Professor of the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising of the University of Málaga, specialized in Audio-visual Script and Narrative.
His research career focuses on the representation of identities in the audiovisual media. Among his books are the image of Andalusian women in Spanish cinema (2008), The forgotten cinema of the Spanish transition. History and memory of the independent audiovisual in Andalusia (2015) (ASECAN Award for the Best Film Book 2016) and How TV series are written in Spain. Conversations on script with its creators (2021). He has made numerous stays related to his line of research at prestigious Italian and Argentine universities, as well as in Spanish centers.
Since 2017 he has led the research group TRANSCOMMUNICATION (SEJ-390) (PAIDI - Junta de Andalucía). She has been the main researcher of two projects related to the audiovisual memory of Andalusia and has also participated as a researcher in national and autonomous R & D & i projects related to the analysis of the discourse of cinema and television.
Olga Markova is a renowned Bulgarian film critic. She has a degree in Philology and Journalism. Doctor of Cinematographic Studies, works as an art critic and journalist specialized in culture and arts.
He is the author of ten books, most of them dedicated to cinema. Some of them, such as The Role of Bulgarian Culture in World Civilization, have been translated into English and distributed by Bulgarian embassies and cultural centres around the world. For his two most important works, Masters of the Great Cinema and The Last Mohicans of the Cinema, he received the "Golden Plum" award from the Union of Bulgarian Journalists and the Gold Diploma «Pedestal» to excellence in film criticism at the international forum "Golden Knight," held in Russia. In 2019 he published one third of his trilogy The last will be the first. For more than ten years he has taught a course at the Master's degree "Literature, Film and Visual Culture" at the University of Sofia San Clemente de Ohrid. Throughout his extensive career he has worked as editor of the «International information» of the Bulgarian Telegraphic Agency (BTA), was for 25 years head of the Art section of the national weekly of literature and art Puls, and founder and editor of the national weekly Az-Buki, dedicated to education, science and culture, work for which he received various recognitions.
Vanja Hovan is a graduate of the Novi Sad Academy of Arts (Bachelor's degree in 2009 and Master's degree in 2016).
Since 2002 he has been involved in the work with young people (2005: Leadership and Development Youth Work - 'School of Education and Communication', University of Jönköping, Sweden; 2005: coordinator of the Novi Sad office of the Youth Found Balkans project of Forum Syd; 2008: 'working practices', Voivodina Government and OSCE project).
Since 2007 he has been the founder of the Centre for the Development of Visual Culture (production of TV, cinema and theatre).
He has directed several documentaries and fiction films, such as the documentary feature film 'Silicon Spring' (2012), the TV series' Plajas ili krokodil Dandy '(2014) and the feature film' Grande Punto '(2018), awarded the best script at the Vrnjačka Banja film festival.
In 2023 he was one of the founders and director of the Novi Sad Film Festival (NSFF).
Ignacio Ysasi (1977) was born in Seville, although he spent all his childhood in Marbella.
He has a degree in Dramatic Art by the ESAD of Seville, studies that he has combined with those of Audiovisual Communication and Professional Photography Technician.
In his 30 years of experience as an actor, he has been on the boards in works by directors such as Calixto Bieito, Macarena Pombo, José Troncoso or Alberto Conejero. In the audiovisual field, it has appeared in films and series like 'Let no one sleep', 'Garcia!', 'The snowgirl', 'La Fortuna' or 'The neighbor'.
Since 2020 he has been assistant to the casting director María Rodrigo, winner of the European Film Award for the best casting by 'Sirat', and with whom he has worked in the distribution of projects such as' Romeria 'by Carla Simón,' Maspalomas' mde Moriarti or 'I will not die of love' by Marta Matute, last Golden Biznaga of the Malaga Festival.
Ysasi is also a video editor and composer of the music of several short films, fashion films and the feature film 'Boreal' by Pelayo Muñiz
Born in Miranda de Ebro (Burgos) and neighbor of Benalmádena 39 years ago. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the "More Wood" cineclub in Benalmádena.
Journalist of Canal Sur Televisión since 1989. Among other professional work, she has been a presenter of the South Canal Informativos, Head of Political Information, Presenter of the "Andalusian Parliament" programme or Editor-in-Chief of the Information Services of CSTV. Since September 2024 she has been the director and host of RTVA's "One Film" program.
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