Meet our Jury
International Feature Film
Maria Calafat
Maria Calafat was born in Palma de Mallorca. She studied Film Production at UCLA and completed the Master’s in Audiovisual Direction at ENSAV (Toulouse). A screenwriter and producer of documentary and fiction projects selected for labs, grants and festivals, she is also an experienced script analyst and script doctor. She was programmer and coordinator at the Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival.
Maria Dragus
Born in 1994 to a German mother and a Romanian father, Maria Dragus trained in ballet before Michael Haneke cast her in THE WHITE RIBBON, winning the German Film Award (Lola) at fifteen. She has since worked with Cristian Mungiu (GRADUATION) and starred in MADEMOISELLE PARADIS, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS and ELENA’S SHIFT. Also a writer, director and photographer, her first feature, GIOCONDA, is in production.
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Titus Gust
Titus Gust is a Berlin-based director, writer and producer working across advertising, short films, music videos and TV documentaries. A Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg graduate, he won first place in the Young Directors Award student competition in 2006 with Living I-Pod. As CEO and Creative Director of Raketenfilm, he makes documentaries for public-service TV (ZDF, ARD, 3sat, arte) and specializes in the ethical use of A.I. in film production.
Debut Feature Films
Marc Clotet
Marc Clotet, jury president, studied at ESADE, completed an MBA in the US and trained as an actor at HB Studio New York. He received a Goya nomination for La Voz Dormida and Best Actor at the Houston International Film Festival for El Jugador de Ajedrez. Star of El Comisario and Física o Química, he founded Funicular Films in 2021, producing Esto no es Suecia (Prix Europa) and the feature Viva (Cannes Critics’ Week).
Neus Cortes
Neus Cortes is a Mallorcan actress trained at ESADIB, working in theater, film, television and dance between Madrid, Barcelona and Mallorca. She has appeared in the IB3 series Norats and Hotel Bellavista, TV3’s Com si fos ahir and the vertical series Contracorriente, and in the films Render and Noctem. Her awarded work includes Volàtil (special mention, Best Actress, Evolution Festival ’21) and Nerites (EMIFF 48h winner).
Dani Sánchez López
Dani Sánchez López (AEC) is a director and cinematographer with over 20 years of experience and 50+ projects, 15 of them features, shot across India, the US and Spain. Educated at the University of Seville, Cornell and Chapman University, he shot Mahanati (Best Feature Film, National Film Awards), Kaantha, Días de Agosto and Polar. His documentary @buddhistandqueer: Del Sari al Hábito has won over 10 international awards.
Documentary Film
Elena Falcones
Elena Falcones de Celis is an audiovisual professional trained in Audiovisual Production, with a PhD in Humanities, whose career is closely tied to documentary film. She began at Documanía (Sogecable), has collaborated with DocumentaMadrid, Play-Doc, FCAT and the Havana Film Festival, and worked on The Crown and White Lines. She is currently Head of Production at Solworks.
Miquel Julià
Miquel Julià (Palma, Mallorca, 1980) is a documentary photographer, social educator and member of the AFPE. A freelance photojournalist, he has contributed to national and international media including El Mundo, La Vanguardia, Libération and El País. He coordinates analog and street photography projects, workshops and exhibitions, and takes part in sociocultural and editorial projects such as PhotoEspaña and PalmaPhoto.
Llorenç Ramis
Llorenç Ramis is a screenwriter and script consultant who has spent the last four years on documentary and series projects released on major streaming platforms. He studied in Los Angeles, holds a degree in Philology from the Universitat de València and a Master’s in Modern Languages, and is the author of a book published by Penguin Random House.
International Short Film
Alanna Sampietro
Alanna Sampietro is a producer, actor and entrepreneur based in Mallorca, and an honored EMIFF Steering Committee Member and Assistant Film Programmer. British, American and Argentine, she studied advertising and drama, worked in fashion, and has lived in London, Europe, India and LA/NYC.
Regine Richards
Regine Richards is a First Assistant Director and filmmaker who grew up in the film industry. She worked on low-budget independent features in Los Angeles for several years before moving to Dubai to work on commercials. She wrote, produced and directed a short film nominated and awarded at several international festivals. She has lived in many countries and studied theatre, journalism and creative writing.
Made in Baleares Short Film
Àlex Arroyo
Àlex Arroyo is a director from Menorca, Balearic Islands, and a TV Production graduate. His work moves between fiction and documentary, and he also works as a Locations Manager for international brands. His films include Sol Sol, Sa cuina des records and Si l’amor no és això, que m’assassinin, which won Best Made in Balearics Short Film at Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival 2025.
Daniel Sol
Daniel Sol moved to California in 2000 and graduated from Cal State Northridge in 2006. He founded the HollyShorts Film Festival, now in its 20th year and Academy Award qualifying in 4 categories, serving as Festival Director and lead programmer. He was a theatrical sales executive at Lionsgate (2008–2014), co-founded BITPIX and 88th Street, and co-founded the Hollywood Comedy Shorts Film Festival.
Gregory Kasunich
Gregory JM Kasunich is an award-winning writer, director, producer and photographer working across narrative film, animation and branded storytelling. His films have won numerous jury and audience awards worldwide, including an Academy Award®-qualifying Best Narrative Short. He has created work for DreamWorks Animation, Netflix, HBO Max, Disney and Taylor Swift, and lives in Los Angeles.
Made in Baleares Short Film
David Auerbach
David Auerbach grew up in Austria and moved to Los Angeles in the early ’90s to study film. He works and travels mainly as a cameraman, and makes his own documentaries and films between projects. In 2017 he won Best Short doc with “52-The Trolleybus” at EMIFF, where he presents the experimental short “The Sandman” this year.
Tomeu Martí
Tomeu Martí is a journalist and cultural and social activist. He has presided over the Association Ona Mediterrània – Mitjans Mallorquins since 2013 and directed Diari de Balears since 2015, as well as L’ESTEL (2019–2025), Ploma.cat and the platform VIDA. He has published around twenty books and directed the documentary Mallorca, un futur en colors (2024). Awards: Josep Maria Llompart 2013 and Fundació Carulla Civic Action 2014.
Experimental Short, Music Video & New Talent
Miquel Campins
Miquel Campins is a gallerist and owner of LA BIBI GALLERY. He studied Economics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, hotel management and protocol at Les Roches Marbella, and contemporary art through MoMA in New York. Through exhibitions, residencies and collaborations, he explores how a gallery can become a place of exchange and experimentation.
Clara Donoso
Creative director. She works with images, spaces, and ideas, and with the tension generated between them. Through design, photography, and set design, she explores how a concept can become an atmosphere.
Virginia Moll
Virginia Moll is a creative director and founder of La Indiscreta, a communications agency specializing in festivals and cultural projects. With a background in creative writing and storytelling, she combines cultural-sector work with media contributions and content creation where humor, irony and a critical perspective take center stage. She is also the creator and host of the Mamarracha podcast.