JURIES

    Nick Deocampo | President

    Nick Deocampo (The Philippines, 1959), Casa Asia 2023 Award, is a documentary filmmaker and film historian as well as an associate professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute. His publications include award-winning books on the history of cinema and film literacy. He has been a recipient of various international fellowships and grants and has served as a jury member in numerous international film festivals. He is also the director of the Center for New Cinema. In 1999, he organized the Pink Film Festival, Philippines’ first international gay and lesbian festival.

    Aditya Bhattacharya

    Nick Deocampo (The Philippines, 1959), Casa Asia 2023 Award, is a documentary filmmaker and film historian as well as an associate professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute. His publications include award-winning books on the history of cinema and film literacy. He has been a recipient of various international fellowships and grants and has served as a jury member in numerous international film festivals. He is also the director of the Center for New Cinema. In 1999, he organized the Pink Film Festival, Philippines’ first international gay and lesbian festival.

    Daniel Sastre de la Vega

    Doctor of History and Art Theory from the Autonomous University of Madrid (2017) and Master of Arts in Japanese Studies from Sophia University in Tokyo (2008). He has curated the exhibitions Fantasy on Stage: Kunisada and the Utagawa School (2014) and Yōkai. Iconography of the Fantastic. The Night Parade of a Hundred Demons as the Genesis of the Supernatural Images in Japan (2018), both at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, and Kinpaku. Nature, Power and Imagination in Japanese Art (2024) at Madrid’s Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga. He currently teaches Japanese Art History and Japanese Language at the Centre for Asian and African Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has undertaken internships at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, at the universities of Tokyo and Ritsumeikan (Kyoto), and at the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto.

    Miwako Van Weyenberg

    Miwako Van Weyenberg is a Belgian Japanese screenwriter and director who graduated from the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) in 2014, where her final year project, Hitorikko, received the VAF Wildcard. Her master’s final project, Il faisait noir (2015), was recognized at international festivals where it was screened, as was her short film Summer Rain (2017). Her first feature film, Soft Leaves (2025), premiered at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025 and has been selected for the 13rd edition of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona (AFFBCN).

    Cristina Rius

    Cristina Rius (Barcelona, 1971) is a journalist and cultural manager, spokesperson and co-founder of the Cineclub Akira in Sant Pol de Mar. She was the founder and coordinator of LATcinema , Catalunya’s film programme focusing on documentaries about Latin America. She has been a jury member for the Latin American Film Festival of Catalonia, the Short Film Festival for Identity, the Lebu Documentary Festival in Chile, and the International Human Rights Festival, and has collaborated as a producer at numerous festivals. She is the director of a musical short film about water and a producer of short documentaries. Correspondent in New York (USA) for the website Cinemagazine.com, covering festivals and interviews.

    Aditya Kripalani

    Aditya Kripalani (India, 1981) is an Indian writer, director and producer residing in Frankfurt, Germany. A graduate of the Screenwriting programme at the Film and Television Institute of India, he worked with prominent directors before moving into teaching and creative direction in advertising. He made his directorial debut with Tikli and Laxmi Bomb (2017). Some of his feature films include Tottaa Pataaka Item Maal (2018), Devi Aur Hero (2019) and Not Today (2021), which won the FIPRESCI Award at the Bengaluru International Film Festival. His most recent film, I’m Not an Actor (2024), was screened at the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) and is part of the 13th Asian Film Festival Barcelona (AFFBCN). In addition to his work as a filmmaker, he has published several novels and worked as a creative director in advertising across Asia.

    Adrià Guxens | President

    Adrià Guxens (Tarragona, 1992), is a Catalan screenwriter and film director. He graduated in journalism from the University of Barcelona and in Film and Audiovisual Media from ESCAC. He has worked on fiction, documentaries, music videos, fashion films and advertising. He has also served as a jury member at international festivals such as Sitges and Venice. In the field of journalism, he writes about cinema in Núvol and other publications. He currently teaches at ESCAC. He has made several short films, gaining international recognition, and this year he is making his first feature film debut, Lóngquán. El manantial del dragón (2025), which won the work in progress award at the Locarno Pro Spanish Previews at the Locarno Festival.

