Vibha Daryanani Melwani
Obsessive of Excel, has production running through her veins. From event production, fiction, documentaries, advertising, marketing, music, festivals and even sporting events, she has become an expert in executive management of events and projects. Her studies include a degree in Audiovisual Communication in Brighton, UK, several masters and a PhD in communication sciences specialising in executive production. She lives a double life as a martial arts teacher and referee specialising in Women's Self-Defence.
Berta Sánchez
Since she directed her life towards her passion, this graduate in Audiovisual Communication from the UAB has already participated in a handful of festivals and associations dedicated to this art for several years; always multifaceted. From production, through projection, translation/subtitling... She has been learning for years by filming and participating in the best horror festivals in Catalonia. Currently, she is a regular contributor to the radio programme "La Cinemoteka" and continues to produce everything from shows to feature films.
Camila Pineda
Director and screenwriter passionate about horror and gore. A graduate in Audiovisual Communication from Blanquerna University, she began her career in Los Angeles as an editor, where she perfected her narrative acumen and sensitivity for visual rhythm. After her experience in the North American industry, she decided to return to focus on her true calling: writing and directing films.
She currently works as an assistant director and script editor, combining her work on film shoots with film criticism for Young magazine, where she contributes to the film section.
Júlia Agut
Born in Barcelona and a resident of the metropolitan area, she is hooked on accents from all over the world. With a great passion for cinema and reading, she began filming short films until she lost count. You give her tape and a clip and he fixes you half set while she checks the continuity. Fantasy, horror and science fiction genres are her pillars.
Iban Granero del Río
Born and trapped in L’Hospitalet, he already began to practice video editing with a couple of VHS players. Twenty years later, he continues editing after having gone through dozens of shoots and social projects as a director, camera operator or gaffer. At the same time, from childhood to this date, he has developed a cult towards horror films for everything that this genre means culturally and politically (and for monsters of all kinds).
Miranda Delfino Boga
Filmmaker and assistant director. Born in Buenos Aires and trained at the Universidad del Cine (FUC), she develops an experimental and poetic cinema that explores intimacy, displacement, and memory, as well as fiction and the horror genre. She lived for four years in Berlin, where she participated in various film shoots and furthered her training in analog photography and editing workshops. In 2024, she was a member of the Youth Jury at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and in 2025, she was assistant director on Pelargonía, a short film selected for the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival. Now based in Spain, she continues to develop her own film projects.
Netania Fernández
Caribbean artist based in Barcelona. She writes screenplays to tell stories and works as a marketing strategist to convince the world to watch them. Her desire to control the narrative led her to create Melanina Films in the República Dominicana. And because she cares about who gets to tell stories, she serves as General Coordinator of an Artistic Residency for Women Filmmakers. She always has a project in the works. She is an alumna of the screenwriting program at Escuela de Cine Chavón, holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication and Cinematic Arts from Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), and a Master’s in Strategic Marketing and Digital Communication from EUDE Business School.
Mauricio Serrado
Daniel Berjano Rodriguez
Aida Picón Fernández
Raised between Cornellà and Terrassa, she has trained as an actress, film specialist and showrunner since her teens. Passionate and demanding, she is guided by intuition and the defence of what she considers fair. She produces multidisciplinary shows, works as an actress and fiction stuntwoman or as part of the technical team, currently developing her own series and a horror short film. A faithful consumer of cultural festivals, she is part of the B-Retina and "La Cinemoteka" team, covering festivals and Awards such as the Feroz Awards.
Silvia García Palacios
Born and raised in L’Hospitalet, she combines her more than 20 years of experience in the audiovisual world with social activism. As a producer, director, programmer and film critic, her versatile character combined with committed values have led her to join of multiple social, ecological and women's associations and cooperatives, in order to help make a difference.
A Col·lectiu Aide lawyer, specializing in Labor Law, handling individual claims related to dismissals, disciplinary actions, substantial modifications of working conditions, wage claims, and advising on cases of workplace harassment and sexual harassment.
Director and screenwriter who explores the boundaries between reality and fiction to address contemporary themes. Her filmography ranges from fantasy fiction to documentary, highlighting "Camille" (Best New Screenplay, Sitges Festival 2011), "The Jump!" (2014), her first feature documentary premiered at IN-EDIT, and "Minshara", about motherhood and creation (D'A Film Festival, CCCB). She currently explores the hybridization between documentary and technology to recover family memories in "Totes les mares, totes les filles" (L'alternativa Mentoring Project), and develops projects on unconscious biases in artificial intelligence such as "My Word", with an international presence in festivals, or the current research of 'Mutations' (BCN Crea - UPF grant). Her artistic research is accompanied by a commitment to the transformation of the audiovisual sector from Dones Visuals.
Founder of the La Dona és Actualitat platform and director of the short film A TEMPS (On Time)
Member of XDI Xarxa dels Drets de la Infància (XDI Network of Children's Rights), criminologist and lawyer specializing in equality and prevention of harassment. Contributor to the social project A temps.
She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and serves as assistant curator of Festival 42. Over the past decade, she has specialized in cultural journalism focused on fantasy genres. She currently hosts and produces the podcast idíl·liQ, successor to the fantasy radio show Quimèric (2016–2024). She also coordinates the Zona Utopia and Comic Fantasy sections at Comic Barcelona and is a board member of the Catalan Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy (SCCFF). She has been involved with Festival 42 since its first edition, where she served as a jury member and moderated several panels
Multilingual screenwriter and director. She is an advocate for women’s rights and a member of several organizations promoting diversity and equality in the film industry. As a writer and director, she has experience in both fiction and documentary. She is also the founder of The Leading Ladies, creator and host of the podcast Changing The Narrative, and author of the book Remote Filmmaking. Her recent feature documentary, NOAH, was released in cinemas and on television and is currently available on TV3, À Punt, and RTVE platforms. Alongside her film career, she pursues ongoing training in areas such as domestic violence, sexual violence, pedophilia, and coercive control.
Daughter of a painter, she lets creativity guide almost everything she does. She has loved reading since she first heard a bedtime story. Her curiosity about fictional worlds led her to a passion for cinema that continues today. As a teenager, wanting to understand her favorite songs, she got an English-Spanish dictionary and began translating artists like Blur, Nirvana, and Robbie Williams. This led her to co-create the now-defunct Ramen Fansub, where she translated and subtitled videos of Japanese idols that became popular among audiences at manga conventions in the 2010s. This experience opened the door to her professional work as a subtitler and collaborations with film festivals, many of them focused on horror. Among other creative pursuits, she performs improv, plays bass and piano self-taught, designs geek-themed cross-stitch pieces, and occasionally restores furniture.
Research and Programming – MIFDB. She holds degrees in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication (Carlos III University of Madrid) and a Master’s in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies (Pompeu Fabra University). She was part of the content and communications team for the program “Soy Cámara” (2018) at the Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture and worked as a member of the Zumzeig Cinecooperativa exhibition space (2019–2020). She currently works in the programming team of the Barcelona International Women’s Film Festival and co-organizes the feminist reading club Contrazines at La Bonne – Francesca Bonnemaison Women’s Cultural Centre.
