For over 15 years Hebe Tabachnik has been a film curator and has participated as juror, project evaluator and panelist at film festivals in the US, Argentina, Brazil, China, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Israel, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Trinidad & Tobago. She is the Ibero American Programmer for the Palms Springs (psff) and Seattle (siff) International Film Festivals and is a member of the Board of Directors and programmer of Dance Camera West (dcw) a dance film festival in Los Angeles.
Since 2013 she is the Director and Producer of the Guadalajara International Film Festival in Los Angeles (ficg in la) and since 2011 she is a Guest Programmer for the Maguey Award at ficg. She is a Guest Professor at the San Antonio de los Baños Film School (eictv) and gives workshops about festivals and film distribution.
Hebe is a consultant and a member of the Honor Council of the Film Documentary track of the cuec unam within the Cultural Journalism and Literature Department Hugo Gutiérrez Vega at the University of Guadalajara, México.
She has worked for the Sundance and Los Angeles Film Festivals, the American Cinematheque of Los Angeles and has been in the selection committee of the International Documentary Association (ida) Awards. Hebe graduated with degrees in Directing and Screenwriting at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires where she became a Professor for the Directing Department. She is also the Co-Founder and Vice President of Lokro Productions, Inc., a film production company established in 1999 in Los Angeles.

She worked for the Sundance and Los Angeles Film Festivals and was the Director and Producer of the Guadalajara International Film Festival in Los Angeles (FICG in LA). She is part of the Minneapolis Saint Paul Film Society Advisory Council and served as Board Member of Dance Camera West (DCW).

 
Hebe Tabachnik is an experienced film curator, festival consultant and producer that seeks to empower visionary artists building bridges of understanding through stories which highlight human rights as well as social, political, and environmental justice. She participated as a juror, project evaluator and panelist in the US, Europe, Latin America, Israel and China. She is Senior Programmer at the Seattle, Palm Springs and Cartagena International Film Festivals and is the Artistic Director of Cine Latino Minneapolis-Saint Paul. She has also worked for both Sundance and Los Angeles Film Festivals. She gives workshops on festivals, film distribution and project pitching all over the world.

Hebe’s most recent films as executive producer are Valentina, the debut feature of Cassio Pereira dos Santos winner of 15 awards at film festivals worldwide, including Best Performance, Best Script, Best Film and Audience Awards at Outfest (USA), Sao Paolo, Mix Brazil, Seattle International (USA), Image+Nation Montreal (Canada) and Goa Film Festivals (India); and Felipe Gómez Aparicio’s debut film The Perfect David (Uruguay/Argentina) that had the World Premiere at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. She is currently producing Pereira dos Santos’ second feature Fire Season.

Hebe received the Moving Film Forward Award presented by the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP). In 2020, she was one of the inaugural ARRAY Now Grantees. The grants created by Ava DuVernay’s Array Alliance recognize some of the nation’s top community organizers and arts advocates working in independent film.

Hebe graduated with degrees in Directing and Screenwriting from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires where she became a Professor within the Directing Department. She is the Co-Founder and VP of Lokro Productions, Inc., a film production company in Los Angeles, California.

