Skepto International Film Festival 2017: the jury

Best Short Award and Animation Special Award

Alex Blasco

Alex Blasco

Born in Barcellona in 1975, he is one of the founders of Cultural Association AKONGA (Acción Kon Ganas); with them, he organizes the Fascurt festival (El Masnou, Barcellona, Spagna), coming in 2016 to its 14th edition.
Matthew Butler and Tori Hart for Fizz and Ginger Films

Matthew Butler and Tori Hart for Fizz and Ginger Films

Fizz and Ginger Films was co-founded by writer/director/producer Matthew Butler Hart and actress/writer/producer Tori Butler Hart in 2009. They are an independent British film production company. In 2013 they were selected as Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow.
Both Matthew and Tori trained as actors at leading UK drama schools before establishing Fizz and Ginger Films. Their first feature film Miss in her Teens, starring Simon Callow and narration by Ian McKellen, has been released worldwide in North America by EOne, Canada and New Zealand. Their second multi-award winning feature Two Down starring Conleth Hill and Alex Hassell, with executive producers Stephen Fry and Derek Jacobi, had an enormously successful festival run and is currently being sold by Moviehouse Entertainment. Their third feature film, The Isle, is a Victorian supernatural thriller set on a remote Scottish island. Recently completed, the film is set to attend festivals before being distributed by Great Point Media. 
Ilknur Cengiz

Ilknur Cengiz

 

Ilknur Cengiz has gratuated Master of Multi- Media at Kask Ghent/ School of Arts. She is teaching Film and Photography at the School of Arts Brussels (BE). A relentless pursuit in the visual arts led to a first price short movie (Yolda), performance art (Walking on the Sea) and different board positions in the cultural sector. In that position, she supports, advises, critics, facilitates and cares as much about artists as she does for her students and citizens of her current hometown of Ghent (BE) where she's an elected city councilor.
Jacopo Chessa

Jacopo Chessa

Jacopo Chessa (Torino, 1973), majored in film history and worked largely on the 1950s and 1960s in French cinema. He has published two books and a number of articles; cooperated with the Archivio Nazionale Cinematografico della Resistenza, the University of Torino and the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3. In 2010, he founded the production company called Prime Bande, which specializes in the history of manufacturing and the workers’ movement. Since the beginning of 2014, he has been the director of Aiace Nazionale, the first Italian association of art theatres, and of the Centro Nazionale del cortometraggio, (National Short Films Centre), a film archive and agency which promotes Italian short films. Since 2016, he has directed the Torino Short Film Market. Further, he works as contract professor at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3.
 Barbara Petronio

Barbara Petronio

She has worked as a scriptwriter for over 15 years. Her passion for writing begins in her childhood and soon it focuses on cinema and scriptwriting. In the 90s she watches the series Twin Peaks and she begins to love and study TV series. The serial TV language is still the most interesting for her, the most congenial for her way of storytelling. She began with the series "Distretto di Polizia" 3 and 4, then she created and wrote "RIS Delitti Imperfetti", "Romanzo Criminale" 1 and 2, "Donne Assassine", "Il Mostro di Firenze", "Il clan dei Casalesi", "Le mani dentro la città", "Squadra Mobile" and lastly "Suburra", the first Italian series for Netflix. Despite her passion for serials, she also likes to write for cinema, because one's first love is never forgotten... She wrote the screenplays for "Mozzarella Stories", "ACAB" and "Indivisibili": for the latter, she received the "David di Donatello" award for the best original screenplay.

Docu-short "Alberto Signetto" Special Award

Alessandro Gaido

Alessandro Gaido

 

Born in Turin in 1971, journalist and cultural organiser, he worked as copy editor and director in several local and national newspapers and magazines. He is president of the Piemonte Movie Association and artistic director of Piemonte Movie gLocal Film Festival. Since 2010 he has been council member of the Music Institution of Moncalieri Theatre. He directed the press office of the Matteotti Theatre of Moncalieri, of the video production company Nova-T and of the Cultural Union Franco Antonicelli. From 2005 to 2010 he was administrator of the Association Museo Nazionale del Cinema, where he is currently part of the scientific committee. He wrote the essay "Pietro Micca e l’Assedio di Torino nel cinema", ha contributed with the text "Le strade del cinema" to the guide "Torino una città che non ti aspetti", he curated, with Franco Prono and Antonio De Lucia, the volume "Felice Andreasi. Un pittore in scena tra teatro, cinema e tv".
Daniele Lucca

