Carolina Arias Ortiz

Judge for RAI Film Award & Basil Wright Film Award

Carolina Arias Ortiz is an anthropologist and filmmaker from Costa Rica. Her debut feature, Objetos Rebeldes, premiered at IDFA 2020 and received multiple awards, including the National Audiovisual Arts Award for Best Production, a Special Jury Mention at Viña del Mar in Chile, the iila-Cinema Award in Italy for Best Documentary, and the Basil Wright Film Prize at the RAI FILM Festival. Her latest project, Like a Flame Lit in a Dark Night, received the IDFA Bertha Fund for development, participated in IDFA Project Space for Development in 2023, and was awarded Costa Rica’s National Film Fund, FAUNO. This year she is part of the EURODOC program.