THE JURY

MOUSA ALIJANI
Producer, director, composer and musician, Mousa Alijani was born in Iran in 1966. he graduated in Dramatic Arts at the University of Tehran. Working in the artistic field since 1988, Alijani has published works on the main newspapers of his country . Being the director of “Avayeh Sarveh Shomal”, a cultural institute of Rasht, Alijani is currently teaching screenwriting. In 2002 he dramatized, composed the soundtrack and played in “The Winter Song” (directed by Farhad Mehranfar): the film was screened at several international festivals, obtaining a remarkable critics’ approval. “Panjere”, a short directed by Mousa Alijani, was selected by many festivals and gained awards at the Lucania Festival Film, Tehran Short Festival Film and Ahvaz Festival Film. Alijani is also the author of the novel “Teaching Music For Children”.

MARCO DI CASTRI
He was born to Milan in 1952. In 1998 he established Cataloga, a production society specialized in contemporary art, which produces several films about artists and cinematographers like Michael Snow, Daniel Buren, Jean Tinguely, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Joseph Beuys, Claes Oldenburg, Jannis Kounellis and Jean Rouch, with whom he made a feature screened at Berlin Film Festival. Since 1997 he has starter to work for satellite TV, first for Stream channel, later for Sky Italy working at the Entertainment channels. He runs courses about audiovisual documentation in Italy, Austria, France, Brazil and Australia. He dramatized the film “Venerdì Sera, Lunedì Mattina” (1° prize at Bellaria Film Festival in 1984). He produces several documentaries and events for private and public customers such as, recently, the direction of the talk show “Torino e le sue eccellenze” for the Night White, a video on Natalia Ginzburg and a documentary on the literature in Turin in the last ten years.

MARINA OBRADOVIC
A photographer, painter, cinematographer, Marina Obradovic has Yugoslavian origins. Before beginning to work for cinema – in particular with Alain Resnais and Tony Gatlif,for whom she was the assistant to direction for “Swing” and in 2003 in “Exils” - she studied photography and painting.

EMILIA PATRUNO
A journalist for Famiglia Cristiana and a writer, Emilia Patruno directs the editorial staff of Il Due, from San Vittore jail and is the promoter of a project “For the communication from and in the jail”. She has conceived a cd about cooking called Avanzi di Galera (Jailbirds), made in 2003: created among and with San Vittore convicts, this cd received the Premio di Letteratura Eno-gastronomica Minori-CostaAward in Amalfi, as well as the Cenacolo 2004 Award for its originality, and was later published by Guido Tommasi. A passionate cinéphile, Emilia has organized cinema screenings in San Vittore, with the participation of the most appreciated Italian reviewer.

SILVESTRO SERRA
He was born to Rome in 1950. He became the editor in chief of Gente Viaggi magazine in December 1999, after 18 years of work for Panorama magazine: he began his collaboration there in 1982, as editorial of the section Vita Moderna, after a period in Rome. He became senior editor of Società in la late ‘80s and of Stile Libero from 1991 to 1997, when Nini Briglia grants him Spettacoli as well. Since October 1998 he has been senior editor of Panorama web. Serra has always been expert of sports but with Stile Libero – 15 pages about consumptions and places – he approaches tourist information, making a precious experience for his assignment as director of Gente Viaggi. Since the beginning of 2004 he is the editor in chief of Eva Tremila, the gossip magazine of the editorial group Hachette Rusconi.