Juri 2024 – Filmambiente

JURY

Those are the jurors of the 13th Filmambiente

International Feature Documentary

Karen Harley

Born in the state of Pernambuco, graduated journalist at PUC RJ, Karen is an editor and documentarist. She edited more than 40 films, including by Lucrecia Martel (Zama), Petra Costa (The Edge of Democracy), Anna Muylaert (The second Mother), Marcelo Gomes (Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures and I travel because I need to, I come back because I love you/co-directed with Karim Ainouz) and Claudio Assis (Rat Fever and Piedade). Directed Waste Land (co-direction), and the shorts With the whole ocean to swim in, Fishing for time and Comfundo. Several of these films were awarded and screened at festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Sundance and three competed for an Oscar. For 5 times Karen was awarded for best editing at the Brazilian Cinema Grand Prix.

Pedro Bronz

Director and editor. Pedro always sought to work with different languages, accumulating experience with fiction films, documentaries,, video clips, commercials and institutional films. As director, the highlights are Andança, about the sambista Beth Carvalho; A Farra do Circo – about the creation of the Circo Voador in Rio de Janeiro, Herbert de Perto – about the musician and O Astronauta Tupy, about Pedro Luis, also a musician. Edited fiction films such as Simonal, by Leonardo Domingues; Getúlio, by João Jardim; Nise, by Roberto Berliner; Olhos Azuis, by José Joffily (best mounting at the Festival de Paulínia) and Disparos, by Juliana Reis (best assembly at the Rio Festival), among others.

Theresa Williamson

Ecologist and urban planner committed to the urbanism that gives protagonism to communities and values local control, environmentalist and mother. Founder and executive director of Comunidades Catalisadoras, an organization that, since 2000, has carried out strategic projects co-created with favela mobilizers from Rio de Janeiro. As is the case of Rede Favela Sustentável, which gathers hundreds of socio-environmental mobilizers from favelas located in the so called Greater Rio region (Rio de Janeiro and its outskirts)

Brazilian Feature Documentary

Ana Rieper

Carioca, a geographer from UFF, where she also studied Cinema. Holds a Master in Development and Environment from the Federal University of Sergipe. Documentarist, among her main works are the feature Vou Rifar meu Coração, which has participated in more than 40 festivals in Brazil and abroad; Clementina, about the singer; the media Plus Sissi, on the Brazilian football player; and the series Natureza Feminina and Vou Rifar meu Coração. Ana recently released Nada Será Como Antes, a música do Clube da Esquina, and is finalising Paraíso, about colonial legacy in Brazil, and a documentary series about Brazilian country music.

Jacques Cheuiche

Documentarist and curator, trained in Cinema and Video by USP. She directed, co-directed (with Marina Weiss), and set up the documentary "Vento na Fronteira", pre-selected for the Oscar in 2023 and awarded at international and national film festivals such as Hot Docs, Durban International Film Festival, and Filmambiente itself. In 2022, she released the series "The Dangerous Memory: The Indigenous Policy in the Years of Lead," also co-directed by Marina Weis. In 2014, she documented the activities of the CNV Indgena, focusing on crimes committed by the Brazilian state against these communities. Laura is also the curator of exhibitions and various film shows.

Laura Faerman

Director of photography, with more than 140 films as photographer and cameraman, he worked with important Brazilian directors, like Eduardo Coutinho, with whom he did Edifício Master, Babilônia 2000 and Jogo de Cena. His most recent works - almost all carried out in partnership with female directors - include Nothing Like Before, by Ana Rieper, Until Life Do us apart: A Biography of Nelson Carneiro, by Emília Silveira, Paulo Casé - The architect of encounters, by Paula Fiuza, Win, Win, Win! by Alessandra Viganó, It 's Night in America, by Ana Vaz, Since Nobody Takes Me to Dance, by Ana Maria Magalhães, and the series, Just Any Day, by Pedro von Krüger. Awarded as photographer for various films, Jacques directed the series Luz and Sombra, Photographers of Brazilian cinema.

Short film

Zita Carvalhosa

Created and founded in 1990 the São Paulo International Short Film Festival - Curta Kinoforum. She presided over the Kinoforum Cultural Association between 1995 and 2008, where she now serves as Artistic Director. Since 2001, she has developed, with Christian Saghaard, the Kinoforum Audiovisual Filmmaking Workshops. She is a partner at the production company Super Filmes, where since 1983, she has been producing feature films, documentaries and TV series, including No Rio das Amazonas, Fé, O Cineasta da Selva, the TV series O Povo Brasileiro (awarded with the Grande Prêmio Cinema Brasil) and short films, that have had important trajectories in Brazil and abroad.

Cavi Borges

Director, producer and entrepreneur in the Brazilian film industry. He is the founder of Cavídeo, a company specialized in producing and distributing Brazilian independent films. He has directed 14 feature films and 42 shorts and produced more than 300 features and short films, winning several awards at national and international festivals. In two decades Cavi became a prominent name in the independent Brazilian cinema, working incessantly and contributing a great deal to the production, distribution and exhibition of Brazilian films.

Marx Braga

Born in Rio de Janeiro and raised in Cidade 2000, in Fortaleza, the capital of the Brazilian northeastern state of Ceará, Marx Braga has a degree in Geography from UFRJ and an editing degree at the Darcy Ribeiro film school.Marx considers himself as a Brazilian audiovisual worker. With more than 15 years of experience in the editing room, Marx has also been responsible for coordinating a large number of feature films and TV series post-production. In 2020 he started making his own films. Dourado, his latest short, released in 2022, has been shown in 20 countries, and won the awards People’s Choice for best short film and Best Editing, both at the 12th Filmambiente.