Ane Rodríguez Armendáriz is a curator and cultural manager with over twenty years of experience in the field of arts and cultural institutions. Her practice has developed in close connection with contemporary creation, the support of artistic processes, and reflection on the institutional conditions that enable certain forms of artistic practice. Highlights of her career include her work at Tabakalera as cultural director (2012–2019) and as head of the Matadero Madrid Artist Residency Center (2020–2023). In the field of film, her involvement in the design and implementation of the Ikusmira Berriak residency program for the development of audiovisual projects—in collaboration with the San Sebastián Film Festival—is noteworthy, as is her organization of the international film seminar at Tabakalera from 2016 to 2019. During these years, she also participated in the founding of the Elias Querejeta Zineskola film school in San Sebastián, where she has been a professor and project advisor since 2020. She has served on various juries and evaluation committees in both the film and visual arts fields. She has produced films such as La noche (2016), La verdad interior (2018), Mamá, mamá, mamá (2020), Misión a Marte (2023), Bird (2023), and Una sombra oscilante (2024).

Executive Director of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Elise Jalladeau began her career as a producer in the 1990s, working with a new generation of directors, including Rodrigo Moreno, Ildiko Enyedi, Jia Zhangke, Darezhan Omirbaev, Jérôme Bonnell, Petr Vaclav, and Martin Rejtman... She created and directed the “Produire au Sud” workshop in 2001, before leading EAVE’s Eurasian program “Ties that Bind” from 2010 to 2016. She is currently the general director of the Thessaloniki Film Festival, a Greek cultural organization that includes: the International Film Festival, the International Documentary Festival, two major industry markets linked to the festivals, the “boutique” festival Evia Film Project, four cinemas operating year-round, and the Thessaloniki Film Museum (collections, library, film education, film archive). Elise is a board member and treasurer of Europa Cinema.

Mercedes Martínez-Abarca is a programmer and consultant. Since 2009, she has been part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where she is responsible for programming from Latin America and the Caribbean and serves on the feature film selection committee. Previously, she coordinated the Holland Film Meeting, worked at Fortissimo Films, and collaborated with festivals and co-production platforms such as Abycine Lanza and FICX. She is also involved with Dones Visuals and has served on prominent selection committees, including Ventana Sur at Cannes and the Hubert Bals Fund.