BA in Graphic Design and Photography. Founding member of MAD, a non-profit association in Barcelona that for nearly 20 years is devoted to the development of European projects related Art, Science and Technology.

In 2007 she co-founded Punto y Raya Festival.

She also curates themed screening programmes for various institutions.

Screenwriter and researcher. She occasionally delves into making experimental videos and animations, and lectures and writes essays as a film critic. A couple of her short films have been awarded internationally.

Since 2008 she's been a member of the iotaCenter's Advisory Council (Los Angeles, CA) and coordinator of the Spanish speaking community at the Visual Music Village.

She acts as a juror for various international film & animation festivals, and curates special programmes of avantgarde animation.

Since September 2024, together with Blanca Rego, she has been co-hosting the Menta en Blanco podcast, exploring the mechanisms of cinema and form as content.

Graduated in Art History and MA in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies at Pompeu Fabra University.
After collaborating with institutions such as Marlborough Gallery Barcelona and Fundació Joan Miró, she worked as a cultural journalist in digital media and national radio, gave workshops and participated in some cultural projects related to cinema. Subsequently, she started working for the marketing department of Grupo Planeta and Penguin Random House Spain and, in 2023 joins Punto y Raya’s team.
Currently, she also co-hosts the podcast ‘Hacerse la peli’, a space dedicated to cinema and the pleasure of talking about films.

In 2018 Monika Łuszpak-Skiba joined the organisation team of Punto y Raya, coproducing the sixth edition of PyR Festival (CeTA, 2018) and co-producing and directing the subsequent JUNIOR editions at various venues in Wroclaw.

In 2020 she founded the NGO PyR LAB Poland, devoted to the education, preservation and promotion of abstract fine arts, film, and new media in Poland and the Viségrad region.

Ogrodzka works in the fields of painting, video art and photography. She was an artist in resident at the KulturKontakt program in Vienna (2018), Open Pit in Opolno Zdrój (2021) and TBCK Forward in Kosice, Slovakia (2021). She took part in multiple exhibitions including the Biennale Out of Sth (BWA Wrocław), the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Dresden, and Her Docs Film Festival in Warsaw.

She is the recipient of Scholarships from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2019) and the Government of the City of Wrocław (2020 and 2022). She has also been awarded the WARTO prize (2021).

Collaboration with other artists is a very important in her work. Over many years she has been associated to the ArtBrut Gallery and the Social and Cultural Activation Studio in Wrocław.

Graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon in 1991. At the same time, he completed his Piano studies at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon. Between 1989 and 2013 he participated as author, collaborator or consultant in several architectural projects for residential, commercial, transport and industrial buildings in Portugal, Hungary and Brazil.

Since 2010, he has devoted most of his time to creating animations, working also in the programming and production of film festivals. Between 2010 and 2014, he coordinated and co-directed three experimental short films that premiered at the opening ceremonies of Monstra Festival in Lisbon. His films have been nominated twice for the National Animation Award, and in 2018 he received the António Gaio award at Cinanima for the film “4 States of Matter”, produced by Praça Filmes with the support of the Portuguese Institute of Cinema (ICA).

Since 2012 he has been collaborating with the production team at MONSTRA Lisbon Animation Festival and is currently working in its direction and programming team. Between 2016 and 2018 he was also part of the head department at the Casa da Animação cultural association. He has been a member of the Gregorian Choir of Lisbon since its foundation in 1989, with which he recorded 4 CDs released by DECCA in 40 countries.

He currently prepares his PhD thesis in Arts at the University of Lisbon and the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, titled "Abstraction in Animation Cinema”. He is also directing a new film produced by Praça Filmes, with support from the Portuguese Institute of Cinema.

With studies in filmmaking, animation, video and stage direction, Fernando Galrito ​​graduated in Anthropology with a master's degree in Culture, Communication and New Technologies. In 2000 he founded MONSTRA Lisbon International Animation Festival, acting as its artistic director since then.

Galrito ​​also co-founded the Center for the Moving Image of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1986, an institution he directed until 2005.

He has curated numerous animation and experimental film programs for museums, centres and festivals, as well as Art, New Media and interdisciplinary exhibitions. As an author, he directs animated films, documentaries and videos that have been screened and awarded at festivals, and on both local & international television. He also directs trans-disciplinary projects that relate animation, theatre, dance and fine arts, and teaches Animation & Interdisciplinary Artistic Projects at the Escuela Superior de Diseño y Arte ESAD.CR (Portugal) since 2000.

Pereira studied and worked in Lisbon between 2011 to 2019, where he deepened his knowledge of cinema and gained experience in audiovisual production. After his first job at a production company, he moved on to video editing. Later, to event production, and more recently, to communication and social media management.

He's been working with MONSTRA Lisbon Animation Festival since 2017. Recently, in Leiria, Rui created his own project to promote Portuguese cinema: Shortcutz Leiria, where he is the head of programming, production and communication. 

Rui continues to collaborate regularly in the production of MONSTRA and other events and cultural activities.