DIP 2026 Selection
(Nico Mascarenhas, São Paulo, 1993) is a trans non-binary visual artist, researcher and filmmaker from São Paulo (BR). Their practice spans video, photography, installation and performance, investigating the limits of memory and gender identity while expanding the spatial and symbolic agreements that shape social rituals and transitions. Rooted in questioning representational structures and cinematic conventions, their research explores how bootleg aesthetics can subvert hegemonic narratives and displace predetermined meanings and objects.
(1997, Recife, Brazil) is a self-taught Luso-Brazilian director based in Portugal. His career was built outside formal film-school paths and took shape through constant audiovisual practice, with a growing interest in processes guided by listening, an ethics of care, and responsibility for what the image produces. He has directed more than a hundred music videos and, in parallel, has deepened his learning through workshops and masterclasses with professionals such as Scandar Copti, Eduardo Williams and Yorgos Lamprinos, among others. In 2024 he premiered his first short film, Ensaio da Loucura. He then co-directed Abril de Helena, currently in the early stages of distribution. He is now beginning post-production on his third short film (working title: Retomada / Dona Maria).
(Asunción, Paraguay, 2000) is a filmmaker, editor and teacher. She studied filmmaking at Universidad Columbia del Paraguay and is a graduate of La Fémis Summer University. She is also a member of “Jopoi”, a collective of women audiovisual makers seeking to build networks and opportunities for women in Paraguayan cinema. Her interests revolve around the idea of the feminine and its subjectivation in cinema, as well as the mixing of formats and archives. She is a programmer at “Cine de Barrio”, Asunción's first alternative cinema, and at “Jagua Salida”, a film club for unusual cinema.
(San Juan, Argentina, 1995) is a screenwriter and film director. She is obsessed with horses, concerned about childhoods, and loves the heat. Her work explores her own territory, San Juan, from an intimate perspective centered on what is broken: margins, disability, dissidence and diverse identities. She holds a master's in screenwriting and a degree in Film and Television, and has developed projects supported by INCAA, FNA, Ventana Sur, the European Union, the Málaga Film Festival and the Mar del Plata Film Festival. She is about to premiere her first feature, El agua nunca dolió (an Argentina–Uruguay–Spain co-production), a coming-of-age story about silence and faith within a family facing an accident that changes everything.
(2000, Guadalajara, Mexico) uses cinema and the visual arts to address issues that run through their surroundings and family history, such as enforced disappearance, with a sensibility that emerges from their experiences of rural life, as well as the uncertainty of inhabiting nature's magical yet indifferent clockwork in the face of constant human violence and passions. They graduated from the Department of Image and Sound at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG). They have developed projects in collaboration with Werner Herzog in a residency with La Selva Coop and Taller del Chucho. Their work has been selected at festivals such as IDFA, Big Sky and DocsBarcelona, among others.
(São Paulo, 1993) is a Brazilian trans filmmaker from a favela in São Paulo. He holds a degree from the Federal University for Latin American Integration, with an exchange at the National University of Colombia and a specialization in Documentary Directing at EICTV in Cuba. He is a Berlinale Talents alumnus and a co-founder of the Perifericu Festival of Favela Film and Culture and of Maloka Filmes, where he fosters community-based audiovisual creation. His films have screened at more than 300 festivals, including IDFA, Oberhausen, FICCALI, Kassel, Frameline, Tiradentes and Kinoforum, and have been nominated for the BAFTA Student Awards and the Brazilian Film Academy Award.
(1992, Bogotá, Colombia) is a Colombian filmmaker who graduated from the American Film Institute Conservatory in 2021. While at AFI he served as consulting producer on the documentary THE DEVI'L DRIVERS (TIFF 2021) and produced more than seven short films screened internationally. Since then he has taken part in the Film Independent Imaginar Residency, The Gotham Market, PGA Create and the NewFest Concord Sound & Scene Initiative. As a producer, he is currently in production on the documentary MADRE TIERRA, in post-production on HOUSE OF LEATHER, and in pre-production on the fiction features BEST MAN, a romantic comedy, and STEAM, a queer slasher. As a director, his short films have screened at international festivals. He is currently developing ASPHYXIA, and is also expanding MIÉNTEME into a feature.
