Amarcort Film Festival 12th edition - Rimini (italy) - November 2019

Sandrine Faucher Cassidy è Senior Director per Festival e Distribuzione alla USC School of Cinematic Arts. In quanto tale, consiglia e tutora student e alumni, aiutandoli a strategizzare le carriere e i festival e la distribuzione dei loro corti e lungometraggi indipendenti. Aiuta a costruire quel ponte vitale tra la scuola cinematografica, il circuito dei festival e l'industria cinematografica.
Il catalogo USC di cortometraggi cresce di circa 2000 titoli l'anno. Sandrine si occupa della distribuzione di quei corti in tutto il mondo. Alcuni di questi film includono corti di registi di fama come George Lucas, Robert Zemekis etc. Con oltre 25 anni di esperienza nell'industria cinematografica e nei festival internazionali sin dalla sua posizione come promoter di film all'Unifrance Film International, Sandrine Cassidy ha costruito la propria carriera specializzandosi nella distribuzione, esposizione di corti e lungometraggi e il supporto di registi indipendenti.

Andrea Lodovichetti was born in Italy in 1976 and currently lives between Europe and the US. Graduated in Film Directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (National School of Film in Italy), he worked as 2AD for the Academy Award winner director Paolo Sorrentino. Director, producer and screenwriter, he won a consistent number of international Awards including the Italian Golden Globe and the “Looking for a Genius Award” at the Babelgum Film Festival in Cannes, headed by Spike Lee.

Luca Nervegna works as director of photography and has nearly twenty years of experience in the cinema field. After years spent working whithin the industry in Rome, he has founded a film company, in partnership with Giacomo Benini and entirely focused on the region of Romagna: the Furia Film.

Tony undertook film studies in Canada and produced and hosted Servizz Xandir Malti on Graham Cable TV in Toronto. He won four Graham Awards for drama in Maltese, and Producer of the Year from Graham Cable Television. He was also awarded the Canada Birthday Award for Achievement (Government of Ontario). In 1984 he joined Xandir Malta's Newsroom as editor / director. Later as Head of Drama of PBS he directed and produced TV drama serials and various documentaries. Independently he wrote and directed the feature film Operation White Dove which was shown both in Malta and Australia, and also directed Bawxati The Movie, and Pawlu ta' Tarsu which were also screened at local Cinamas. In 1990, he joined One Productions as head of drama, and produced and directed drama and various award winning documentaries, and as an independent director/producer he has also done sterling work for NET TV. Tony has won several Broadcasting Authority Awards for Drama and documentaries as well as the BPC Award to Journalism (TV). He also, won the award for Best Cultural Programme with Joyce Grech for the production of the Malta International TV Short Film Festival aired on TVM.
He has served as judge on several film festivals, including the Short-Shock 2007 International Film Festival in Anapa, Russia, and The Golden Knight Film Festival in Malta (Malta Cine Circle) and the Malta Journalist Awards. Tony is the Festival Director/Producer of The Malta International TV Short Film Festival that is broadcasted by PBS, Malta national television for the past eleven years.

Elena Zanni was born in a cinephile family of entrepreneurs. She spends her childhood in the many cinemas owned by his family, who also run some independent movie theatres like the parish indie cinema in Gabicce Mare, the very first challenge of his father, Silvio Zanni, back in the 60s. Elena literally grows up in the movie houses. She now runs one of the most known movie theatres in the world and in Italy: Fulgor, Fellini's movie theatre. Praised, discussed and still loved by many for its long history, Fulgor movie house is more than 100 years old and it raised the little Federico Fellini who fell in love with it. That is why Fulgor is displayed in many of his movies.
It is the first indie cinema to open its doors in Rimini, in 1914, and it was led by a resourceful woman, Ida Ravulli. The cinema reopens in January 2018, on Fellini's birthday, to celebrate the non-forgotten director. This time, another charismatic woman is in charge of it: Elena Zanni. She begins her activity in 2009 thanks to his father. Together, they decide to take over Settebello in Rimini to turn it into an independent movie theatre. Thanks to the precious help of the many collaborators she meets during her carrier and thanks to her foresight, she takes over her family business and runs it with success, winning the management of Fulgor. Nowadays, she manages projects which lead to the great cultural events organized in her movie theatres in Rimini. Writers, artists, actors, directors, musicians but also scientists and entrepreneurs, leaders of the national cultural scene, animate those spaces which are no more just 'cinemas', but a real cultural, social, artistic and humanitarian melting pot. All of this is possible thanks to the sensible and big efforts that her team put in place every day, in order to convey feelings and awareness to people.

