Skepto International Film Festival 2018: the jury

Best Short Award and Animation Special Award

Consuelo Bautista

Consuelo Bautista

Degree in Advertising at the University of Bogotá, Colombia, Jorge Tadeo Lozano. She lives in Barcelona, Spain, where she works as an independent photographer. She has carried out projects in Cuba, Colombia, Israel, Montenegro, Galicia, Barcelona, ​​Morocco, Senegal, Mexico, the United States and Canada, linked to documentary photography, having a vision of the author and published in different media, international journals and catalogs in the case of exhibitions. She has been awarded the City of Barcelona 2007 Visual Arts prize for the project "A Los Invisibles". She is a founding member of the association CENTRO DE FOTOGRAFIA DOCUMENTAL DE BARCELONA lafotobcn. She has published as a photojournalist in different media including the Món, Ajoblanco, La Vanguardia, El Periodico, and the newspaper El País.
Marielle Gaudry

Marielle Gaudry

News correspondent for regional press and then cinema journalist until 2003, now she works on the web on local political tasks in the field of communication and marketing. Since 2008, she is also Marketing and Communication manager at AlloCiné, second mondial platform for cinema and TV series promotion, where she works mainly on partnerships, festivals and event organisation. She also runs a club of cinema bloggers and influencers (Club 300), for whom she selects and programmes films, screened in preview every month. This club is a quality trademark for AlloCiné. Marielle also writes about music, culinary arts, interior design, lifestyle and photography.
Nicola Guaglianone

 

Nicola Guaglianone 

Educated at Leo Benvenuti's school, in 1999 he moves to Los Angeles, where he attended seminars on screenplay and narrative structure. Back in Italy, he begins to collaborate with the most important TV production companies: Endemol, Magnolia, Palomar, Publispei. In 2004 he wrote script and screenplay of the short film "Il produttore", this is the beginning of the partnership with the director Gabriele Mainetti. Together they made the short films "Basette" (finalist at David di Donatello 2009) and Tiger Boy (winner of Nastro d'Argento 2013, finalist at David di Donatello 2012, it was included in the shortlist at Oscar 2014 but did not obtain the nomination). In 2015 he writes (together with Menotti) the screenplay of his first feature film ("They Call Me Jeeg"), that obtains good audience and critical success and wins seven David di Donatello: Guaglianone obtains a nomination for the best screenplay, his third one after the one obtained the previous year for the short film "Due piedi sinistri", that later won the Globo d'Oro award. In 2017 he is among the screenwriters of the comedy "L'ora legale" with the Italian comedians Ficarra and Picone. In the same year he wins the David di Donatello for the script and screenplay of the feature film "Indivisibili", directed by Edoardo De Angelis and presented in preview at Venice Film Festival (Giornate degli Autori). In the same year he writes, together with Menotti and Carlo Verdone, script and screenplay of "Benedetta Follia", directed by Carlo Verdone. With Luca Miniero, he writes script and screenplay of "Sono Tornato", produced by Indiana Production. He also works on script and screenplay of two episodes of the series "Suburra".
Michael Nouri

Michael Nouri

Michael Nouri graduated at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg as Creative Producer. Since then he has worked as an Executive Producer with over 20 years experience in the commercials and film industry. After running one of the top ten German production companies in the nineties, he joined Stillking Films in 2005 as the International EP, producing commercials on all continents. In 2013 Michael Nouri moved to Spain as the Exec. Producer at Palma Pictures on Mallorca and opened his production company NOURI Films in Barcelona beginning 2018. As the Executive Producer he provided production services for many international production companies such as Iconoclast - Stink Films - The Sweet Shop - Rattling Stick - Bacon … and worked with Directors including: Joel Schumacher - Wim Wenders - Martin Werner - Adam Berg - Mark Albiston - James Gray - Louis Leterrier and many more partners and friends.
 Mario Piredda

Mario Piredda

Sardinian director, he has lived in Bologna since 1999. He graduated at DAMS, specialising in Cinema. In 2005 he shot his first short film "Il Suono Della Miniera", produced by the Regional Ethnographic Institute of Sardinia. His second work, "Io sono qui", produced by Elenfant Film, received a nomination at David di Donatello in 2011, won over 70 awards and were in the official selection in many international film festivals. In 2011 he shoots in Havana (Cuba) “Los aviones que se caen”, which has won many international awards. In 2015 he shoots "Homeward", documentary on the situation of migrants from Cambodia to Thailand. His last short film "A casa mia", produced by Articolture, won the David di Donatello in 2017. He is now working on his first feature film.

Docu-short "Alberto Signetto" Special Award

Daniele Lucca

Daniele Lucca

Born in Turin in 1963, radio speaker since 1978, he started his career of theatre actor and author in 1986. Cultural worker, art consultant, radio and TV anchorman, music producer and… Slowfood gourmand. Cosmopolitan by definition, he has lived and worked in theatres, cinema, Tv and radio around U.S.A., Spain, France and Italy. He is creative consultant, artistic director, anchorman of big events for brands and public institutions. He is historic associate of Club Tenco (Sanremo). "Extremist" cinephile, he has always collaborated with SKEPTO. Since 2015 he has been creator and artistic director of the first European web-radio dedicated to the wine: La Voce del Vino/The Wine Voice.
Chiara Pellegrini

Chiara Pellegrini

 

After the degree in Political Science, she decides to follow one of her greatest passions and enrols in a Fim Production Master in Turin. Since then, she starts to work for several festivals and, since 2016, she has directed the Fish&Chips Film Festival, international festival of erotic and sexual cinema.
Roberta Pozza

Roberta Pozza

 

Born in Biella (Italy) in 1985, she graduates at Dams of Turin in 2011, and the following year she obtains the Master for Analysts in Cinema and TV Production and Cross Media Communication. She worked as an intern  at the National Cinema Museum of Turin. She collaborates with the Piemonte Movie Association, organising contests and curating the section “Spazio Piemonte” of Piemonte Movie gLocal Film Festival. Since 2017 she has curated the short film section at Fish&Chips Film Festival.

