Isona Admetlla
Isona Admetla (1976, Barcelona, Spain) is a sociologist and cultural manager, teacher, consultant and audience designer. She lives in Berlin and she has been coordinating the Berlinale-World Cinema Fund for cinematography since 2009. As a freelancer, she designs and delivers tailor-made training and education seminars on financing, marketing, distribution, pitching and design of film audiences at universities and other institutions. She regularly participates in project selection committees, as a jury member or lecturer. She is a member of the selection committee of the MAFF (Málaga Festival Fund and Co-Production Event) and a project tutor. She has also been part of the selection committee of the ICAA Junta de Andalucía, FDC and Ventana Sur and is an expert evaluator of MediaSingle Project and Slate Funding, among others. She is also an EAVE Alumni of Marketing and Distribution and Audience Designer of the Torino Film Lab.
Lorena Morin
Lorena Morín (1973, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) resides in Berlin. She has been part of the team at the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival since 2001, where she carried out a large part of the main functions of the event, being a responsible party in the consolidation of the current identity and ideology of the Festival. Since 2017 she has directed MECAS, International Almost Made Film Market, a program dedicated to the industry within the Festival. She combines the coordination of MECAS with the international distribution of author films with the Croatian sales agency Split Screen. She has participated in the program for the development of co-productions between Europe and Latin America PUENTES of EAVE, has been a jury in the Catapulta laboratory of the Ficunam Film Festival (2020, Mexico DF), PushPlay of FICXPro in (2018, Gijón), Fidocs (2022, Santiago de Chile). She is a photographer and is preparing her second exhibition in Berlin and a book that will be published by the publishing house Comisura (ES) with her images and texts by the Latin American writer Mario Bellatín.
Lukas Valenta
Lukas Valenta Rinner (1985, Salzburg) is an Austrian director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for the film Parabellum (2015) and A Decent Woman (2016), that have screened at numerous film festivals and won several international awards. He is founder of Nabis Filmgroup, with branches in Buenos Aires, Salzburg and Berlin. As its producer he is involved in the production of films like The Klezmer Project (Berlinale Encounters-Best First Feature), Animal (Locarno Competition- Best Actress Award), Cocote (Locarno FF- Best Film S.O.L) and Far from Us (Berlinale Forum). He is currently involved in the production of films by Radu Jude, Manuel Abramovich, Maureen Fazendeiro and hand-picked first feature films. As a director he is preparing his new film Landscapes of Fear, presented in Cannes L´Atelier.
María Vera
Festival Distributor and Sales Agent based in Lisbon and founder of Kino Rebelde, María Vera has specialised in crafting festival strategies and implementing creative distribution techniques for filmmakers and visual artists. Her catalogue includes the complete filmography of Lynne Sachs and shorts, medium and feature films of filmmakers like Mike Hollboom, Nicolás Pereda and Alexandra Cuesta, among others. The movies she distributes have gained recognition at major worldwide festivals such as Berlinale, Locarno and IFFRotterdam and screened at museums, cinematheques and moving image venues. She is also devoted to teaching and sharing her experience in creative distribution at institutions such as ESCINE (Mexico), EICTV (Cuba), and Vermont University (US), among others. María has also served as a Jury at International Festivals such as Winterthur, Doclisboa, Beldocs or Las Palmas. She has been a speaker at Industry events such as the Berlinale Teddy Award, IFFRotterdam, Doclisboa, Clermont-Ferrand and Cannes Docs. In 2024, along with filmmaker and producer Diandra Arriaga, she created FRENESÍ FILMS, a Mexico-city-based Production Company focused on making documentaries and experimental Mexican and international films.