Stefania Parigi, President of the Jury
Stefania Parigi studied at the University of Siena. During the 1980s and 1990s she held research and consultancy positions at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome; she was editor of the magazine ‘Bianco e Nero’ and of the ‘Filmlexicon degli autori e delle opere’; she collaborated actively with the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro (Documentation and books sector) and with the Encyclopaedia Treccani (V appendix). Since the mid-1990s, she has been teaching at the University of Roma Tre. Her research focuses mainly on the history, theories, films and authors of Italian cinema.
Silvia Moras
Silvia Moras has been working for almost twenty years in the field of film and media education and film event organisation. She is a trainer for the Piano Nazionale di Educazione all’immagine promoted by the MIC and MIM ministries and a lecturer at the CSC in Rome on the Conservazione e Management del patrimonio audiovisivo course. She collaborates with several film festivals (Sedicicorto, Le Giornate della Luce, Euganea film festival) and she is artistic director for events organised by the Friulian cooperative Videomante. Silvia is social media manager for the distribution company VIGGO/Ripley’s Home Video and consultant for the WeShort4School project for the platform of the same name. She researched and curated multimedia content for PAFF! International Museum of Comic Art in Pordenone and is a collector of film paratexts, ephemera and fandom materials.
Edgardo Pistone
His passion for the seventh art led him to study directing and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. After graduating, he began working as a director and author, photographer and scriptwriter, also approaching the world of education, bringing cinema to the suburbs of his city, where he teaches young people the art of filmmaking. In 2019, he participated as assistant director in the making of ‘Selfie’ by Agostino Ferrente. His last short film as director, ‘Le Mosche’ (2020), won the official prize of the International Critics’ Week at the Venice Film Festival, in the Short Italian Cinema section, for Best Director.
Roberto Baldassarre
Film historian and critic since 2010. He has collaborated with Nocturno Cinema and Sentieri Selvaggi, and was a production assistant at Contrasseña Producción (Barcelona). A member of the SNCCI since 2017, he currently collaborates with CineCritica, CineCriticaWeb, Carte di Cinema, Cinefilia Ritrovata and TaxiDrivers. A correspondent for national and international festivals, he has been a juror for several Italian festivals and is a frequent presenter of films in Roman film clubs.