"Skeptyricon" Special Award

Nicola Piovesan

Nicola Piovesan

Nicola Piovesan was born in Venice in 1979. After the degree at DAMS of Bologna, he works as cinema teacher and freelance filmmaker. His works (short films, videoclips, animations, documentaries, etc.) were screened in many international festivals, getting about fifty awards. He currently lives in Estonia, working with clients from all over the world.
Matt Willis-Jones

Matt Willis-Jones

 

Born in London in 1973, Matt studied art and design before moving to Chicago in the 90s to study film. In 2001 he moved back to London, working in post-production on several major films and TV series. Since 2005 he has lived and worked in Norway and in 2008 he quit his full-time job to concentrate on making his own films which have played at over 30 international festivals, winning occasional awards including a Special Mention at Skepto 2013 for ‘A Short Film on Conformity’ and the Best Web Series award at MAshRome 2014 for his absurdist series ‘Everything is Perfect and There are no Problems.’ Matt is presently working on his first feature film, Atopia, based on some of the characters from that series.

"Human/Nature" Special Award

Associazione Sustainable Happiness

Associazione Sustainable Happiness

Sustainable Happiness is a happy window on sustainability or a sustainable window on happiness…

SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS is a cultural association whose members share values connected to the pursuit of happiness and to the social, economic and environmental sustainability. It is committed to the promotion and diffusion of culture, naturalism, heritage, and every form of knowledge and language, and to the creation of social relationships' networks as the base of the development of free and conscious citizens. Since 2010, the association organizes in Cagliari the ALIG'ART Festival that, through an innovative approach, puts forward an alternative view, necessary and urgent, of the idea of development, for which strive to face the present and future challenges: an afterthought on our lifestyle, with the promotion of an individual and global change that starts from bringing our current development model into question. For more infos: www.sustainablehappiness.it

"Avant-garde and Experimental" Special Award

Alessandro Bavari

Alessandro Bavari

 

He was born in Latina (Italy), on April 1963. He grew up in an Italian-French family and he has been attracted to art since he was very young, so he decided to study it in all its aspects: he began to deal with photography since he was only 15. Moreover, he studied scenography, photography, history of art at the Accademia delle Belle Arti, in Rome. So he developed a deep knowledge of several artistic techniques, from oil painting to watercolour, from chalcography to photography. Over the years, he portrayed human and animal subjects, landscapes and architectures, that are added to his imaginative world, heavily influenced by Indo-European culture and by 14th and 15th-century artists, too. Since 1993 he makes use of digital processing techniques, thereby developing a personal artistic language, "some sort of contamination between different arts, dissolving the frontiers that set them apart".

Italian Schools Award

Antonello Murgia

Antonello Murgia

 

Graduated in physics, he currently teaches Maths and Physics at I.I.S. “G. Brotzu” of Quartu Sant’Elena. Sportsman and good cooking lover, he has always cultivated his passions for theatre and cinema. He took part, as addressee and teacher, in several continuing education and improvers courses about IT literacy, mutimedia, new technologies and related educational methodologies. He has been promoting for several years planning activities and cultural initiatives within the school, supporting every opportunity of education, change and innovation. He has a long-time experience as supervisor of his school's website and online newspaper and as representative for scientific projects of Liceo Brotzu and funded by MIUR and R.A.S. Sardegna. He has been permanently experimenting alternative paths of scientific communication with his students, trying to use new technologies in a creative way for the production of educational instruments, creating an experience able to involve the students not only cognitively but also emotionally. During the last few years he has increasingly focused on the students' communicative style and language, giving attention to the power of multimedia communication and, in particular, of audiovisuals.
Marco Schirru

Marco Schirru

 

Professor of humanistic information science, now retired. He has always dealt with the significantly formative aspects of formal languages, with particular attention to multimedia and hypertext as elaboration and communication language codes. In this scenario, where the theoretical and formal aspects of linguistic communication have always implied the presence of several codes originated by contextual and generative grammars, he gave prominence to the reflection on the languages and on their ways of being and existing not only as a mean to express identity and individuality, but especially as the ability to improve the investigation and research on the world around us. His past and current course of studies has developed combining the paradigms of aesthetics and ethics with the logical necessity to know, not only introspectively. Since 2010 he has been president of Skepto cultural association.
Caterina Spiga

Caterina Spiga

 

After classical studies and a degree in Literature, she have been working as a teacher at the Istituto Superiore G.Brotzu of Quartu S.Elena for over 20 years. Simultaneously she cultivates studies and investigations on contemporary art (from Sardinia and overseas), that led her up to be a member of the scientific committee and curator of exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art "Quartissimo". Following her research on cinematographic, theatrical and multimedia languages, that materializes in multidisciplinary activities, she is also involved with her students in the making of short films for the school and in the participation to the Giorgio Gaber Festival "Libertà è partecipazione" which takes place every year in Grosseto. She is constantly actively involved in actualizing teaching according to the new languages and educational instruments, in order to combine Italian and Latin literature's contents with new strategies, in-depth analysis and multidisciplinary approaches, with the aim of stimulating the young generations towards discovery and self-enhancement, in cultivating aesthetic and critic taste.