Mentors
Meet the Mentors: Industry Leaders & Visionary Artists.
Learn from the best, collaborate with visionaries, and redefine what’s possible.
Our mentors are internationally recognized professionals, esteemed educators, and groundbreaking artists who bring their expertise, creativity, and industry insight to guide participants through an immersive, interdisciplinary journey.
At BASS, each team is guided by top-tier professionals who challenge participants to think differently, experiment boldly, and push creative boundaries. From award-winning filmmakers and composers to renowned stage directors and interdisciplinary artists, our mentors don’t just guide—they actively collaborate, helping turn the program into a living laboratory of artistic innovation.
Learning at BASS goes beyond the classroom. It happens through direct collaboration with some of the most influential voices in film, music, and the performing arts. Through masterclasses, hands-on workshops, one-on-one mentorship, and project development, our mentors provide the inspiration, guidance, and expertise needed to transform ideas into bold, original works.
Alba Sotorra
Film producer and director
Alberto Velasco
Actor, dancer, and stage creator
Lolo & Sosaku
Interdisciplinary artists, performers, and creators
Zamira Pasceri
Artist, cultural manager, and general stage manager
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Film producer and director
Alba Sotorra
Alba Sotorra is a film producer and director. She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication (UCM), a Master’s in Cultural Studies (URV), and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA at Esade. She is a member of ACE Producers, a graduate of EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs), a board member of CIMA, the association of women filmmakers and audiovisual media professionals, and a board member of PROA Proanimats, the professional association of animation producers.
Motivated by the lack of diversity of viewpoints in the film industry, she directs and produces stories engaged with contemporary social and political reality, with a strong gender perspective. Some of her most notable recent productions include Rock Bottom (2024, Annecy), Sima’s Song (2024, Tokyo), Upon Entry (2022, Tallinn Black Nights), Mi vacío y yo (2022, San Sebastián), Sica (2021, Berlinale), El Retorn: la vida després del ISIS (2020, SXSW), and Comandant Arian (2018, HotDocs).
Actor, dancer, and stage creator
Alberto Velasco
An actor, dancer, and stage creator who is indispensable on the Spanish performing arts scene, he has built a solid career across theatre, dance, television, and film. As a performer, he has worked with leading directors and choreographers such as Rakel Camacho, Marta Pazos, Lola Blasco, Carlota Ferrer, Chevi Muraday, Alberto Conejero, and Marta Carrasco. His most notable works include Fuenteovejuna, Orlando, El teatro de las locas, Tiresias, Los nadadores diurnos—for which he received the Unión de Actores Award for Best Supporting Theatre Actor in 2023—Billy Elliot, el musical, and En el desierto, which won the 2015 Max Award for Best Dance Production.
As a director and multidisciplinary creator with an eclectic style, his productions have been presented internationally. These include ¡Vaca!, La inopia, Escenas de caza, Danzad malditos—winner of the 2015 Max Award for Best Breakthrough Production—Dance to Death (Festival Grec 2017), Cuando todo cambia, Atra Bilis, and Sweet Dreams, which received the 2022 Godoff Award for Best Production and the 2022 Unión de Actores Award for Best Leading Theatre Actor.
His latest choreographic creation, Mover montañas, co-produced by the International TAC Festival of Valladolid and Danseu Festival, won the Jury Prize for Most Innovative Show at TAC 2024 and was a finalist for Best Dance Solo at the 2024 Barcelona Critics’ Awards. He is currently preparing his next production: SACRESIZE, a ballet for fat people based on Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.
On television, he has appeared in series such as Amar es para siempre, Vis a vis, Señoras del (h)AMPA, Madres, and By Ana Milán. In film, he has worked on titles such as La mano invisible, La familia perfecta, and Las niñas de cristal. He also writes and directs short films, including Volcánica and El rey de las flores, which won an award at SEMINCI 2021 and at other international festivals.
Interdisciplinary artists, performers, and creators
Lolo & Sosaku
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1977
Tokyo, Japan, 1976
Live and work in Barcelona
"Our work happens on the edges, pushes them, blurs them, questions them."
Lolo & Sosaku explore the possibilities of sculpture as an expanded field. The core of their work lies in the search for an object in contact with its surroundings and the spectator—an object that seeks friction and tension, exploring its capacity to generate new meanings.
Their practice moves across different artistic languages, including sculpture, installation, kinetic art, and painting, often incorporating music and sound. Their modus operandi is to establish themselves as a subject and, through their machinic materiality, reach transcendence, mysticism, and the unknown.
Exhibitions and Presentations: MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), Pompidou Museum (Paris, France), Liceu de la Opera (Barcelona, Spain), PSA Power Station of Art (Shanghai, China), MIS Museu da Imagem e do Som (São Paulo, Brazil), Fundação Casa França Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Sónar Festival (Barcelona, Spain), Matadero (Madrid, Spain), Palace of Culture (Iasi, Romania), Instituto Cervantes (Milan, Italy), MAH Museum of Art and History (Geneva, Switzerland), Double Square Gallery (Taipei, Taiwan), Casa Encendida (Madrid, Spain), Night Time Story (Los Angeles, California)
Artist, cultural manager, and general stage manager
Zamira Pasceri
Zamira Pasceri is an artist, cultural manager, and general stage manager with a solid international career in opera, theatre, symphonic music, and large-scale live events. Trained in Art and Culture, she holds a piano diploma from the G. Verdi Conservatory in Turin, a degree in Disciplines of Arts, Music and Performance from the University of Turin, and a Master’s degree in Cultural Management from the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya.
Since 2008, she has developed an extensive career as an artistic director and cultural project manager. Throughout her professional trajectory, she has led productions in major theatres, festivals, and institutions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania, acting as a link between artistic and technical teams, institutions, and partner organizations.
Alongside her work as an artistic director and general stage manager in international productions, she also develops her own creative and cultural management projects, in which art is conceived as a tool for innovation, social dialogue, and inclusion.
Her work is characterized by a transversal, rigorous, and creative approach, in which artistic excellence, technical precision, and human leadership converge to shape high-impact contemporary performing arts projects.