My name is Francesca Fabbri Fellini, born in 1965, professional journalist. Being daughter of his sister, Maria Maddalena, I'm the only remaining heir for Maestro Federico Fellini's DNA. I'm the worldwide ambassador of this work. In addition to being peacefully legitimized to the protection of Maestro's name and image by being his heir, I'm also the only and exclusive owner for trade marks composed of FEDERICO FELLINI's patronymic (including his signature), registered trademark in Italy and abroad, in order to distinguish actual and/or potential commercial activities suited to Maestro's prestige and image, and to avoid the attempts of hoarding sales power connected to Fellini's name by third parties. Therefore, I take care of Maestro Fellini's name, image of his works and of his signature. Defending artist Fellini is a job. Born in Bologna in 1965 under the sign of Gemini, with Libra on the ascendant, Francesca lived her first 19 years in Rimini, with her parents Maria Maddalena Fellini and Giorgio Fabbri, a pediatrician. At 23 years she graduated in Foreign Languages and Literature and in 1987 she signed her first writing in video for RAI, for the program "Muoviamoci su Rai Due" with Sidney Rome, composed of 180 episodes.
After this experience, she signed many more contracts with RAI: from 1999 to 2006 she's one of the correspondents for "La vita in diretta" with Michele Cucuzza on Raiuno. She worked with authors such as Michele Guardì, Senza Sampò, Licia Colò. She really likes television, but cinema has been in her chromosomes since forever (she defines herself as "raised with cinema and tortellini"): from 1993 and 1997 she collaborated with radio network RTL 102.5, managing cinema, and thanks to this experience she became a professional journalist. From 2004 to 2006 she signed and hosted on RTL: "Asa NIsi MAsa – L'ANIMA del cinema", which took its name from the magic sentence repeated by Guido/Mastroianni, main character of "Otto e mezzo".
Francesca thought about this title for her program as a tribute to her uncle "CHICCO". The 'Fellinette', as her uncle Federico used to call her, loves good food, theatre, books, flowers and spending her time with her little big friend Alfie, a white poodle who only lacks of words. Her favorite movie is Amarcord, of which she knows every line and which she watches as soon as she can.

Born in Rome on 7th June 1941, he's a cinematographer and became known working with Giuseppe Tornatore in "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso". Thanks to his work with his film he also gained a nomination to BAFTA.
Filmography (partial):
Sapore di mare 2 - Un anno dopo (Bruno Cortini, 1983)
Olga e i suoi figli (Salvatore Nocita, 1985)
Il camorrista (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1986)
Teresa (Dino Risi, 1987)
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1989)
Sinbad of the Seven Seas (Enzo G. Castellari, 1989)
Saremo felici (Gianfrancesco Lazotti, 1989)
Tolgo il disturbo (Dino Risi, 1990)
Una pura formalità (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1994)
Belle al bar (Alessandro Benvenuti, 1994)
Chicken Park (Jerry Calà, 1994)
Passaggio per il paradiso (Antonio Baiocco, 1998)
Ferdinando e Carolina (Lina Wertmuller, 1999)
Vajont (Renzo Martinelli, 2001)
Piazza delle Cinque Lune (Renzo Martinelli, 2003)
L'estate del mio primo bacio (Carlo Virzì, 2005)
Il mercante di pietre (Renzo Martinelli, 2006)
Ma l'amore... sì! (Marco Costa eTonino Zangardi, 2006)
Tutte le donne della mia vita (Simona Izzo, 2007)
Zodiaco, miniseries (2008)
100 metri dal Paradiso (Raffaele Verzillo, 2012)
Il bambino cattivo (Pupi Avati, 2013)
Un ragazzo d'oro (Pupi Avati, 2014)
Oltre le nubi (Marcella Mitaritonna, 2014)
Le nozze di Laura (Pupi Avati, 2015)
Mi rifaccio il trullo (Vito Cea, 2016)
Prigioniero della mia libertà (Rosario Errico, 2016)
Stato di ebbrezza (Luca Biglione, 2018)
Television work:
Il balordo (Pino Passalacqua - miniserie TV, 1978)
Piazza di Spagna (Florestano Vancini - miniserie TV, 1992)
La missione (Maurizio Zaccaro - miniserie TV, 1998)
Un nero per casa (Gigi Proietti - film TV, 1998)

Luigino Piccolo (Giuti) was born in Udine, studies Literature in Padua with the idea of becoming a restorer. In 1980 he arrives in Rome, contacted by Paolo Tommasi, set designer and costume designer for Giancarlo Cobelli. After two years as assistant to the costume designer, he meets Pietro Farani who asks him help in running tailoring history: there, the majority of the costumes for the masterpieces in Italian cinema from 60s to 70s were realized. And all of this happened thanks to the collaboration with Danilo Donati, usual costume maker for Pasolini, Fellini e Zeffirelli, two Oscar Awards and several other prizes. Since 1997, after the passing of Farani, the tailoring passes directly into his hands; without disowning his past, tailoring oriented in historical reconstruction of costumes and, with great pride, between his last years' clients we can remember Colleen Atwood, Tim Burton's costume designer, who won four Oscars.
Starting with a small fundus found in tailoring, during the years Piccolo created a notable collection of authentical dresses: more than 3000 pieces, starting from 1750s to High Fashion collections of the 60s; he uses this material for studying, which is very important to philologically reproduce the time.
For five years now he's teaching, with great passion, reciprocated by his students, History of Cinema at IED in Rome and, for a year now, History of Costume at Accademia di moda e costume (Academy of fashion and costume), which is also based in Rome.

