Jury and Awards

Joana Craveiro

Joana Craveiro is a playwright, actress, director and anthropologist. She holds a Ph.D. from Roehampton University. She founded Teatro do Vestido in 2001 and has directed it ever since. In her work, she uses the methodologies of oral history and anthropology to investigate and create plays, performances and various texts. She is an associate researcher at IHC / Nova and an adjunct professor at ESAD.CR. She is interested in everything that has to do with memory, life stories and Portuguese political history.

Mariana Gaivão

Born in Lisbon, she studied Photography at Ar.Co and Directing at ESTC. Her short films have been screened and awarded in festivals worldwide, including IFFR – Rotterdam, Palm Springs, ZINEBI, Oberhausen, DocLisboa, Curtas – Vila do Conde, among many others. Her latest short, Ruby, awarded Best Director in Curta – Vila do Conde and Best Creative Short at Medfilm Festival, premiered in cinemas in several countries, including Brazil and Iceland. Her most recent work, currently in production stage, is based on the intersections and contradictions of collective and personal/familiar memory of contemporary Europe.

Réka Bucsi

Réka Bucsi graduated from MOME Budapest in 2013. Her films were screened in competition at various festivals including Berlinale, Annecy, SXSW and Sundance. Réka’s debut film LOVE was nominated for Best Short Film at the European Film Awards. Her film Solar Walk won the Audi Short Film Award at the Berlinale 2018. She was a speaker at Pictoplasma, Pratt Institute NYC, FMX Germany and a guest teacher at CalArts. Her clients include Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Netflix and FX Networks.

Delphine Jeanneret

Delphine Jeanneret was recently appointed co-head of the cinema department at Geneva University of Art and Design HEAD. She has more than 15 years of experience as a programmer and curator in film festivals, where she also developed several workshops for upcoming filmmakers. After Fribourg IFF, Neuchâtel IFFF, Solothurn FF, she is now part of the artistic committee at Winterthur, Locarno (Open Doors section) and La Fête du Slip in Lausanne. She holds an MA in History of art and English & American literature, as well as a DAS in cultural management.

Maria João Mayer

Maria João Mayer is the founder of the production company Maria & Mayer. Mayer is internationally renowned for discovering new talents in Portugal (such as João Salaviza and Gabriel Abrantes) and for offering others, such as Margarida Cardoso, Marco Martins, and Flora Gomes, the opportunity for developing their work freely. She recently produced Diamantino (2018), the surprising feature film by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, winner of the 2018 Critics’ Week Grand Prize at Cannes.

Mia Tomé

Mia Tomé is a Portuguese actress born in 1994. She was awarded the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s grant Specialization and Valorization in Arts to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. She graduated from Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (2015), and finished her master’s degree in Cinema and Education at Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa (2018). She worked with Lígia Soares and João Pedro Mamede in several theatres. In cinema she worked with Manuel Mozos, Eugenne Green and João Salaviza.
She wrote a weekly chronicle in Expresso – Vida Extra, and she’s currently the author and host of the podcast and tv show Querem Drama?.

Anabela Moutinho

Anabela was born in Coimbra in 1959. She belonged to the Direction of the Cineclube de Faro between 1992 and 2015, where she promoted intense activity in the programming and organization of cinematographic events. Since 1993, she has collaborated, as a judge, in several film festivals, as well as in public calls for granting support to film production or training in Portugal.

Ehsan Khoshbakht

Ehsan Khoshbakht is a film curator and filmmaker, writer and architect. He co-directs the festival of film history and film restoration, Il Cinema Ritrovato, in Bologna. He has authored, edited and contributed to more than ten books, in Persian and English, on subjects ranging from film and architecture to film and music. Based in London, Ehsan’s short documentaries for television were produced for BBC World Service, often involving the use of archival material which also became the main approach he took in making his first feature documentary, Filmfarsi (2019). An architect by training, Ehsan maintains blogs on jazz (which he calls his first passion) and film.

