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Carla Guimaraes

Carla Guimaraes

A scriptwriter and playwright, Guimaraes holds a degree in Social Communication and a PhD in “Theatre Theory, History and Practice”, and is a journalist for the EFE Agency, as well as a contributor to the newspaper El País. In the past, she worked as a scriptwriter for networks such as HBO, RTVE and ViX, and wrote the screenplays for the feature films Estranhos (Strangers, Brazil, Araça Azul, 2015), O Filho da Puta (Son of a Bitch, Brazil, Otto Desenhos, currently in production) and Los Invitados (The Guests, Laboratorio Sgae de Cine Fantástico, 2016).

She developed the show ¿Por qué desaparecieron los hombres? (Why Did Men Disappear?) for RTVE with Pepe Macías. She has also written plays, including La increíble historia de la chica que llegó la última (The Incredible Story of the Girl Who Came Last), which was nominated for Best Playwriting at the 2014 Max Theater Awards. She is the author of the novels Los últimos días de carnaval (The Last Days of Carnival, 2014) and Peces que llueven del cielo (Fish that Rain from the Sky, 2016), published in Spain by Ediciones Ambulantes. She is currently developing the drama series Cuatro Caminos with screenwriter Azucena Rodríguez for El Deseo and the documentary El silencio de la Tierra (Earth’s Silence) for Diagonal.

Javier Fuentes Feo

Filmmaker and director of the Lanzarote Film Festival. He is an Art History graduate from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he also defended his Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA) in the Department of Philosophy with a research project on Friedrich Nietzsche and contemporary art.

Fuentes Feo has published numerous articles on contemporary artists, art theory, and cultural analysis. He was the director of Cendeac (Centro de Documentación y Estudios Avanzados de Arte Contemporáneo de Murcia) from 2010 to October 2014. There, he initiated or participated in the development of projects such as D.Nuevo Ensayo (New Essay Again), Conversaciones en torno al fotolibro (Conversations on the Photobook), Memorias Celuloides (Celluloid Memories), and Fisuras Fílmicas (Filmic Fissures). The latter, which he conceived in 2011, has been a research project aimed at showcasing and analyzing the most avant-garde Spanish and Latin American cinema produced in recent years.

Marta García Larriu

Marta García Larriu

A born pioneer, García Larriu is the creator and director of the Another Way Film Festival—a documentary film festival devoted to sustainable growth—, and has been an international independent film producer for over ten years. Her numerous projects include producing Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s short film Madre (Mother), which was nominated for the 2019 Academy Awards and won the Best Fiction Short Film award at the Goya Awards in 2018.

Over the course of her production career, she has had the opportunity to work with major directors such as Costa Gavras, Gilles Paquet-Brenner, and the MegaForce collective. She currently produces content for the La Costa production company. An enthusiast of American culture, she spent ten years as a producer in New York and went on to work in Buenos Aires and Panama before returning to Madrid and creating her own festival. She is currently the President of the SANNAS Association, an association of companies adopting the triple bottom line, and MATRIZ, a film festival network in Madrid.