JUROR, PANELIST AND CONSULTANT
Juror for the 2021 WIPS MAFIZ – Malaga Film Festival (Spain)
Juror for the 2021 Minneapolis Saint Paul International Film Festival (MIFF) (USA)
Juror for the 2021 Fondo de Fomento Audiovisual - Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio (Chile)
Juror for the 2020 Krzysztof Kieslowski Award Denver Film Festival – (USA)
Panelist at Film Festival Programmers & Archivists of the Contours of Film Festivals Research and Methods Conference 2020 (USA)
Panelist at Reimagining Film Curation With the Programmers Of Colour Collective – Carla 2020 (WIFTI) (USA/Sweden)
Panelist at Radical New Distribution Strategies – CineLink Industry Days 2020 presented by Documentary Campus with Screen International -Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Panelist at Don't Stop me Now presented by Zineuskadi – (Spain)
Panelist at Exhibicion En Tiempos de Pandemia presented by Cinelandia (Paraguay)
Panelist at 2020 is NOT Canceled: Film Festivals & Submissions - NewFilmmakers LA (NFMLA) (USA)
Panelist and Workshop Festivals and Film Distribution – CREA-PY - (Asuncion, Paraguay)
Master Class Festivals and Film Distribution – Coofilm 2019 - (Madrid, Spain)
Juror for the 2019 National Feature Film Award Bogota City – Cineteca Distrital (Colombia)
Panelist at Society For Cinema and Media Studies 2019 Conference, Seattle, WA (USA)
Juror for the 2019 Zinegoak, Festival Internacional de Cine Artes Escénicas LGBT Bilbao (Spain)
Panelist for the 2018 Festival Forum (USA)
Producer and Lecturer of the Workshop: Festivals and Film Distribution (Bogota, Colombia)
Juror for the 2018 Rio Film Festival (Brazil)Juror for the 2019 Fondo de Fomento Audiovisual - (CHILE)
Panelist at the 2018 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (Canada)
Juror for the 2018 OUTFEST Film Festival (USA)
Juror for the 2018 D'A Film Festival Barcelona (Spain)
Shorts Curator TED en Español – New York, April 2018 (USA)
Juror for the 2017 Huelva International Film Festival (Spain)
Juror for the 2017 DocsMX (Mexico).
Panelist at the 2017 Audience Awards Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA. (USA)
Juror for the 2017 Tampere Film Festival (Finland)
Juror for the 2017 British European Talent Screening (BETS) Forum, Berlin (Germany)
Ptiching Workshop - Blood Window/Moderator for the Producers Network 2016 - Marché du Film at Ventana Sur (Argentina)
Panelist for the 2016 Festival Forum (USA)
Juror for the 2016 Documenta Madrid (Spain)
Juror for the 2016 Minneapolis Saint Paul International Film Festival (MIFF) (USA)
Juror for the 2016 Medina del Campo Film Festival (Spain)
Expert and Juror - International Meeting of Producers – 2016 Cartagena Int. Film Festival (FICCI) (Colombia)
Ptiching Workshop - Blood Window & Moderator for the Producers Network 2015 - Marché du Film at Ventana Sur (Argentina)
Panelist for the 2015 Gijon International Film Festival Industry Meetings (Spain)
Juror for the 2015 Valladolid International Film Festival  (Spain)
Juror for the 2015 Guadalajara International Film Festival  (Mexico)
Juror for the 2015 Mérida y Yucatán Film Festival (Mexico))
Juror for the 2014 Gijon International Film Festival (Spain)
Panelist for the 2014 San Juan Int. Film Festival (Puerto Rico) and 1st Co-production meetings Puerto Rico (Dominican Republic)
Juror for the 2014 BendFilm Festival (Oregon, USA)
Juror for the 2014 Tapalpa Film Festival (Mexico)
Juror for the 2014 Project Youth View Film Festival (USA)
Moderator for the Producers Network 2014 - Marché du Film at the Guadalajara Film Market (Mexico)
Moderator for the Producers Network 2013 - Marché du Film at Ventana Sur (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Juror for the 2013 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival
Juror for the 2013 Loyola Marymount University, Film Outside Frame Film Awards & Festival
Producer, Lecturer of the Workshop: Festivals and Film Distribution and graduation thesis evaluator (EICTV – Cuba)
Panelist for the 4th China International New Media-Movie-Television-Animation Festival (2013) KingBonn (China)
Juror for the 2013 Project Youth View Film Festival (USA)
Juror for the Short Film Awards at the 2013 COLCOA- French Film Festival in Los Angeles (USA)
Invited Expert for DocuLAB 7 at the 2013 Guadalajara International Film Festival (México)
Juror for Nuevas Miradas and Primera Copia at the 2012 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Havana (Cuba)
Invited Expert for 2012 Docs Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Juror for the 2012 Lago Puelo Film Festival (Argentina)
Juror for the 2012 Antofagasta Film Festival (Chile)
Juror for the 2012 Latin Side of the Doc at DocsDF (Mexico)
Juror for the 2012 Imágenes Sociales Latin American Short Film Festival (Argentina)
Producer and Lecturer of the Workshop: Festivals and Film Distribution (Colombia)
Panelist 2012 Guanajuato International Film Festival (México)
Juror for the 2012 Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival (Israel)
Juror and Film Consultant for the 2012 Guadalajara International Film Festival (México)
Juror for Nuevas Miradas at the 2011 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Havana (Cuba)