Paula Astorga Riestra

FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DOCUMENTAL DOCLISBOA
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PAULA ASTORGA RIESTRA (Portugal)

Artistic director of Doclisboa Film Festival. Since August 2022, Astorga is Head of studies at the Producer’s Lab Open Doors, Locarno Film Festival. She is a consultant and international advisor for audiovisual projects, especially in development and exhibition. In 2012, she was named and decorated Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her work in audiovisual culture. As a producer, she produced the feature documentary Omar y Gloria, by Jaime Cohen Ades (2017) and more recently Trigal, by Anabel Caso (2022), winner of two Ariel awards in 2023, among others. She is the executive and founding Director of the Seminar The Audience of the Future FICUNAM.