3rd EFFNY. JUNE 2017

María Campaña Ramia

Ambulante, México / EDOC, Ecuador

María Campaña Ramia is an Ecuadorian film programmer and documentary filmmaker. She holds a M.A. in Documentary Filmmaking from the University of Strasbourg, in France. She was the Artistic Director of the International Documentary Film Festival "Encuentros del Otro Cine - EDOC', in Ecuador, and is now one of their board members. She programs for both Ambulante (Mexico) and EDOC. In 2012 she co-edited the book "El Otro Cine de Eduardo Coutinho" and received a fellowship from the Flaherty Seminar. In 2015 she directed the short film "Derivadas". María has programmed showcases and festivals in Ecuador, Brazil and Colombia, and has served as a juror in film festivals in Latin America and Europe. She lives in Rio de Janeiro​.

Loren Hammonds

Tribeca Film Institute, NY / Tribeca Film Festival, NY

Loren Hammonds is a New York City native who has worked in the entertainment industry for more than 15 years. As the Director of downtown venue Tribeca Cinemas, he has consulted on over 20 film festivals, many specializing in International Cinema. Loren is also an Associate Programmer at the Tribeca Film Festival. Since attending the Film Conservatory at SUNY Purchase, Mr. Hammonds has worked in Film/TV production, as well as in various capacities for IFP, GenArt Film Festival, Tribeca All-Access, and Hamptons International Film Festival.

Margherita Tortora

Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale / Yale University, New Haven, CT

Margherita Tortora is a lifelong cinephile.  She incorporated films into her courses on Spanish language, literatures, and Latin American Studies when she began teaching in the early 1980s.  At Yale, she has been teaching a course on Latin American films and running a film series that features visits from filmmakers for the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at the MacMillan Center for the past 18 years.  She was a co-founder of the New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema, a non-profit, that ran from 2010 through 2014.  In 2015, she founded the Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY), and is preparing to present the third edition of the festival in November.  Margherita has a long-standing history with Ecuador, having spent a great deal of time there.  She founded a Yale Summer Program in Quito in 2007, and plans to begin a new Yale Summer program at Camilo Luzuriaga's film school, InCine, in the summer of 2018.