Cosmos Jury

Jara Yáñez

Director of the magazine Caimán Cuadernos de Cine since January 2022; she has worked on this publication since its foundation as Cahiers du Cinema – Spain in 2007. She has been a lecturer on the master’s degree in film Criticism at ECAM since 2014 and is a regular contributor to the program Historia de nuestro cine on TVE. She is the author of several books and is featured in several multiple-author books dedicated to Isabel Coixet, Pilar Miró and Bong Joon-ho, among others. Jara Yañez has been a Documenta Madrid programming committee member twice (from 2009 to 2011 and 2017 to 2019). She has collaborated with the short film selection committee of the Alcalá de Henares Festival since 2011. Her particular interest in the teaching and dissemination of film has led her to curate two audiovisual cycles for children as part of the Museocinema programme of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, and she collaborates assiduously with the educational platform Platino Educa and the Educa Filmoteca programme. Her commitment to gender perspective in film criticism and analysis began when she published Femenino plural (a book written with Andrea Morán in 2017) and is reflected in many of her texts.

Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor (Belfast, 1974) is a film curator and, since 2015, Director of the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF). He works to enact plural, de-centred ideas of contemporary and cinematic arts, their histories and exhibitions. Before working in Berwick, Peter was based in Rotterdam, where he worked as a programmer at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and WORM (2005 – 2016). As well as leading programming at BFMAF, he is currently on the advisory board for the University of St. Andrews's Centre for Screen Cultures and, in 2023, was a mentor for Cinema in Transition, 3-ACT Myanmar. In 2021-22, he curated ""Barbed Wire Love: Artists, Filmmakers and their North of Ireland Troubles"" with Myrid Carten for the Glasgow Short Film Festival. Peter has been a programme advisor for the European Media Arts Festival and joined juries for the Film London Jarman Awards and Jerwood/FVU Awards, as well as the Hamburg Short Film Festival, Indie Lisboa, Open City Documentary Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest and most recently Costa Rica Festival Internacional de Cine and Diagonale Festival des Österreichischen Films.

Guilherme Blanc

Guilherme Blanc is the Artistic Director of Batalha Centro de Cinema and curator of independent cinema and moving images. Previously, he was Head of Contemporary Art for the City of Porto. He is a lecturer in film at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Valeria Mata

Valeria Mata is a social anthropologist. She writes and researches the intersections between artistic practices and anthropology, the political and cultural dimension of food, and the social imaginaries of travel. She has shared workshops and organised study and exploration groups around these themes. She published Plagiarize, Copy, Manipulate, Steal, Rewrite this Book (2018) and Todo lo que se mueve (2020).

Caroline Maleville

Caroline Maleville graduated from the University of Paris 8 and La Fémis Cinema School with Master's degrees. After various experiences in distribution and film institutions, she joined the French Cinematheque in 2005. As programming manager since 2009, she has regularly organised events dedicated to contemporary innovative filmmaking. Beyond her collaborations with the Locarno Film Festival, the FEMA La Rochelle and Entrevues in Belfort, she is also a member of several script reading committees all over France and for Arte France Cinéma. Since 2022, she’s also been part of the selection committee of the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes.

Planeta GZ + Supernova Jury

Nuria Vil

Nuria Villano Prado (Santo André de Comesaña, Vigo, 1993), spoken word. Better known as Nuria Vil on the stage circuits. Her artistic work focuses on taking poetry beyond writing andcombines the word with experimental and performance art forms with a discourse marked by social vindication. She has just premiered the short film ‘Delincuente’ at the Muestra Internacional de Cine Ambienta at the Teatro Principal de Pontevedra; based on his poem of the same name about the working class history of the city of Vigo, it was directed by Alba Domínguez and had a Super-8 archive on loan from Manoel de la Costa. That same year, she was part of the multidisciplinary show ‘Indóciles" alongside Mónica de Nut and Vero Rilo. She also premiered the performance “Declaro desierto” at the Performa Festival, a piece in which she mixes tenor saxophone and spoken word to bring texts from her Simún (Ed. Chan de la Pólvora, 2021) to the stage. Winner of the Bolsa Ensaya 2022.

