JURIES
FEATURE FILM, ITALIAN FIRST AND SECOND FEATURE COMPETITION
President of the Jury
LAURA DELLI COLLI
Journalist and writer, she is President of the Italian Film Journalists who award the Nastri d’Argento. For years, she was the Entertainment Editor of Repubblica and special correspondent of Panorama. From newspapers to major film events, she led the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, which produces the Festa del Cinema and Cinema Italian Style to promote Italian cinema in Los Angeles towards the Oscars. Over the years she has authored a successful series of books dedicated to the Taste of Cinema, but above all several biographies dedicated to, among others, Gianni Amelio, Marco Tullio Giordana, Ferzan Ozpetek and Monica Vitti to whom she has dedicated two books and to whom she is bound by the memory of an unforgettable close encounter before illness drove her away.
Juror
MARGHERITA FERRANDINO
Margherita Ferrandino, born in Turin, started working as a journalist in 1995. In Turin, she worked in radio and private television covering culture and society, hosted various programmes and collaborated with several daily, weekly and monthly newspapers. Of particular note is Vogue Italia under the editorship of Carla Sozzani, where Ferrandino covered events from the world of international culture and interviews with prominent personalities. She attended the ‘Ipotesi Cinema’ school directed by Ermanno Olmi and signed several documentaries, including one made with Giovanni Veronesi shot on the set of Mario Monicelli’s last film ‘Le Rose del deserto’. The documentary was presented at the Rome Film Festival and included, at Maestro Monicelli’s request, in the DVD of his last film. She moved to Rome in 1990 where she began working for Rai 3 in programmes such as Blob, Schegge and Fuori Orario… Over the years, Margherita has written and presented programmes for Rai 2 and Rai 3. She has also produced several specials for Tg3 where she arrived in 1993, under the direction of Sandro Curzi. She has always worked in the culture editorial office where she became a correspondent and then editor-in-chief, covering major events in music, cinema and theatre.
Juror
ELENA LIETTI
Born in Saronno, Elena Lietti began her professional career working in theatre with Filippo Timi and participating in several productions of Milan’s Franco Parenti Theatre. Her cinema debut in 2009 was with the film ‘Oggi Sposi’ by Luca Lucini. In 2012 he was in the cast of Giuseppe Piccioni’s “Il rosso e il blu” while in 2015 he took part in Paolo Virzì’s “La Pazza Gioia”.
On television, between 2014 and 2015, she is in the TV series ‘Alex & Co’ and in 2016 she participates in the film – sequel to the series – ‘Come diventare grandi nonostante i genitori’ by Luca Lucini. In 2017 she stars in the Sky TV series “Il Miracolo” (The Miracle) by writer Niccolò Ammaniti, who also signs the director’s credits with Lucio Pellegrini and Francesco Munzi. In 2021 she is directed again by Ammaniti in the Sky series “Anna”. Many auteur films follow, including Nanni Moretti’s “Tre Piani” and “Il sol dell’avvenire”, both in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Paolo Virzì’s “Siccità”, Giuseppe Bonito’s “L’Arminuta” and Paolo Genovese’s “Il primo giorno della mia vita”. In 2022 he is in two successful films such as “The Eight Mountains” by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, winner of the David di Donatello for Best Film, and “The Big Day” by Massimo Venier, also winner of a David di Donatello, the one awarded by the Italian public.
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION
President of the Jury
BARBARA CHICHIARELLI
Barbara Chichiarelli, was born in Rome and is an Italian actress. In 2010 she entered the Silvio D’Amico Academy where she graduated in 2013, with the final performance “Days of Darkness” directed by Gabriele Lavia.
After several years in which she collaborated with high-level professional artists in the theatrical field, she became known to the general public for the role of “Livia Adami”, one of the protagonists of the cult series “SUBURRA”, the first Italian Netflix original production.
On the big screen she stars in “Un’avventura” by Marco Danieli and in “La Dea Fortuna” by director Ferzan Özpetek, a critical and box-office success. In 2020, she won the ‘Graziella Bonacchi’ award as best emerging Italian actress,
and the “Ciak d’oro” for her emotional performance in “Favolacce” by the D’Innocenzo Brothers.