    Antoinette Jadaone

    Antoinette Hilario Jadaone (Manila, 1984), popularly known as Tonet Jadaone, is a Filipino filmmaker. Among her most recognised works are That Thing Called Tadhana (2014), Love You to the Stars and Back (2017) and Fan Girl (2020). Her latest film, Sunshine (2024), was screened at the 2024 New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the 2025 Berlinale, the 2025 Udine Far East Film Festival and the 13th Asian Film Festival Barcelona (AFFBCN). It has been one of the highest-grossing films of the year in the Philippines.

    Briccio Santos

    Briccio Santos (Manila, 1949) is a multidisciplinary creative practitioner—filmmaker, painter, sculptor, photographer, and writer—and a pioneering voice in Philippine independent cinema. He directed his first full-length feature, Manikang Papel in 1977, and went on to direct several other films, including Damortis (1984) which was recently commissioned to be restored and premiered by the National Gallery of Singapore last September 2025. Casa Àsia honored his works in 2018 through a retrospective of his films at Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. As Chair of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (2010–2016), Santos led national efforts in film preservation and was instrumental in establishing the Philippine Film Archive. In recognition of his cultural contributions, he was honored with the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur (France, 2013) and the Ordine della Stella d’Italia (Italy, 2016).

    Ted Granados

    Teodoro ‘Ted’ Granados is the Project Director of the Southeast Asia Film Development Foundation Inc. (Film ASEAN) based in the Philippines. He was previously the Executive Director of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) from 2011 to 2016. He supervised the production of over 30 films that received funding from FDCP. He also headed the selection of films for various film festivals of the FDCP. Prior to his stint at FDCP, he was an associate producer and sound supervisor and sound editor at Muchachos Bravos Filmworks. His works include Lihis (2013), Salvi: Ang pagpadayon (2013) and Ang tag-araw ni Twinkle (2013).

    Malika Mukhamejan

    Malika Mukhamejan (Shu, 1993) is a Kazakh filmmaker who graduated in directing from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 2021. Her work focuses on women’s stories and their loneliness and isolation. She is the founder of QYZQARAS, a platform that supports female filmmakers in Kazakhstan. Her first feature film, Longer Than A Day (2024), was selected for the Asian New Talent Award at the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) and is part of the 13th Asian Film Festival Barcelona (AFFBCN) 2025.

    Saeed Nouri

    Saeed Nouri (Iran, 1974) is an Iranian producer and director with a bachelor’s degree from the Sooreh Institute followed by a master’s degree in film Directing from the University of Art, Tehran. He continued his studies in France, obtaining a doctorate in film from the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin (UVSQ). He combines his career as a film researcher by writing articles and participating in the Cannes Film Festival every year. His most recent work, Tehran, An Unfinished History (2025), premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025 and is part of the 13th edition of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona (AFFBCN).

    Anastasia Kozachenko Stravinsky | President

    Anastasia Kozachenko Stravinsky (Moscow, 1993) is a curator, art critic and art director at CIFRA, a multi-purpose digital art platform that combines streaming, marketplace and education. She has been a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-Russia) since 2017 and of the Scientific Secretariat of the Centre for Russian Art Studies (CSAR) since 2020. She holds a degree in Liberal Arts (RUDN) and a Master’s degree in History and Dialogue of Cultures from the Université Grenoble Alpes. In 2024, she presented her doctoral thesis in Art History at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. As the great-granddaughter-niece of composer Igor Stravinsky, she is the founder and director of the Stravinsky Family Fund.

    Javier Martín-Domínguez

    Javier Martín-Domínguez (Madrid, 1929) is a journalist and film producer. He has worked in print media, radio and television. He was a foreign correspondent for Radio Nacional and Televisión Española in the United States for ten years, and for La Vanguardia in Tokyo. He has won the Cirilo Rodríguez Prize for international journalism. Among other events, he covered three American election campaigns, Reagan’s trips to Moscow and Gorbachev’s to Washington, Hirohito’s funeral and Akihito’s coronation. He is the author of biographies of Paul Bowles and the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. He directed the Seville European Film Festival for four years and has been a jury member at the Moscow, Sarajevo and Documenta Madrid festivals and at the Asian Film Festival in Barcelona (AFFBCN).

