Team

Guilhem Caillard’s education spans the history of cinema and the management of cultural events –these days, he’s particularly interested in cinematography and film financing. He has taken part in numerous cultural events in France including the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival and the renowned Festival d’Avignon. Since coming to Quebec he has been involved in programming at La Cinematheque Quebecoise, as a columnist and writing film critiques and interviews for such magazines as ‘Sequences’, ‘Cineuropa’ and ‘24 Images’. Guilham has frequently been chosen as a professional jury member at international film festivals in Istanbul, Cluj, Goteborg, Thessalonica and Rotterdam. He initially joined the CINEMANIA team in 2010 as an associate programmer.

Ilaria Gomarasca is head of First Cut+ (part of First Cut Lab) which is a new program supported by Creative Europe’s MEDIA, specializing on promotion of feature films at the stage of post-production, predominantly from European countries with a low production capacity.
 
Following a master's degree in Cinema, Literature and Arts in Milan, Ilaria began her career in Paris at the Louvre museum with a six month research project into new media. She then chose to focus on the cinema industry as the Festivals manager for WIDE, an international sales agency based in Paris, and later became head of their Festivals department.
 
Ilaria joined Pyramide International as Festivals and Markets manager in 2013, in direct partnership with major festivals worldwide, as well as cinematheques and cultural institutions in France and abroad. For seven years, Ilaria was in charge of strategy for Pyramide's Festivals division and managed the launch campaigns for new films on the international festival circuit.
 
Since 2017 she is consultant for “De Rome à Paris," an Italian film festival held in Paris, as both a part of the selection committee and the chief organizer of the marketplace for professionals in the Italian and French cinema industry.