Matthew Butler and Tori Hart for Fizz and Ginger Films
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Fizz and Ginger Films was co-founded by director Matthew Butler and producer Tori Hart in 2009. They are an independent British film production company that write and produce short and feature films. 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), is currently being released across North America by E1 and Factory Film Studios and their second recently completed feature film Two Down (starring Conleth Hill with executive producer Stephen Fry), is being sold worldwide by Fabrication Films. They currently have three feature films in development and are writing a TV series for Universal. In 2013 they were selected as Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow. |
Mariuccia Ciotta
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Mariuccia Ciotta, journalist and film critic, radio-television writer, wrote several essays and books about authors and genres. Among her publications: Walt Disney – Prima stella a sinistra (Bompiani), Da Hollywood a Cartoonia (manifestolibri), Un marziano in tv (Rai/Eri), Rockpolitik (Bompiani), il Ciotta-Sivestri - Cinema (Einaudi), Il film del secolo (Bompiani). She directed the daily newspaper "il manifesto" and contributed to "Pagina99". |
Diego López
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Born in Barcellona in 1977, he is publisher of the fanzine "El Buque Maldito". He contributed to several international publications , internet portals (Fangoria, Almas Oscuras) and took part in collective books (Neoculto: El libro definitivo sobre el cine de culto). In 2010 he joins with David Pizarro to make the documentary "Los perversos rostros de Víctor Israel". Subsequently they write the book "Silencios de pánico. Historia del cine fantástico y de terror español, 1897-2010", published in 2013. He is currently (since 2010) programmer of the "Brigadoon" section of SITGES-Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya. |
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. |
Matt Willis-Jones
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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. |
Franco Mannoni
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Franco Mannoni has worked as a teacher, headmaster, regional council member and assessor, council member and managing director of financial companies, vice President of Fondazione Banco di Sardegna. He has been President of Rosa Rossa, association operating in the field of cultural activities and publisher of the web magazine of the same name. He is particularly interested in literature (he contributed to an important publishing house), economy and sociology essays. |
Marilena Moretti
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Marilena Moretti, from Turin, is a documentary director and TV author for Rai and Mediaset. As a journalist, she contributed to the daily newspaper "La Stampa". She also wrote short stories and radio dramas for Radio Rai. Among her recent works: the documentary "La rivoluzione non è una cosa seria” about the Seventies in Italy (2006); the novel “Dal basso dei cieli”, published by Baldini Castoldi Dalai (2007); the documentary “Dal basso dei cieli” about the underground artist Peppo Parolini (2009); the documentary “Walking with Red Rhino” about the cinematographer Alberto Signetto (2014). |
Alessandro Signetto
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Born in 1947, he lives and works in Turin. After the Literature degree and several experiences as operator, film distributor and film/documentary producer from 1970 to 1995, he was founder and director of the professional event and co-production forum "European days of Cinema and Audiovisual" (Turin), president of DOC\IT (Italian Documentarists Association), founder and director of Antenna MEDIA Torino (Italian office of the EU MEDIA programme), member of the selection committee of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. He is founder and current vice president of Associazione F.E.R.T. / Filming with a European Regard in Turin and, since 2008, he has been the person in charge of the International Promotion of Italian Documentary, in Europe and Latin America. |
Bruno Boveri
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Born in Alessandria in 1948, after classical studies (degree in aesthetics philosophy with Gianni Vattimo in 1971), he works as a teacher for five years and then changed over to dealing with independent radio stations and gave life to the Libreria Agorà, bookshop devoted to image books (photography, graphics, design, interior design, architecture...). He has been member of Slow Food (former "Arcigola") since 1987: he has been "Fiduciary" of Turin from 1991 to 2004, National Council Member of Slow Food Italy (since 1994, President of Slow Food Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta (since 2004) , member of National Secretary since 2006. He contributes to the guides published by Slow Food Editore and Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, writes about gastronomy and oenology on several magazines and websites. He is currently President of the first European web radio dedicated to the wine: La Voce del Vino/The Wine Voice. |
Associazione Sustainable Happiness
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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 |
Jacopo Vannini
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Born in 1981, Berliner by adoption, he works as a Boom operator, Sound Engineer & Sound Designer for both cinema and TV productions (Ndr,Zdf,Br-alpha). Guinnes World Record with "The owner", ambitious and innovative project (25 filmmakers, made in 5 continents); he takes part with several short films to many festivals, including Berlinale and Festival de Cannes. He is currently looks after the audio issues of music and cinema productions for Kolloagency. |
Antonello Murgia
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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
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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
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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. |
