JURIES – MICE

MICE’S AWARDS FOR THE OFFICIAL SELECTIONS: INTERNATIONAL & GALICIAN

The members of the jury for the Official Selections will be in charge of giving MICE’S Best Film Award (1000 euros, a trophy, and a diploma), and MICE’s Best Galician Film Award (800 euros, a trophy, and a diploma).

TÂNIA DINIS

Tânia Dinis holds a master’s degree in contemporary art practices from FBAUP. Her work explores different perspectives, media, and materials, including photography, performance, film, relational aesthetics, family archival footage (from anonymous families and her own), and other real image footage that she recontextualizes in pieces that connect time, image, and memory.

Her first short film, They’re Not Fava Beans, They’re Scarlet Runner Beans (2013), received multiple awards at different film festivals. Her works Cuentos de viejas (2015) and Laura (2017) earned the Best Short Film Award at Arquivo em Cartaz – International Festival of Archival Footage Film.

Dinis directed Sangue Novo, a program that was part of the 21^st edition of Santa Maria da Feira’s Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro and co-created Linha de Montagem (2019) along with Pedro Bastos and Sara Costa, using the theater footage of A Oficina – CIAJG (Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães). She was one of the artists selected to participate in A Oficina’s program “Artista no centro” (2020-2021), and her audiovisual installation Sobrepostos was among the winning works of the Laboratorios de Verán organized by GNRation (Braga, Portugal).

In 2019, she used photographic archives of Teatro Rivoli to create the piece Bastidores on the occasion of the theater’s 87^th anniversary. Other works by Dinis include Temporary (co-created with Marina Antónia Mion and Ana Villanueva), Álbum de familia (Teatro Oficina, 2017), Curva ascendente (2014), Rota (conto dunha familia) (2015), and Feminino (2012).

Her works have been featured at solo and collective exhibitions in art galleries and exhibition spaces like A Gentil Carioca (Brasil), SPUTENIK The Window (Porto), Solar – Galería de Arte Cinematográfico (Vila do Conde), Museu Júlio Dinis (Ovar), and Máus Hábitos (Porto).

Dinis has also delivered film workshops for children offered by different film festivals.

XOAN ESCUDERO

Xoan Escudero (Vigo, 1981) began working in the film industry as a sound technician in the early 2000s. He developed an interest in directing and screenwriting and debuted as a filmmaker with his short film Curta no2 (2009). In 2009, he released his second short film, Curta no3 – a piece filmed halfway between Santiago de Compostela, Paris, and Lisbon, which premiered at Cineuropa (Santiago de Compostela).

In the years that followed, he wrote several scripts for feature films, including Arquitectura e cine and 30. In 2014, he co-founded the film production company Y la nave va along with Analía G. Alonso and Sika Lamas. He also released his first music video –for the song “Éxodo” by Linda Guilala. In 2017, he released his first feature O tempo futuro (The Time to Come), a non-fiction feature film that portrays one year and a half in the life of bobsleigh pilot Bárbara Iglesias, and a music video for Chicharrón’s Suicidio tímido.

Escudero, who works at the educational department of Museo Centro Gaiás – City of Culture (Santiago de Compostela), is currently working on several projects, including Otra Historia del Arte –a documentary TV series developed in collaboration with Spanish cultural commentator Miguel Ángel Cajigal aka El Barroquista.

SABELA LOSADA

Sabela Losada Cortizas is a Galician writer, political scientist, cultural manager, and expert in care politics with a gender perspective. Her research approaches and fights sexist violence ad its consequences from the point of view of ethnography. As a writer, she has collaborated in organizing activity programs at Buenos Aires International Human Rights Film Festival and FINCA – International Environmental Film Festival.

AGANTRO JURY

The AGANTRO Award for Anthropology Excellence, awarded by the Galician Association of Anthropology, is endowed with 500 euros and a trophy. This year, the members of the AGANTRO jury are:

PAULA BALLESTEROS

Paula Ballesteros is a Galician actress, anthropologist, and archaeologist. Her research consists of observing and analyzing the Galician rural landscape as a palimpsest of the continuous human intervention in time and as an extinct social practice.

As a member of CSIC (the Spanish National Research Council), she has participated in several R&D projects. Her work on the cultural landscape of the National Park of the Atlantic Islands of Galicia includes articles for specialized and general journals and an exhibition of audiovisual pieces – ONSSOA (2021), produced by MICE and the Museum of Galician People. ONSSOA emerges from Ballesteros’ field journal, her photographs, film footage, and sound recordings, which she used to build an autoethnographic narrative of her long, solitary stays on the island of Ons. She also collaborated with projects regarding intangible heritage in urban areas, such as the one conducted in Vite (Santiago de Compostela), which led to the creation of ViteArquiva (2019) –a platform devoted to archiving and disseminating the social memory of a neighborhood built in the 80s in the outskirts of the historical city.

In her acting career, acting and theater creation are strongly linked to her background in the social sciences. Her work DESafiuzadas (2021), developed in collaboration with her colleagues at the theater company 3MulleresTeatro, combines theater devices and ethnographic practices to visibilize the situation of homeless women who live alone. She is one of the artists behind A pedra que fala (Colectivo Sonoro Rupestre, 2021), a piece derived from ethnographic fieldwork –Ballesteros, who performs in the show, previously contributed to registering the social memory of a specific archaeological site while involving the local population in the creative process. Her work as a performer includes appearances in several video art pieces by aCentral Folque, created in collaboration with Xoán Xil, Berio Molina, and Ariel Ninas. The videos offer a contemporary recreation of a ritual connected with death and involved a dancing performance in Corrubedo that took place as part of Monumenta, andar con arte (2021).

PABLO ROJAS

Pablo Rojas-Bahamonde works as an anthropologist at Universidad Austral (Chile). He is a Ph.D. candidate in the field of sociology at Wageningen University (Netherlands) and is a fellow scholar of Chile’s national agency for research and development (ID number – 72200403). His previous research includes projects on political violence, extractivism, religion, and the ethical, theoretical, and methodological premises of anthropology practice. He has published several books, book chapters, and scholarly articles. His commitment to anthropology led him to create a documentary, a music video, visual ethnographic projects, journalistic reports, radio shows, and podcasts. His current research, which focuses on political alliances between human and non-human beings during conflicts, approaches real situations in Chile’s Mapuche territory and rural areas of Galicia.