Team

María Meira

María writes films and series, is a teacher and a script doctor. She has been headwriter on the fiction series La voz ausente (The Absent Voice, 2024)-produced by Star+, Disney Entertainment and Pampa Films, based on the best seller by Gabriel Rolón- and screenwriter on Atrapados (Caught, released in 2025)- based on the best seller by Harlan Coben and produced by Netflix and Haddock Films-. Her films include El Suplente (The Subtitutte, 2022) -Official Selection at the Toronto and San Sebastian Film Festivals, available on Netflix -, Una especie de familia (A Sort of family, 2017)- Best Screenplay at the San Sebastian Film Festival-, Refugiado (2010) -Official Selection at the Cannes Festival-, La mirada invisible (The invisible eye, 2010) -NHK Award for Best Latin American Screenplay at Sundance- and Tan de Repente (Suddenly, 2003) -Best Screenplay in Huelva, produced by Campo Cine, co-written and directed by Diego Lerman-. For her work in cinema she has received the Sur, Cóndor de Plata and Argentores awards in Argentina. Born in Buenos Aires, she graduated in Dramaturgy from the Metropolitan School of Dramatic Art (EMAD) and in Film Direction from the National School of Cinematographic Experimentation and Realization (ENERC) in her native country. In 2003 she participated in the first Berlinale Talent Campus. She has been an advisor for the Proimágenes Film Development Fund in Colombia, for Eficine in Mexico and for the Reymundo Gleyzer program in Argentina. Since 2015 she has taught screenwriting seminars at the Cervantes Institute in Berlin, where in 2020 she created ugbb, the first international short film writing program in Spanish in the city

Marcela Polgar

Marcela graduated in Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires and holds a Master’s degree in Communication from the University of Westminster in London. She was born in Buenos Aires and has been living in Berlin since 1996 where she works for the German channel Deutsche Welle TV. First as a picture editor for the daily news programme and since 2009 also for the Design department doing Motion Graphics. As a producer she worked for KINO – DW’s German Film Magazine, Enlaces, Ventana abierta al mundo digital and Reporteros en el Mundo, the channel’s Spanish-language magazine. Since September 2020 she programmes film events at Andenbuch, Berlin’s bookshop and cultural space, and does press and promotion for cultural projects such as EsImprocine and ugbb.

Catalina Flóres

Catalina is a filmmaker, journalist and founder of the Berlin-based production houses Soilfilms Media and Urua Films, of which she is the director. She directed the documentaries «Orlando, a little story of the middle class» and «Buy me!», world premiere at the 45th Hof International Film Festival, Best Documentary and Editing at the Sehsüchte Festival. He has produced international award-winning documentaries, fiction and commercials. She coordinates the German mentoring programme for women filmmakers «Into The Wild», in collaboration with Disney+, Tobis, ZDFneo, Warner Bros., Ufa Fiction and Studio Zentral, among others. Born in Colombia, she studied journalism and communication at the UPB in Medellín and Film and Media with a Masters in Documentary Filmmaking at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Germany and in Cuba at the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV).