Manuel Basoalto Miller
Director and screenwriter. In 2015 he received two Pedro Sienna Awards for the best of the Chilean film industry with his film Neruda Fugitivo. In the same year he won the First Prize for Best Feature Film at the Cine del Mar Festival in Montevideo. In 2005 the Premio Regia for Fulgor y Muerte de Joaquin Murieta at the Festival of Latin American Cinema in Trieste. In 1989 he received the Journalism Award for Radio Broadcasting for his documentary film Los Cartoneros, together with an award from the Chilean Association of Journalists for his defence of Human Rights from Cinema. He participated in the award ceremony for the Nobel Prize for Literature Gabriel García Márquez. In his career he has made more than 40 productions, documentaries, experimental films, feature films and television series. Among his achievements are films about Chilean and foreign painters and writers such as La Casa de la Mirada (2002) about the artist Roberto Matta, with texts by the Mexican writer Octavio Paz. Since 2015 he has been the judge for the Pedro Sienna Awards and for the selection of films that will represent Chile at the Oscar for Best Foreign Film and the Goya Awards. He was part of the founding group of the Chilean film criticism magazine Enfoque.
Luigi Cuciniello
Luigi Cuciniello was born in Genoa, where he graduated in Literature, and worked as a professional journalist in Milan for the main Italian film magazines, including the monthly magazine Ciak and the weekly publication Film Tv, first as a critic and then as editor-in-chief. From 1991 to 1993 he was Vice Editorial Director and Head of External Relations at the Marietti Publishing House in Genoa. From 1999 to 2001, in Rome, he worked as Communication and Distribution Director of Key Films, a company that distributed in Italy the works of some of the leading international cinema authors and co-produced Paolo Sorrentino's first feature film. From 2001 to 2018 he was the Organising Director of the Venice International Film Festival of the Cinema Department of the Biennale di Venezia. Since 2012 he has also directed the Dance Music Theatre Department. From 2003 to 2007 he taught Entertainment Economics and Management at the University of Udine and Gorizia. From 2014 to 2017 he was National President of ANEC and Vice-President of AGIS.
Enric Bou
Enric Bou is full professor of Iberian Studies at Ca' Foscari University Venice. He has taught in France, Spain and the United States. His research interests, always in a comparative perspective, cover a wide range of aspects of the 20th century and Spanish and Catalan literature including poetry, autobiography, the relationship between art and literature, the city and literature, and cinema. He was president of the North American Catalan Society (2007-10) and the Italian Association of Catalan Studies (2015-18). He was director of the Catalan Review and is currently director of Rassegna Iberistica.
Alfredo Federico
Alfredo Federico in 2006 was actively involved with The Latin American Film Company, which produced many arthouse films such as Tropa de Elite, directed by José Padilha (Berlin Film Festival, Golden Bear Winner, 2008), The Burning Plain directed by Guillermo Arriaga (Venice Film Festival, Official Competition, M. Mastroianni Award, 2008), In 2011, he moved to Italy and founded 39FILMS, an independent audiovisual production company of documentaries and features films, mainly focused on social and political content. 39F coproduces films with more than 10 countries worldwide, from documentaries in Tajikistan and Iran to the first Italian coproduction with Kosovo and Georgia.