She filmed “Bang Bang Baby”, the first Italian Amazon Original series directed by Michele Alhaique, Margherita Ferri and Giuseppe Bonito and the series “Corpo Libero” directed by Valerio Bonelli and Cosima Spender. In 2022 she was in the film “Calcinculo” directed by Chiara Bellosi, a film nominated for the Nastri d’Argento. In the same year she starred in the TV Series “The Good Mothers” directed by Julian Jarrold and Elisa Amoruso, inspired by the novel by Alex Perry and presented in 2023 as an international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. The Series won the Golden Bear and she was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the Nastri D’Argento. In the same year she was directed by Joe Wright in the series “M – the child of the century” Produced by The Apartment.
Juror
RITA ABELA
As a child, the theatre was the only place where she felt fully at ease. For this reason
she decided very early on that she would also be an actress when she grew up. And she succeeds! After many years of experience on the stage, touring all over Italy alongside prestigious names (one of them being Leo Gullotta), she landed in the magical world of the sets. Her first experience in front of the camera was with Pupi Avati in 2015. After seven years, Pupi called her back to give her a role in the film Dante (played by Alessandro Sperduti). In the meantime, she alternates between touring with other work for TV and cinema: “Il Cacciatore” directed by Davide Marengo, “Il mio corpo vi seppellirà” directed by Giovanni La Pàrola (winner of OFF 2021) and more films directed by Pasquale Scimeca and Saverio Costanzo. With the short film ‘Big’ by Daniele Pini, winner of the OFF 2022 Audience Award, she collected a fair number of Best Actress awards. Last winter, she joyfully played a beautiful role in Michela Giraud’s debut feature film, which is still in production.
Juror
BRUNO DI CHIARA
Actor, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, class of ’88, born in Castellana Sicula(PA) and moved to Palermo for his university studies. His first internship with Dario Fo and Franca Rame represents the archè of his career. In addition, Roberta Torre, Elio Germano and Emma Dante, director of the School (Teatro Biondo Palermo) where she studied from 2014 to 2016, were fundamental in her training. In addition to working with E.Dante (among other works in l’Odissea a/r in the role of Odysseus, also contributing to the music, and in the film Le Sorelle Macaluso), he has collaborated in both theatre and film with numerous directors. In theatre, with Davide Livermore(Elena), Roberta Torre(among others Insanamente Riccardo III), Ricci e Forte(Troilo vs Cressida), Roberto Andò(Winter Journey-L.Einaudi), Donatella Finocchiaro(La Lupa), Damiano Micheletto, Francesco Scianna and Rosario Palazzolo. On the set, among others, with Piero Messina (L’ORA, nominated for the Nastri), Luca Ribuoli (La mafia uccide solo d’estate), Emanuele Crialese, Julia Shuvchinskaya(Pina – Best Actor Award PFF), Elisa Amoruso, D. Marengo(Il Cacciatore – Sabbia Nera), A.Sironi(Il Commissario Montalbano), Francesco Amato(new film Ficarra e Picone2023).
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
PRESIDENT
GIULIA COSENTINO
Giulia Cosentino is a director and screenwriter, born in Catania in 1990. She holds a degree in Cinema and Visual Arts and an International Master’s degree in Audiovisual and Cinema Studies from the Universities of Roma Tre, Nova in Lisbon, Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She specialises in repertory research and is the founder of the Re-framing Home movies association. She teaches the film reuse course at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Sede Sicilia. Her short films (Lui e io, 2019; Perché scappi?, 2020) have been presented in numerous film festivals and international platforms. His new film “Le prime volte” is currently in PRODUCTION. He won the Solinas Prize 2022 for the screenplay ‘Due amici’ co-written with director Pierfrancesco Li Donni.
PRESIDENT
PIERO LI DONNI
Pierfrancesco Li Donni, director, screenwriter and producer, teaches documentary cinema at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia’s Sicilian branch.
He made his directorial debut with the documentary film Il Secondo Tempo (2012). Loro di Napoli (2015) won Best Italian Film at the Festival dei Popoli, the Télérama award for Best International Film at the Fipadoc in Biarritz, the Docs MX in Mexico City.
In 2017, he won the first edition of the Zavattini Prize with Massimino. La nostra strada (2020) was best Italian film at the 16th Biografilm Festival and was selected at the 33rd edition of Idfa. In 2022 he won the Franco Solinas prize for best screenplay for cinema with the film Due amici co-written with Giulia Cosentino.