JURY 2026 - SCREENWRITING

SERENA Productions and La Napoule Art Foundation are pleased to announce the professionals who will form the jury for writer-directors and screenwriters for the next edition of CASA CINE, which will take place between the 6th and the 29th of May at the Château de La Napoule.

The jury brings together renowned industry professionals with rich and complementary backgrounds in the field of filmmaking. Each member will bring their unique perspective and experience to the demanding process of selecting the projects that will participate in the next CASA CINE residency.

A heartfelt thank you to the jury members for their commitment to supporting the work of these filmmakers in the delicate and exciting transition to feature films!

Raja Amari

Raja Amari is a Tunisian screenwriter and director who graduated from La Fémis.

Her first feature film, Satin Rouge (2002), premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it went on to win several awards and gained wide recognition from both audiences and the press.

Her second feature film, Les Secrets (2009), was presented in the Official Selection of the Venice International Film Festival and screened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, receiving numerous awards at international festivals.

In 2014, she directed Un Printemps Tunisien for the Arte channel. Her third feature film for the cinema, Corps Étranger (2016), had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and was also selected for the Berlin International Film Festival.

Her documentary films have also circulated widely at festivals — including IDFA, CPH:DOX, and the Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil — and her documentary Ghofrane et les promesses du printemps was awarded an Étoile de la SCAM.

The filmmaker is also actively involved in education and outreach. She has served as a lecturer and jury member at La Fémis, as well as a mentor at the Feature Script Lab of the Doha Film Institute. She has served on several CNC committees and chaired the post-completion funding committee for short films. She has also been invited to chair the Creation Support program of the Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, responsible for voting for the Oscars.

Raja Amari has also served on the juries of major international festivals, including Venice and Locarno.

Mary-Lyn Chambers

Mary-Lyn Chambers is a screenwriter and director based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Born in Fiji and raised in Nauru and New Zealand, she weaves narratives that explore issues of inequality, cultural intersectionality, and identity.

In recent years, Mary-Lyn Chambers has been selected to be part of the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program, Film Independent, the Alliance of Women Directors, the La Napoule Art Foundation International Residency, and the DEGANZ Female Incubator, becoming a recognized figure in the film industry.

Her latest project, Karanga, created in collaboration with Maori choreographer Merenia Gray, premiered at Māoriland and opened the Melbourne Women in Film Festival.

Mary-Lyn Chambers is currently developing two projects: a historical crime drama featuring women in Tijuana in the 1920s and a historical mystery set during the Springboks' tour of New Zealand in 1981. Her work has been widely circulated internationally and has received numerous awards for writing and directing.

Mary-Lyn Chambers' films and pilots have been screened at hundreds of festivals, including Slamdance and HollyShorts. She has won several awards, including Best Television Pilot at the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival, Best Director at HollyShorts, Best International Short Film in Manchester, and Best Screenplay at Largo. Diversity in Cannes named her one of 10 directors to watch.

Mary-Lyn Chambers has also worked for major international film festivals (including the LA Film Festival and the Doha Tribeca Film Festival) and has been part of several award-giving organizations, such as the Spirit Awards. She is an advocate for the democratization of the creative industries and for justice, inclusion, and equality in the film industry.

Pierre Pinaud

Pierre Pinaud studied at the École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière.

In 2000, Gelée Précoce, his first short film, was selected at numerous festivals in France and abroad and received 17 awards. This first major success led to his selection for the “Jeunes Talents Cannes” program by the Festival de Cannes.

Pierre Pinaud then directed two medium-length films: Submersible in 2004 and Les Miettes in 2008. This film, a tribute to burlesque cinema, received numerous awards and notably won the Lutin for Best Film, the César for Best Short Film in 2009, and the Critics’ Union Award.

Parlez-moi de vous, his first feature film starring Karin Viard and Nicolas Duvauchelle, produced by Estrella Productions and distributed by Diaphana, ranked first among independent debut films at the 2012 box office.

La Fine fleur, his second feature film, starring Catherine Frot, Vincent Dedienne, and breakout actress Melan Omerta, among others, received the Audience Coup de Cœur Award and was distributed in more than 45 countries. It ranked among the top 10 French films abroad in 2021.

As a filmmaker, Pierre Pinaud is also deeply committed to education: he teaches screenwriting and directing at Satis, the public film school of Aix-Marseille University.
He is currently developing his third feature film, Une Mission essentielle, produced by Easy Tiger.

Dominique Hoff

Dominique Hoff has been working in the film industry for over 35 years, with particular experience in artistic direction and cultural management for iconic projects in France and abroad.

After working as a gallery director in London and devoting herself to promoting visual artists, her meeting with American critic Roger Ebert marked a turning point in her relationship with cinema, leading her to collaborate on numerous interviews conducted at the Cannes, New York, Telluride, Toronto, and Montreal film festivals.

In 1996, she helped found Ciné Lumière, an arthouse cinema that has become a benchmark in Europe, and took on the role of programming director, welcoming numerous French and European personalities each year.

In 2001, she joined the Gan Foundation for Cinema as Deputy General Delegate, becoming General Delegate in 2014. Since then, she has been in charge of creative support programs and awards prizes for distribution at partner festivals. Under her leadership, the Gan Foundation has established itself as a major patron of the Cinémathèque Française.

Since 2014, the Foundation's choices have been recognized with several awards, including an Oscar (Flow won the award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2025), twenty-five awards at Cannes—among them a Palme d'Or (Titane, in 2021), a Grand Prix (All We Imagine As Light, in 2024) and a Camera d'Or (Divines, in 2016) — fifteen Césars (such as Bloody Milk, in 2018 and Chicken for Linda!, in 2024) and over seven hundred awards in France and abroad.

Anna Glogowski

Born in Brazil, Anna Glogowski began her career in research and teaching in sociology.

Later, in France, she worked as documentary director at Canal+, then program advisor at France Télévisions. She has programmed for several film festivals, such as Paris Cinéma, La Cita and Doclisboa.

She later became an international consultant for the development of documentary projects, including Cannes Docs, ADDOC and Agora Docs Thessaloniki. She has been a member of various funding committees of the French National Centre of Cinema (CNC), such as Aide au Court-Métrage, Fonds bilatéral d’aide à la coproduction d’œuvres cinématographiques franco-portugaises and Aide aux Cinémas du Monde.

As a jury, she has been a member of several festivals, including Visions du Réel, IDFA, DOK LEIPZIG, CPH:Dox, Rome Film Festival, CINEMED and the Trieste Film Festival. Anna Glogowski is currently a member of the selection committee of the It's All True festival in Brazil, since 2003 and the FIPADOC festival in France, since 2019.