Jury Members 2024
Psaroloco International Film Festival for Children & Young People
JURY MEMBERS 2026
PSAROLOCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE
Natalia García Agraz I Mexico
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Natalia García Agraz trained as a photographer at the Escuela Activa de Fotografía and as a director and screenwriter at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica. She directed the short film “El último romántico” which earned a 2019 student Oscar nomination and participated in more than 60 international festivals including the Tribeca Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival and the Morelia Film Festival. As a screenwriter, she has collaborated on feature films and series for Netflix, Amazon and HBO. Her work has been exhibited on platforms such as Hulu, FilminLatino and CinepolisKilc. In 2022 he assisted director Alonso Ruizpalacios (Güeros, Museo, A Cop Movie) in the feature film "La Cocina''. She recently directed two short films “Passarinho” 2024 which screened at Tribeca, Torino, Short Shorts Asia and Chicago FF among others. Currently she is working in her first feature film.
Nafsika Guerry-Karamaounas I Swiss–Greek–British
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Swiss–Greek–British screenwriter and director. After completing a double Master’s degree in Film Aesthetics and Art History at La Sorbonne and the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Nafsika Guerry-Karamaounas wrote and directed several short films and was a finalist for the Grand Prix du Scénario in 2016. Her first feature film, I Love Greece, was released in cinemas in 2021. Her work is characterized by a feminine, international, and intergenerational approach, exploring identity, intimacy, and belonging through a deeply human lens.
Timothée Crabbé I Belgium
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Timothée Crabbé (30) graduated with a Master degree in audiovisual arts at LUCA School of Arts, Brussels in 2019. After his graduation, Timothée started working as a stop motion animator for TV series and several short films at Beast Animation studio in Belgium. In 2022 he worked with Animal Tank on the Oscar-nominated short film "Beautiful Men" directed by Nicolas Keppens. His international career started in Switzerland with the feature film "SAUVAGES" by Claude Barras, followed by "Olivia and the invisible earthquake" by Irene Iborra, the first stop motion feature film made in Barcelona.
Roopa Gogineni I France
Roopa Gogineni is a Paris-based filmmaker and photographer. For a decade she lived in Nairobi, developing a collaborative practice alongside communities in struggle across East Africa. Her films, described as intimate and urgent, have premiered at IDFA, SXSW, Hot Docs and Sheffield Doc/Fest, and she has directed films for The New York Times, BBC and Al Jazeera. Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, BFI Doc Society, CatchLight, Firelight and Chicken & Egg Pictures. She holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford.
Currently, she is the coordinator of Night School, a network of grassroots film clubs for displaced Sudanese communities, and co-director of Sunduq Al Sudan, a fund supporting mutual aid groups on the frontlines of Sudan’s counterrevolutionary war.
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Iris Samartzi I Greece
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Iris Samartzi is a children’s book illustrator. She has illustrated more than 100 books. She’s been nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award (2020 HCAA and 2022 HCAA) by the Greek Section of IBBY. She was also a candidate for the 2021 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA). She has won many prestigious awards, including the 2016 International Compostela Prize for Picture Books, the Greek State Picture Book Award (2012, 2016) and the Greek IBBY Award (2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2023). Tata??, her first book as an author and illustrator, won the 2021 Greek National Book Prize and has been selected by Hans Christian Andersen Award jury among the 20 best children’s books of the world. She was one of the finalists in the Silent Book Contest 2025 for the Gianni de Conno Award, with her book “Routes”. Books of hers have been translated in Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Galician, Basque, English, French, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, Bulgarian, Romanian and Georgian. At the same time, throughout all those years, she’s been organising art workshops for children, making book presentations and getting inspired by children’s creativity. She lives and works in Athens, Greece. More about Iris and her work at www.irissamartzi.com
Daphne Sivetidis I Sweden and Greece
Daphne Sivetidis is an illustrator and a child culture designer who works with children and public space in Sweden and Greece. She designs and delivers art workshops in libraries, schools and community centres which engage participants with social and community issues and aims to increase their creative confdence. In June 2023 she graduated from the MFA in Child Culture Design at Gothenburg University, Sweden. In 2024 she facilitated and produced – Open House Limnos; an event that used the workshop and open studio format to explore social connections and promote inclusivity in a small rural community in Limnos, Greece. Daphne Sivetidis was born and raised in London. She has Greek parents and has spent most of her life in between England and Greece; she is currently living in Sweden. Being bilingual and living transnationally informs her artistic practice. Her fuency in two cultures and languages have allowed her to maintain a fexible and a hybrid approach when it comes to creative process and ideation. Her personal experience of migration also informs her artistic practice which explores the relationship between identity, culture and place. Memories, her own and other peoples feature often in her work.
Hefang Wei I China
Born in 1983 in China. Chinese citizenship. Attended the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in China and obtained her degree with honours. In France she graduated from La Poudrière (Valence, France) and made the short films Chant des klaxons (2009), À moi; Chronicles of the Bridge (2010) winning several awards. Aside from her own projects, she works on feature films, short films and series as a story-boarder, animator, background designer, layout man and composer. Since childhood she practices Chinese traditional painting and calligraphy.
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Co-fondater of Weilaï Productions