LAGO 20 JURY

EVA SANGIORGI

Eva Sangiorgi is a writer and programmer based in Vienna.She collaborated with different festivals in Latin America and founded FICUNAM in MexicoCity, festival she headed until 2018.She worked in film distribution, production and television broadcast.She is currently the artistic director of the Viennale, the Vienna International Film Festivaland the coordinator of the Film Curating Studies Department at the Elías Querejeta ZineEskola (EQZE) film school in San Sebastian, Spain.

LAURYNAS BAREIŠA

Laurynas Bareiša is a Lithuanian film director, DoP and editor. He holds a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Vilnius University and cinematography from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. In 2016 he finished his studies for a master’s degree in film directing. His most noticeable shrt films -“The Camel” (San Sebastian FF 2016), “By the Pool” (Venice IFF, Orizzonti 2017), “Caucasus” (Locarno FF, Leopards of Tomorrow 2018), “Dummy” (Berlinale Shorts 2020). Laurynas Bareiša’s debut feature film “Pilgrims” premiered at the 78th Venice Film Festival where it won the Orizzonti Award for Best Film. L. Bareiša worked as a cinematographer on the feature films of Marija Kavtaradze – “Summer Survivors” (Toronto IFF, Discovery 2018) and “Slow” (Sundance 2023), and Titas Laucius’s debut feature “Parade” (Tallinn Black Nights FF 2022).

YANN GONZALEZ

Yann GONZALEZ (1977, France) is a filmmaker and producer. He directed several short films before turning to full-length features with You and the Night which premiered at Cannes’ Critic’s week in 2013 and Knife+Heart which competed for the Palme d’Or in 2018. He’s currently working on his next feature film and on Memory Slot, a porn anthology co-directed by Alain García Vergara.