Laura Cicorella, Emma Lasorella, Paolo Laghezza, Nicoletta Necco, Rossana Matarrese, Nina Buono, Sara Palmisani, Luca Gasparro, Gerardo Rizzo, Martina Farina, Aurora Pace, Leonardo Mancini, Emma Daddabbo, Paolo Della Rocca, Francesco Lucarelli, Nicolò Valenzano, Martina Budau, Micaela Amenduni, Anna Cappiello De Bari, Marco Valerio
JURY – MAIN COMPETITION (INT. SHORT FILM)
Georges Sifianos, born in Greece, holds a PhD in animation aesthetics from the University of Sorbonne. He is a filmmaker and professor emeritus of animation at ENSAD in Paris, where he founded the Department of Animation Studies in 1995. He has lectured worldwide including universities in Europe, India, Korea, Japan and China.
As a member of PSL academic research group, SACRe (EA 7410), he is interested in the renewal of forms of animation cinema, particularly from the point of view of cognitive science.
The blindfolded animation approach employed in “The blind writer” is part of this research. His other recent research interest concerns animation forms found on the Parthenon’s Frieze.
His book Aesthetics of Animated Cinema received the 2014 “McLaren – Lambart” award for the best academic book by the Society for Animation Studies and the “Hemingway Grant” in 2015. His films have also won a number of awards at international festivals.
His filmography includes the films:
• “SMILE” (1974), animated short film. 2’
• “PETROCHEMICALS, THE CATHEDRALS OF DESERT” (1981), feature-length documentary, in co-direction with Stathis Katsaros. 80’
• “SCENT OF CITY” (1994), animated short film. 8.30’
• “TUTU” (2001), animated short film, co-directed with Pascal Dalet. 26’
• “EGO” (2007), animated short film. 12’
• “THE BLIND WRITER” (2021), animated short film. 9.50’
Born in 1967 in Ajaccio (Corsica, France) to a Spanish mother and an Italian father, she lives and works in Geneva. From 1989 to 1991 she underwent training in various fields in visual arts, photography and graphic design. In the following years she explored the world of arts and culture in numerous positions related to photography and cinema, until she took on a position as a radio host for cultural shows in 1994. Around that time, she also started working as a programmer for various cinema festivals in Geneva, while collaborating on several projects in film production. A lifelong interest in children’s education steered her towards the development of educational tools for public institutions as well as private structures (such as E-Media, the Geneva Educational Council for Primary Schools, or RTS – Swiss Radio and Television). In 2006, she co-founded Animatou, the International Animation Film Festival in Geneva (initially called Cinematou), and she has been its artistic co-director since.
Pascal Vimenet, associate researcher at LARA-SEPPIA (University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès), is an author, director and teacher specializing in aesthetics and the history of cinema and animated cinema since 1989. He has taught at Gobelins (Paris), La Poudrière (Valence), at the François-Rabelais University (Tours), and, since 2003, he has continued at the School of Animation Cinema (EMCA), in Angoulême.
Creator of the national animation cinema system of School and Cinema (1994-1998), expert approved since 2003 with the Museum-château of Annecy, he is a member of the scientific committee of NEF Animation since its creation in 2015 and collaborator of the review of the animated film Blink Blank, whose title he proposed.
Prix Henri-Ginet 2002 for Svankmajer E & J bouche à bouche; Prize of the Academy of Saintonge 2019 for the whole of Un abécédaire de la fantasmagorie (2015-2019), Pascal Vimenet is also the director of Fantômes du cinema forain (2011) or the screenwriter of Rêveur éveillé, portrait of Jean- François Laguionie (Jean Paul Mathelier, 2015). In September 2022, he presents his film 18 minutes avec Robert Breer, American experimental filmmaker, at the Cinémathèque de Montréal, and accompanies the release of the book by Patrick Barrès, Défiier le film. The animated cinema of Robert Breer (Editions Somme tout), which he prefaced.
Recent releases: companion booklets to the DVDs of Vieilles Légendes tchèques, 2019 and L’Année tchèque, 2021 (Artus Films); catalog of the exhibition De Popeye à Persépolis, bande dessinée et cinéma d’animation,, 2022 (Warm editions), of which he was co-curator for the Musée de la bande dessinée in Angoulême; collaboration with No. 52 of the review Otrante on the theme of “Effigies fantastiques d’Europe centrale”, 2022 (Éditions Kimé); Émile Reynaud. Nouveaux regards (L’Harmattan, collective work, 2023).
He is the co-director of the “Cinémas d’animations ” collection (L’Harmattan) since November 2022.
Born in Belgrade in 1972, she graduated in Art History and Criticism at the University of Milan, where she fell in love with animated cinema. She specialized in History of animated film under the guidance of Giannalberto Bendazzi: the subject of her thesis was the work of John and Faith Hubley. For the past six years she has been collaborating with the Belgrade International Comics Festival, where she is the curator of the section dedicated to animated films by independent authors. At animation festivals she really enjoys socializing with the usually very shy filmmakers and is constantly inspired by their perseverance, dedication, modesty and fantastic artwork. Andrijana lives in Milan and has published her first book “Michael Dudok De Wit. A Life in Animation”
JURY – GRADUATION FILM & MUSIC VIDEO COMPETITION
He is an illustrator and cartoonist. In 2012 he won the “Premio Nuove Strade” at the Napoli Comicon as best emerging talent. He has published several graphic novels also translated abroad: among the latest “Cosmo” (Coconino Press Fandango – 2016), “L’incanto del parcheggio multipiano” (Oblomov Edizioni – 2018), “Nuno salva la luna” (Canicola – 2019) his first comic for children, finalist for the 2020 Andersen Prize for best comic book and in 2022 “La Tempesta” (Oblomov). His illustrations have appeared in various newspapers and magazines: from Il Sole 24 ore to Internazionale, from Le Monde to Linus, and on the covers of the Feltrinelli and La Nave di Teseo publishing houses.
Professor of Didactics of Multimedia and Cultural Heritage in the specialist two-year period of the II° level diploma course Department of Communication and Didactics of Art at the Santa Giulia Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia. In 1986 he founded the Avisco Association together with a group of friends and colleagues. Avisco has been operating for more than 30 years in the Brescia area, nationally and internationally in the field of multimedia languages in socio-educational contexts and is currently a body included in the MO.CA project – Center for new cultures. For Avisco she curates and creates audiovisual production workshops in the socio-educational field.
He is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator.
He is the lead singer of the hardcore punk band “More”. He attended the “Scuola del Libro di Urbino” and then the specialization course in the animated drawing section. After his studies he enrolled in Milan at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts – not finishing it – while working as an art director in various advertising agencies in the city. He started drawing comics as an autodidact by creating an experimental form of postal comic: a postal subscription where subscribers could write letters that became comic stories.
He has created posters for music festivals including those of the independent label La Tempesta, Il Mi Ami in Milan and the last six editions of the Controradio Festival in Florence, the Rock Contest. As an illustrator and graphic designer he has signed many record covers working together with Davide Toffolo and Tre allegri ragazzi morti, Bugo, Baustelle, Sick Tamburo, Prozac+, Raein and Perturbazione.
More info: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Baronciani