    Mo Li

    Mo Li (Beijing) is a journalist, producer, researcher, and PhD candidate in Film Studies at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She holds a BA in Film Production from the Central Academy of Drama and an MA in Film Studies from the University of Sydney. Her doctoral research focuses on documentary filmmaking and censorship in contemporary China. Independently, she also writes book reviews, conducts interviews with filmmakers, and covers major European documentary film festivals as a content creator.

    Marta Figueras

    Marta Figueras, a producer since 1994, began her career with La Moños (1996) by Mireia Ros, nominated for a Goya Award for Best Director. With Hotel Room (1998) by Cesc Gay, she participated in the San Sebastián Film Festival. In 2011, she won the Memorimages Award and the Gaudí Award for Barcelona, abans que el temps ho esborri (2010), by Mireia Ros. In 2016, she won the Gaudí Award for Game Over (2015), directed by Alba Sotorra. At the 2021 Malaga Film Festival, it won the Audience Award for Chavalas (2021) by Carol Rodriguez and in 2023 the Special Jury Prize for MI VACÍO Y YO (2022) by Adria Silvestre.

    Kexing Ma

    Kexing Ma holds a PhD in Society and Culture: History, Anthropology, Art and Heritage, and is a translator and cultural manager. She was part of the founding team of the Lychee International Film Festival, a festival dedicated to Chinese and Chinese-language auteur cinema, which was held for three consecutive editions (2017-2018-2019) before the pandemic, in Barcelona and Madrid. In addition to her experience in festival programming and production and other film-related projects, she has worked as an interpreter for filmmakers from Spain and China, including Chinese director Xie Fei at his first retrospective held at the Spanish Film Library (2019) and Víctor Erice at the China Academy of Arts (Hangzhou, 2024). She remains committed to promoting dialogue and cooperation in film and culture between China and Spain.

    José Félix Collazos

    José Félix Collazos (Bilbao) is a Spanish filmmaker and film critic. After completing his studies in architecture, he moved to New York, where he studied screenwriting at Hunter College and direction at the Millennium Centre. There, he began independently shooting his first short films in Super 8 and 16 mm. In 1993, he made Muy negro, his first 35 mm film, which was screened at numerous national and international festivals. His next film, Nocturno (1997), was selected to open the Chicago Film Festival and participated in various international festivals such as Montreal, San Sebastián and St Petersburg, as well as winning the Silver Horse at the New Directors Festival in Larissa (Greece). He has also worked as an artistic director and radio scriptwriter and has collaborated with the San Sebastián International Film Festival and the Asian Film Festival of Barcelona (AFFBCN).

    Sandra Sotelo | President

    Sandra Sotelo Aboy is a journalist and news correspondent at ABS-CBN Corporation. A teacher, freelance journalist, and active member of the Filipino community, Sandra Sotelo Aboy understands the value of news and believes in applying transversality in the journalistic activity she carries out. To manage her time, she jumped into the world of digital commerce with a 24/7 business project that allows her to dedicate herself to the promotion of her country’s culture and projects such as Contracorona, which was screened at the AFFBCN 2023.

    Nick Deocampo | Copresidente

    Nick Deocampo (The Philippines, 1959) is a documentary filmmaker and film historian as well as an associate professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute. His publications include award-winning books on the history of cinema and film literacy. He has been a recipient of various international fellowships and grants, and has served as a jury member in numerous international film festivals. He is also the director of the Center for New Cinema. In 1999, he organized the Pink Film Festival, Philippines’ first international gay and lesbian festival.

    Iris Zhang

    Iris Zhang (Beijing) is a communications coordinator and PhD student at Pompeu Fabra University. Her interests revolve around the representation of women in visual media and its social impact. After four years living in Barcelona, she has progressively focused on the dialogue between Chinese and European cultural practices—which is how her company Blanc0 Project came about. With experience in film distribution, festival public relations, and intercultural communication, she has collaborated on several independent film festivals and international projects. Currently, she actively participates and connects with creators, organising screenings and cultural events in Barcelona.

