JURY - SCREENWRITING

SERENA Productions and La Napoule Art Foundation are pleased to present the professionals who make up the Jury Screenwriters for CASA CINE 2025.

The jury brings together renowned professionals of unique and complementary backgrounds in the fields of film creation.

From directors and screenwriters to producers, distributors, programmers and festival directors, the members of the jury will each bring their own perspective and experience to the demanding and delicate process of selecting the screenwriting projects that will take part in the next edition of the residency.

A huge thank you to the jury for their dedication to supporting the work of emerging filmmakers.

Ana Isabel Strindberg

Ana Isabel Strindberg is a Portuguese distributor and programmer. She graduated in Literature and Modern Linguistics from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and in Art History from the École du Louvre. She worked as a journalist and critic of contemporary art and later as personal assistant and assistant director to Portuguese filmmaker João César Monteiro, whose work she edited in 2003.

Between 2004 and 2007 she was director and programmer of Doclisboa, also serving on Apordoc’s management team and contributing to the editorial board of Docs.pt.

Since 2010, she has been a programmer at IndieLisboa and has played a key role in curating and coordinating Portuguese film screenings internationally. She has served as a jury member and programmer at various international film festivals and was responsible for the commercial premieres of notable Portuguese films, including The Wolf’s Lair by Catarina Mourão, Colo by Teresa Villaverde, and The Metamorphosis of Birds by Catarina Vasconcelos, among others, at the distribution company No Comboio. She is the director of Portugal Film – International Agency for Portuguese Cinema.

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.

Agnès Vallée

Agnès Vallée is a French producer. At the helm of 31 Juin Films, alongside Emmanuel Barraux, she has produced around twenty feature films, shorts and fiction series since 2001, widely screened at prestigious festivals such as Cannes, San Sebastián, Locarno and New York.

Among them are titles such as Hippocrates, Irreplaceable and The Freshmen by Thomas Lilti, J'invente rien and Télégaucho by Michel Leclerc, as well as Baby Love and Aux Jours qui viennent by Nathalie Najem. In 2024, she produced Julie Navarro's debut feature Just a Couple of Days, a film that won the Swann d'Or for Best First Film at the Cabourg Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Varilux Festival in Rio de Janeiro and the Best Actress Award at the Nice Film Festival.

In addition to film, Agnès Vallée also produced the series Interns for Canal Plus. Critically acclaimed, the series reached its third season in November 2024 and was distributed in over 25 territories.

Julie Lopes-Curval

Julie Lopes-Curval is a French screenwriter and director. After studying visual arts, with a specialization in photography, she turned to dramaturgy, writing and directing two plays before venturing into cinema.

Her talent as a writer for cinema took shape when she co-wrote the screenplays for Valérie Minetto's Adolescents (2000) and Éric Veniard's A Great Little Business (2001). However, it was with the short film Mademoiselle Butterfly (2001), that she began to assert her authorial voice, taking the film to several international festivals.

The following year, Julie Lopes-Curval swept Festival de Cannes when her first feature film as a director, Seaside (2002), was awarded the Caméra d'Or at the Director’s Fortnight. Since then, her filmography has grown considerable, with remarkable works such as You and Me, with Marion Cotillard and Julie Depardieu, High Society (2009), with Catherine Deneuve, Marina Hands and Marie-José Croze and High Society (2014), with Ana Girardot and Bastien Bouillon, where she explores the themes of love and social differences. Her films have traveled all over the world and have been screened at renowned festivals such as the Viennale, TIFF Toronto and FIFF Namur.

Television projects followed, such as L'Annonce (2016) for Arte. Julie Lopes-Curval is currently developing her new film, an adaptation of La Légèreté, based on the comic strip by Catherine Meurisse. At the same time, she is co-writing filmmaker Éric Caravaca’s new project.

Throughout her career, Julie Lopes-Curval has stood out for the delicacy with which she portrays complex human relationships and for the sensitivity and nuance of her female portraits.

Laurent Trémeau

After studying film in Nancy and then Nice, Laurent Trémeau co-founded the Héliotrope association in 1997 with the aim of promoting short films on the Côte d'Azur.

Un Festival c'est trop court, the European short film festival in Nice, organized by Héliotrope, was born in 2000. Laurent Trémeau is currently its Artistic Director, alternating between programming, training and image education.

Since 2021, he has run La Résidence du Sud, an itinerant screenwriting residency in the south of France, and teaches at the University of Nice Côte d'Azur as part of the AMI degree and the DESN master's degree - Screenplay and Narrative Writing.

Nana Jorjadze

Nana Jorjadze is a Georgian screenwriter, director and actress. She graduated in music before pursuing a master’s degree in filmmaking from the Theatre and Film Georgia State University in Tbilisi.

After winning the Caméra d'or at Festival de Cannes in 1987 with her first feature, Robinsonade, or my English Grandpa, Nana Jorjadze went on to gain international acclaim.

Over the past 40 years, she has become a key figure in Georgian cinema, having directed over 25 short and feature films. Her cinema is inspired by magical realism, blending memories, stories and real-life experiences with dreamlike worlds. Such is the case for films like 27 Missing Kisses (2000), The Rainbowmaker (2008) and A Chef in Love (1996), which was the first and only Georgian film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

In addition to her works as a screenwriter, director and actress, Nana Jorjadze was a lecturer at the Theater and Film Georgia State University in Tbilisi and at the University of Cinematography in Moscow between 1985 and 1995, having conducted master classes in numerous countries around the world.

She was a jury member at Festival de Cannes in 1992 and president of the association “Cinema and Liberty” at the festival from 1993 to 1996. She has been a member of the jury at over 100 international film festivals. She is also a member of the European Film Academy, the American Film Academy and the Georgia Film Academy.

In 2023, Nana Jorjadze directed Forced Migration of the Butterflies, which premiered at Tbilisi International Film Festival, where she also received the Golden Prometheus for her contribution to cinema. She is currently working on The Prince and the Pauper, a Georgian-French production.