2019

Cristina Pérez Cantó

Samuel Martín Mateos

A RTVE professional for more than thirty years, Samuel Martín Mateos has directed La 2 since August 2018. He has passed through different programs and areas of TVE, standing out especially for his good work in the world of culture and cinema.

He has been responsible for the promotion of the participated cinema, directed the area of Culture and Society of TVE and the Production of La 2. He has also been deputy director of the Culture Channel and was in charge of programmes such as ‘Cartelera’ and ‘Gente’. He is also co-writer and co-director of two films (‘Tiempo sin aire’ and ‘Agallas’).

Elena Ceballos

With a degree in Clinical Psychology, Ceballos has been working for many years in the world of technology and entertainment, always from the prism of marketing and public relations. For a total of 16 years, she was in the marketing department of Twentieth Century Fox Home Ent. Spain, occupying different positions within each of the business lines of the company and, since 2012, in Dolby Laboratories Inc.

Salvador Luna

Since 1997 Salvador Luna has been working in the areas of Sales, Commerce, Marketing and Communication for large companies such as Unileverfoods (ex C.P.C./Best foods), Sara Lee C&T or Fujifilm, where he holds the position of Optical Devices Manager.

In the last 12 years she has been working in an international environment, sharing experiences and working closely with multicultural staff.

Luis León Luri

Luis holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca. His professional career has been linked since 2007 to the area of content and programming in Atresmedia, mainly in the area of thematic channels.

During 2015 he has actively participated in the launch of new two channels of the group (Mega and Atreseries) where he is responsible for programming. He is currently professor at Atresmedia Training, where he teaches the course “Creation and Programming of thematic channels: fiction and TV”.

Javier Valdés

Javier has 20 years’ experience as a professional in the sound post-production sector. He has worked in all areas of the audiovisual and sound post-production sector.

He has spent most of his career working for Sonoblok, which was once the most important cinematic sound company in Spain, and has held the positions of managing producer in Barcelona and Madrid, assistant to the artistic director, dubbing director, and manager of the Sonoblok delegation in Madrid.

In 2013 he was named general director of the company, a position he would hold until July 2014.
In 2006, he founded the Spanish Federation of Dubbing and Soundtrack Recording Professionals (FEPRODO) and presided over this organization until 2013. This Federation brings together all art and technical associations in the dubbing sector, with 11,000 members.

In 2014, Javier Valdés became a founding partner of Ad Hoc Studios, an audiovisual post-production studio.

He is member of Spain’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, SGAE (Spanish General Society of Authors and Publishers) and AISGE.

María Medina

Noemí Ruiz

She studied nursing and social education, but her true vocation has always been interpretation, becoming one of the protagonists of the television series “Allí Abajo”.

Javier Pereira

Javier Pereira has known since he was a child what it is like to face the cameras and the public. It was always clear to him that he wanted to make a career in the world of cinema. So, he left his studies to devote himself entirely to achieving his dream.

He studied dramatic art at Cristina Rota’s school, and in 1998, at the age of 17, he made his television debut in the series Señor Alcalde (Lord Mayor). She achieves a certain notoriety thanks to her participation in two iconic series for teenagers: Nada es para siempre (Nothing is forever) and Al salir de clase (On leaving class, a springboard for launching major companies). His career in cinema took off in the mid-2000 thanks to Frío sol de invierno, Heroína, Tu vida en 65´, his first protagonist, or Días azules. In recent years it has remained in the gap thanks to series such as Cuestión de sexo or Gran reserva: El origen and films such as Animales de compañía, No tengas miedo or Stockholm, among others.

Benjamin Schwarz

As a consultant, analyst and blogger, Benjamin is recognized as an international thought leader in the media convergence space. After 10 years in IT at Logica CMG, he led the technology for a music company. Benjamin spent the next 10 years in telecommunications, with Orange, aligning strategy with a world with the Internet.

He led innovation programs launching several media-based services, including IPTV in Europe and Africa.

Since 2008 he runs his own company, CTO innovation Consulting, which now helps international clients with strategy, business modeling and technology.

With the pace of change accelerating, he added communications and public relations to his portfolio in 2012. Benjamin Schwarz has written many White Papers on content distribution and agility that intertwine a business and technology narrative.

As a member of the Ultra HD Forum since its inception, he works on explaining and delivering the next generation of TV and entertainment.

Juan Antonio Vigar

He was born in Malaga in 1958. He is married and has two children. He has a degree in Chemistry from the University of Malaga, where he also studied Law.

At present and since 2013, he is Director-Manager of the municipal company Festival de Cine de Málaga e Iniciativas Audiovisuales, S.A., where since 1999 he has held other positions as General Coordinator, Deputy Director, External Relations and Institutional Relations, occupying in this same area the direction of Málaga Film Office.

Miguel Ángel Doncel

Computer Engineering (Polytechnic University of Madrid) specialized in the application of information technology in the audiovisual sector, he has worked in development, counseling and consulting for 20 years, collaborating in defining solutions and implementing workflows for companies such as SKY, Molinare, BTV, Videomedia, DGT, and TV3.

He currently heads SGO, the Spanish audiovisual company, developing software for film, advertising and television. Mistika is SGO’s standout product as a leader in finishing and stereoscopic postproduction.

SGO has distribution channels in 17 countries, and customers such as Park Road Post, Thomson Technicolor, AXN, Fox, SKY, ESPN, RTS, RTM, & Dasswerk, and Spanish companies like Telemadrid, TV3, Mediapro, Vocento, & People TV.

The technology developed by SGO has been used in over 50 productions, most notably The Hobbit (Peter Jackson), Star Trek (JJ Abrahams), TinTin: Secret of the Unicorn (Steven Spielberg), Prometheus (Ridley Scott), The Amazing Spiderman (Marc Webb), The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann), All you need is kill (Doug Liman), etc.