Skepto International Film Festival 2019: the jury

Best Short Award and Animation Special Award

Erica Arosio

Erica Arosio

Erica Arosio, from Milan, graduated in Philosophy, is a journalist, writer, film critic. She was in charge for a long time of the culture and show sections of the weekly publication "Gioia" and curated for several years the cinema section of "Radio Popolare". She is the author of a biography of Marilyn Monroe (1989 Multiplo, 2013 Feltrinelli Real cinema, with the dvd "Love, Marilyn"). She collaborated with several newspapers, as "la Repubblica", "Il Giorno", "Cineforum", "Prima Comunicazione", "Segnocinema", and contributed to tv and radio shows. In March 2012 her first novel "L'uomo sbagliato" came out. With Giorgio Maimone she published "Vertigine", a crime novel set in Milan in 1958, first of a series. The same characters are the protagonists of “Non mi dire chi sei”, “Autarchia”(short story part of the anthology “Ritratto dell’investigatore da piccolo”, ”Cinemascope” and "Juke-box". With Giorgio Maimone she writes “L’Amour Gourmet” (Mondadori, 2014), a love novel set in Milan in the eighties, “Un, due, tre... stella!”, the story of Ezio and Renata Santin, founders of Antica Osteria del Ponte (Mondadori, 2015) and the mémoire about ’68 “A rincorrere il vento” (Morellini). Alone, she published ”Carne e nuvole”, (Morellini), an anthology of short stories and the fairytale ”La bambina che dipingeva le foglie” (Albe edizioni).
Silvia Calderoni

Silvia Calderoni

Silvia Calderoni, anti-racist, anti-sexist and anti-fascist, develops in the art scene of Romagna in the early 2000s, working with several theatre companies like Monica Francia, Teatrino Clandestino, Teatro Valdoca, Cristina Rizzo. Since 2006 she is actress and scene author with the company Motus, where she is playwright and protagonist of the award-winning play "MDLSX". She took part in several film projects, like "La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser" with Vincent Gallo. She has always been interested in music and is DJ in many international festivals and "free" and occupied spaces all over Italy. For several years she has conducted an artistic research with Ilenia Caleo that inspects and try to defuse the systems of scene regularisation and management and of performer-director relationship.
Viviana Carlet

Viviana Carlet 

Viviana Carlet is the creator and director of Lago Film Fest - International Indipendent Film Festival, founded in 2005 in Revine Lago, and, since 2011, of Formentera Film Festival in Spain. She has coordinated and contributed to several projects: Riserva Artificiale, Biennale d'Arte di Venezia (2003); History Unwired - MIT di Boston and IUAV of Venezia (2004); NISI MASA, european network of young cinema active in 32 Countries (coordinator and administrative manager from 2012 to 2014). From 2014 to 2018 she works as Temporary Research Associate in the Management Department of Ca' Foscari University in projects about Art&Business Sinergy. She works on projects based on a strictly artistic methodology of relational and public art: the last and most important is Piattaforma Lago, an experience network and artistic production hive.
Frank María

Frank Maria

I am Francisco Javier María Marcos and my career began as professional animator specialised in Stop Motion. I created the production company Animaldía with which I collaborated to the creation of short films, animated pilots and TV commercials. In the last years I focused on the education field, where I was able to combine my professional career with formative and social themes. I am the director of the Audiovisual Design Department of the Design University Center BAU, part of Central University of Catalonia, and I am interested in discovering how animation and audiovisual products could generate solutions to social problems, or at least how they could contribute to the dissemination of knowledge on above-mentioned problems. In particular, I am interested in investigating how the educators could act as mediators in the above-mentioned contexts and what instruments would be useful to them. I gather all my research works on www.mediacionaudiovisual.com that I invite you to visit and share so that the audiovisual become a real social mediator.
James Rumsey

