JOSÉ LUIS APARICIO FERRERA

José Luis Aparicio Ferrera (Cuba, 1994). Independent filmmaker, critic and curator. Graduated in Film Directing from Cuba’s University of the Arts (ISA). He has directed the fiction short films Tundra (2021) and El Secadero (Dryland, 2019), as well as the medium-length documentary Sueños al pairo (Dreams adrift, 2020). His films have been selected by festivals such as Sundance, Locarno, Raindance, Miami, BAFICI, Guanajuato, Curta Cinema and NewFilmmakers LA. Tundra was awarded at Fantaspoa, New Jersey, New York City Independent, Pendance and Seattle Latino Film Festival. In 2022 he was invited to Locarno’s Open Doors program and received one of the Prince Claus Seed Awards.

He is currently developing his first feature film, El Mar / The Sea, a project selected by the Spanish Film Academy Residencies and the Cinéma en Développement platform of the Cinélatino-Rencontres de Toulouse film festival. As part of the documenta fifteen in Kassel, he curated Tierra sin imágenes / Land Without Images, the largest retrospective of Cuban independent cinema to date. Since 2021 he has been the artistic director of the INSTAR Film Festival.

ECLETTICA

Eclettica is an independent audiovisual film and advertising production company founded in Milan in 2021 by Riccardo Copreni, Lorenzo Maria Chierici, Federico Fasulo, Andrea Sbarbaro and Jhoni Vilca.
Eclectica is committed to the study of new possibilities of film language. It constantly searches for new imagery that can astonish and excite in unconventional ways and aims to heal the wound between art cinema and the public, without giving up the flaws of either.

GABRIELE BIASI

Gabriele Biasi was born in 1994. He graduated from RUFA (Rome University of Fine Arts). His documentary LE CRISALIDI won an honorable mention at Visioni Italiane 2022 and was screened at the 22nd International Film School Festival (Uruguay) and AricaDoc (Chile).
With the experimental documentary THE ENDER’S LINE, he won the Best Director Award at the 38th. SIC – International Critics’ Week at the Venice Film Festival.
He is one of the founders of the digital museum “Souls’ Archive” (Archivio D’Anime) funded by Regione Lazio.
He’s one of the selected in the “In Progress” development lab created by Milano Film Network with the feature film “Alex, I Am Nothing”.

COLLETTIVO CORRENTE

Corrente is a collective born in Palermo in 2023 from the meeting of 10 young filmmakers united by the desire to rekindle the lights of a cinema that had been turned off for 40 years in the Ballarò neighborhood. Corrente organizes free reviews of independent films focusing on reality cinema.

OLGA TORRICO

Olga Torrico is a director and producer who lives and works in Bologna. Co-founder of the production company Sayonara Film, in 2020 she produces, writes and directs her first short film «Gas Station», presented and awarded at the 35th Venice Critics’ Week as part of the 77th Venice International Film Festival , nominated for Best Short Film at the David di Donatello 2021. In 2022 he directed his second short film «La Robe», which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

ADAM SELO

Adam Selo is a director and producer, born in Naples in 1979. Graduated from DAMS in Bologna, since 2016 he has been manager of the production company Sayonara Film with which he has activated several Italian and international co-productions.
As a director he has received many awards, both for the works shot in Mexico – the short film «Ramiro» and the documentary «Playing Maruata» – as well as «Sayonara Nippon» and «Sexy Shopping».
The latter, presented among others at the Biografilm Festival and at the Hollyshorts Film Festival in Los Angeles, is the most awarded Italian documentary of 2014 in our country.

ANTONIO ROMAGNOLI

Born in Castrovillari in 1992, after studying performing arts and sciences at the La Sapienza University of Rome, he made his debut in 2015 with the short film “Memories of a traveller”. In the following years he wrote several short films on commission including “Materia Celeste”. In 2019 he wrote and directed the documentary “Inaiuto al mondo”, which will obtain the special recognition of the jury at the Vittorio De Seta award. In 2021 his debut film “Polvere” was released at the cinema, based on the theater show of the same name by Saverio La Ruina, which features La Ruina himself and Roberta Mattei in the cast.