(Panama, 1990) is a Panamanian director, screenwriter and producer. She is developing her second feature, ANA PASCAL, selected for the Afro-Indigenous Incubator and awarded at Miradas Market Canarias 2025. She directed CRUZANDO EL DARIÉN for AFRORESISTANCE ORG and the feature NOSOTRAS LAS NIÑAS, winner of the Cine Panamá Fund. She was recognized among the 25 outstanding women by La Estrella de Panamá. She combines audiovisual creation, production and teaching with a social and community focus.
(1985, San José, Costa Rica) is a Central American transfeminist activist, and a professor and researcher at the University of Costa Rica. They are a researcher at the Archivo de Memoria Social Trans* Costa Rica, where they explore the visual arts to build plural counter-narratives that contest official history and its gaps and distortions, which stigmatize and devalue trans lives. Their work includes non-fiction writing, photography and documentary film, in an effort to make visible the life paths of trans people in Costa Rica and Central America.
(São Paulo, 1993) is a director, cinematographer and editor. He holds a Master's in Audiovisual Filmmaking (Interzona) from EICTV (Cuba) and develops handcrafted productions that value experimentation and the power of cinematic language, exploring themes such as the Anthropocene, urban ruins and phantasmagoria. His work has screened at the Tiradentes Festival (Ballena, 2026), the Vitória Festival (Babilônia, 2024) and Kinoforum (.zip, 2021), among others. He took part in CineMarea, a traveling film residency in Uruguay. He holds degrees in Social Communication from ESPM/SP and in Film from AIC/SP.
(Oaxaca, 1984) is a filmmaker and anthropologist from Oaxaca and a graduate of the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). Her thesis film, “Artemio”, had its international premiere at Sheffield DocFest 2017, where it won the New Talent Award. Her first feature, “El compromiso de las sombras”, supported by the Tribeca Film Institute, the Sundance Documentary Fund and Ambulante, won the Silver Puma for Best Mexican Film at the UNAM International Film Festival (FICUNAM 2021). In 2023 she received the Chicken & Egg Pictures Research Grant for her new film “Para Catalina, el tiempo”. In recent years she has worked as a cinematographer with directors such as Tania Hernández Velasco, Nina Wara and Dinazar Urbina Mata.
(Córdoba, 2002) is a sound artist and experimental musician from Córdoba, Argentina, currently based in Buenos Aires. Their research focuses on the interaction between sound and performance in stage and visual contexts, exploring the intersections between sonority and corporeality. Their work includes collaborations on projects for performance, dance, theater, film and installations. They studied Composition with Electroacoustic Media at the National University of Quilmes. In 2023 they took part in the Expanded Music Residency (UNSAM), and in 2025 they completed the Higher Diploma in Live Arts (UNTREF). Since 2018 they have been working on fran proyekt, a solo project centered on sound experimentation that combines music and live arts to move through expanded fields.
(Huancayo, 1993) is a Peruvian filmmaker with a bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences from the National University of Central Peru (UNCP), a founding member of the Association of Independent Filmmakers of Peru (ACIP), and of the multidisciplinary art collective Lxs Demonixs del Ande. His work explores human relationships through a poetic hybridization of formats, delving into memory, identity and territory. He is currently developing and directing his first feature, Una noche en el Edén.
(Benidorm, 1998) graduated in Fine Arts from the EHU in Bilbao and is studying for a master's in Film Studies and Visual Cultures at ESCAC. From a queer perspective, they research questions such as memory, the forms of presence of the body holding a camera, and the dissociation between sound and image. Their first short film, Lesboterrorismo (2022), is part of the Hamaca archive and has screened at the Artium Museum, the Cineteca Madrid and the Mostra Invertida festival. Their first feature, Heaven is a closed nightclub (2024), premiered at the Ecozine festival in Zaragoza and internationally at FIC Gibara.
(Porto Alegre, 1989) is a Brazilian director and screenwriter. She holds an MFA in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts, US) and a degree in Film from FAAP University (São Paulo, Brazil). Her work explores memory and the ways of evoking it, with a particular interest in people, landscapes and cultural phenomena on the verge of disappearing. Her short film Anti-Corpos: Pieces of a Queer Tour (2020) was selected at the Mix Brasil Festival and In-Edit Brazil, among others. She also directed the documentary Odeon (2024). In 2025 she completed the fiction short Drunken Car.