Juri

SINISTER FEATURES

Brazilian/Bolivian actor awarded with a Kikito in 2019 for Muralla that is representing Bolívia in the Oscars and director of various awarded works in Brazil and abroad.

Fernando Arze

Actor/Director

SINISTER FEATURES

Brazilian/American actress and singer with an international career, known for her iconic roles in horror classics such as Friday the 13th among others.

Diana Barrows

Actress/Singer

SINISTER FEATURES

Journalist and cinema critic was the editor of "SET". Wrote for the English magasine "Empire", and the brazilians "GQ", "Monet", "VIP", "BillBoard", Owns the blog Cinema in UOL.

Roberto Sadovski

Journalist/Critic

BIZARRE SHORTS

Brazilian filmmaker ans script writer who lives in Los Angeles. She wrote and directed various awarded shorts. She also teaches script development and creation at UCLA Extension.

Júlia Câmara

Screenwriter

BIZARRE SHORTS

Awarded director and screenwriter, participated of a residencia with David Lynch in the US that led to her first festure and, today, she's in Spain developing two film projects.

Monica Demes

Director/Screenwriter

BIZARRE SHORTS

Awarded director and screenwriter resident in Los Angeles where she's also an active actress in the industry. She participates in various actions for women in cinema, LGBT and Latino.

Luciana Faulhaber

Director/Screenwriter

MACABRE SHORTS

National Films Manager at Paramount Pictures Brazil. Started in the film industry in 1997. Graduated in Literature at UERJ with MBA in Cultural Marketing.

Mariá Velasquez

Aquisition Manager

MACABRE SHORTS

Born in Taiwan, graduated in Cinema at UFF. Starled as an Assistant Director and, since then, has worked in more than 60 features. Today, he's also a film and TV director.

Hsu Chien

Director

MACABRE SHORTS

For years, she acted as a copyright lawyer for important german firms such as Dannemann and Cameron. Currently, she's Legal Director at Sin Fronteras Filmes.

Aglay Bond

Copyright Lawyer

HAUNTED BRASIL

Journalist, criticand researcher dedicated to horror cinema, especialized in national production. Documented the works of the filmmaker José Mojica Marins "Zé do Caixão" in books, articles, workshops and DVDs.

Carlos Primati

Cinema Critic

HAUNTED BRASIL

Actor and teacher of the Njinga Mbande Theater Company of Angola. He studies screenwriting and directs the ROTA – Festival de Roteiro Audiovisual. Ah! He also spooked the people at the Haunted House in Sweden!

Evandro Melo

Co-Founder of ROTA Festival

HAUNTED BRASIL

He is graduated in IT and was the projecionist of the Reserva Cultural Niterói. He's a film lover, hooked in horror movies, with more than 200 films in his library. He was a judge at the 2018 Edition of the Rock Horror in Rio.

Raphael Marinho

Projecionist and Film Lover

PILLS OF FEAR

Italian director that tries to rescue the form of the Italian cinema with daring films of sophisticated photography. Participated in the 2018 Edition of the Rock Horror in Rio with the feature In a Lonely Place - Mention of Best Photography and Actress.

Davide Montecchi

Director/Screenwriter

PILLS OF FEAR

Master in Audiovisual Communication, she writes about films, especially, horror, also for books, catalogues and various sites. She's the curator of CRASH, the oldest screening event of fantastic cinema in the country.

Beatriz Saldanha

Critic/Curator

PILLS OF FEAR

London based Lyndon Ives has written, produced and directed four short films, all of which have screened at international film festivals such as The Verity at the Rock Horror in Rio 2018. His debut feature, Pez Payaso, is currently in pre-production.

Lyndon Ives

Director/Screenwriter

COMPETITION 2019

53 FILMS FROM 12 COUNTRIES IN 5 CATEGORIES

JURY

Our honorable judges of the Rock Horror Film Festival 2019

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