Skepto International Film Festival 2020: the jury

Best Short Award and Animation Special Award

Inja Korać

Inja Korać

Graduated in Political Science and Journalism from the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb, holds an MA in Audiovisual Management from the Media Business School in Spain and finished internship in London Dogwoof sales. Works for Zagreb Film Festival as Industry program producer, for Motovun Film Festival as a programmer and program coordinator, for Beldocs as a teen program selector and educator. Worked as a programmer and producer for documentary specialized cinema Dokukino and as a documentary distributor for Restart Label. Worked in festival deparment of Taskovski films sales and is currently in charge of Motovun Film Festival distribution. Since 2011, works as an associate journalist for Croatian public TV – HRT. Member of the Croatian Producers Association.
Jessica Milardo

Jessica Milardo

Born in 1992, she graduated in Law at the University of Bologna and she is currently working as trainee lawyer, specializing also in Cinema Law. Since 2016, she has contributed to Sedicicorto International Film Festival, short film festival based in Forlì (Italy), as programmer and member of executive board. In particular, she is curator for Sedicicorto of IranFest, a festival devoted to new Iranian cinema. She also worked as assistant director, script supervisor and stage photographer for several short films.
Daniël Nogueira

Daniël Nogueira 

Daniel has a background in the fine arts & media design. Over the last decade he has developed and created commercials for the international market. His work has been awarded internationally, winning Promax Gold, Lovie Silver and Epica Bronze awards, HAFF best musicvideo and receiving nominations from ADCN, the Dutch Art Director’s Association. His recent clients include Sony, ABN-AMRO, Bacardi, Guess, Strongbow, Orange and Hunkemöller. But Daniel is also a film director … his latest film project “The Happiest Couple Alive” is about addiction, more specifically drug addiction in Los Angeles-USA, which is unfortunately an actual problem among younger generations these days. With this latest projects he is seeking to go beyond the borders of the cinema frame, and connect the character’s story with the public domain in more socially engaged ways. Last but not least, Daniel also teaches at the Moving Image department of the AKI Artez University of Arts.
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. His first feature film, "L'agnello", has been released in 2020.
Olga and Tatiana Poliektova

James Rumsey

Twin sisters were born in St-Petersburg, Russia (1985). Since early years they began to draw and graduated from Art school and the University of Cinema and Television in Animation and Computer Graphics. They started to work together as film director duo and animators. During these years they made several animated short films (“Tomato story”, “Noise”, “Quagga”, “Warm Liguria”, “Cinema Dehors”, “Chiripajas”) which took part in over 150 international festivals worldwide and earned over 50 awards. They were invited as jury in Lucania International Film Festival (Pisticci, Italy), Kinolikbez film festival (Russia), Ale Kino International young audience film festival (Poland) and Bibiana film festival (Slovakia). They made several workshops about animation in Russia, Germany, Italy, Slovakia China and UAE. They also work at Peterburg Animation Studio as directors for kid’s series “Babiriki”, which have over a billion views on internet. From 2019 Olga and Tatiana join CINÉ-LITTÉ Productions in Germany with their animation art for films d’auteur. “Beast Inside” is their new upcoming short film where they explore a totally new tone and visual storytelling.

Docu-short "Alberto Signetto" Special Award

Letizia Caspani

Letizia Caspani

 

Born in Como, Italy, in 1984, Letizia Caspani graduated in “Science of Cultural Heritage” at The University of Milan. After a Master Course in “Communication and Promotion in Cinema” at the University Cattolica of Milan, in 2008 she served an internship at the Torino Film Festival Press Office. Then she started working as Press Officer for other film festivals and companies like Seeyousound Music Film Festival, Glocal Film Festival, Fish&Chips Erotic Film Festival, Microcinema Distribution, iWonder Pictures, Indyca… and for the musical event Torino Jazz Festival - Fringe. She joined TorinoFilmLab in 2012 as Hospitality Officer and in 2016 she became Project Manager of the Audience Design Fund, managing the activities related to the distribution fund and to the community of Audience Designers.
Carlo Migotto

Carlo Migotto

"Unwillingly" born in Veneto. Artistic director of Lago Film Festival (Italy) since 2009 and founder and director of Formentera Film Festival (Spain). With Mattia Coletti, under the moniker "Ukrain Mom", he writes and directs videos, short films, videoclips, corporate videos and animated toys; among these works, the documentary "Silvio - Here I am" (Milano Film Festival, BIF Bari, Berlin Porn Film Festival, Muestra Marrana - Barcellona) and the mockumentary "The amazing psychophysical benefits of cultural exchange", shot in Italy, the Netherlands and Finland. He worked as community manager in ZOOPPA and creative director in Pixartprinting. He is currently creative director "free and happy", he invented several things for variously independent projects and for small and big companies, but always with a very lazy approach.

"Skeptyricon" Special Award

Daniel Moshel

Daniel Moshel

 

Daniel Moshel was born in Germany. Currently he lives as a writer/director in Vienna, Austria. "Login2Life" (2011) was his first feature length documentary. After the premiere on the German ZDF broadcast station, and a successful festival circuit. He is one of 4 directors creating the 2014 ZDF TV-show named 'House of Love'. The project "Metube" started as a homage to thousands of ambitious YouTube users and video bloggers. It was the most successful short Daniel accomplished. Consequently the sequel MeTube 2 followed. Both MeTubes were screened on more than 600 festivals (including two nominations on Sundance 2013 & 2016), received more than 60 awards, and gathered over 4 Million webviews.  MeTube 3 just launched its career online and  is going to be release to the festivcal circuit. Currently Daniel works with his Team of writers on features and tv shows.
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.

"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