(Born in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Rimini - 21.10.1975). Is an italian actor, director and screenwriter. He graduated in 1997 from Accademia d'Arte Drammatica Antoniana in Bologna and is a member of Centro di Cinema e Teatro "Duse" in Rome, hosted by Francesca De Sapio from 2000 to 2004. He is known to television audience for his role as Billo in "Un posto al sole d'estate" in 2008/2009 and for his role as inspector Giacomo Romani in "Centovetrine" 2010/11. In 2006 opens at cinema "La Vida es un Carnaval", a movie that sees him in the three hats of director, author and actor.
In 2013 he is one of the main characters of "Una notte gli studios", cinema movie directed by Claudio Insegno, and he's testimonial for the national campaign of Ministry against AIDS, directed by Raul Bova. During the same year, he shoots "La Prof. 5" and the successful webserie "Interno giorno". He's in the radio, on M20, hosting the section "Good News" of the programm "AQPP". In 2014 he's in "Un passo dal cielo 3" along with Terence Hill and he's one of the main characters of "Forse Sono Io 2", a webserie directed by Vincenzo Alfieri.
From 2014 to 2016 he's Biagio Izzo's theatre company, in which he takes part to the national tour for shows such as "Come un Cenerentolo" (directed by Claudio Insegno) and "L'amico del cuore" (Directed by Vincenzo Salemme". In 2017 he's one of the main characters in the cinema movie "Tiro Libero" by Alessandro Valori. In 2017 he debuts in theatre as a director and author with "Un altro spettacolo con cui rovinare una serata ad amici e parenti" and in 2018 he directs and writes the show "L'evoluzione della specie". In 2018 he also takes part as actor in the RAI fiction "L'Allieva 2", in Giorgia's music video "Le tasche piene di sassi" and he's screenwriter and co-protagonist with Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Ivano Marescotti and Pietro Maggiò in the feature film "Tutto Liscio" by Igor Maltagliati, produced by "La Famiglia Film" with the contribution of region Emilia Romagna. After shooting many music videos, in 2019 he's director and screenwriter for music video "Rossetto", a song by the winner of platinum record "Random". Since 2016 he's founder and teacher of Centro di Cinema e Teatro "La Valigia dell'Attore", a laboratory for acting, established in Romagna.

Started off in modern Theatre as actor/director together with working as a projectionist in a local Cinema. A few years in Film art departments followed at Malta's Film facilities. Directed and coordinated events both for the Private and Public sector. These include Opening and closing ceremonies for the Games of the Small States of Europe, Grand Harbour Spectacles on VE Day, complete production and direction of Malta's Millennium activities and part production and direction of Malta's accession celebrations into the EU with mega projections on Fort St. Angelo in Malta's Grand Harbour. 1973 employed with Television Malta as programme producer and director, showing specialisation for drama and documentaries. Employed with NET Television as Head of Programmes, Produced and directed Best Drama Production 2003. 2005 set up the Media Production company, "26th Frame" and directed numerous award winning productions.
In 2018/19 wrote and Co Produced "Carmelo" for PBS Television Malta together with a TV Series "Nostalgija". Attended film making courses and seminars, including most recent Master Classes with writer John Coolle, in Working on a Micro Budget, Crowd Funding, Marketing and Distribution, (Valletta Film Festival 2015) Film Production and Script Writing (Storyworks) 2015. Commenced production of Short Animation Films and major animation projects. 2016 – 19 with productions shortlisted in international film Festivals.
Attended and represented Malta in International Seminars and Conventions covering all aspects of film production. Gave talks, courses and seminars on Audience attitudes, Television, Acting for TV, Cinema and Public Events Organisation. Served on boards and committees including the National Festivities Committee as president (1987 - '91), the Foundation of European Carnival Committees as vice-president (1988 - '91), Radio 101 (1991 - '94 ), Mediterranean Film Studios (1992 - '93), and the Council for Culture and the Arts (2002 – '05). Sat on judging panels for Photographic, Art, Costume, Drama, Beauty and Song competitions including Malta's prestigious Golden Knight Film Festival and the Television Short Film Festival. Producer/Manager of Malta's first Film Expo 2017.

Family, cinema, theater, journalism , music and poetry: here's Enrico Zoi, Florentine born in 1959, graduated in Literature on a poem from the 1500s. To his credit also various books, including two poetic sillogues and the recent collection of fairy tales "Favole per Irene" (2018), illustrated by his son Filippo. Zoi has been writing press releases for the Municipalities of Bagno a Ripoli and Impruneta for 25 years.
He published thousands of interviews, articles, film and theater reviews and puzzles and seen (currently) 6400 films, a figure destined inexorably and daily to rise. With Philippe Chellini, Zoi is Alessandro Benvenuti's cinematographic biographer (two books) and the author of the twenty-year volume of Leonardo Pieraccioni's 'Ciclone'. Zoi He was part of the Juries of 'Underflorence' (Florence Film Festival, 1991), 'Under Rock - Futurock a Firenze' (1992), 'Schermi Irregolari' (2001, 2016, 2017 e 2018), 'Amarcort Film Festival' (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018), 'Cartoon Club' (2018, 2019). He also has an editorial football incursion, having written a book, "Firmamento Viola", on Fiorentina, his favorite team. In recent times, he has ventured into theatrical writing, with the monologue show "Zenrico, or his clone?" (Co-author Massimo Blaco) and the two cinemonologue shows "As time goes by", dedicated to Humphrey Bogart, and "Dr. Jekyll & Mister(o) Totò", obviously on the Prince of laughter.

