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For the last decade, Kidam has fought for art house fiction and documentaries, accompanying experienced directors, as well as new, future sensations authors. François-Pierre Clavel and Alexandre Perrier, producers and Kidam’s CEO, have always been interested in pictures for what they bring to the audience: light, social horizons, awareness, tolerance and worldwide understanding.

Has been running Stenar Projects since 2015, a Portuguese platform for artists’ films that supports novel film practices through development, funding, production and distribution. Festival premieres include Berlinale (2024, 2023, 2021, 2020), Cinéma du Réel (2024, 2023), FIDMarseille (2024, 2021), European Media Art Festival (2023, 2021, 2020), Rotterdam (2020, 2018), Cannes (2019), Doclisboa (2024, 2022, 2021, 2018) and IndieLisboa (2021, 2020).

Filmmaker and producer of cinema and artist films. In 2021, founded with Isadora Neves Marques the production company Foi Bonita a Festa, based in Porto, Portugal. Founder of Casa do Xisto, an artistic residency that aims to promote connectivity through cinema, is based in the village of Macieira de Rates in the north of Portugal, and is funded by the Portuguese Film Institute (ICA) in partnership with Mono No Aware (New York).

Born and raised in Paris, has worked in film in Berlin, Lisbon, Mexico and Paris. In 2020, founded the company so-cle to produce features by international directors who capture worlds where imagination and nature prevail. Has also been a programmer at the IndieLisboa Film Festival and a script analyst for the National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC), Cine-Cerca, Mexican Film Institute, and other funding agencies in Bolivia and Brazil.

Graduated in production at the Madrid Film School (ECAM) in 2019. Created the production company Entre las piedras in 2021 to make daring films, believing that the new generations have great talent to show. The projects she produces have participated in labs, markets and festivals such as Focus’ COPRO (Cannes), Berlinale Co-Production Market’s Visitors Program, La Incubadora, European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs and FIDMarseille.

Independent producer of films at the crossroads of cinema and art. Launched Ida.Ida to answer the specific production needs of these unconventional films, based on co-productions and creative international partnerships, dedicated to respecting and promoting the singular, committed visions of their authors. Its latest production, As Noites ainda cheiram a Pólvora, by Inadelso Cossa, is part of this year’s edition of Doclisboa.

Has worked in HBO, Warner Media and Movistar+. Produced the feature films Marisa in the Woods (2017), which premiered at the Seville European Film Festival and was featured in over 40 international festivals, and Miss Futuro (2021). Founded the company Nadadora Films in 2023 and has presented projects at the International Film Festival and Awards Macao, Ventana Sur, TorinoFilmLab Extended, Sofia Meetings and Sitges Pitchbox, among others.

Producer and co-founder of Pequén Producciones. Alumni of EAVE Puentes and Berlinale Talents. Produced Historia de mi Nombre, by Karin Cuyul (Rotterdam 2019), and Gaucho Americano (Hot Docs 2021) and Piropolis (Tribeca 2024), by Nicolás Molina. In 2024, participates in EURODOC and heads the industry section of the CLAP Festival. Currently producing Karin Cuyul’s next film, The Life that Will Come, and developing feature-length documentaries in France.

Based in Mexico City and Marseille. Has produced the documentaries Pedro, directed by Liora Spilk, which was an Ariel nominee for Best Debut Feature, and A Place Called Music, directed by Enrique Muñoz Rizo and recently screened at the BFI. Also produced feature films such as Sanctorum, by Joshua Gil, that was presented at the Venice International Critics’ Week, and Go Youth!, by Carlos Armella (Special Award at the Morelia Film Festival 2020).

After developing the French Institute’s programme La Fabrique Cinéma for 10 years, is back to producing with several projects in Latin America (Cuba, Paraguay, Brazil). Has also just produced and co-directed a short documentary about HIV. With her other company, Crok Ciné, uses cinema as an artistic tool for socio-cultural expression through short films by international authors.

Trabalha há mais de 20 anos em cinema, tanto em documentário como em ficção, como realizadora, assistente de realização, argumentista e coordenadora de produção em colaboração com vários realizadores portugueses. Para televisão, escreveu e realizou várias séries documentais. É programadora do Doclisboa desde 2023. É co-fundadora de uma pequena editora, a BCF Editores.

Director of Doclisboa. Head of studies at the Producer’s Lab Open Doors, Locarno Film Festival, since August 2022. Consultant and international advisor for audiovisual projects. Named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2012 by the French government for her work in audiovisual culture. Produced Omar y Gloria, by Jaime Cohen Ades (2017), and Trigal, by Anabel Caso (2022). Executive and founding director of the seminar El Público del Futuro.