BFlecha

BFlecha is a Galician composer, singer and producer, co-founder with Mwëslee of the independent label Arkestra Discos. A pioneer in the Ibero-American electronic scene, she has been fusing avant-garde sounds and pop instinct for over a decade. Since her debut with ‘Beta’ (2013), her evolution became evident in ‘Kwalia’ (2017). It peaked in ‘ExNovo’ (2021), where she explores the relationship between the physical and the virtual, mixing organic timbres with digital textures. In addition to his albums, he has also composed music for works by filmmaker Diana Toucedo, ‘Camille & Ulysse’ (2021) produced by the CCCB and the Pompidou Centre and ‘Tatuado nos ollos levamos o pouso’ (2022). Her work has been featured in media such as Time Magazine, Buzzfeed, and Fader, consolidating her as a key figure in digital pop in our country. She is currently working on her next project, which will be released soon.

Catarina Boieiro

Catarina Boieiro works on editing, programming, production and research projects on the documentary image, the politics of memory and contemporary creation outside the hegemonic circuits of cinema. She studied Art Theory and Visual Culture with a master's degree from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is currently the coordinator of projects and editions of Doc's Kingdom - International Seminar on Documentary Film in Portugal. She curated the exhibition Widespread Visual Resistance: Photography Books and Liberation Movements with Raquel Schefer at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (Paris), Galerias Municipais (Lisbon) and Cinema Batalha - MICAR (Porto). She was a member of Stenar Projects, a platform dedicated to producing and distributing films by artists such as Ana Vaz, Filipa César and Deborah Stratman. He participated in meetings, conferences and residencies at the Punto de Vista Festival, Les Rencontres d'Arles, LE BAL, Le Fresnoy and the Encuentro Cine Cauce.

Young Jury

Inma Veiga

Inma Veiga was born in Parga (Lugo) in 1995. She studied a degree in Sound and Image at ESAD (Portugal) and specialized in Documentary Cinema at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. His film, Brthr, was selected as Best Short Film by Portuguese Schools at the Queer Porto International Festival and received an honorable mention at the Porto FEMME. In the professional field, he is dedicated to video creation and graphic design independently, as well as to DJing. Her work explores issues of identity and gender, focusing on narratives that address social and personal issues from a critical and sensitive perspective.

Xiana Rei

Santiago de Compostela, 1997. Screenwriter, comedian and staunch defender of the end of ‘Lost’. She graduated in Audiovisual Communication at USC and later earned a master's degree in Audiovisual Script Creation and a master's in Journalistic and Audiovisual Production (MPXA), where, after having to pitch thousands of ideas, she decided to turn to stand-up comedy. She began her audiovisual career with the short film ‘Húmedo Compostela’ (2016), winner of the Otra Compostela award at the Curtocircuito International Film Festival, worked as a television editor, and her most recent work is as co-writer of the short film ‘Trastos. A Day in the Life of Persona Maceta Lámpara’ was directed and co-written by Javier Blanco and selected at the Ribadeo Short Film Festival.

Xoán Vázquez González

I was born in A Coruña and studied Audiovisual Communication in Santiago de Compostela because I liked photography, cinema and stories. In 2022, I started, with another classmate, to organise the Facom Film Club, where we screen films weekly and organise talks and workshops from time to time.

Celia Eiras

Eiras graduated with a degree in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication from USC. She was editor of Ballena Cultural, a medium in which she wrote film, television and music reviews and collaborated in Sérmelos Galicia and O Salto Galicia. She also collaborated in the Diario Cultural Zeta of Radio Gallega. She was a third part of the podcast Violentos Años Veinte, which focused on the analysis and discussion around Galician music. She currently works in television as a programme writer. She also attends as many concerts and festivals as possible, DJing for friends and permanently occupying the same seat in the Numax Hall (row 6, seat 5).

Arón Arias Dono

Lugo, 1998. Graduated in Audiovisual Communication. Arias specialises in sound for audiovisuals, carrying out different projects and experimenting with the various possibilities of this. He is also interested in the cinematographic world from other points of view, participating in initiatives such as the youth jury of the San Sebastian Festival (2022) or the Cineclube of Compostela, of which he is still a member. At the same time, he is also developing a musical project under the artistic name of Remora, through which he aims to explore the different genres and possibilities of experimental club/electronic music, both as a producer and as a DJ.