Once a student of the school "Ipotesi Cinema" run by Ermanno Olmi, he is now an entertainer, director, professor, and production manager with an extensive experience in the field of cinema and animation. He has worked with Bruno Bozzetto, Maurizio Nichetti, Guido Manuli, Enzo d'Alò. He wrote the theme song of the 47th Venice Film Festival and won awards for some tv spots and medium-length films.
For Benetton, he directed "Birima son of Africa", a short film featuring the music of Youssou Ndour, the web series "Security.com" for Pirelli, and the animated video for the WWWF and its campaign "Now or Never" concerning climate change. As adjunct professor, he teaches subjects about cinema and communication in several schools such as the IED in Milan, the CISA in Locarno, the Insubria University and the High School of Linguistic Mediation in Varese. He is also the author and director of A-tube, the Global Animation Film Festival and A-tube Review 2019. For the publishing house Mimesis, he wrote the essay "Indiana Jones e il Cinema di Animazione" (2011) and the monographs "Star Wars. L'Epoca Lucas" (2017), "Superman&Co. Codici del Cinema e del Fumetto" (2018).

He graduated as Master of Applied Arts at the Art Institute in Bologna. With a bachelor's degree in Surgical Anatomical Drawing achieved at Med School in Bologna, he has worked as advertising graphic designer and illustrator in several fields, and at the same time he has undertaken, in the role of designer, a few projects on set design, aimed at communication, interior design, theatre, film and advertisement setting. For almost 8 years he has worked as teacher, photographer and director in fashion. As a freelancer, he majored in the setting up of theme parks and worked for EuroDisney and for the main suppliers of carousels and coin-operated games. In 1999 he founded a communication and set design company in Rimini, which aims at bringing together the local artistic scene and prestigious clients.
He was selected from ECIPAR in Rimini as best advisor for a project on female entrepreneurship and has obtained funding for a training course on work psychology, transactional analysis, lateral thinking and HR management. In those years, he broadened his experience by working for producers such as Casa Vianello, Stelle a quattro zampe, Quelli che il calcio, Smau Milano for WIND, TG5, the Bonci Theater in Cesena, Iceberg, Paolo Gerani, Roberts, Microsoft Italia and more. Riccardo Sivelli is the founder of "extralab" and is engaged in creativity and experimentation. He has a good knowledge of numerous materials, both traditional and composite. Moreover, he combines contemporary arts and groundbreaking materials. He is always looking for new types of communication and visual concepts in order to conceive effective communication projects that are able to appeal for the uniqueness and refinement of the manufacturing. Along the years, Riccardo Sivelli has developed a strong experience in the areas of communication, art, fashion and design.
His projects are based on trends and how they can interact with one another in order to shape communication means, installations and committed projects. He relies heavily on the ongoing search for innovative techniques and materials, and on the development of new interaction systems between the digital world and the real world. Along with traditional materials, he specialized in the use of composite materials such as silicones, resins for different uses. As a video enthusiast, he combines traditional and video animation techniques for inventive projects addressed to the several demands of communication. Extralab is the embodiment of all his experiences, from which modeling samples, fake food, make-up, artistic installations, theatrical and film settings, and pilot projects are conceived.

Born in Rimini in 1963, graduated in sociology with a specialization in mass communications and a master's thesis on animation films. From 1990 she has been working in the field of social research, particularly on issues such as juvenile disadvantage, intercultural disciplines and mass media. She is an expert in cinema and mass communications and has worked extensively in various cultural activities of the city of Rimini, collaborating on the organization of a large number of events dealing with music, film and visual arts.
Since 1991 she has been taking care of the ACLI Rimini cultural activity,from the association activities (music clubs, dance, theater, photography and movie culture) to "Progetto Immagine", a special project including various activities and events dedicated to the world of communications. In 1984 she organizes two video-film events and since 1991 she becomes their Artistic Director: "Round - Video film festival for short films, dedicate to independent authors" (1984/2012). "Cartoon Club - International Festival of animation, comics and games". Since 1999, she's been organizeing activities and cultural events for the detained of the Prison of Rimini. From 2000 to 2008 she has been president of the ACLI of Rimini Province.
From 1999 to 2009 she has coordinated the activities of the Social Services of the town of Verucchio. From 2001 to 2003 she has coordinated the activities of the Culture of the Municipality of Riccione. From 2005 to 2013 she has been president and director of "Foundation Enaip S. Zavatta" which organizes training courses and social activities.
From 2008 to 2013 she has been managing director of CO.AP. Cooperativa Comunità Aperta a.r.l. that manages radio channels, TV and web in the Rimini province. In 1998, together with the musician Andrea Felli of Acanto Snc, she founded a sound research center located in Rimini which includes a professional recording studio called Farmhouse, a recording label and music publishings.

