Cecilia Barrionuevo
Cecilia Barrionuevo is the Co-Head of Programme at Doclisboa and Programmer-at-Large at Film at Lincoln Center. She was Artistic Director of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival and co-programmed Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema at Film at Lincoln Center. She was also curator of Documenta Madrid and has organized programs for major institutions including UnionDocs, MACBA, Museo Reina Sofía, Viennale, and Harvard Film Archive. She is co-editor of the bilingual publication Las Naves Cine and holds an MA in Documentary Filmmaking (UAB, Spain), with training in film restoration from FIAF/ACE, Cineteca di Bologna, and L’Immagine Ritrovata. She was an Associated Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and was awarded the title of Chevalier of the Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture.
Ewa Szabłowska
Ewa Szabłowska is the artistic director of New Horizons IFF in Poland, where she has been working as a programmer and a curator of the moving image since 2009. There she founded The Visual Front – a showcase for experimental cinema and films made by visual artists – and The Third Eye – a program exploring film and feminism from different angles. She has curated a number of retrospectives, thematic programs and country focuses. She also curates expanded cinema exhibitions and writes about cinema, art, and visual culture.
Sofia Tocar
Sofia Tocar is a film distributor and festival agent, leading the short film distribution slate at Square Eyes – a Vienna-based agency known for bold, non-mainstream cinema. Previously, she was part of the Institute of Documentary Film in Prague, where she coordinated the East Silver Caravan and East Doc Market. With a background in art history, Sofia also works as a curator and co-creator of craftivist and artivist projects.