D’A Film Festival Barcelona Awards

Talents Award
10.000 € award, to be awarded to the person or company that registered and/or confirmed the film’s selection at the festival. All films selected for the Talents section are eligible for this award (filmmakers with up to 2 fiction feature films in their filmography, including the one selected for this edition).

Critics Award
Award granted by the Catalan Critics Association. All films selected for the Talents section are eligible for this award.

Un Impulso Colectivo Award
5.000 € award, to be awarded to the director of the winning film. All films selected for the UN IMPULSO COLECTIVO section are eligible for this award.

OpenECAM Award
Award granted in collaboration with the ECAM school (Escuela de cine y del audiovisual de Madrid) for the best feature of the UN IMPULSO COLECTIVO section.

Un Impulso Colectivo – Shorts Award
Award with 1,000 euros to be received by the director of the winning short film in the COLLECTIVE IMPULSE – SHORTS section. This award is born in 2023, demonstrating the festival’s commitment to new Spanish authorship.

Audience Award
Award selected from the audience attending the festival screenings, except the opening and closing films, special screenings and the retrospective.

Audience Award – Short Films
Award selected from the audience attending the short films screenings.

D’A Film Lab Award
Award intended to promote new talents in Spanish cinema and endowed with 20,000 euros for the post-production of the winning film. The six films selected in the D’A Film Lab Barcelona are eligible for this award.

Talents Jury

Quim Casas
Quim Casas

Film critic of El Periódico de Catalunya, member of the editorial board of Dirigido por and collaborator of Rockdelux, Sensacine and La Llança. Member of the selection committee of the San Sebastián Film Festival. Professor at Pompeu Fabra University and ESCAC. Author or coordinator of countless film books dedicated to, among others, to John Ford, Fritz Lang, Sam Fuller, Jim Jarmusch, Abel Ferrara, Philippe Garrel, Terence Davies or David Lynch.

Leticia Dolera
Leticia Dolera

Actress, screenwriter and film and television director. She has worked in series like Al salir de clase or Los Serrano and in movies like REC 3, Kamikaze or La novia. In 2015 she wrote, directed and starred in her first film, Requisites to be a normal person, which won the awards for best new screenplay, photography and editing at the Malaga Festival and was nominated for three Goya Awards. She is also the creator and protagonist of series Vida perfecta, which premiered at the Cannes festival where she won the Best Series award and the Special Jury Prize for the three protagonists, as well as awards such as Feroz.

Alba Sotorra
Alba Sotorra

She has produced feature documentaries and fiction films for cinema and television since 2005. She graduated from cinema school in Madrid (UCM 2003) and has an MA on Cultural Studies (2008). She participated in SOURCES2 (2010), Berlinale Talent Campus (2011), Dokincubator (2014), IDFA Academy (2015) and EAVE Producers Workshop (2017). She is member of Dones Visuals. She is founder and director of the company Alba Sotorra.

Un Impulso Colectivo Jury

Zaida Carmona
Zaida Carmona

She has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from UPF and a master’s degree in Screenwriting from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She has worked as a writer on television and in media such as Notodo and Vice. She has worked as an actress in films by Marc Ferrer and has directed several short films such as Son ilusiones (D’A 2021), and video clips for artists such as Monterrosa, Borque or Christina Rosenvinge. His debut feature film, La amiga de mi amiga, won the Un Impulso Colectivo award at D’A 2022.

Alberto Lechuga
Alberto Lechuga

Graduated in Journalism. Since 2013 he has been editor-in-chief of the Spanish edition of Sofilm magazine, a job that he combines with his collaboration at Rockdelux. In 2001 he was part of the founding team of the CINeol website, one of the veteran portals in Spanish on current cinematography, and since 2016 he has directed the launch of the MK2 magazine for the cinema chain of the prestigious French label. He has collaborated in various media and collective books.

Eugenia Mumenthaler
Eugenia Mumenthaler

She has a degree in Anthropology and Cultural Management and Policies. She worked as a conservation assistant at the Ethnographic Museum of Geneva and later founded the production company Alina Film with David Epiney in 2008. The production company’s first feature, Abrir puertas y ventanas, by Milagros Mumenthaler, won the Leopard of Gold in Locarno Film Festival. Among other films, he has co-produced La substància (2016), by Lluís Galter and the short film Los que desean and the film El agua by Elena López Riera.

Jury Un Impulso Colectivo Shorts

Alba Bresolí
Alba Bresolí

She has a degree in Communication and Cinematographic Production and a master’s degree in Creative Documentary at Pompeu Fabra University. She stayed at the Bauhaus University, through which he directed the films Domus, premiered at several international festivals, and Cuencas, filmed in 8 mm. He has collaborated in productions by filmmakers such as Isaki Lacuesta and Eva Vila. His short film El día que volaron la montaña went through festivals such as D’A, Málaga and IndieLisboa and was nominated for the Gaudí Awards.

David Moragas
David Moragas

Scriptwriter and director, he graduated in Audiovisual Communication from UPF and has a Master’s Degree in Film Directing from the NY Tisch School of the Arts through a scholarship from Fundación Obra Social La Caixa. His short films have been selected at festivals such as Palm Springs, Toronto, Raindance or LesGaiCinema and his directorial debut, A Stormy Night, premiered at the Malaga Festival and closed D’A 2020. His latest work, Demà ho deixem, won the Audience Award for the best short of D’A 2022 and was nominated for the Gaudí awards.

Patrícia Sánchez Mora
Patrícia Sánchez Mora

Degree in Audiovisual Communication and diploma in Librarianship and Documentation from the University of Extremadura. In 2007, he created laudiovisual prod, a company dedicated to production, with which he has received several awards. In 2016, she premiered her first feature film as a producer, El festival de la mentida, awarded the Doc in Progress de Visions du Réel. She also works at l’Alternativa, Barcelona’s Independent Film Festival, where she is responsible for the l’Alternativa Professionals section.

Critics Jury

Andreu Marves
Andreu Marves

He has written for media such as Rockdelux, Diari de Barcelona, Diari de Tarragona or the Sitges Festival newspaper. He also teaches at La Casa del Cine, specializing in early cinema and film criticism. He graduated in Audiovisual Communication at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and studied the master’s degree in Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Alberto Richart
Alberto Richart

He is a film critic and cultural editor. He has studied Audiovisual Communication at UV, a master’s degree in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies at UPF and the Film Criticism course at La Casa del Cine in Barcelona. He has collaborated in different media such as RevistaMine, Cinemanía, Rockdelux and Yorokobu. He co-directs the Moses Supposes podcast, which was born from his interest in the influences and transitions of contemporary musical cinema.

Nuria Vidal
Nuria Vidal

Writer and film critic, she has collaborated in different media, as well as working in positions of responsibility at international film festivals such as the San Sebastian Festival and the Berlinale. She has been a film critic without interruption since 1984. She has been a film critic professor at ESCAC and has written around thirty film books. In 2016, she received the Alfonso Sánchez Communication Award from the Spanish Film Academy.