Speakers Cineposium 2022
Natalia Barbosa
Audiovisual Producer, Master in Cultural Management and professor. 12 years of experience in the film and tv industry, working in local, regional and international projects like Jack Ryan S2, El Niño de Medellín and EchoTeam 3. Since 2013, she has particpated in audiovisual training projects, where citizenship education, storytelling and social skills development converge.
Amanda Blumenthal
The IPA is a global leader in the training and certification of intimacy coordinators. She helped to found the field of intimacy coordination and has worked on projects such as Euphoria (HBO), The L Word (Showtime), The White Lotus (HBO), and Carnival Row (Amazon). Amanda is a leader in the SAG-AFTRA Intimacy Coordinator Initiative to create standards and protocols for intimacy coordinator work.
Diana Bustamante
Filmmaker and programmer, founder of Burning production studio. Diana has consistently contributed to the international recognition of Colombian cinema, producing films such as Los viajes del viento by Ciro Guerra, El vuelco del cangrejo by Oscar Ruiz (Berlín 2010), La Sirga by William Vega (Cannes 2012), Los hongos by Oscar Ruiz (Locarno 2014) and La tierra y La Sombra by Cesar Acevedo (Golden Camera at Cannes 2015) She was the producer of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest film "Memoria” - the Jury Prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival 2021.
Julio Chavezmontes
Renowned Mexican producer and screenwriter, winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and a two-time nominee for the AMACC's Ariel Award. He has produced more than 20 films, many of which have been presented at major film festivals around the world. His productions have received multiple awards, most recently the Best Director (Annette) and Jury Prize (Memoria) at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, and the Palme d'Or for Triangle of Sadness at the 2022 edition.
David S. Cohen
Award-winning journalist and content producer. He was a reporter, editor and producer for Variety for around 25 years and he has covered arts, science and culture for print outlets around the world. He won SoCal Journalism awards for his Variety reporting and for producing the Artisans video episode: The Dangerous Art of Aerial Cinematography. He is the author of six books on films and filmmaking, including the acclaimed Screen Plays: How 25 Screenplays Made It to a Theater Near You—for Better or Worse.
Ricardo Cantor
Ricardo is a film and television producer, specialized in Market Intelligence and Cultural Management. His producer credits include El resquicio (Colombia/Argentina) and The Seed of Silence (Colombia.) Prior to producing Oblivion (Mexico/Colombia) in 2014 he led the implementation and creation of the Bogota Film Commission. From 2016-2018 he was the Advisor at the Bogota Cinematheque and from 2018-2020 he was an Advisor to the Directorate of Audiovisuals, Cinema and Interactive Media of the Ministry of Culture.
Donne Dawson
Dawson is currently First Vice Chair on the AFCI Executive Board and was involved in the planning of this year’s Cineposium event in Bogotá. Dawson, who has earned AFCI’s certified film commission designation, has committed her career to building a strong sustainable film industry in Hawai‘i as manager of the Hawai‘i Film Office and looks for ways to continually share her knowledge, expertise and insights with her film commission colleagues around the world.
Lisa Day
Lisa Day has worked at the intersection of media and the environment for her entire career. She is currently a Manager of Environmental Sustainability at The Walt Disney Company, where her primary role is developing and overseeing sustainability on the feature films, television shows, and documentaries produced by the company’s many studios. Prior to her role at Disney, Lisa was the Director of Sustainability at 20th Century Fox, leading Fox’s sustainable efforts on production as well as at the iconic Fox Studios Lot in Los Angeles and Fox Studios Australia.
Hans Dayal
A twenty year veteran of the Western Canadian film scene, Dayal has worked on films for all the major Hollywood studios, from Disney to Netflix, with directors such as Robert Zemeckis, Joseph Kosinski, Zack Snyder and Steven Spielberg. He is the chair of the newly formed Director’s Guild of Canada (DGC) – BC Sustainable Climate Action Committee, a DGC – BC District Council Board member and sits on the Creative BC Clean Energy Committee.
Diana Díaz Soto
Diana Diaz Soto trained as a social communicator with an emphasis on educational communication from the Javeriana University. Diana directed the children’s station Colorin colorRadio and headed the Office of Content and was the Ombudsman of the Viewer of the former National Commission on TV. She was an advisor to the Directorate of Cinematography and Coordinator of the Cultural Communication and Childhood project of the Ministry of Culture as well as director of TV station Senal Colombia.
Silvia Echeverri
Silvia Echeverri has been the head of the Colombian Film Commission at Proimágenes Colombia since 2009. She has been involved in the design and implementation of the incentive system for audiovisual production in Colombia. She´s beginning her third term as a member of the Board of Directors of the AFCI and is also part of the Board of Directors of the Latin America Film Commission Network.