James Rumsey

James Rumsey is a BIFA Breakthrough Producer long-list nominee for his debut feature film My Feral Heart (2016) with a grounding as a script consultant (Industrial Scripts, Matador Pictures and Kudos Television); and a first assistant director. My Feral Heart won 14 international awards inc: Best Feature, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Original Screenplay before James self-distributed the film in the UK where it became a theatrical, and critical success. Alongside developing his current slate of film and TV projects, James has helped establish Port Royal Media (PRM), a newly formed distribution company led by ex-Metrodome MD, Jezz Vernon. James’ success with My Feral Heart in an evolving and competitive distribution landscape, in particular the alternative routes to market now available to Independent producers, prompted Jezz to collaborate with James. PRM is a more lean and financially robust approach to distributing independently produced content. Last, but by no means least, James is a long-time friend of Skepto. His film ‘Milk Man’ won the Best Film Award at the inaugural festival, has enjoyed 6 of the previous 9 festivals, and organised and hosted Skepto retrospective in London in 2015. He is grateful and honoured to be on the jury for Skepto X.

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.

"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.

"Human/Nature" Special Award

Associazione Sustainable Happiness

Associazione Sustainable Happiness

Sustainable Happiness is a happy window on sustainability or a sustainable window on happiness…

SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS is a cultural association whose members share values connected to the pursuit of happiness and to the social, economic and environmental sustainability. It is committed to the promotion and diffusion of culture, naturalism, heritage, and every form of knowledge and language, and to the creation of social relationships' networks as the base of the development of free and conscious citizens. Since 2010, the association organizes in Cagliari the ALIG'ART Festival that, through an innovative approach, puts forward an alternative view, necessary and urgent, of the idea of development, for which strive to face the present and future challenges: an afterthought on our lifestyle, with the promotion of an individual and global change that starts from bringing our current development model into question. For more infos: www.sustainablehappiness.it

Premio Speciale Music & Sound

Emanuele Contis

Emanuele Contis

 

Musician, Composer and Sound Designer. Master Degree at Berklee College of Music in Scoring for Film, TV and Video Games. Indòru’s cofounder, he scores and arranges original music for feature films, documentaries, short movies, tv series and advertisements.
Gianmarco Diana

Gianmarco Diana

Born in Cagliari in 1973, he has a Degree in Law. Musician, author and composer with SIKI (ex SIKITIKIS), DANCEFLOOR STOMPERS and other projects related to scoring music and live background music (SKTKS - Brain dept.). Collaborator of the portal "Colonne Sonore" (www.colonnesonore.net) and of the Festival “Creuza de Mà -Musica per Cinema” (www.musicapercinema.it), creator and presenter of the web-radio format “CinematiCA - Suoni da e per il Cinema” (www.facebook.com/cinematiCAradio), he wrote articles for the newspaper "L'Unione Sarda" and for several publications concerning musical essays, and notes for several recent reprints of film scores. Committed modernist and polyhedric selecter, he participated in several musical and cultural projects in leading music events, with concerts, DJ sets, critic and journalistic articles, readings and managing/presentation of events.
Manuel J Gordillo

Manuel J Gordillo

 

Film Composer, Sound Designer and Teacher, graduated from the “Scoring for Film, TV and Video Games” Master’s degree at Berklee College of Music. In 2010, Manuel cofounded La Tina Sonido, a Film Scoring and Sound Design Studio based in Bogota, Colombia. Apart being La Tina's CEO he has worked as a Composer, Foley Artist, Dialogue Editor, ADR Recordist, Sound Effects Designer, 5.1 Mixing Engineer, and in general in all the areas of Sound Postproduction for Film and Media. With La Tina he has been involved in several important national and international productions such as NETFLIX - Narcos, Birds of Passage, The Embrace of the Serpent, Tropical Virus, NETFLIX - Wild District, AMAZON - American Playboy, HBO - Mil Colmillos, and more. He currently also teaches at Universidad de los Andes and Congo Film School, at Bogota, Colombia.

Italian Schools Award

Antonio Aste

Antonio Aste

Antonio Aste has taught History and Philosophy since 2002 in Sardinian high schools; he currently works at Liceo “G.Brotzu” of Quartu Sant’Elena were, with some students specialising in Applied Science, he partecipated in 2018 to the European contest "Writing the Middle Ages", winning with the short film "Balentia".
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.