Curators
Panorámica is a platform for the internationalization of independent and authorial Spanish cinema, with a demanding level of curatorship. It gives access to festivals in any country in the world and their programming teams, to a ready-to-play service for online exhibition of its curated catalog.
Festivals and their programmers can choose from the titles of our catalogue individually, but they can also opt for programming itineraries previously prepared by our team of curators, all of them of international reference.
Isona Admetlla
Sociologist and Cultural Manager. She is a lecturer, consultant, and audience designer. Born in Barcelona, she has been based in Berlin since 2001 and is the Coordinator of the Berlinale-World Cinema Fund. As a freelancer, she designs and gives ... training seminars on film financing, marketing, distribution, pitching, and audience design at universities and other institutions related to cinema worldwide. She regularly participates in project selection committees as a jury or lecturer. Leer más
Miquel Escudero
Journalist and cinema programmer, his articles have been published in magazines such SoFilm, Dirigido Por and Caimán Cuadernos de Cine. He is a programmer at La Semaine de la Critique du Festival de Cannes and at the Belfort Entrevues Festival. ... He is also a film curator for Chinechilex (Chilean film director's association), where he works with director Pamela Varela. Likewise, he is also the agent and curator of the avant-garde film director collective Obscuritads. Leer más
Mercedes Martínez-Abarca
Mercedes Martínez-Abarca is a film programmer and consultant based in the Netherlands. Mercedes has worked at International Film Festival Rotterdam since 2009, where she is currently in charge of theyAxis ... Latin-American and Caribbean regions and part of the Hubert Bals Fund selection committee. She also collaborates with the female filmmakers' association, Dones Visuals.
Mercedes has been part of the selection committee for Ventana Sur’s Primer Corte and Copia Final. Previously she coordinated the Holland Film Meeting, worked at the sales agency Fortissimo Films and collaborated with different film festivals and co-production platforms. She has also been part of the MEDIA Single Project and Spanish Film Institute selection committees. Leer más
Jim Kolmar
Programmer at the prestigious South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW), where he currently serves as an advisor, and at other festivals such as Tulum and Portland, always with special ... interest in Spanish-speaking cinema. He has been a jury and part of committeesin events such as BAFICI, Bogotá Audiovisual Market, CONNeXT, CPH:DOX, Docaviv, DocsDF, IDFA, IFFPanama, the Krakow Film Festival, New Horizons and Ventana Sur. Leer más
Susana Santos
Film programmer, distributor, and project development consultant. Delegate of Latin America for Kralovy Vary and Cinéma du Reel, and member of the selection committee of the Río de Janeiro ... Festival. International. Consultant for the Hubert Bals Foundation and the Doha Film Institute, as well as external project advisor for the Creative Europe program of the EU. Leer más
Xavier Gª Puerto
Graduated in Art History (URV) and Audiovisual Communication (UPF), he is a film and video programmer and curator. He has organized exhibitions and programs in Brazil, Israel, Slovakia ... USA, Colombia, France and China, and has collaborated with institutions such as KuntsWerke (Berlin), Instituto Cervantes and the Cineteca Nacional de México. He has been jury at festivals in South Africa, Hungary, Lithuania, Costa Rica, Italy or Serbia, including the Berlinale (Generation). Spanish-speaking delegate at Tallinn Black Nights and co-founder of the REC Tarragona International Film Festival (artistic director since 2006). Leer más