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Luciano Tovoli
He studied foreign languages and literature at Pisa University. He took a degree in film shooting at the Cinema Experimental Center of Rome. He is a working member of AIC (Italian Association of Cinema Photography Authors). He is a working member of ASC (American Society of Cinematographers) of Los Angeles. He is a honorary member of FSF (Swedish Society of Cinematographers) of Stockholm. Author, co-founder and first President of the European Federation of Cinematographers. Author and Chairman of the event in Palm Spring and in Bangkok. Co-founder with Gabriele Lucci of the International Festival “Una Città in Cinema” (1981), the first International Festival in the history of cinema mainly focused to Cinema Photography and to its authors in L’Aquila. Co-founder, together with Gabriele Lucci and Anna Maria Ximenes, and Artistic Director of the Aquila Film Festival during which the Prize “Nestor Almendros” is awarded to a young Director of Photography. He is doing theme lessons and educational meetings at many Italian Universities. He is a teacher on Cinema and TV shooting at the International Academy of Arts and Image Sciences set up by Gabriele Lucci in cooperation with the University of L’Aquila. He is a member of the Commission of entrance to the sessions of Cinema and TV shooting of the National School of Cinema – Experimental Center of Cinematography, Rome Besides the making of a number of films as Author of Cinema Photography (Director of Photography), Tovoli made, as director and co-screenwriter with Michel Piccoli and Jean Claude Carriere (the screenwriter of Bunuel ), the film “Le General de l’Armee Morte” (In Italian “L’Armata Ritorna”) from the novel of the same title of the Albanian writer Ismail Kadarè. In the last ten years, in addition to his international career, Tovoli has co-produced with Gianni Schettini, taking care also of Photography Direction, some new directors’ films as “La regina degli scacchi” (The Queen of Chess) under the direction of Claudia Florio and Barbara Bobulova as main actress and “Ti voglio bene Eugenio” (I love you Eugenio) under the direction of Francisco Fernandez. With this movie Giancarlo Giannini won the David of Donatello for the best performance. Among many films made as Photography Director, those filmed in USA have been made for Majors Studios as Colombia, Warners, Paramount, Disney and Associates often in interiors in the most classic Hollywood studios. In France for Gaumont, UGC and Galatée Films (Jacques Perrin).
Alessandro Benvenuti
The Giancattivi (Athina Cenci, Alessandro Benvenuti, Paolo Nativi) born in 1972. With the arrival of Francesco Nuti the group met with success and begins to speak tuscan dialect. They appear on TV with Non Stop, followed by La Sberla, Black Out, L’isola di ieri and Smalto per unghie In 1981 they filmed Ad ovest di Paperino written and directed by Benvenuti, but during the filmmaking the group disbanded and they were back together three years later with Daniele Trambusti in place of Nuti. Before they disbanded definitely they made their second movie Era una notte buia e tempestosa. From this time on, the work of Benvenuti spreads in different directions. As scriptwriter he will produce many scripts for theatre and cinema as the shows of the comic trio Le Galline, Perla D’Arsella, the difficult monologue for Katia Beni, Il Mitico 11, written for Novello Novelli and revised for Vito and Andrea Muzzi, but especially those theatre pieces interpreted by himself as Benvenuti in casa Gori, Ritorno a casa Gori, Benvenuti piacere Trambusti, Due gocce d’acqua, Gino detto Smith e la panchina sensibile, T.T.T.T. (Beckettio), Un passato da melodici moderni, L’Atletico Ghiacciaia and in 2002 the beautiful Nero Cardinale. As film director he will be engaged in many popular movies either written , directed and interpreted by himself as Zitti e Mosca, Belle al bar, Ivo il tardivo, I miei più cari amici and the last one, Ti spiace se bacio mamma?, or under the direction of other directors as Soldati. 365 giorni all’alba of Marco Risi, Compagni di scuola of Carlo Verdone, Maniaci sentimentali of Simona Izzo, Albergo Roma of Ugo Chiti, Commedia sexy of Lorenzo Bigagli and, on 2003, Il fuggiasco of Andrea Manni. On 1995 he becomes theater producer, setting up the Benvenuti srl with Chiara Grazzini, his partner in life and at work For television he produced the film in two episodes Un colpo al cuore, shown on 2000 on RaiUno and he played Solo come un cane, for the serial “Cerco lavoro”, directed by Luca Manfredi shown on RaiUno on 2001. He is participating as a guest in the show Assolo (2002) Alessandro Benvenuti has been President of Visionaria Festival since 2002 and he is part of the Jury since 1999.
