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)
He obtained the Degree in Media and Audiovisual Communication at the University of Cuban Arts. He is a cinematographer, colorist and editor. He has been a cinematographer in Canal Habana (2009-2013), Salamandra Productions (2012-2014), International School of Cinema and Television (EICTV) (2010-2014), Puksar Filmes and Fundação Imaginar (2014), Do Rio Files (2014-2016) and Viralata Produções (2016-2018). Among his filmography, which includes documentary, fiction and institutional works, the documentary feature films Blitz – O stand out film (2019) and
Palace II – Three rooms with a view to the sea (2017), which were part of of the Official Selection of the Festival do Rio, short film Guillermina (2019), where he made the photography direction and digital restoration of images. His works
have been awarded in Cuba, Spain, Colombia, Argentina and Qatar.
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. She bases her work on research, process and meaning. She has worked on multiple 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/EEAA), "Holy Beasts" (Laura Amelia Guzman & Israel Cardenas), "Petra" (Jaime Rosales - Jaime Rosales) and "Holy Beasts" (Laura Amelia Guzman & Israel Cardenas), "Holy Beasts" (Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas), "Petra" (Jaime Rosales - ES/FR/DIN), "El Silencio del Viento" (Alvaro Aponte - PR/RD), "El Rey de la Habana" (Agustí Villaronga - Spain/RD), "El Cosmonauta" (Nicolás Alcalá - Spain); series such as "The Crown" (Netflix), "Jack Ryan" (Paramount / Amazon), "El Presidente (Gaumont / Amazon), "West World S3" (HBO) and "Dreams Without Borders" (Aljazeera) and "From Bahia to Brooklyn" (VPRO Holland) ; as well as festivals and projects for organizations such as Latin Grammys, DocumentaMadrid, Casa de América, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Matadero Madrid, Teatro Circo Price, Residencia de Estudiantes, Plan Internacional, Cesal Dominicana, Festival Presidente de Música Latina, Ministerio de Turismo de RD and Centro León.
Her film work has been supported by the Ibermedia Program, Fonprocine RD, Berlinale Talents, ICAA Spain, ICEC Catalonia, UN Women, E. León Jiménez Art Competition, Locarno IFF, International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, Guadalajara IFF, MiradasDoc, Panama IFF, Trinidad & Tobago IFF, Directed by Women Spain, Iberdoc, among other international organizations and film festivals.
She is a promoter, founding member and part of the Steering Committee of ACÚ - Asociación Dominicana de Documentalistas (Dominican Association of Documentary Filmmakers).
She currently resides between the Dominican Republic and Spain, developing film and artistic co-productions.
Sergio Borrás
Sound designer
He studied at the Instituto Superior de Artes (ISA) in Cuba and graduated from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV de San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) specializing in sound. He has worked as a sound designer on projects that have premiered at prestigious festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Åmsterdam, IDFA, Seville, among others. As
a teacher he has taught sound workshops in Spain, Portugal and Berlin. He currently lives and works in Madrid. He is a member of the Association of Audiovisual Sound Professionals in Spain (APSA) and the Documentary Film
Documentary Film Association DOCMA.
Carolina Menéndez
Assistant director
Carolina Menéndez studied Hispanic Philology with a focus on the linguistic and cultural study of the varieties of Spanish and later pursued a Master's degree in Humanities, specializing in inclusive language. She works at Middlebury College in Spain teaching Spanish and edits MadLoCo magazine on Hispanic culture and art.