Maria do Carmo Piçarra

Maria do Carmo Piçarra is a researcher hired at ICNOVA / FCSH and a professor at UAL. She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences, is a journalist and film programmer. Among other books and articles, she published Projectar a ordem. Cinema do Povo e propaganda salazarista 1935 – 1954 (2020), Azuis ultramarinos. Propaganda colonial e censura no cinema do Estado Novo (2015) and Salazar vai ao cinema I e II (2006, 2011). She coordinated, with Jorge António, the trilogy Angola, the birth of a nation (2013, 2014, 2015) and, with Teresa Castro, (Re) Imagining African Independence. Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire (2017).

Silvestre Shorts Jury

Silvestre Award for Best Short Film
1.000 Euros

One Image, Two Acts, Sanaz Sohrabi
A fascinating, captivating and educating piece of art that manages to transform archival and historic images into a poetic and political examination of the relation and struggles between countries and their colonial powers. It uses a self-ethnographic perspective and a complex formal structure, guiding the gaze of the viewers in an extremely clever way and with the means of cinema.

Palma, Alexe Poukine
A beautiful film that was realized with love, delicacy and sensitivity, based on a great idea of filming an already lived situation, showing the complexities of life and relationships. We roam around with the brilliant actresses and take part in an intense, sometimes traumatizing, but always loving experience that the director amazingly captures for the big screen.

Daniel Ebner

Daniel Ebner (1981) is the co-founder and Festival Director of Vienna Shorts. He has a Master’s degree in Political Science and studied Cultural Studies and Film Studies in Vienna and Berlin. Daniel has been a cultural editor and film critic at APA Austrian Press Agency. He is the co-producer of the football short-film reel Eleven Minutes (A/CH 2008), a film advisor for the state of Vorarlberg, co-founder of the Association of Austrian Film Festivals and the initiative Fair Festival Work Now, and also works as a film and art curator.

Maíra Zenun

Maíra Zenun is an immigrant artist, mother, Brazilian poet in transit. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, she was created in Petrópolis, grew up in Brasilia and since 2016 she is from the Sintra Line, Amadora, Portugal. Student of the Master in Artistic Photography at IPCI, she holds a PhD in Sociology of Culture at UFG, with the thesis A Cidade e o Cinema [Negro]: the FESPACO Case, about the largest and oldest film festival taking place in Africa. Since 2016, she coordinates and curates film programmes, such as the Mostra Internacional de Cinema na Cova – Africa and its Diasporas.

Rita Cruchinho Neves

Born in Lisbon. Degree in Architecture, Universidade Lusíada. At 11 years old, she joined the first animation course at ACARTE-Gulbenkian. Animation film studies at the University of Bristol and Escola Superior de Belas Artes, Lisbon. Animator in short films of several directors, awarded in international festivals. She founded the multidisciplinary atelier MODO, as a director, architect and designer. Vígil (2015) and Lengalongas (TV series, 2019) are some of her most recent works.

Cláudia Guerreiro

Born in Lisbon in 1980. Graduated in sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon in 2004, after attending 4 years of the SNBA drawing course, and completed a master’s degree in scientific illustration in 2012. Since 2005 she has been working on projects of animation cinema, in the construction of puppets, sets and props, for directors such as José Miguel Ribeiro and Nuno Beato. In a close relationship with music, she has some publications on records by Filho da Mãe, Linda Martini and PAUS. She plays bass in Linda Martini.

Yaw Tembe

Yaw Tembe, born in Swaziland, graduated from the Lisbon School of Music (2018) in the Jazz course, and from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto in Sculpture, has developed a work characterized by the exploration of the concepts of transience and fragility in a process that has crossed several areas of creation – music, visual arts, video and dance. Since 2020, he is a programmer for music and sound arts at Teatro do Bairro Alto.

Yen Sung

Yen Sung is a pioneer of Portuguese dance music and has been a vital presence in Lisbon’s house scene since the early 90s, first at the legendary Frágil club, and later in Luxfrágil, where she’s still one of the main residents. At a time when it was still uncommon for women to command the dancefloor behind the decks, Yen became a symbol of fierce determination and undeniable taste for a new generation of Lisbon clubbers and DJs. Yen Sung has toured internationally and locally, cementing her reputation with stone-cold house music sets.

Pedro Coelho

Journalist

Romeu Costa

Actor

Sandra Pereira

Amnesty International Board Member

Inês Gil

Filmmaker and teacher

Rui Martins

Theologist

Daniel Ebner

Sung Moon

Salvador Sobral