2024 Feature Films Jury

Adriana GARCÍA GALÁN

Artist, Composer, Professor
Faculty of Creative Studies, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá
Colombia

Composer Adriana García Galán worked on the feature film Virus tropical (Macondo Award for the Best Original Song), the animated series Ugamú, the feature film Window of Time, as well as on other short films and audiovisuals.

She was awarded a scholarship to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, joined the "La Seine" research programme at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and engaged in a residency at the Palais de Tokyo pavilion. More recently, among other awards of merit, in 2020 Adriana received a creative grant from the Colombian Ministry of Culture and in 2022 she was invited to do a CKWEB Idartes residency at the Centre for Sound Art in Buenos Aires.

Her work can be found in collections in the Pompidou Centre and the National Centre for Visual Arts (CNAP).

Leonor SILVEIRA

Actress
Portugal

Leonor Silveira graduated in International Relations from Lusíada University, and in Cultural Heritage Law from the University of Lisbon.

Her acting career begins in 1988 in cinema, with The Cannibals by Manoel de Oliveira. Since then, she has worked with numerous directors – most recently João Canijo in Living Bad and Bad Living (Silver Bear Jury Prize, Berlinale 2023).

Leonor’s performances notably earned her the Bárbara Virgínia Prize by the Portuguese Academy of Cinema. She was a jury member at Cannes, San Sebastián, Locarno, among others.

In television, she participated in fiction series such as Sara by Marco Martins, and Therapy by Patricia Sequeira.

Leonor Silveira was distinguished by France with the order of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Officier des Arts et des Lettres. She received the Degree of Commander by Order of Merit, by the former Portuguese president Doctor Jorge Sampaio.

Ilan URROZ

Producer, CEO
Foliascope
France

After studying a range of subjects from biology to infotainment, Ilan Urroz accumulated a wide array of professional experience before taking the helm in 2009 of the animation hub, La Cartoucherie, in the Drôme region of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. From 2015 in Marseille, Ilan was managing the group of creative industries in the entire Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region.

Along with his associate Nicolas Flory, he bought Foliascope in 2018. This Drôme-based production company has its own special 2D animation studio and one of the largest stop-motion studios in Europe. Its catalogue includes the feature films Wardi, No Dogs or Italians Allowed (award-winner at Annecy 2022) and The Inventor (selected for Annecy 2023), as well as the TV series Some of Us, Lina’s World and Music Queens.