Maura Andreoli. I am from Naples and have worked in the film industry for twenty years. This passion is due in no small way to the stories of my mother and grandmother – every time they saw a film they would tell us girls all about it, whether it was Dracula, Bergman or a sword and sandals epic...
A mathematics graduate and computer science expert by profession, Maria Di Razza has always nurtured a passion for the cinema. In 2007 she did the directing course in at the Pigrecoemme film school in Naples and in the same year shot "Ipazia," a short film on the only female scientist in antiquity. In 2012 she made the award-winning animated short film "Forbici", dealing with the issue of femicide, as part of the film project that saw the involvement of marechiarofilm: "Oggi insieme, domani anche" (Together today and also tomorrow)" created by Antonietta De Lillo.
A native of Naples, Carmen Credendino is a professional journalist with responsibility for the content of the multimedia site diregiovani.it, linked to the 'Dire' press agency since its inception. Last year the site celebrated 25 million clicks. Along with our colleagues on the editorial staff, we seek to provide information that steers clears of the usual clichés as much as possible and to use the network to bring together Internet devotees of all ages. The idea is to stimulate critical awareness amongst our users in the multifaceted world of the under-35s.
Natasha Festa was born in Avellino in the last century, has an Arts degree from the University Federico II of Naples (where she lives), and specialises in Aesthetics at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University. A professional journalist and theatre and literary critic, she has taught journalism in various institutes and Italian Literature at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University. She is editor of Corriere del Mezzogiorno – the Neapolitan edition of the Corriere della Sera.
Massimiliano Pacifico graduated in Film and TV Studies at the University of Surrey in London in 2001. He currently lives and works in Naples, where he has worked with directors such as Paolo Sorrentino, Stefano Sollima, Pippo Delbono, Antonio Capuano, Vincenzo Marra, Susanne Bier, Olivier Assayas and many others. He is also a documentary filmmaker and has produced numerous films on the installations of Mimmo Paladino and was editor on Quijote, in competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2006.
He has been director of Associazione Cinematografica Arci Movie since 2000 and is involved in cultural planning and the organisation of film events. Since 2009 he has been the curator of the "AstraDoc – Viaggio nel Cinema del Reale" documentary festival held in the historic Academy Astra Cinema in Naples. Illustrious guests welcomed over the years have included Gianfranco Rosi, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Vincenzo Marra, Gianfranco Pannone, Antonietta De Lillo, Toni Servillo, Erri De Luca, Paolo Rossi, Alberto Fasulo and Pippo Delbono.
Born in Bergamo in 1951. In 1975 he was one of the founders of the distribution cooperative Lab 80 film, which specialised in the distribution of quality films and classics of film history. He took over the role of Chairman of the group since 1989. In 1978 he began working with the film criticism monthly "Cineforum" and joined the magazine's editorial staff in 1983. He began working as an organiser with Bergamo Film Meeting in 1983 (the year it was founded) and became its director in 1999.