Daniele Lucca

Born in Turin in 1963, radio speaker since 1978, he started his career of theatre actor and author in 1986. Cultural worker, art consultant, radio and TV anchorman, music producer and… Slowfood gourmand. Cosmopolitan by definition, he has lived and worked in theatres, cinema, Tv and radio around U.S.A., Spain, France and Italy. He is creative consultant, artistic director, anchorman of big events for brands and public institutions. He is historic associate of Club Tenco (Sanremo). "Extremist" cinephile, he has always collaborated with SKEPTO. Since 2015 he has been creator and artistic director of the first European web-radio dedicated to the wine: La Voce del Vino/The Wine Voice.
Chiara Pellegrini

Chiara Pellegrini

 

After the degree in Political Science, she decides to follow one of her greatest passions and enrols in a Fim Production Master in Turin. Since then, she starts to work for several festivals and, since 2016, she has directed the Fish&Chips Film Festival, international festival of erotic and sexual cinema.
Roberta Pozza

Roberta Pozza

 

Born in Biella (Italy) in 1985, she graduates at Dams of Turin in 2011, and the following year she obtains the Master for Analysts in Cinema and TV Production and Cross Media Communication. She worked as an intern  at the National Cinema Museum of Turin. She collaborates with the Piemonte Movie Association, organising contests and curating the section “Spazio Piemonte” of Piemonte Movie gLocal Film Festival. Since 2017 she has curated the short film section at Fish&Chips Film Festival.

"Skeptyricon" Special Award

Nicola Piovesan

Nicola Piovesan

Nicola Piovesan was born in Venice in 1979. After the degree at DAMS of Bologna, he works as cinema teacher and freelance filmmaker. His works (short films, videoclips, animations, documentaries, etc.) were screened in many international festivals, getting about fifty awards. He currently lives in Estonia, working with clients from all over the world.
Matt Willis-Jones

Matt Willis-Jones

 

Born in London in 1973, Matt studied art and design before moving to Chicago in the 90s to study film. In 2001 he moved back to London, working in post-production on several major films and TV series. Since 2005 he has lived and worked in Norway and in 2008 he quit his full-time job to concentrate on making his own films which have played at over 30 international festivals, winning occasional awards including a Special Mention at Skepto 2013 for ‘A Short Film on Conformity’ and the Best Web Series award at MAshRome 2014 for his absurdist series ‘Everything is Perfect and There are no Problems.’ Matt is presently working on his first feature film, Atopia, based on some of the characters from that series.

Italian Schools Award

Antonello Murgia

Antonello Murgia

 

Graduated in physics, he currently teaches Maths and Physics at I.I.S. “G. Brotzu” of Quartu Sant’Elena. Sportsman and good cooking lover, he has always cultivated his passions for theatre and cinema. He took part, as addressee and teacher, in several continuing education and improvers courses about IT literacy, mutimedia, new technologies and related educational methodologies. He has been promoting for several years planning activities and cultural initiatives within the school, supporting every opportunity of education, change and innovation. He has a long-time experience as supervisor of his school's website and online newspaper and as representative for scientific projects of Liceo Brotzu and funded by MIUR and R.A.S. Sardegna. He has been permanently experimenting alternative paths of scientific communication with his students, trying to use new technologies in a creative way for the production of educational instruments, creating an experience able to involve the students not only cognitively but also emotionally. During the last few years he has increasingly focused on the students' communicative style and language, giving attention to the power of multimedia communication and, in particular, of audiovisuals.
Marco Schirru

Marco Schirru

 

Professor of humanistic information science, now retired. He has always dealt with the significantly formative aspects of formal languages, with particular attention to multimedia and hypertext as elaboration and communication language codes. In this scenario, where the theoretical and formal aspects of linguistic communication have always implied the presence of several codes originated by contextual and generative grammars, he gave prominence to the reflection on the languages and on their ways of being and existing not only as a mean to express identity and individuality, but especially as the ability to improve the investigation and research on the world around us. His past and current course of studies has developed combining the paradigms of aesthetics and ethics with the logical necessity to know, not only introspectively. Since 2010 he has been president of Skepto cultural association.
Caterina Spiga

Caterina Spiga

 

After classical studies and a degree in Literature, she have been working as a teacher at the Istituto Superiore G.Brotzu of Quartu S.Elena for over 20 years. Simultaneously she cultivates studies and investigations on contemporary art (from Sardinia and overseas), that led her up to be a member of the scientific committee and curator of exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art "Quartissimo". Following her research on cinematographic, theatrical and multimedia languages, that materializes in multidisciplinary activities, she is also involved with her students in the making of short films for the school and in the participation to the Giorgio Gaber Festival "Libertà è partecipazione" which takes place every year in Grosseto. She is constantly actively involved in actualizing teaching according to the new languages and educational instruments, in order to combine Italian and Latin literature's contents with new strategies, in-depth analysis and multidisciplinary approaches, with the aim of stimulating the young generations towards discovery and self-enhancement, in cultivating aesthetic and critic taste.