MEET OUR OFFICIAL CURATORS

Aymara Limma is a Sag-Aftra actress, a producer, a director and an awarded filmmaker. Living in Venice, Italy for about five years, she completed a ``Master in Fine Arts in Filmmaking`` at the renowned Venetian University ``Ca' Foscari``. She was an Executive Book published for Editora Five Star, responsible for some best sellers and books like “A mulher é Amar“ de Arthur da Tavola.

Aymara has been following the major European’s film festival as an international correspondent and is the host of “Cine Arte Variety com Aymara Limma``, a weekly TV show about entertainment, on its Third season, airs twice a week: Wednesday 11 pm and Friday 2pm at the VRT Channel.

Brazilian/American Director and Producer based in Los Angeles. Claudia has worked as a development producer for many projects by director Nicolai Fuglsig (12 Heroes - starring Chris Hemsworth) and has worked on films such as Juno (Oscar for Best Screenplay), 2012 (John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Amanda Peet), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Chris Evans, Jessica Alba) among others. Her short film Ciao, which she wrote and directed, had its world premiere in Italy at the Salento Film Festival. Claudia has a degree in Advertising and before dedicating herself to the movies, she also worked as a commercial director and copywriter. In 2014, directing and creating for FJ Productions, she won The Communicator Awards with the spot “Lyoto Machida” for the client Itaú / Pontual Money Transfer. Claudia worked as an Assistant Director for renowned directors such as Jean Benoit Crepon, Clovis Mello, Claudio Borrelli, Gustavo Leme, among others. She produced all the 7 editions (2013-2005) of the Cine Water to Drink - a film showcase inside of the Amazonas Film Festival with water awareness as a theme. The showcase, sponsored by Coca-Cola, was part of the Amazon Film Festival. At the 2nd Brazilian Film Festival of Vancouver, Claudia was the project manager and as well the sponsor relation.

Screenwriter with a certificate issued by UCLA and currently studying TV and Film Fundamentals at NYU. Elaine was part of the screenwriting team for Netflix's true crime docuseries ``Elize Matsunaga,`` a script analyst at Bold Films (known for the features ``Whiplash`` and ``Drive``), and the first Brazilian woman to join the team of curators at Rotten Tomatoes.

Elaine works as a screenwriting instructor, teaching in screenwriting/film schools and post-graduate courses, in addition to working extensively as a curator, mentor, and feedback provider in contests and script labs, such as Serie_Lab (São Paulo/BR), and ROTA (Rio/BR).
Currently, Elaine acts as a script consultant for the LA-based production companies Coverfly, Taleflick, and Foton Pictures. She is a member of the jury of the Screenwriting Contest Guiões Festival (Lisbon-PT), a curator at the horror script competition, MotelX (Lisbon-PT), and also a script analyst at Big Apple Film Festival (NY/US). She has been working on several docuseries projects, currently at development and post production stage.

Eliana César is a Brazilian screenwriter, actress and voice artist. With a degree in Performing Arts, she’s a member of the Brazilian Association of Screenwriting Authors (ABRA). Eliana has always been interested in language research and content development, and has extensive experience in theater, film and television. As managing partner of Divina Imagem Productions she has been directly involved in documentaries on subjects involving culture, education, the environment, and social activism, in her capacity as production coordinator, screenwriter and director. She worked in content development, bibles and scripts focused on the Amazon and Indigenous Peoples for Arica Films, and was a finalist of PodDRAMA 2021 (fictional podcast script contest).
Eliana is currently writing a comedy series for a Brazilian production company, developing a fiction series for a podcast, as well as providing consulting services to audiovisual projects.

Leandro Matos is an experienced Brazilian writer and creative executive with over 150 produced scripts for television and film, and a track record of collaborating with renowned industry leaders such as 20th Century Studios, Netflix, and Disney+. Throughout his career, Leandro has assumed various roles across a diverse range of projects, including development, production, and marketing. As a writer, he has worked on 15 TV series, including two created by him, and the Brazilian version of Drunk History for Comedy Central. In development, his contributions extend beyond the realm of writing, encompassing crucial decisions at every stage of production.

He is currently part of the 2023 Canadian Academy Executive Residency cohort and acts as a screenwriting mentor for the Being Black in Canada program. Recently, he was part of his first writers' room in Canada, had a feature released in theaters, and finished CMPA’s Mentorship Program for Diverse Producers. He remains dedicated to expanding his creative horizons and delivering exceptional storytelling experiences.