Festival internacional Signos da Noite - Lisboa
International Festival Signs of the Night - Lisbon
 





8° Festival internacional Signos da Noite - Lisboa - Montijo - Novembro 5-10, 2024

22th International Festival Signs of the Night - Portugal

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Short Film Jury


João Pedro Afonso
Portugal


Born at 1964, January 31, João Pedro Afonso is a sixty year's old street philosopher by choice, and a physicist by heart.

He has a degree in Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Physics engineering) and dabbled many years in the academy. He is the author of an algorithm for SAT solvers to find short-circuits in very large logic circuits presented at DATE 2017, which some thought to be a serious contender for a Ig Nobel award, and a current moderator in a Facebook group of quantum physics with 300 thousand members. He likes science, mathematics, puzzles, chess and other games, books, animation, science fiction and fantasy, children, to debate, to program, to swim, to draw, and much much more. He dislikes conflicts, mosquitoes and yellow soup. His most recent project is to grow a beard and see how the facial hair self-organizes. He wants to learn how to read Inca Quipus to see if there is an hidden meaning in the knots formed but so far, he only got a new understanding for the difficulties of long hair users like women.

I define culture not only as the flavor of our way of life but also as our main tool to prepares us to life. Open societies demand openess to ideas, discussions, contexts, and freedom to discuss alternatives. Cinema is one of the major arts to do that.



 

Rosa Dias
Portugal

 

Born 1982, Actress, director, playwright and theatre trainer, Graduated in "Teatro – opção Formação de Actores" and Postgraduate in "Escritas de Cena" by ESTC.

She worked with many companies such as Escola da Noite, Teatro O Bando, Teatro da Trindade, Lêndias D'Encantar, Companhia Mascarenhas-Martins and Teatro Estúdio Fontenova.

A cinephile for as long as she can remember, cinema was one of the main reasons that led her to acting.




Susanne Gottlieb
Austria

Susanne Gottlieb is a cultural and film journalist from Vienna whose texts have been published in the daily newspapers Der Standard, Kleine Zeitung, Wiener Zeitung, NZZ am Sonntag, in the magazines TV Media, Filmbulletin, The Gap and Cineuropa.

She has also written guest articles for Kino Zeit, Talking Shorts, Ubiquarian, DMovies and Yes & No. She works in the cinema team at Metro Kino Kulturhaus and in the amateur film project at Filmarchiv Austria, has contributed to the catalogue for the Zurich Film Festival and Locarno Film Festival, and is currently also working as a copywriter and presenter at the Diagonale.
nne Gottlieb is a cultural and film journalist from Vienna whose texts have been published in the daily newspapers Der Standard, Kleine Zeitung, Wiener Zeitung, NZZ am Sonntag, in the magazines TV Media, Filmbulletin, The Gap and Cineuropa. She has also written guest articles for Kino Zeit, Talking Shorts, Ubiquarian, DMovies and Yes & No. She works in the cinema team at Metro Kino Kulturhaus and in the amateur film project at Filmarchiv Austria, has contributed to the catalogue for the Zurich Film Festival and Locarno Film Festival, and is currently also working as a copywriter and presenter at the Diagonale.


Paolo Portugal
Portugal

Paolo Portugal A film critic for over twenty years, he contributed for for several outlets in Portugal, such as Premiere, GQ, as well as many daily, weekly and film websites. He founded film magazine Showbiz and was chief editor of Primeiras Imagens.
A s jury member he attended the international circuit, such as Cannes, Berlim, Venice, Rio de Janeiro, Miami, Istambul and Thessaloniki documentary festival. He is a member of FIPRESCI for over a decade. He currently coordinates film website INSIDERfilm.


Bruno Soares
Portugal

The fascination with the image began at the age of 16 while working with photographer Luis Cruz, the moving image emerged at the age of 18 when he made still photography for a cinema film for the first time, and from then on the decision to make films became clear and the choice easy. He completed his degree in Cinema in Lisbon and in between he had the opportunity to work in the area in different departments of several teams, gaining experience and above all understanding the challenges inherent to each film project from different perspectives.

He thinks in images and the sequence of movements, colors, framing, scales comes naturally to him in an act almost as involuntary as breathing. Had the opportunity to direct for the first time at the age of 22, in a short film outside the curriculum entitled “Politics”.

The need to improve himself, to understand how to put into practice what comes naturally to him made him once again decide to accept the opportunity, for which he applied years before, to do a postgraduate degree in Barcelona at ESCAC, instead of continuing on the path already begun in cinema in Portugal, thus learning new languages, new aesthetics, new objectives and giving him a greater understanding of the entire production process, accumulating experiences in advertising, cinema, documentaries and music videos.

Thaiddhi is a Filmmaker, Producer, and also Film Programmer. He studies Filmmaking at FAMU in the Czech Republic for 3 years master's degree program in Cinema and Digital Media.

His first short film “Awake” won Best Short Film at FAMU Fest 2009. He co-founded Wathann Film Festival in 2011 and worked as a Programmer for the festival.

In 2013 he founded Third Floor Film Production to produce Myanmar Independent short films and documentary films. He produced a short film Cobalt Blue (2019) by Aung Phyoe which was selected for the Pardi di Domani International Competition at 72nd Locarno Film Festival. He worked as a Cinematographer in the recent film Money Has Four Legs (2020) by Maung Sun, which was premiered at New Currents (Busan International Film Festival 2020).