The Don Quijote Award is a prize from the IFFS – International Federation of Film Societies given in selected Festivals. The IFFS Jury in each Festival is composed by film society activists from any country of the world, selected among the nominations from national Federations of Film Societies. It consists of a diploma and the promotion of the film all over the world among film societies.
Mário Ventura studied Directing for Film, Video and Television at ETIC in Lisbon and attended a Documentary course at KINO-DOC. He started working as a camera operator and film editor at television, cinema, advertising, music videos and several events. He collaborated as a second assistant director and production assistant in some advertising and film projects. His first fiction short film "The Imperfect Cradle" was made at Guimarães 2012 - European Capital of Culture. He provided training in the field of cinema in a social integration project called "Meio no Meio" from Artemrede. He is the founder of Entre Olhares, a portuguese film festival which takes place in Barreiro since 2019, and he is part of the programming team. He is a member of the board at Barreiro Film Society and he represents it as a member in the Portuguese Federation of Film Societies.
Anders Ekman was born in Sweden in 1952. He moved to Oslo, Norway, at the age of twenty to study psychology and later studied at a teacher's training college. For most of his life he's worked as a teacher. For the last eleven years, before retiring, he worked as a teacher, teaching Norwegian for foreigners. In the nineties he studied media, which included studies of cinema and cinematic effects. In 2022 he created a Film Club in Nes, where he currently resides, a municipality of circa 20,000 inhabitants. In cooperation with the local cinema, the Film Club shows films on Saturdays at 2pm, once a month, and sometimes at night.
Krzysztof Wiewióra has been the art coordinator of the Discussion Film Club "DKF Politechnika" based in Wrocław, Poland since 2018. During his studies in the University of Wrocław he completed the classes at The Academy of World Cinema and The Academy of Polish Cinema. He was a member of the International Film Festival Anishort 2023 and 2024- Wrocław Edition. He works as a 3D Artist in the game industry. He is also a poet. Since 2018 he has actively participated in Poetry Slams around Poland. In 2022 he was a representative of Wrocław in the Polish Championships of Poetry Slam. His poems were published in The Anthology of Wroclaw's young poetry 2020 and Odra magazine.
