Olga Bel
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Born in Barcelona in 1974, after the degree in Art History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona she realizes a cinematography course at the University of Valladolid and she takes part in the direction of Dr. Mabuse Short Film Festival, of which she was in charge until 2002. At the same time, she contributes to the magazine "Andalocio" as a co-supervisor for several film festivals, coordinates a literary drama contest and she is in charge of the production of the play "Los niños de Morelia". |
Javier Chillon
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Born in Madrid in 1977, graduated in Audiovisual Communication at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. He worked for various production companies, and shot several videoclips, then in 2008 he decides to take on his first project: the short film Die Schneider Krankheit. It gives him the push to shot, some years later, his second short film, Decapoda Shock (2011). He currently works as a professor and editor. |
Agron Domi
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Born in 1962 in Tirana, Albania, he graduated in Linguistics and Literature at the University of Tirana. He is a member of Union Journalist of Albania, Program Director at NTV (Nëser Television) and part-owner of FASADA Studio (first publicity, graphic design and video-film production in Albania). He is co-founder of Albania Film Commission, of FAMA (Foundation Art & Media Albania) and of Tirana International Film Festival. He has been a jury member at Cork International Film Festival (Ireland), at DOKUFEST (International Film Festival of Prizren - Kosovo) and for altcineAction! (online short film festival). |
Massimiliano Nardulli
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Massimiliano Nardulli was born in Rome in 1976. He graduated in Performing Arts and Science with a thesis about the Argentinian director Adolfo Aristarain. Since 2007 he has worked as a planner and an artistic advisor for several festivals like Arcipelago, Festival Internazional di Cinema e Nuove mmagini, Piemonte Movie, Lakino Berlino. Since 2011, he has been the artistic director of the Festival Européen du Film Court di Brest. In France he is also a voting member of the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma (César) and of Lutins du Court Métrage. Great travel, food and music lover, he currently splits his time between France, Italy and Romania... |
Fausto Pellegrini
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Born in Rome in 1961, graduate in Law. He is journalist and vice assignment editor of Rainews line coordination. He was a member of the FNSI executive committee from 1993 to 1997. For work and for passion he deals mostly with social and musical topics, with particular care for singer-songwriter song, on which he wrote several books and shot several documentaries. In 2009 he went around Italy with Erri de Luca taking part in his show "Chiacchiere e chitarre". He created and looked after Rainews program "Periferie"; in 2005 he shot the documentary "La primavera della giustizia" for the antimafia association Libera; he took part in the writing of the "White book" on the events occurred during the G8 2001 and in the publishing of some reports on that issue. |
James Rumsey
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As curator of “Feast On Film” (a short film and networking event in London) his love of short film is well fed well and in great health. A writer / director of short films, he began a love affair with Skepto at its inaugural festival in 2010 when his short film “Milk Man” won the Best Short Film award. Before committing to directing, his extensive experience as a 1st assistant director culminated in him working for the BBC and as a tutor on student productions coming out of the National Film & Television School in England. He is also an experienced script reader, a graduate in Film & Drama from the University of Reading, and Film Production from Vancouver Film School. His production company Rum Jam Films is developing a feature script set in Sardinia called “The Last Con”. James is currently attatched to direct his first feature film; the rural thriller "Coldfall". Follow @coldfall_film / @rumjamfilms. |
Roberto Silvestri
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Born in Lecce in 1950, he lives in Rome. He worked for the daily newspaper "Il Manifesto" from 1977 to 2012, as film critic and supervisor of the cultural insert "Alias"; he has been the film critic of the daily newspaper "Pagina99" since February 2014. He has been the presenter of the Radiorai3 program "Hollywood party" for more than ten years and he published “Da Hollywood a Cartoonia” (Manifestolibri, 1993), “Macchine da presa” (Minumum Fax, 1996), "Il Ciotta Silvestri Cinema" (Einaudi, 2012) and "Il film del secolo" (Bompiani 2013). He is founder of the cineclub "Il Politecnico" and he was co-author of the Roman Nicolinian Summer until the mid '80s. He is the director of several festivals (Lecce, Rimini, Bellaria, Aversa, Sulmona) and he contributed as an expert to the Venice Film Festival for four years and to other international festivals (Perugia, Torino), writing essays and articles for books and Italian and international specialised magazines. |