Alejandra Espinosa Uribe
Studied Literature in Bogotá, Colombia where she is originally from. In 2016 she moved to Barichara, a little town at the edge of the Chicamocha Canyon. There, working as a cultural tour guide she met the Walt Disney Animation’s directors and producers and became Cultural Consultant for Disney’s Encanto contributing on Colombian history, Cultural and Rural representation for the following 4 years. In 2019 she opened Aljibe Librería, the first bookshop in the town’s history and the only one in more than 60 square miles where she hopes to help decentralize access to books in Colombia where few rural bookshops are found.
Marjorie Galas
Is a freelance journalist as well as the SVP, Membership and Industry Relations for AFCI – the Association of Film Commissioners International. Prior to joining AFCI, Galas was the Editor at Variety 411 where she managed the 411 e-newsletter, web and marketing content. As a reporter, her stories have been featured in Variety, Variety 411, Below the Line News, Creative Content Wire and Tradeshow Week.
Dago García
He has written and produced more than forty series and soap operas such as Pedro El Escamoso, Pecados Capitales (written with Luis Felipe Salamanca), and La saga, family business, among others. In 1995 he created the film production and distribution company Dago García Producciones. He has been producer, screenwriter and director of more than 40 films to date, and several of them have been the highest grossing films in the history of Colombian cinema.
Harold Jímenez Giraldo
CEO and founder of the company 36 GRADOS. Harold at 30 years old has directed and produced around 300 music videos of the most important artists in Latin music, such as J Balvin, Maluma, Nicky Jam, Juanes, Anitta, Luis Fonsi, Karol G, among others. In his long career he has achieved the most significant awards in Latin music such as MTV Video Music Awards with Mi Gente by J. Balvin, Latin Grammy with Pa ́ Dentro by Juanes as producer.
Magdalena La Rotta
Award-winning producer, director and strategic executive with over three decades of senior level experience in content creation, direction and production in the media business as a corporate executive and as an independent producer and director. Team-building leader with a successful track record in design production and direction of customized content for specific audiences.
Luis Lizarralde
Musician and lawyer with more than 7 years of experience in the music industry as an active performer and composer, advisor to labels and independent artists, and executive in a major record company. He is currently Director of Business Development for Sony Music Entertainment Andes Region, where he is in charge of developing and executing projects between artists and repertoire of Sony Music's cast, with brands, advertisers and content creators in general.
Yvett Merino
First came to Walt Disney Animation Studios more than 25 years ago, and has worked in a variety of production capacities on some of the most popular animated titles of all time. She most recently was a producer of the BAFTA and Oscar-winning animated feature Encanto. Among her other credits, she served as production manager on the Academy Award-winning, Big Hero 6, as well as the Oscar-nominated Moana. Launching her Disney Animation career in the Technology department, she moved into the world of Production as a supervisor on Tangled.
Adrian Mitchell
Mitchell started The Oslo Film Commission in 2018, and is still heading the one-man-office. During his buildup of the Film Commission he also set up The Oslo Film Fund, a local investment fund which supports local audiovisual productions emphasizing and focusing on sustainability, diversity and local stories. Also has a track record in the film industry ranging from production manager, location scout and manager, distribution and as a producer.
Brian O’Leary
Over the course of more than 27 years in practice Brian has developed a specialty working with governments to generate economic development support while minimizing tax impacts for capital projects, film, television and streaming productions and ongoing business operations. Brian also served for more than fifteen years on the Board of the National Multistate Tax Symposium and undertakes numerous speaking engagements on matters of credits and incentives, film financing and taxation.
Ana Piñeres
Current COO of CMO Producciones and CMO International, Executive and Creative Producer of successful series such as: Pálpito (#1 on Netflix), Pasión de Gavilanes 2 (NBC Universal Telemundo), La Venganza de Analía (#1 in ratings and Top 10 Netflix) and La Niña (Caracol TV), among others. Founder and representative of film producers on the board of directors of the Colombian Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and current representative of producers in Proimágenes Colombia. Current president of EGEDA Colombia and audiovisual union leader.
Stefanie Rauscher
Stefanie studied Theater, Film- and Media Studies as well as East Asian Studies in Vienna and Beijing. She speaks Mandarin Chinese and is specialized in Chinese film. Before joining the Vienna Film Commission as project manager in 2015 she worked for the German Goethe Institute in Beijing. Stefanie has been deputy managing director of the Vienna Film Commission since 2019.
Stefan Roesch
Hasta la fecha, ha presentado este tema en más de 40 conferencias internacionales como ponente principal, incluida una charla en el Parlamento Europeo. También ha asesorado a varios destinos en proyectos de turismo cinematográfico en todo el mundo, como VisitBritain (en la película Paddington), Tourism Northern Ireland (Juego de Tronos), VisitDenmark (Trolls) y la Oficina de Turismo de Jordania (The Martian).
Jay Roewe
Roewe joined HBO in 1994, originally serving as Vice President of Production for HBO Pictures. In 2000, he began overseeing the miniseries division until 2010 when he was promoted to Head of Physical Production for all Television scripted original productions. He helps manage the physical production planning of films, limited series, and scripted series filmed all over the world and oversees the film & tv incentives both domestically and internationally for all productions.