Italian director and screenwriter. He was born on the 27th March 1971 in Rimini, where he still lives with his family. He has always been socially committed. After a short experience as a social educator in the rehabilitation centre "Luce sul Mare", in 1997 he gets in touch with the association "Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII".
For almost 20 years, until 2017, he has been in charge of "Capanna di Betlemme", a reception facility for homeless people.
From 2011, he is also the spokesman for Housing Sociale, a project of the municipality of Rimini and contact person for solidarity projects dedicated to people who live in extreme poverty. In 2016, his social commitment leads him to be elected Councilman of Rimini in the civil list "Rimini Attiva" of the Democratic Party. In the same year, "Capanna di Betlemme" collects experiences from social outcasts: people living in poverty and in solitude. All of this life experiences impress Kristian, who strives to give those subjects a voice and make them visible at society's eyes.
His experience in the audio-visual industry begins in 2011 with an internship at Produzioni L&C, in Rome. In 2002, he attends "CICS" (Centre for Social Communication) at the Gregorian University. In 2005, he attends theWorkshop Documentary in Europe for screenwriting and production promoted by "Festival dei Popoli" of Florence. In 2005, he collaborates to the screenwriting and production of TV documentaries for 2AFILM of Antonio e Pupi Avati. In 2002, for "L&C" of Luca De Mata, he realizes a documentary series called "La Valigia con lo Spago" for the National Italian Television, while in 2011 he realizes "Musulmani Europei". He is head of production and director of the production studio "Audiovisivi Apg23" of the association "Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII". In 2010, he becomes head of the communication, events and sensitization campaign office for the association. In these years, he has been producing and directing many documentaries, short films and social advertisements. Here's a list:
Documentaries - "La strada di Oana" (2005), documentary movie on the life of a girl forced to prostitute herself; "Do you love Jesus?" (2005), documentary movie on Don Oreste Benzi's life; "Il metodo Apac" (2009), documentary on Brazilian prisons; "I bambini di Dakka" (2012), documentary on the life of children in the streets of Bangladesh; "Con gli ultimi sulle strade del mondo" (2012), documentary on "Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII"; "So far so close" (2014), documentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict; "Vite in fuga" (2015), documentary on immigrants fled by refugee centres in Lebanon and their disembarkation; "I ragazzi del carcere minorile di Acireale" (2015), documentary on youth detention centre in Acireale; Short Films - "Da un pugno a una carezza" (2008) and "Oltre le sbarre" (2008), short film on prisons in Italy; "1,1,2,3,5" (2014), short film on disability; "Rimini homeless" (anno 2015), short film on poverty; TV Programs - "Punto a capo" (2005 – 2006) and "Scatechismo", (2010 – 2012), TV broadcasts on current events; Animation - "Thiago y el Caracol" (2014 e 2016), animation project for deaf-mute children; Social Advertisement - "Un pasto al giorno, qualcosa di straordinario" (2010) for the fundraising for meal centres of Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII; "Moments" (2011) and "5x1000 un gesto d'amore che cambia la storia" (2012) for the 5x1000; "La mia famiglia esce dal foglio" (2012), advertising IULM's foster home of Milan; "Per le donne crocifisse" and "Questo e` il mio corpo" (2016, 2017), social adverts against prostitution.. Kristian Gianfreda has obtained many prizes and awards for his works.
In 2012, he was awarded the prize for his advert "La mia famiglia esce dal foglio".
In 2015, he obtained a special mention for "La strada di Oana" and "1, 1, 1, 2, 5" at l'Anello Debole di Capodarco Festival.
In the same year, he wins the First Prize for best documentary with "So far, so close" at People for Peace and at The Prem Rawat Foundation.
In 2012, he was invited at Fiuggi Film Festival as a member of the jury. He gained an international recognition thanks to his first feature film, "Solo cose belle". His movie has been applauded both by the public and the critics. For this movie, in 2007 he founded the production studio "Coffee Time Film", based Rimini.

