Boris Sollazzo
President of Jury

In the first 25 years of his life he was a fan of Naples’ football team, swimmer, water polo player, radio reporter, drama critic and reporter, co-author of a book (America Oggi) about elections in the U.S.A.. And, goes without saying, he was a film critic and reporter. He now writes and reviews for the newspapers Liberazione, Dnews and the website of the newspaper Ilsole24ore, as well as the magazines Rolling Stones, Film Tv, Gioia and Alphabetcity.it, among others. He’s a consultant for “Giornate degli Autori” and proud director of www.moviesushi.it, website that gives particular prominence to short films.

Bruno Bartolomeo Di Marino (Salerno, 1966), historian of the ‘moving image’, deals since 1989 with audiovisual experimentation and new media. He’s been curator of many festivals and retrospectives, in Italy and abroad as well. Among his books: Sguardo inconscio azione. cinema underground e d’artista a Roma (1965-1975); Clip! - 20 anni di musica in video (1981-2001); L’ultimo fotogramma. I finali del cinema; Interferenze dello sguardo. La sperimentazione audiovisiva tra analogico e digitale; Studio Azzurro: tracce, sguardi e altri pensieri; Pose in movimento. Fotografia e cinema. He’s written for many specialist magazines. His essays have been published in France, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, Russia, Japan, China and Hungary.

Susanna Nicchiarelli was born in Rome in 1975. Graduated in Philosophy, specialized at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, she graduated in Direction at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. She directed many short films and documentaries and she recently shot her first feature, Cosmonauta, awarded with the first prize, section Controcampo, at the 60th Cinema Festival of Venice.

Pierpaolo Rovero is a comics writer and teacher of Art of Comics at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Turin. Graduated in Sciences of Communication at the University of Turin and also graduated at the Disney Academy, he starts cooperating with the Walt Disney magazine “Mickey Mouse” as drawer and scriptwriter. In 2004 he starts rearranging some noir novels of Michel Rio, renowned French writer. Between 2006 and 2009 the comics Gate 22 come out in France, of which he was drawer and scriptwriter, Malone based on the texts of Michel Rio and Terroriste on the ones of Jean-Claude Bartoll.

He writes for the monthly magazine “Cineforum”, he wrote many books, especially about Italian and European cinema. He lately published Andrej Tarkovskij (with Tullio Masoni), La luna, i falo’ - Il cinema di Fredi M. Murer e Radici – Il cinema di Istvan Gaal (with Judit Pintér). He wrote entries for the Encyclopedia of European Cinema, The Companion to Italian Cinema and the Treccani Dictionary. He taught classes at the university of Parma and Modena and for the RTSI.

Research professor in cinema, photography and TV at the Catholic University Sacro Cuore in Milan, he teaches Theory of the Cinema and the Audiovisual and Institutions of the Cinema and the Audiovisual in Milan and Brescia. His research is especially focused on the history of cinema’s theories and the socio-technologic history of the cinema and the audiovisual, particularly in Italy. He’s the editor of the specialist magazines Bianco e nero and Comunicazioni sociali.

He published the novels Generations of love, Fermati tanto così ed Esperimenti di felicità provvisoria, all for Baldini Castaldi Dalai editore. He also published the memorial Mi ricordo and the fairytale Tu Cher dalle stelle. Toghether with Giorgio Vasta, he contributed to the writing of the Dizionario Affettivo della Lingua Italiana. He’s one of the authors of the TV programme Victor Victoria. You can visit his website on www.matteobb.com, and his blog on www.matteobblog.splinder.com.

She graduated in Editing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. She was finalist at the Nastri d’Argento 2008 with her movies Riprendimi and Vogliamo anche le rose. Among her works: La rabbia e Comunisti, by Davide Ferrario; Un’ora sola ti vorrei and Vogliamo anche le rose, by Alina Marazzi, both competing in many festivals; 58%, by Vincenzo Marra; Promised Land, by Michael Beltrami; Riprendimi, by Anna Negri and Mar Nero, by Federico Bondi.