I b i r í Filmes
IBIRÍ FILMES
Team
Aida E. Bueno Sarduy
Director
Doctorate "Cum Laude" in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Complutense University of Madrid. PhD thesis on the leadership of priestesses in the Xangô of Recife. Conducted research in Cuba and Brazil on African religions from the perspective of gender and feminist theory and criticism. Specialization in African diaspora culture in Latin America and interethnic relations (Universidade Cândido Mendes, Center for Afro-Asian Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). She is currently researching the buying and selling processes, letters of freedom and freedom purchasing documents of African or Afro- descendant women in Brazil, 18th and 19th centuries, in the state of Pernambuco and the state of Bahia.
Since 1999 she has taught at different universities in the United States: New York University, Middlebury College, Stanford and Hamilton College. Director of the Laboratory of Artistic Creation for Afro Women (2020-2022) of Afro Women at Palcoa. Co-curator of the showcase of contemporary Cuban nonfiction films for the MiradasDoc festival, Isla de Isora, Tenerife, Canary Islands
2023.
Documentary film director: 1939 días (7', 2015), "Guillermina", (17' 2019). "Guillermina" has been screened at: New Orleans Film Festival (2019) / New Orleans, United States; La casa encendida / Encuentros (2020) / Madrid, Spain; Uppsala International Short Film Festival (2020) / Uppsala, Sweden; Évreux International Educational Film Festival (2020) / Évreux, France; Centre de Cultura Contemporánea Barcelona (CCCB): Debate La cicatriz colonial (2020) / Barcelona, Spain; My First Doc (2020) / Tunis, Tunisia; FIPADOC (2021) / Biarritz; France Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (2021) / Clermont-Ferrand, France; SANFICI (2021) / Bucaramanga, Colombia. Director and screenwriter of "Rezadeira", feature length documentary in development. Director and screenwriter of "Anna Borges do Sacramento. Feature length documentary in production with the help of Sundance Film Institute, 2021; Trespuertos cine; Miradas Afro (Spain); SANFIC (Chile) and Márgenes work (Spain).
Maite Bermúdez
Cowriter
She is a screenwriter, filmmaker and producer. Her films and installations oscillate between fiction, documentary, contemporary art and dance, with nominations and programming at different international festivals such as the Pompidou Center (Paris), Muffatwerk (Munich), Cinedans (Amsterdam), The Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto) , FID Marseille, The Dance Camera West Dance Film Festival (L.A.), Mar del Plata (FIAFP), Huarte Contemporary Art Center (Navarra) Donostia/ San Sebastian capital of culture 2016 (San Sebastián). She has been part of the selection committee of the Punto de Vista International Film Festival, Pamplona (2008-2013) and Zinetika (2018-2019).
Ricardo Acosta
Editor
is a film editor, script consultant and member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Canadian Cinema Editors. Acosta moved to Canada from his native Cuba where he studied and worked at the world-renowned Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC). He has been an Alumni and Adviser of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Editing Lab, and the Music Composition and Sound Design Lab. A few of his editing and story consulting credits include: Once Upon a Time in Venezuela (2020), The letter (2019), The Silence of Others(2018), winner of GOYA, ALMA, and the Berlinale Panorama Documentary Audience Award, Sembene! (2015), and Marmato (2014). His films have premiered at Sundance, Cannes, and IDFA, among other world film festivals. He is an Emmy winner and nominee for the Canadian Industry Genie and Gemini Awards, Canadian Film Editors Association Awards and Canadian Screen Awards.
Raúl Tamayo Estrada
Cinematographer (Brazil)
Director of Photography, editor, and colorist. Trained at the University of the Arts of Havana, Cuba. He served as a photography advisor for the Chair of Advanced Studies at the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV). He is currently based in Rio de Janeiro, where he founded the audiovisual production company Estradas Filmes and was selected as a member of the Brazilian Academy of Cinema. He has led the cinematography of more than one hundred audiovisual works, spanning a wide range of formats, media, and visual languages. His work has been exhibited at major festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, Clermont-Ferrand, Uppsala, the Pan African Film Festival, the Havana International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, Al Jazeera, and Mumbai.
He is currently developing projects for cinema, television, and streaming platforms such as MAX, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Globoplay. He has also collaborated with China’s Xinhua News Agency since 2023. His work has received awards in Cuba, Brazil, Spain, Colombia, Argentina, the United States, and Qatar.