Roberto Grassilli was born in S. Pietro in Casale (Bologna).
Since the 80s he publishes comics, illustrations, cartoons on magazines and newspapers such as Alter, Linus, Frigidaire, Tempi Supplementari, Consumatori, Cuore, PuntoCom, il Fatto Quotidiano, Banca Etica, NavigareSicuri. As an illustrator, he works for Milano Libri, Conde' Nast, VociOff, Sperling & Kupfer, Cuore s.r.l, Inter Press Edizioni, Arcana Edizioni, Il Manifesto, Manutencoop, Kowalski, L'Arca Edizioni, Perdisa Editore, L'Arengo di Rimini, Edizioni Este, Bookrepublic, Telecom Italia, NdA Edizioni, Italica Edizioni, Edizioni Smasher, Bertoni Editore. He collaborated in various ways to events and manifestations, especially Biografilm Festival in Bologna, Mare di Libri in Rimini, Cesena Comics & Stories and Festa della Rete / Blogfest. In 1988 he established Showbiz with Steo Zacchi (illustration and graphic for album and advertisement campaigns for Italian music makers). In 1990 he moves to London to work in Spielberg's animation studio for the animated feature "Fievel goes West" (Amblin, Usa, 1991).
In 1991 he enters the newsroom of the new weekly satire magazine Cuore, run by Michele Serra. He remains until qualifying as art-director and until the magazine closes in '96.
In 97/98 he's responsible for publishing for Pan Distribuzioni (Marvel Italia) and collaborates to the realization of commercial websites (Alitalia, Ras, Microsoft Italia etc). In 1999 with Gianluca Neri and Gianluigi Mazzeschi he establishes Clarence srl. During the years of "net-economy", he works with marketing and graphics. Inside the well-known portal he also publishes a daily comic strip (sept. 2001): Net To Be. Speaking of which, it was also published in a comic collection: "To Be or Net to Be", Hops Libri, Milano, 2002.
In 2004, moved to Rimini, he starts again with his illustrator and cartoonist career. He collaborates to the creation of Il misfatto, satiric insert for Il Fatto Quotidiano, he projects and realizes graphic for the editorial online series 40K, of which he also draws singular covers.
In 2015 he creates la Realtà Diminuita.
In 2018 he illustrates Orlando e il Pinguino, comic book for children, written by Sara Galli, Bertoni Junior Editore.
The "side" business he's been most involved into, in particular from 1982 to 1991, as lead singer, was the rock band Lino e i Mistoterital.

After competing as a professional boxer in the '80s, thanks to his resemblance to Marlon Brando, he then starts modeling for the most important fashion designers at the beginning of the '90s. In '95 he is Popeye for the famous Moschino Cheap and Chic campaign and in that same year he becomes its testimonial for the underwear. In 1997, he decides to study and pursue his passion: acting. He attends the Beatrice Bracco's acting school and he is cast in his first film, Elvis e Marilyn, directed by Armando Manni.
Following, he stars in several films and in 2000 he is on the international set of the film Captain Corelli's Mandolin along with Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz and Christian Bale, with the direction of John Madden. In 2002 he is in El Alamein, directed by Enzo Monteleone and in Radio West, directed by Alessandro Valori. During those same years, Maggiò participates in several TV shows, among which Anni '60, Casa Vianello, Don Luca, L'ispettore Coliandro. In 2005 he founds La Famiglia Film studio with Samuele Sbrighi and produces La vida es un carnaval, directed by Samuele Sbrighi. In 2018, they produce Everything's Going Smooth (Tutto liscio!), directed by Igor Maltagliati, in which Maria Grazia Cucinotta and Ivano Marescotti star as protagonist, and distributed globally in 2020 thanks to Industry Works. Currently, he is on the TV show Il collegio, broadcast by Rai 2 channel, where he interprets the hall monitor of the school.

Nasce a Rimini nel 1974, in un decennio di gran fermento sociale e politico in Italia.

Daniele Pagnoni was born in Rimini (Italy) in 1974, in a lively social and economic decade.
He obtained a degree in Engineering, a Master's degree and then started to work permanently in a multinational cooperation based in Milan, as a result of his education and dedication to his studies. In Milan, he dedicates both to his job and the cultural life, regularly visiting museums, cinemas, exhibitions and theatres.
He gets into photography; an art he performs regularly even now he is back in his native town to enjoy the seaside and a happy family life. He is an associate and volunteer member of Palloncino Rosso, a cultural association. Here, he deals with the logistics and organization of cultural events, thanks to his passion for cinema and TV series.

