JURY

Carmen Tortosa

Doctor and documentary filmmaker, she decided to dedicate herself to short social documentary films after co-realising Mujer como árbol in a film workshop given by the Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. This short film was selected in multiple national and international festivals and won the Best Short Documentary Award at the Sophia Awards of the Portuguese Academy 2021.
In 2022, she directed La Rotonda; winner of the Juanmi Gutiérrez Laboratory Grand Prize at the II Errenteria Documentary Film and Human Rights Festival (2023).
In 2023, she made El Tribunal, winner of the Victor Griifols i Lucas Foundation Bioethics Audiovisual Award.
Her next project, in post-production: Plaza Nueva a las diez.

Juan G. Andrés

Graduate in Journalism from the UPV/EHU. A member of the Selection Committee and the Communication team of the San Sebastián International Film Festival, he previously worked for Radio Nacional de España, the agencies Vasco Press and France Presse, and the newspapers Noticias de Gipuzkoa and El Diario Vasco. For years, he has covered cultural information and film and jazz festivals in the form of reports, interviews and reviews. Specialising in film and music, he has written for Caimán-Cuadernos de cine, Rockdelux, Mondo Sonoro and Nosferatu. He has also co-directed the sound fiction Artxipelagoa (2021) and the podcast Estamos dentro.

Elixabete Imaz

Elixabete Imaz is an anthropologist, lecturer and researcher at the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. She is currently part of the research team ‘VíDes, Vidas descontadas. Refugios para habitar la desaparición social’, she also approached gypsy women and prison as a member of the pioneering Barañi study. Another of her areas of reflection are maternity, reproductive technologies and family diversity. In her work she is concerned about the ways of telling, in its double dimension of producing and transmitting knowledge and, from this concern, she participates in the research group Kontu Laborategia of the EHU/UPV.

Octavio Romano

Graduate in Law and Master in Development and International Cooperation from the UPV/EHU. He has worked as an advisor for indigenous people imprisoned in Mexico DF, as well as in UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) committees in the Basque Country, Andalusia and Castilla-la Mancha. Since 2008 he has been responsible for productive projects in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Basque NGDO Alboan. He is the author and producer of the award-winning short film ‘Tournées’ (2018), which deals with the link between the way of life of our consumer society and the conflict that has been raging for 25 years in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.