Giury
Franco Cugusi
Town Council member since 1997, and the current Deputy Mayor, he perfectly knows the reality of Ulassai and the province of Ogliastra in general. His enthusiasm, the desire to do something good and the enhancement of the local peculiarities, from nature, to art, cinema and the culture of the audiovisual works, are the basis of its municipal administrative project. For this reason he personally embraced, from the beginning, the idea of starting the Ulassai Film Fest in Ulassai, in an innovative perspective for a future common development.
Maria Paola Masala
Was born in Bonorva in June, 22, 1948 and has always lived in Cagliari. After a degree in philosophy, she married and had a son. The first journalist in Sardinia to enter the professional register, she’s been working in the Unione Sarda since 1978 where she’s responsible for culture and entertainment (qualified as reporter). During the Nineties she edited for two years the Equal Opportunities Commission’s official magazine “Tempistretti”, and was National Adviser for the Order of Journalists. She cooperates with RAI channel’s branch in Sardinia.
Nicoletta Nesler
Author and director. He lives in Rome where he worked for the RAI.
Paolo Piquereddu
Director General of the Istituto Superiore Etnografico della Sardegna (ISRE). He manages the Museo Etnografico della Sardegna and the Museo della Casa Natale di Grazia Deledda. He is a lecturer in Museology and Museography (Sassari University). He conducted seminars in several universities and cultural institution in Italy and abroad and has carried out research into Sardinian ethnography, producing various publications. Since 1990 he manages the international ethnographic film festival (SIEFF) and the ISRE’s audiovisual output. In 2006 the SIMBDEA awarded him the “Prize Museo Frontiera” for his activity in visual anthropology and museums.
Antioco Floris
He teaches The Languages of Cinema, Television and New Media and Cinema History and Criticism at the Education Science faculty of the University of Cagliari, where he coordinates the CELCAM (Centre for Education in the Languages of Cinema, Audiovisual and Multimedia Products) and he’s the director of the Master for Experts in Management, Conservation and Restoration of Audiovisual and Multimedia Products. He has published essays and books on Daniele Segre, Nanni Moretti, Nanni Loy, the cinema in Sardinia, Leni Riefenstahl and Fabrizio De André.