Born in Florence, where he always lived apart from two years passed in the USA. He graduated in Physics in 1994, immediately understanding that he wanted to focus on music and theatre. He produced and recorded music going from jazz to modern music, from street music to sacred music; he performed as singer, actor, flute player, on several stages starting from Sanremo Festival to Quirinale, from discos to international festivals, from sidewalks to major legitimate stages. He wrote and acted musical theatre shows such as "Patrilineare" (1998), "Lev" (1999), "Purimshpil!" (2000), "Yonah" (2002 – who deserved an award from the European Association for Jewish Culture). He acted in Moni Ovadia's company from 2000 to 2004 on "Tevye un Mir", and "Il violinista sul tetto". He collaborates with the ancient music assemble Lucidarium, with which he recorded in France the cd "La Istoria de Purim". For Materiali Sonori he published in 2000 the album "Lokshen – Patrilineare" and in 2005 "Il ritorno alla Fede del Cantante di Jazz" (produced by Arlo Bigazzi), in which he dedicates a revisit in a contemporary, electronic, jazz key many Jewish lyrics and musics from religious ambit. His main publications are "Klezmer – Cronache di viaggi", Frame editions (1997); "La Mutazione" (1999) with group named Tacitevoci directed by Bruno de Franceschi. With the "Homeless L.I.G.H.T. Orchestra", in 2009, he published the cd "Quasi Live" (Officine della Cultura/Materiali Sonori Associated). He's musical director for O.M.A. (Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo) and he published in 2009 the cd/dvd "Animameticcia" and in 2013 "portosantagostino" (Officine della Cultura). He's one of the founding members of the ensemble "Cantierranti" directed by Giampiero Bigazzi, with which he realized the narrative concert "Senza Padrone - sogni e storie dell'impresa a capitale collettivo".
Since 2007 he teaches classes of Jewish music at Università degli Studi Ebraici in Rome.
For Materiali Sonori in 2010 he publishes "La mamma, l'angelo e la ciambella" (with Stefano Bartolini playing sax and Marcella Carboni playing harp) and in 2011 takes care of the cd "La casa dei canti – quasi 100 anni di Chazanut al Tempio Maggiore di Firenze".
In 2012 with Arlo Bigazzi, Sabina Manetti e Cantierranti, he writes a song for Caterpillar Rai Radio 2 "Vedo chiaro limpido vero", which videoclip won as best music video. In 2014 the song gets included into the album "Fuori dal pozzo", realized with Arlo & Cantierranti and the participation of Sabina Manetti, Mino Cavallo, Marzio Del Testa, Moni Ovadia, Raiz... "Fuori dal pozzo" goes on tour. He held classes and conferences in many universities such as Yale, UC Santa Cruz, Università Federale di Rio de Janeiro; Fondazione Levi, Venezia; and also in the universities of Bologna, Genova, Venezia, Milano. He taught "Storia della Musica Ebraica" at the Corso di Laurea in Studi Ebraici in Rome; he regularly teaches at the Bet Midrash of the Jewish community in Florence. He taught music from Jewish tradition in many schools of musical specialization. Collaborating with Renaissance music group Ensemble Lucidarium, he studied Jewish authors from Italian Renaissance and presented several programs in festivals, universities and institutions all around the world. He's curator for Primo Levi Center in New York for the project "Italian Chazanut Round Table" dedicated to Erna Finci Viterbi.
Enrico Fink he's coming back from his third Canadian tour and from a long theatrical season in which he directed Orchestra Multietnica from Arezzo on original compositions for the new show written by Stefano Masini and acted by Ottavia Piccolo.

Matteo Medri was born in Forlì on 8 September 1975 and he lives in Cesena since he graduated in Psychology. He gets close to the arts world in third grade by starting to play classical clarinet at the "Angelo Masini" music school in Forlì and graduating with the lower-level diploma of the 5th year at "Cherubini" Conservatory in Florence. After that, he started playing the drums with Maestro Stefano Paolini and forms a rock group (The Wizards), which performs with its own and unpublished music, with more than 65 live dates every year. The group gets reviewed by various trade magazines and publishes two CDs with independent production companies. During his university years he gets close to theatre and acting by participating in local and national drama courses with teachers from the international scene and by acting in some theatrical performances and in minor roles in TV fictions. During the same years, he establishes an association of social promotion (L'Aquilone di Iqbal) that takes care of activities for minors and art, also starting a path of official recognizing from Ministry of the role of Clowndoctor, through the establishment of a National Federation. Both those realities are operating today in the area with several projects. While participating in different artistic projects, he also operates as an animator/educator and street artist with many national realities such as WWF Italy, Arci NA, Regione Emilia-Romagna, etc. The experience he lived while realizing his group's music video made him find out a passion and love for video language. He then starts an educational process in that direction. He takes part of many courses with professional figures in different parts of Italy, such as a course in Rome's cinema academy with R. De Laurentiis and Acay Cinematografica, as well as getting closer to professionals by covering different roles. At the start of 2000s he establishes his own society (Metters Studio Films srl) and a production team, with which he took care of productions and 360° audiovisuals during the years (from commercials to documentaries, from short and medium-length films to formats and TV projects, from corporate to viral for web and social medias, and not to forget music videos and live events).
Some of the companies and institutions that entrusted him to be the video director are: Technogym, Orogel, Zucchetti, Tubes, Yamaha (with Valentino Rossi), Elio Fiorucci, Eridania, Prink, Calibe, Regione Emilia Romagna, Regione Marche, Trevi, Avis EMR, Cosmoprof International, Hera, ecc. In the world of art and audiovisual he won several national and international prizes, such as the international festival "I've seen film festival" by Rutger Houer with the short film "Solo"; the "Red Dot Award" for the commercial video "Faraway" for Zucchetti.KOS company, and many more special mentions and prizes for short films, commercials and social media realized between 2005 and 2019.
In music and artistic world he took care of audiovisual projects for: Dario Fo, FNC Italia, ONG Internazionale "Persone come noi", Max Gazzè, YoYo Mundi, Demo Rai Radio Uno with Michel Pergolani and Renato Marengo, Khorakhanè for Sanremo festival 2007, Libero.it portal with the videoclip project on women's bullying and more, SKYARTE with "Vai col Liscio" format, Mediaset friend with social adverts (among which we remember the one about abandoning animals, aired during all the summer in 2012), TV2000 and national channels with documentary about Clown Doctors (still airing). In theatre world he wrote three shows as a tribute to Fabrizio De André, two of them collaborating with authors and actors from national scene, which were added to some theatre bills in region EMR and Tuscany. Those shows had the coexistence of different artistic languages: from live music to painting, from acting to dance, to video projection. In his educational path he didn't miss out on professional experiences as a live events director (Repubblica delle Idee, Cosmoprof, Techongym, Utopia etc.) and as production manager to programs and institutions (Rai Radio 1- Demo Rai, RTI and national and regional television networks).

