Selection committee

The Selection Committee for the Official Selection is integrated by Manuel Asín, Lucía Salas, Frédérique Monblanc, Anna Brufau and Pablo García Canga.

Manuel Asín

Programmer, editor of publications and film researcher. Since 2016 he has headed the Film Area of the Fine Arts Circle of Madrid. Before this he was at the helm of the film distributor and book and DVD publisher Intermedio (2010-2015). As a programmer, he has produced cycles for institutions like Filmoteca Española, Museo Reina Sofía, Xcèntric-CCCB, Instituto Moreira Salles (Brasil), Tabakalera, etc. He has published articles and interviews in magazines like Trafic, Lumière, Blogs&Docs and Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, where he sits on the editorial committee. He has been a member of the teaching staff at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (San Sebastián) and Master LAV (Madrid).

Lucía Salas

An Argentinian programmer, critic and film maker based in Spain, whose work covers the past and present of film. She studied Picture and Sound Design at the UBA, Aesthetics and Politics at CalArts and is currently doing a doctorate in Communication at the UPF. She co-edits the magazine La Vida Útil and co-presents the podcast We Can’t Go Home Again. She has worked for IFFR Critic's Choice, Woche der Kritik, DocumentaMadrid and the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, among others. As part of the group LaSiberia she has made Implantación (2016) and the shorts Los Exploradores (2016) and Implantación (2011). She currently teaches at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola.

Frédérique Monblanc

After film studies in Nantes, Paris and Madrid, she has worked in restoration, valorization and dissemination of film heritage in private and public archives in Paris and at Filmoteca Española. A founding member of the Courts Devant festival (Paris), she has directed and edited several short documentaries. She has been session moderator and co-programmer of the documentary film festival and public debate Interferences from 2017 to 2021, as well as programmer and coordinator of the 38th edition of Les Reflets - Iberian and Latin American film festival.

Anna Brufau

Programmer. With a degree in audiovisual communication, she started out in the professional world through editing, but soon turned her attention to cultural management and the dissemination of film. She was a founding member and worker at the Zumzeig film cooperative (Barcelona), where she worked as a programmer and coordinator from 2016 to 2021. She currently works in the programming team at the Filmoteca de Catalunya.

Pablo García Canga

Qualified in film direction by Fémis. He has directed several short and medium-length films, has written scripts for other film makers, for films both made and planned. He has worked with Lumière, Détour and Foco magazines, among others, and regularly posts on the blog El diablo quizás. He has translated books (Amistad, el último toque Lubitsch; El Greco, cineasta) and contributed to others (George Cukor. On/Off Hollywood, Paulino Viota: el orden del laberinto, Pintar el sol: Víctor Erice…) and written Ozu, multitudes (Athenaica, 2020). He co-programmes the "Contactos" cycle for the Fine Arts.