    Jiajie Yu Yan

    Jiajie Yu Yan (Barcelona, 1989) is a film director, screenwriter and a producer. His mother is from Shanghai and his father from Taipei. His short films have been selected for more than 100 international festivals and he has been the director of three chapters of the series Sense Filtres (2025-) for 3Cat, produced by Vertigo Films. He has been nominated twice for the Goya Awards: in 2020, as director and screenwriter of Xiao Xian, and in 2023, as producer of Chaval. His latest short film, Xiao Wei (2024), won the Movistar Plus+ Short Film Project award at the Cinema Jove Festival. In 2021, he was selected for the first edition of Spain Stars of Tomorrow by the British magazine Screen International, being recognised as one of the 10 emerging talents with the greatest international projection. He is currently working on the projects Tres edades (San Dai Shi Guang) and Tiempos de soledad, violencia y juventud.

    Razka Robby Ertanto

    Razka Robby Ertanto (1983) is an Indonesian film director, screenwriter, and producer who began his feature film directing career in 2010 with 7 Hati 7 Cinta 7 Wanita. His filmography also includes Jakarta vs Everybody (2020), The Day Before The Wedding (2023), and Yohanna (2024), which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. His most recent work, Midnight in Bali (2025), was part of the Harbour Section at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in 2025.

    Mana Salehi

    Mana Salehi is an Iranian-Spanish artist. She holds a PhD in Artistic Production from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. Her work explores the dialogue between East and West, with a deep sensitivity towards understanding cultural differences and their connection to nature. Her works, in video and audiovisual installation formats, have been presented at international exhibitions and festivals. In 2020, she was part of one of the AFFBCN juries for the first time.

    Louise Wu

    Louise Wu is a multidisciplinary writer and producer, as well as a filmmaker from Beijing. She recently earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dramatic Writing and minored in Entertainment Business, Media, and Technology at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Often  her creative works explore themes such as the complexities of interpersonal relationships, modern urban living conditions, and the poetic vulnerability inherent in our shared human experience. Her professional experience includes screenwriting, film development and distribution, as well as participation in international cultural activities.

    Álvaro González | President

    Álvaro González graduated in Screenwriting and Dramatic Writing from the Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC),and collaborates with the distribution company Brigante Films (2017 – 2018). This is the company responsible for the distribution in physical and digital formats of Psycho Raman (Anurag Kashyap, 2016 – India) and Confession of a Murder (Jung Byung-gil, 2012 – South Korea). He is also a content creator targeting the film dissemination of the Asian continent, under the name Atlas Del Cine Asiático. (TikTok/IG: @atlasdelcineasiatico).

    Sandra Mur

    Sandra Mur Puyuelo (Huesca, 1986) holds a Master’s degree in Specialized Communication and a PhD in Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Studies. Her expertise lies in the Eurasian space, Russia, and Central Asia, where she collaborates with distributors and film festivals as an intercultural mediator. Her work explores the relationships between image and autobiographical writing from a gender perspective, questioning and reinterpreting notions of identity and memory.

    Yi Lai

    Yi Lai is a researcher and film curator specialising in contemporary Asian cinema, and a PhD candidate in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Faculty of Geography and History at the University of Barcelona. She has served on juries at film festivals such as ANIMARIO, San Sebastián and the Asian Film Festival Barcelona (AFFBCN). In her curatorial work, she has participated in festivals and screenings as well as art exhibitions, from the Chinese animation section at ANIMARIO to the Hersteria exhibition.

    Natalia Diaz

    Natalia Diaz Peñalver (Barcelona, 1967) is the director and co-founder of the Korean culture blog ‘Korea en Barcelona’. Created in 2017, it reports on all activities related to Korean culture taking place in Barcelona and Catalonia, with an emphasis on South Korean cinema. It also publishes articles on cultural content and interviews with film directors, actors and writers. On a personal level, she is passionate about Asian cinema and participates as an accredited press member at various film festivals.

    Shaun Seneviratne

    Shaun Seneviratne is a Sri Lankan-American filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Shaun holds a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University and a master’s degree in media studies from The New School. He teaches at Fieldston, co-hosts the podcast Rohmercast and runs Redacted Screenings. His feature film, Ben and Suzanne, A Reunion in 4 Parts (2024), was selected for the Jodja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2025.

    Yeon Sue Park

    Yeon Sue Park (South Korea) is an anthropologist specializing in Tech-for-Society and an independent artist whose work is based on research. She focuses on international collaboration in public and cultural projects between Korea and Barcelona. She is the founder of Culture Matters, a visionary company specializing in the development of innovative and sustainable management strategies with a strong focus on people.