Jurors
The jury members for this year's edition are…
Feature films
Official Section
Daniel Padro
He started as a screenwriter with XP3D while studying at ESCAC. His final short film, Un día especial, premiered at the Sitges Festival. He has been a script analyst at Rodar y Rodar and executive producer at Espejo, espejo. Psicario is his fifth short, after Molaphone, also presented at Sitges. He co-wrote Mala persona with Antonio Mercero, directed by Fer García-Ruiz. He is currently preparing his first feature film as a director.
Marta Ferrer
She is a journalist, with a degree in Audiovisual Communication from Pompeu Fabra University. She is an editor for the El Suplement program on Catalunya Ràdio, where she also edits a section on cinema and series. She also collaborates with media outlets such as Nació Digital, where she is a critic and prescriber of cinema and series releases.
Pablo Otero
He studied Film, Television and Show Production at the CES School of Image and Sound. In 2004, he began his career as a producer and director and his films were selected at festivals such as Seville. He later moved to London, where he began his career as a special effects artist. His name can be found in the credits of works such as Alien: Covenant, Avengers: Endgame or The Mandalorian: Season 3, among others.
Being Different + Bloody Madness
Victor Palmero Guerola
Actor from Castellón in film, television and theatre. In film, he recently starred in the feature film Mi cielo tu infierno, by Alberto Evangelio, and was part of the main cast of La huella del mal, by Manuel Ríos San Martín. He also starred in Todos lo hacen, a feature film by Martín Cuervo, and had supporting roles in films such as ¿Quién es quién? or Dioses y perros. His breakthrough into national television came in 2011 with Física o química (Antena 3) and, for five seasons, he was part of the series La que se avecina (Telecinco).
Eric Gonzalez
He studied at the Liceo Francés in Madrid and took higher studies in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Later he moved to France to study Philosophy at the University of Nanterre, Paris. He worked in cinema as a production assistant to Belén Bernuy at Centuria Films and as an assistant director to Laurence Garnier and Tony Gatlif for their double project Indignados.
Lucia Forner Segarra
She is a director, screenwriter and producer. She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication, and is completing a master's degree in Direction of Photography at ESCAC and the Cinematography course at UVA. Her most recent work, Berta (2024), is a rape & revenge film with touches of black comedy that continues its journey in festivals. Her previous shorts, Marta (2017) and Dana (2020), have received more than 300 selections and 70 international awards. Both are candidates for the Goya Awards.
Short films
Official Section
Agueda Sphere
She is a director and screenwriter. In 2018 she finished her film studies at ESCAC and later shot her first short film, Miserable yo (2019), selected at festivals such as Abycine. Her second short film, Dalia (2025), starring Irene Escolar and Nao Albet, premiered in the Official Section of the Gijón Festival. She is currently writing her first feature film, Rapaza, a project selected in the Acció Viver and Push Lab programs. She combines the development of her fiction projects with work as a director in music videos for artists such as Vance Joy or in advertising.
Sebastien Roignant
He is a filmmaker, photographer and content creator. He gained his first recognition thanks to his YouTube channel dedicated to photography and visual storytelling, as well as his artistic work in nude and landscape photography. Recently, he has dedicated himself to film direction to fulfill a promise he made to himself as a child.
Loles Fanlo
Graduated in Economic Sciences from the University of Barcelona, she has spent much of her professional career as part of the teams of various film festivals, such as the BAFF (Barcelona Asian Film Festival) and the Sitges Festival. Currently, and since its inception in 2011, she is deputy director of the D'A – Barcelona Film Festival.
Section Ç-Broken
Miriam Sanchez
Graduated in Audiovisual Communication from Pompeu Fabra University, she completed her studies with a master's degree in Theatre Studies from the Autonomous University and the Theatre Institute and a postgraduate degree in direction and management of companies and cultural platforms from IDEC. She works in the field of audiovisual production, cultural management and communication. For 6 years she coordinated the daily activity of the Catalan Film Academy.
Daniel Noblom
He has a degree in Advertising and Public Relations from the UB, a degree in Film Direction from the ECIB and a master's degree in Film Script, as well as several specialized courses. He has worked as an audiovisual producer, as a scriptwriter for SX3 and as a script analyst, he has written and directed eight small-format plays and his feature film scripts have been selected in several competitions and festivals. After several years teaching film, he is currently a professor and project coordinator at the FX Barcelona Film School.
Magi Garcia (Modgi)
He is a comedian, screenwriter, collaborator, podcaster and other absurd jobs invented with a ridiculous name. He is one of the members of La Sotana, the most listened to self-produced podcast in the country and one of the 5 with the most Patreons in all of Europe. He is a founding member of the comics collective El Soterrani. And he is the first Catalan comedian to produce his own comedy special, distributed through his website and the Filmin platform. As a screenwriter, he has written or writes for the magazine El Jueves, the TV3 program Polònia, several producers such as El Terrat or Comedy Central, and some sketch and animation series
Industry
Diana Santamaria Varas
Graduated in Audiovisual Communication from Pompeu Fabra University, she completed her training with a master's degree in Cinematographic Studies at the Université Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle and a master's degree in Heritage Management and Cultural Programming at the Université Paris 8. She has an extensive career in the distribution sector, which she began in 2013 at Capricci Films (Paris), followed in 2014 at Capricci Cine Espanya as head of distribution and, since 2021, as director of distribution, marketing and communication at Atalante Cinema.
Judit Navarro Lozano
After completing her Master's degree in Production at ESCAC, she began working as a coordinator of the Òpera Prima Laboratory and assisted in the production of several projects by Escac Studio and Escándalo Films. Since then, she has participated as a delegated producer in Un lugar común, Celia Giraldo's debut film, which was screened in the Talents section of the D'A – Barcelona Film Festival in 2024, and Deviant, a co-production of Amania Films with Escac Studio, directed by Daniel M. Caneiro.
Laia Aubia de Higes
She has a degree in Audiovisual Communication and a postgraduate degree in Cultural Management from Pompeu Fabra University. She began her career in the sector as a researcher in the Department of Journalism and Communication of the same university and continued with the coordination of the Barcelona-Catalunya Film Commission between 2007 and 2010. She later directed the distribution area of the DocsBarcelona Festival and its documentary exhibition network, made up of more than 90 cinemas, until in 2018 she became the director of the Catalan Film Academy.
Microstories
Joan Vigo
He is a storyteller, poet and rhapsode. He has published the poetry collections Pastor d'antenes (LaBreu, 2017), Cementiri d'avions (Adia Edicions, 2018), Saurí del nom (LaBreu, 2022) and the novels Haiku a Brooklyn (LaBreu, 2018), Vides potser (LaBreu, 2021) and Les platges del clatell (LaBreu, 2024). He has made forays into storytelling in the now-defunct magazine Les Males Herbes and in the world of photography, radio, podcasts, poetic exhumations and cinema. He abhors gregariousness.
Critics' Jury
David Sanmartin
He works as a project manager in digital transformation and alternates it with one of his great passions, cinema. Since childhood, he has always enjoyed watching films, especially fantasy and horror films.
Robert Martin
Director, screenwriter and founder, almost seven years ago, of the website Entrefocos.es, a cinema and current affairs magazine where he now publishes videos of his own content talking about current films, series and plays to provide reviews and criticism. He also talks about cinema classics and cult films on his channel.
Francisco Javier Gutierrez
Responsible for the website about films and series Cine de Patio since 2013, where he has written more than four thousand reviews. Founder and director of the Blogos de Oro independent Spanish film awards, which will celebrate its thirteenth edition.