Marcantonio Lunardi
Documentary director, he specialised himself at the “Festival dei Popoli” school of Firenze, he works in the field of graphic art and he has always dealt with social video documentation. He treated subjects such as immigration, work issues and bombing terrorism shifting from public institutions to no profit organisations. He cooperates with the “Istituto Storico della Resistenza” for historical documentary works. He is a Member of the Italian Association of Documentarists, he is one of the founders of the “Collettivo Immagini Appese” which since 2001 has been studying communication techniques and information modes. In 2005, together with some colleagues, he created dromedari.org which is dealing with poetry, video art, theatre and video documentation.
Fabio Canessa
Fabio Canessa was born in Piombino in 1962, he has a liberal arts degree taken at the University of Pisa, he is Italian and Latin teacher at the secondary school Giosué Carducci in Piombino. He writes for several newspapers about cinema and literature. He organises and coordinates trainings for secondary school teachers, he supported many activities in the film clubs and in the libraries. He participated to TV shows of Vittorio Sgarbi and Renzo Arbore. Recently he took care of the literary part of the Turin exhibition about “Il Male” and he has written about football and philosophy on the last issue of “Linea Bianca”.
Franco Vigni
Born and graduated in Siena, PhD at Università di Roma Tre, Franco Vigni is a journalist and a reiewer of cinema (Sindacato Nazionale Critici Cinematografici Italiani). He has won the Filippo Sacchi prize promoted by Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici. He has published the screenplay from Andrei Rublëv by Andrei Tarkovskij (1987), the monography of Andrej Koncalovskij for the collection ««Il Castoro Cinema» (1995) and Come onde del mare; Siena e la sua terra nello specchio del cinema (2005). He ha salso published, in collections and on part media such as («Cinecritica», «Bianco & Nero», «Rivista del cinematografo», «Materiali di Estetica») scripts on Andrei Tarkovskij, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vittorio De Sica, Marco Ferreri, Ken Loach, Aki Kaurismäki’s cinema, on censure in cinema and on Italian neorealism. He has collaborated to the making of the three volumes(VIII, IX, X) of the Storia del cinema italiano (Marsilio/Ed. di Bianco & Nero).
Pino Modica
Pino Modica was born in Civitavecchia on 1952. He lives and works in Piombino. In 1983 together with Salvatore Falci, Stefano Fontana e Domenico Nardone creates the Group of Piombino which, till 90’s is considered to be in the forefront of the artistic research of that period. The Group is attending to the most important exhibitions, they participate twice to the Biennale of Venice up to Anni Novanta (Nineties) with important presences also in foreign museums. Many works of Pino Modica are video works which suppose the interaction of unaware people who create the work itself. Recently he participates to the historical exhibition, set up by the Foreign Ministry “Dal Futurismo Al Laser”. (From the futurism to laser)
Anna Urdaniz
Born in Lleida, she lives and works in Barcelona and Lleida as an art curator at the Mercat del Pla Municipal Gallery in Lleida, Catalonia. Graduated in History of Art at the Barcelona University and in Cultural Management in both Barcelonav and Lleida Universities, she curated exhibitions for the Lleida International Animated Film Showcase Animac, Visions de Futur Contemporary Art Biennale, and Visual Arts Festival Panorama in Catalonia. In collaboration with Teresa Rubio she curated exhibitions as Humanimals (Sala Can Felipa, Barcelona) Ephaemeral Archaeologies (Hangar and Sala Can Felipa, Barcelona), Profanations (Jaume Morera Contemporary Art Museum) and Interferències_05. Posar en Joc (Terrassa Town Hall). She has also curated the project Pop-Art Club for Jaume Morera Lleida Contemporary Art Museum and has collaborated as a writer in Spanish cultural magazines such as “Transversal” and “ARTS”, and the webzines “Cultura Nocturna” and “Operazione Beat”.
Teresa Rubio
Born in Spain, she lives and works in Barcelona as a curator, art critic and resercher in Contemporary Art. She has been graduated in History of Art at University of Salamanca, has taken part as research student at University of Barcelona and has undertaken a MA in Creative Art Writing and Communication at University of Girona. In collaboration with Ana Urdániz, she curated several exhibitions as: Humanimals and Ephaemeral Archaeologies at Sala Can Felipa and Hangar in Barcelona, Profanations at Jaume Morera Contemporary Art Museum and Interferències_05. Posar en Joc at Terrassa Town Hall. Currently she writes art reviews at “Suplemento Cultura/s LaVanguardia” newspaper and “Papers d’Art” magazine and is developing several projects as a freelance curator in Spain.