Born in the province of Brescia in 1959. Meet the Music at 16 and immediately fall in love with it, finding in her a lifestyle, a goal to reach. His studies led him to obtain a diploma as a surveyor, but his career behind a desk stopped shortly. Guido Elmi, a historical Artistic producer of Vasco Rossi, notices him, who after a concert organized by Diego asks him to be a professional member of the Group. Since 1982 Diego follows Vasco Rossi in the role of Stage Manager, coordinates people and things nec essary for the best performance of the Show as well as making his artistic contribution with his Performances as Master of Ceremony during the Band's presentations since 1996.
He founded and is a director of ATTIVI E CREATIVI, a company that deals with entertainment services. His clients include many other Italian and foreign artists, as well as entertainment agencies. In addition to the technical role, he is involved in musical projects as DubMaster and Singer. When he's not busy touring in Diego, he like s to cook, hang out with people and design shows. He is currently busy writing a theater project.

Pedro Armocida (Madrid, 1971), a graduate of La Sapienza University of Rome in Literature, he is an essayist, professional journalist, film critic and adjunct professor. He contributes for Ciak magazine, 8 1/2, Film Tv and Il Giornale. He is art director of the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, member of the board of the AFIC, the Italian Film Festivals Association, general secretary of the trade union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI).
He is adjunct professor of Film Criticism in the Theatre, Cinema, Dance and Digital Arts Master's Degree Course at the for the La Sapienza University in Rome. He is a member of a shortlist of juries for the documentaries of the David di Donatello Awards (2018-2019). He was the editor and co-editor of various publications, among which: Ieri, oggi e domani.
Il cinema di genere in Italia, Marsilio, Venice, 2019; L'attore nel cinema italiano contemporaneo. Storia, performance, immagine, Marsilio, Venice, 2017; Romanzo popolare. Narrazione, pubblico e storie del cinema italiano negli anni duemila, Marsilio, Venice, 2016; Esordi italiani. Gli anni Dieci al cinema (2010-2015), Marsilio, Venice, 2015; Il cinema argentino contemporaneo e l'opera di Leonardo Favio, Marsilio, Venice, 2006; Oltre la frontiera. Il cinema messicano contemporaneo, Revolver, Bologna, 2004; Cinema in Spagna oggi, Lindau, Turin, 2002.

Screenwriter and producer of short films, film clips, educational videos, commercials, theatre performances. He organizes film courses, festivals and seminars, while also working with magazines and websites. He has been a radio host in several regional and national broadcast channels, where he was in charge of the cinema section. With the film director Andrea Lodovichetti, he founded the cultural association Lobecafilm and he wrote the short film Sotto il mio giardino, produced by the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Scuola Nazionale del Cinema (Experimental film centre – National film school) in Rome. Currently, Sotto il mio giardino is one of the short film which has been selected and awarded the most, having received awrds such as the Italian Golden Globe, the People's Choice Award at the Academy Festival of Beijing, the first prize at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Looking for Genius – Spike Lee's International Competition Award at the Festival of Cannes.
He wrote and produced with the director Andrea Lodovichetti the documentary PescAmare. He also wrote the screenplay of the film Le parole del silenzio. Together with Andrea Lodovichetti and Eros Tumbarello, he wrote the screenplay for Nero come le formiche (Black as the ants) and for the film L'origin du monde. He is the author of the original screenplay of the fictional feature-length film La bambina di Chernobyl, co-written with Massimo Nardin. He is the creator of a recital on Marcello Mastroianni named Il bel Marcello, as well as another recital about Monica Vitti, entitled L'avventura di chiamarsi Monica. He contributed to the realisation of the Ozu Film Festival in Sassuolo. Since 2018, with Daniele Ciprì, film director and director of photography, he is the art director for the CortoDorico Film Festival of Ancona, supported by MIBAC, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities.

Born on 07 April 1962 in Forlì, Italy. He attended several courses in Film History and Directing. He organizes film clubs and film literacy activities. In 2004, he founded the Association "Sedicicorto". Since then, he has been Art Director of the Sedicicorto International Film Festival in Forlì. He is member of the promoting Committee of the CNC, the Italian National Short Films Centre.
In 2008, he created the Golden FEDIC, a network composed by 12 film festivals and 30 film clubs. He has been an advisor member for FEDIC, the Italian Film Clubs Federation, since 2009. In 2011, in Cesenatico, Castellini founded ANIMARE, an animation film festival for children aged 3 to 13.
Since 2014, he coordinates the REFF network, in which 15 film festivals take part. In 2018, he founded the IRANFEST, which focuses on Iranian cinema. He took part in many Italian and international film festivals as a jury member and a member of the selection committee. He works with several cultural associations to support programmes which promote the art of short films and the development of film literacy in the schools of his area. He participates in numerous Italian and international film festivals to contribute to the distribution network of short films in Italy and abroad.