Alongside his film work, he expands the moving image into the exhibition space. He was part of the creative team of Joaquina de Angola, an audiovisual installation presented at the Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture, and collaborated on the multiplatform exhibition Sobreviventes, focused on women victims of gender-based violence.
He advocates for cinema as a tool of resistance, memory, and the construction of more just futures.
Rubén Valdés
Sound engineer on set (Brazil)
He is a specialist in sound mixing and post-production. He has studied sound design at the International Film and TV School (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He postgraduated in Sound for audiovisual media from the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM), Germany. He has been part of the Electroacoustic Music Laboratory, Physics and Music Chair, University of Havana. He has studied Animation Sound Design at the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. He has worked as a sound engineer on numerous documentaries and works of fiction.
Alexandra Calisto de Carvalho
Director of Art (Brazil)
She is a plastic artist, illustrator, animator and collaborator in the audiovisual piece Guillermina. Calisto has been in charge of the animation and post-production of the video clip Time to go by Wax Tailor and Aloe Blacc, official selection
of SXSW in Texas, USA 2013. She has directed and animated the short film Domino, with which she participated in the Roma 3 festival Fil Festival, Italy 2014. A selection of her drawings were part of the collaborative exhibition A Human World Map in Larissa, Greece 2017. In 2017, he published There Once Was a Lady Who Drew, a book of poetry with poems and illustrations by her.
Wendy Espinal
Producer
Filmmaker and cultural manager. Her work is grounded in research, process, and meaning. At the core of her creative practice she places the Caribbean, with its multiple roots and diasporas.
She has worked on numerous audiovisual and cultural projects, including award-winning feature films such as Canción a Una Dama en la Sombra (Carolina Astudillo – Spain), Cocote (Nelson Carlo de los Santos – DR/Argentina/Germany/USA), Holy Beasts (Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas), Petra (Jaime Rosales – Spain/France/Denmark), El Silencio del Viento (Álvaro Aponte – Puerto Rico/Dominican Republic), El Rey de la Habana (Agustí Villaronga – Spain/Dominican Republic), and El Cosmonauta (Nicolás Alcalá – Spain); as well as series such as The Crown (Netflix), Jack Ryan (Paramount/Amazon), El Presidente (Gaumont/Amazon), Westworld Season 3 (HBO), Dreams Without Borders (Al Jazeera), and From Bahía to Brooklyn (VPRO Netherlands). She has also collaborated on festivals and projects for organizations including the Latin Grammys, DocumentaMadrid, Casa de América, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Matadero Madrid, Teatro Circo Price, Residencia de Estudiantes, Plan International, Cesal Dominicana, Festival Presidente de Música Latina, the Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism, and Centro León.
Her work has received support from institutions such as the Sundance Institute, International Documentary Association (IDA), Chicken & Egg, Locarno Open Doors, World Cinema Fund, Visions Sud Est, ARTEKino, Ibermedia, Cannes Docs and the Marché du Film “Producers on the Spotlight,” Cinemart, Berlinale EFM, Talents Guadalajara, Fonprocine, ICAA Spain, ICEC Catalonia, UN Women, FIDOCS, DocumentaPro, and Nodo Sur Impact Forum, among others.
She is a fellow of the Sundance Documentary Producers Lab & Fellowship and EURODOC, a founding member of ACÚ – Dominican Association of Documentary Filmmakers, and has served on selection committees for international funds such as Hubert Bals, DAFO (Peru), and ACAU Minority Co-production (Uruguay).
She is currently developing several film and artistic co-productions between Latin America, Europe, and the United States.
Sergio Borrás
Sound Designer and Sound Technician
Born in Havana, Cuba (1983), he graduated in Acting from the National School of Arts (ENA). After several years working in theatre and film, he continued his training in film studies at the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) and later specialized in sound at the International School of Film and Television.
Based in Spain, he works as a sound technician and sound designer on projects premiered at international festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, and IDFA. Alongside his professional practice, he maintains an ongoing teaching activity, delivering sound workshops in Spain, Portugal, and Germany, and serving as a sound design professor in the IMAGINA Master’s Program in Documentary Film at LENS Film School in Madrid.
His work has been presented in exhibition spaces such as the Reina Sofía Museum, La Casa Encendida, and the Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture. He is a member of the Global Impact Producers Alliance (GIPA) and the Spanish Documentary Filmmakers Association (DOCMA).
