Skepto International Film Festival 2022: the jury

Best Short Award and Animation Special Award

Inja Korać

Inja Korać

Graduated in Political Science and Journalism from the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb, holds an MA in Audiovisual Management from the Media Business School in Spain and finished internship in London Dogwoof sales. Works for Zagreb Film Festival as Industry program producer, for Motovun Film Festival as a programmer and program coordinator, for Beldocs as a teen program selector and educator. Worked as a programmer and producer for documentary specialized cinema Dokukino and as a documentary distributor for Restart Label. Worked in festival deparment of Taskovski films sales and is currently in charge of Motovun Film Festival distribution. Since 2011, works as an associate journalist for Croatian public TV – HRT. Member of the Croatian Producers Association.
Fabrizio La Palombara

Fabrizio La Palombara

Fabrizio La Palombara has worked as director of photography and camera operator for over 25 years, living in Bologna, Rome, Milan, Rio do Janeiro, Athens and London. During his career he made many documentaries with Stefano Mordini and Maria Martinelli, national and international films as "Private" by Saverio Costanzo , "H2o" by Leonardo Perez Garcia, "Gomorra 3" by Francesca Comencini, "L'immortale" by Marco D'Amore, commercials and TV programmes, videoclips for artists like Zucchero, Ligabue, Negramaro, Marco Mengoni, Mika. Between 2015 and 2018 he was in charge of the photography of the trilogy "Cabaret Crusades" by Wael Shawky, artwork exhibited at the MOMA in NYC, at the Serpentine in London, at the Contemporary Art Museum of Rivoli and in other important museums all over the world. In 2019 Fabrizio was in charge of the photography of “L’agnello", first feature film by Mario Piredda, in 2020 he photographed the series “L’ORA, Inchiostro contro piombo” by Piero Messina, in 2021 the series “NOI” by Luca Ribuoli.
Jessica Milardo

Jessica Milardo

She graduated in Law at the University of Bologna and, since then, she focuses on cinema and law. She currently works as law consultant and she is in charge of Film Acquisitions area at MYmovies.it, a prominent website and film streaming service. Among her several projects, she manages the streaming platform Biennale Cinema Channel, promoted by the Biennale di Venezia in collaboration with MYmovies, and she oversees the distribution issues of the streaming platform  MYmovies ONE. Since 2016, she has contributed to Sedicicorto International Film Festival, short film festival based in Forlì (Italy), as programmer and member of executive board. In particular, she is co-curator for Sedicicorto of IranFest, a festival devoted to new Iranian cinema. She also worked as assistant director, script supervisor and stage photographer for several independent short films.

Daniël Nogueira

Daniël Nogueira 

Daniel has a background in the fine arts & media design. Over the last decade he has developed and created commercials for the international market. His work has been awarded internationally, winning Promax Gold, Lovie Silver and Epica Bronze awards, HAFF best musicvideo and receiving nominations from ADCN, the Dutch Art Director’s Association. His recent clients include Sony, ABN-AMRO, Bacardi, Guess, Strongbow, Orange and Hunkemöller. But Daniel is also a film director … his latest film project “The Happiest Couple Alive” is about addiction, more specifically drug addiction in Los Angeles-USA, which is unfortunately an actual problem among younger generations these days. With this latest projects he is seeking to go beyond the borders of the cinema frame, and connect the character’s story with the public domain in more socially engaged ways. Last but not least, Daniel also teaches at the Moving Image department of the AKI Artez University of Arts.
Olga and Tatiana Poliektova

Olga e Tatiana Poliektova

Twin sisters were born in St-Petersburg, Russia (1985). Since early years they began to draw and graduated from Art school and the University of Cinema and Television in Animation and Computer Graphics. They started to work together as film director duo and animators. During these years they made several animated short films (“Tomato story”, “Noise”, “Quagga”, “Warm Liguria”, “Cinema Dehors”, “Chiripajas”) which took part in over 150 international festivals worldwide and earned over 50 awards. They were invited as jury in Lucania International Film Festival (Pisticci, Italy), Kinolikbez film festival (Russia), Ale Kino International young audience film festival (Poland) and Bibiana film festival (Slovakia). They made several workshops about animation in Russia, Germany, Italy, Slovakia China and UAE. They also work at Peterburg Animation Studio as directors for kid’s series “Babiriki”, which have over a billion views on internet. From 2019 Olga and Tatiana join CINÉ-LITTÉ Productions in Germany with their animation art for films d’auteur. “Beast Inside” is their new upcoming short film where they explore a totally new tone and visual storytelling.

"Alberto Signetto" Special Award - Best DocuShort

Letizia Caspani

Letizia Caspani

 

Born in Como, Italy, in 1984, Letizia Caspani graduated in “Science of Cultural Heritage” at The University of Milan. After a Master Course in “Communication and Promotion in Cinema” at the University Cattolica of Milan, in 2008 she served an internship at the Torino Film Festival Press Office. Then she started working as Press Officer for other film festivals and companies like Seeyousound Music Film Festival, Glocal Film Festival, Fish&Chips Erotic Film Festival, Microcinema Distribution, iWonder Pictures, Indyca… and for the musical event Torino Jazz Festival - Fringe. She joined TorinoFilmLab in 2012 as Hospitality Officer and in 2016 she became Project Manager of the Audience Design Fund, managing the activities related to the distribution fund and to the community of Audience Designers.
Carlo Migotto

Carlo Migotto

"Unwillingly" born in Veneto. Artistic director of Lago Film Festival (Italy) since 2009 and founder and director of Formentera Film Festival (Spain). With Mattia Coletti, under the moniker "Ukrain Mom", he writes and directs videos, short films, videoclips, corporate videos and animated toys; among these works, the documentary "Silvio - Here I am" (Milano Film Festival, BIF Bari, Berlin Porn Film Festival, Muestra Marrana - Barcellona) and the mockumentary "The amazing psychophysical benefits of cultural exchange", shot in Italy, the Netherlands and Finland. He worked as community manager in ZOOPPA and creative director in Pixartprinting. He is currently creative director "free and happy", he invented several things for variously independent projects and for small and big companies, but always with a very lazy approach.

"Skeptyricon" Special Award

Donato Sansone

Donato Sansone

 

After graduating at the Fine Arts Academy in Naples, Donato Sansone attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Turin, where he specialized in mixing traditional and experimental animation techniques with live action. He used to work as a freelance artist with the most creative advertising agencies and music labels in Italy. His work experience includes videoclips, shorts and TV commercials. His videos have been selected and screened in film festivals all around the world and shared by the most popular dedicated blogs. The Cinémathèque Québécoise recognised his work “Videogioco” among the 50 short films that changed the history of animation. In 2009, the French magazine "Cahiers du cinéma" wrote an article about his short film "Videogioco". In 2013, "L’Oeil de Links" covered a story on his work and, in 2014, "Grotesque Photobooth" was selected by Saatchi & Saatchi for New Directors Showcase at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. In November 2015, he made the short film "Journal animé", produced by Canal+ for the "Collection dessine toujours". "Journal animé" was nominated for an animation Oscar in 2016 and for a César award in 2017. In June 2018, his video "Ghostcrash" went viral, reaching over 150 million views on the web. His films are currently produced and distributed by the French company "Autour de minuit".

"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