Jury for the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award

Sandra Beerends  is a director and writer with over 35 years of experience as a script editor and creative producer at Dutch public broadcaster NTR. She was a guest lecturer at the Dutch Film Academy and a mentor at Berlinale Talents, and served in juries at IFFR, NFF, MTM and Cinekid.  

Her directorial debut They Call Me Babu premiered at IDFA in 2019, was selected as the Dutch Oscar entry, nominated for an Emmy, and received multiple awards including the Viktor Award at DOK.fest München, the FOCAL Award for Best Use of Archive Material in a Historical Feature, and two Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival. Neshoma (2024), her second feature documentary, again premiered at IDFA where it ranked among the top ten audience favorites. After a successful theatrical release, it went on to receive the Buma Award for Best Composition and won Beerends her second FOCAL Award.  

I-hsuan Hsieh currently programs for Women Make Waves Film Festival Taiwan and the Singapore International Film Festival. Since 2022, she has served on the selection committee for Taiwan International Documentary Festival and joined the selection committee of Go Short (NL) in 2024. Independent curatorial projects have been presented at venues including the Barbican Centre, Eye Filmmuseum, and WORM.   

In addition to programming, Hsieh provides festival strategy consultancy for short films and documentaries and serves as editor of the Taiwan Documentary E-Paper. A member of the Taiwan Film Critics Society, her writing focuses on non-fiction and Asian cinema, often highlighting underrepresented perspectives. Currently developing a research project on film museums and audiovisual archives in Europe and Taiwan, she is also the co-founder of Limestone Books in Maastricht, a space that reflects her ongoing engagement with film, archives, and cultural practice. 

Martina Parenti and Massimo D’Anolfi form a cutting-edge filmmaking duo that reshaped the notion of documentary while spearheading the new wave of Italian cinema of the noughties. Their films have screened all over the world at festivals including Mostra Venice, Hot Docs, Berlinale, Seoul, and Locarno, winning multiple awards and receiving critical praise worldwide. Deeply poetical as well as rigorously political in their work philosophy, they create films that question our relationship to space and society.

Parenti and D’Anolfi directed nine feature-length documentaries and two short films, with each new work pushing their ambitions towards uncharted territories. Their feature-length films include their debut I promessi sposi (2007), Il castello (2011), awarded at Hot Docs, Seoul, Torino and IDA), Spira Mirabilis (2016), which premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival, and Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari (2024), which premiered in Venice went on to win the award for Best Directing in the Envision Competition at IDFA.