Sara Arango Ochoa

Giuria sezione Videoclip musicali

Sara Catalina Arango Ochoa was born in Medellìn (Colombia). She studied Advertising and Art at Medellìn University. At the age of 22 she started working for the advertising agency McCann Erickson, which she left shortly after in order to study at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Experimental film centre) in Rome. Later on she came back to Colombia as a coordinator of the video sector in the advertising agency Leo Burnett Bogotà. After some years in Bogotà she came back to Rome, where she lived for several years working as a photography director in many productions. Her interest for movie direction led her to the creation of several videoclips and short films. In 2013 she founded a production company based both in Italy and Colombia. She is currently living in Sardinia and she spends few months a year in her hometown Medellìn for work.

Davide Boosta Dileo

Giuria sezione Videoclip musicali

Musician, dj, composer, writer, editor, tv presenter, producer and pilot. Davide Dileo was born in Turin on 27th september 1974. After studyng piano at conservatory music school, he started working as a musician and became co-founder of Subsonica, the most popular alternative rock italian music band. He worked as remixer, re-elaborating the songs of important italian and international artists, and also as DJ in the best european clubs. While working as author and composer he wrote many songs for artists such as Mina and Malika Ayane, besides the official song for the Telethon campaign “Io Esisto”. His activity as writer is also constantly evolving: he wrote short stories, novels and children’s books. This activity has led him to roles such as scriptwriter and director, artistic director and columnist. He also worked at the radio (for m2o and Rai Radio 2 stations) and in the TV field (for La7 channel and the cultural channel SKY ARTE HD).Boosta is a private pilot and he is currently studying in order to obtain the Airline Transport Pilot License. Last but not least, he is father of two little girls.

Hermes Mangialardo

Giuria sezione Animazione

Hermes Mangialardo was born in 1975 in Copertino, a little town in southern Italy. He has developed a passion for italian comics and japanese cartoons since childhood, and after some graphic experiences he started producing his own animation works in 2001. During the last years he has developed many clips and animation works, receiving many prizes such as the MTV Flash Awards at Hamburg Bitfilm Festival, the Giffoni music Concept for the best animation videoclip, the first prize at Indipendent Film Festival in Florida, a special jury prize at I’VE SEEN FILM FESTIVAL, the first prize at Camper Walking Contest in Barcelona, the Italian window at Resfest and many others.

In 2006 he created with a crew of designers the multimedia agency Plasmedia (www.plasmedia.it).

In 2008 he realized for MTV ITALIA the animated series URBAN JUNGLE, showing ironically all the various “metropolitan species” (Metal kids, Darkers, Emo…).

In 2007 he started his VJ experience, winning the ELETTROWAVE CHALLENGE and being awarded the title of BEST ITALIAN VJ 2009.

Tommaso Lessio

Giuria sezione Cortometraggi

Tommaso Lessio was born in Pordenone in 1976.

After graduating in Multimedia Science and Technology he obtained at the Europen Design Institute the Master’s Degree “Filmmaker: il documentario come sguardo”, directed by Silvio Soldini and presided by Bruno Oliviero.

He works for the cultural Association Cinemazero, which has been an international reference point of movie culture for 30 years, as both manager of video productions and multimedia laboratory and superintendent of Fmk - ShortFilmFestival, a festival focused on creativity and emerging talents.

Piero Pieri

Giuria sezione Videoclip musicali

RAI coworker since 1988 as author, television director, radio host. He started administering the italian edition of the central-european collaboration program Alpe Adria TV Magazine in 2000. In 2001 he became administrator of Lynx Magazine, in collaboration with TV Koper Capodistria for the italian-slovenian Cross-border Cooperation Programm. He has administered and directed Jazz & Dintorni regional radio program on RADIOUNO since 2004. He is also a filmmaker and a musician with the band Luc Orient, born in 1981 and under contract with CGD (an Italian record label). They broke up and recently regrouped (they are currently active). Pieri is also taking part in the label Lademoto (together with Al Castellana, Daniele Speed Dibiaggio and Rrok Prennushi).

Diego Monfredini

Giuria sezione Cortometraggi

Diego Monfredini (1983) is an indipendent filmmaker. He graduated in Bologna with an original research thesis on movie language and quantum physics. Inspired by the poetry of Tarkovskij, Angelopoulos and Aronofsky’s works, he writes and edits his own short films, considering the low-budget factor a resource of self-expression as author. In 2011 he directed “La casa dei trenta rumori”, included by FICE (Italian Federation of Experimental Cinema) in the “cinéma d’essai” film festival. He won Taglia Corti 2013 Edition with “Il Rumore alti iso”. His latest work, the black and white movie entitled “Malatedda”, is instead focused on mental diseases.

Elisa Grando

Giuria sezione Cortometraggi

Elisa Grando is a journalist and movie critic, she collaborates with the daily newspaper of Triest Il Piccolo and the monthly magazine Ciak. She teaches Movie Journalism at the Liberal Arts Department of the University of Triest. Among her publications the volume Callisto Cosulich. Il coraggio della cinefilia and the two monographs Roman Polanski and Ron Howard are found.