elena Gobernado has more than 25 years of experience in the audiovisual field, specializing in the literary development of projects as a screenwriter, script editor and advisor. She has worked on well-known animated series such as Pocoyo, Shuriken School, Cry Babies, First, Sex Symbols and others. She is the author of children's books, a scriptwriter for a virtual reality video game, and a lecturer at institutions such as the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She has served on juries at several screenwriting festivals and awards, and is a mentor for programs such as CIMA Impulsa and MIA Anima. She also actively participates in audiovisual industry associations and currently coordinates and advises various animation and fiction projects.