FILM JURY
Valentina is now a freelance director and beside music videos she worked on different kind of audiovisual projects such as tv commercials, virals, interactive video and web. Lots of her works have been nominated in festivals such as Cannes Lions, ADCI Awards, La Jolla International Film Festival, IFFAS Los Angeles and Bokeh International Film Festival in Cape Town.
She has recently shot her first feature film “Tini: the new life of Violetta”, an international Disney production.
LORENZO SPORTIELLO
He directed seven shorts, boasting participations at some of the main international film festivals, as the Los Angeles Film Festival and Singapore Next Reel Film Festival. He has been the only Italian with his short FIB1477 in the 63° Venice International Art and Cinema festival competititon. In 2014 he directed Index Zero, his debut movie. It is an authorial sci-fi feature in English, which has gained many acknowledgements internationally. In 2015 he co-directed 12 episodes of Non Uccidere, a new tv crime serie for Rai Fiction.
KONSTANTINA KOTZAMANI
Konstantina Kotzamani is an undergraduate student of Film Department of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki. Her short movies have participated in several as Clermond Ferran Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, Berlinale and Gent International Film Festival and have gain several awards. With Washingtonia has been selected for Future Frames at the 50th Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2015.
VIRGINIA MORI
Born in 1981, she studied illustration and animation at the High School of Art in Urbino. Her last short film “Haircut” had been selected at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2015. Her drawings had been showed in many collective exposition around Italy and abroad. Since 2013 Virginia is working with Withstand with which she realized the illustrations for the videoclip of “Walt Grace’s Submarine Test” by Jhon Mayer with the direction of Virgilio Villoresi.
TXEMA MUNOZ
He graduated in Psychology at the University of the Basque Country, and considers himself lucky to have never worked as a therapist since. A cinema lover since a very young age, only turned his passion into a job in the early Nineties, when he started organising conferences and festivals, drawing and editing cinema publications, writing articles and subtitling. He has been in charge of running the KIMUAK programme for the promotion and distribution of Basque shorts since February 2002.
SILVIA D’AMICO
Silvia D’Amico graduated at the National Academy of dramatic art Silvio D’Amico. Her first experience in cinema was in the movie “Rosso e Blu” signed by Giuseppe Piccioni. In 2014 she was special mention for best actress at Roma Film Festival. In 2015 she is the female main character in the movie “Non essere cattivo”, directed by Claudio Callegari. In 2016 she is new protagonist in the tv series “Squadra antimafia” directed by Renato De Maria.