Alex Blasco
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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. |
Alessandro Bonifazi
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Born in Rome, his cinematographic career has developed in many creative directions: director of photography, editor, producer. He produced films like "The Legend of Kaspar Hauser" and "Beket" by Davide Manuli, winners of many international awards, "In Your Hands" by Peter Del Monte, and several documentaries. He is co-founder of the production company Blue Film (Rome) and he has been teacher at Suor Orsola Benincasa University (Naples) since 2006 and at Cinema and Art School Gian Maria Volontè since 2012; since 2015 he has been teaching "Cinema and Multimedia Production" at the new School "OFFICINA delle Arti Pier Paolo Pasolini" in Rome. |
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". |
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. |
Alessandro Ippolito
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Alessandro Ippolito, author, director, television producer, was born in Naples but he has always lived and worked all around the world, making what himself defines as "another television". In these last years he has committed to education, too, and he manages the FilmMaker Channel on YouTube, aimed to young filmmakers. He just published his book "Per soldi e per TV", where he narrates forty years on the set: a guide for those who want to work in television or mass media, but also a tasty tip for existence. |
Daniele Lucca
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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. |
Nicola Piovesan
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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. |
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. |
Gabriele Diverio
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Born in Omegna in 1981. After classical A levels, he graduates at DAMS of Bologna with a thesis about the relationship between the critics and Elio Petri's cinema; some extracts of the essay were published in the volume, edited by Gabriele Rigola, “Elio Petri, uomo di cinema” (Bonanno Editore, 2015). Since 2008 he has been member of the Piemonte Movie Association, initially as curator of the Spazio Piemonte section and, since 2015, curating the Panoramica Doc section and as co-director of gLocal Film Festival. In the last years he has been social media manager of several films, like the documentary "SmoKings" by Michele Fornasero (2014) and the feature film "Madeleine" by Lorenzo Ceva Valla and Mario Garofalo (2015). |
Alessandro Gaido
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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". |
Chiara Pellegrini
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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, in 2016, she directed the first edition of the Fish&Chips Film Festival, international festival of erotic and sexual cinema. |
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 |
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. |
