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THE JURY
HÈCTOR ROMANCE
Hèctor Romance is a multidisciplinary independent filmmaker from Sabadell (Spain), he has directed several titles such as the documentary feature “Mr. Hand Solo” (2020), the short film “Impacto” (2018) and the video clips “Mujeres de agua” (2022) and “Llueve en la Massana” (2021), as well as the second unit of the documentary “Crossing the Yellow Blocks” (2018). He has worked as an assistant director on titles such as “Under the Ice”, “Plastic Killer”, “El fred que crema”, “Esperando a Dalí”, “El cas Angelus”, “73 minutos” or “Llana negra”. In 2020 he founded his production company, Romance Produccions, and works on advertising campaigns for the Government of Andorra and other companies in the country.
MARK GERSTORFER
Mark Gerstorfer studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna before beginning his directing studies at the Film Academy in Vienna with Michael Haneke. He received the START scholarship from the Federal Chancellery and the one-year scholarship from the state of Salzburg. He completed his directing studies at the Vienna Film Academy in the master class of Prof. Michael Haneke for directing with distinction. His film “Redemption” has been screened at numerous international film festivals. He also filmed the comic TNT - A Boxer Story by the Austrian comic author Nicolas Mahler. In addition to his artistic work, Gerstorfer also shoots commercials for TV, cinema and the web for clients such as Billa, Samsung and Österreich Werbung.
INDIA-INÉS LEVY
India-Inés is a writer/ director originally from London. She studied at the Courtauld Institute which helped develop her love of paintings and interest in image composition. She has directed three short films which have been screened at festivals across the world including the BFI. India is currently working with a Czech production company to develop a 30 minute short about a Jewish family living in Communist Prague following the 1968 Soviet invasion.
MAURO MAUAD
Mauro Mauad is an actor, director, writer and composer born in Northern Patagonia, Argentina. His beginnings were musical. Until he travels to Mexico where he begins his acting career. Since 2004 he has worked in more than 40 productions as an actor. He arrived in Colombia in 2010. There he founded FUNDACTORES, a non-profit foundation to train integral actors where, in addition to being a teacher, he writes and digests plays and films. In 2019 he opens the ALPATACO FILMS production company. In 2020 and at the time of the Pandemic, he writes and directs the awarded I DO NOT WANT TO BE WITHOUT YOU.
ARNOLD DE PARSCAU
Arnold de Parscau is a 34 year old French director, noticed in 2011 for his video clip of the song "Good Day Today", composed by David Lynch. He directed his first feature film "Ablations" at the age of 24, released in theaters in 2014. After several short films, music videos and commercials, his second feature film, "Une Barque sur l'Océan", was released in cinemas on August 26, 2020. Arnold has been working for the Canal + channel as a director since 2012 and is currently preparing his third feature film.
