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Katherina Harder is a Chilean film and TV director. She is the co-founder and director of the Iquique International Film Festival and ‘La Gran Pantalla Barcelona’. Her short films have been exhibited in important international film festivals like Tribeca, La Habana, FICGuadalajara, Mar del Plata, Camerimage among others. Her short film DESERT LIGHTS has won more than 24 international awards and qualified for the Oscar.

Lucía G. Romero was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1999. She secured a full scholarship at the ESCAC film school from which she graduated with a master’s degree in Film Directing. Her graduation work was the short film Cura sana that tells an autobiographical story linked to her Cuban roots and it is rich in political consciousness.

Leo Tabosa is a Film Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Writer. He graduated in History and Journalism from the Universidade Católica de Pernambuco – Unicap. He has a Specialization Degree in “História Regional do Brasil: Nordeste” and is currently a Master’s Student in the Postgraduate Program in the Indústrias Criativas at Unicap. He is a partner-director of Pontilhado Cinematográfico e Produções Culturais e Artísticas LTDA, as well as presently acting as Cultural Manager of the Universidade Católica de Pernambuco. He is a member of the Academia Brasileira de Cinema e Artes Audiovisuais. He is also the Creator, General and Artistic Director of “Cine Jardim” (Belo Jardim – Pernambuco – Brazil) and “Mostra Curta Vazantes: Cinema em Comunidade” (Aracoiaba- Ceará – Brazil). Among his works as Director and Screenwriter, the following documentaries are highlighted: “Portraits” (2010), “Shark” (2013) and “Vanilla”(2017), as well as an animated film named: “The Adventures of the Dotted Boy” (2016) and still some fiction films, such as: “New York” (2018), “Marie” (2019), “Alto do Céu” (2023) and “Dinho” (2023). All of these productions combined, have participated in more than 100 national and international festivals, and have won more than 50 awards. He has also published  books and is currently developing his first long feature film, entitled “Gravidade”.

Ana Gutiérrez Salgado (1987) lives in Mexico City. She specialized in Creative Documentary at the Observatory, Documentary Film School, Argentina. She had the Young Creators Mexican Fellowship (2013-2014). She won the audience award of the

RetoDocs with the urban symphony “Personare” (2011) and with the short documentary “Lista de Espera” (2018) she won third place in the contest “19S Cultura Solidaria y Reconstruction in Mexico City” by PROCINE. 

From 2011 to date she has directed and produced several shortfilms documentaries that have been presented at festivals such as MicGénero, DocsMx, Festival Mix, Doc Buenos Aires. With LOLO, Ana ventures into the direction of fiction stories, without leaving behind, as creative axes, her experience in documentaries and the different social contexts that inhabit the city and its communities.