Artistic director of the Viennale, the Vienna International Film Festival, since 2018, Eva Sangiorgi graduated in Communication Sciences from the University of Bologna, before moving to Mexico City, where she earned a Master's in Art History. She has extensive experience as a programmer in several different Latin American festivals, particularly in Mexico, where she lived for sixteen years. It was there that she founded FICUNAM, an event dedicated to art house cinema and the promotion of political and investigative film, which she directed until 2018.  She has also sat on numerous juries at many different international festivals, including La Semaine de la Critique at Cannes, the Venice Festival, FIDMarseille and the Jeonju International Film Festival, and has participated in many film project analysis and development committees. In the editorial field, she has coordinated and edited several publications focusing on contemporary cinema at the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM) and has written essays and texts for various festival catalogues and film magazines. In addition to participating as a lecturer and a tutor for ongoing student projects at the EQZE, Eva Sangiorgi has also taught at several other universities in Latin America and Europe. In 2016 she set up the distribution firm Brava Cinema in Mexico.