The Ibero-Latin American Film Festival, faithful to its belief that every work gives better results when fulfilled in cooperation, gathers in its Artistic Direction, a part from the historical Director Rodrigo Diaz, important personalities of the Italian cultural landscape, thankfully recognizing their participation. They reflect the importance that this project gained during the years, thanks to the rigour and the quality of its offer, focused on the promotion of emerging Ibero-Latin American cinema, and the safeguarding of history. The Artistic Direction of the Festival is thus in perfect harmony with the cultural and cinematographic Italian landscape which is sensitive to overseas cinematography.
Rodrigo Díaz
Rodrigo Diaz was born in Chile in 1950. He left the country in 1974, after the golpe by Augusto Pinochet, which put an end to Salvador Allende’s presidency. Since then, Rodrigo Diaz has always lived in Italy and has worked to reinforce and valorize the relations between Italy and Latin America.
He was the general coordinator of the Sulmonacinema Festival, dedicated to Latin America cinema, the organizing director of Ostiacinema, of the Pisa Latin American Film Festival and the Rome Latin American International Film Festival. He cooperated in the creation of many international Festivals. He was the delegate for Latin America at the Locarno Festival (1992 to 1997). He served as the assistant of the Director of the Latin American section in different editions of the Venice International Film Festival (with directors such as Gillo Pontecorvo, Alberto Barbera, Marco Muller), and of the Turin International Film Festival, from 2008 to 2017. In 2021, he was a Member of the Jury at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) and at the “Gerardo Vallejo” Festival Tucumán Cine.
Since 1996, he has been the director of the Trieste Ibero-Latin American Film Festival, which became a benchmark for Latin American culture. The event has spread beyond the city walls, thanks to reruns in Rome, Milan, Turin, Cremona, Bolzano, Verona, Padua, Florence, Udine and Trento, with many projects and collaborations that enable the Festival to offer activities all the year round.
Luciano Sovena
President of the Rome Lazio Film Commission and Head of Lazio Region Fund for Cinema, is a lawyer specialising in Entertainment, Communications and Copyright Law and a professor of Theories and Techniques of Cinema Production and Television Fiction at the University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa. He was Managing Director of Istituto Luce Spa (then Cinecittà Luce Spa), participating in this role in the production of numerous films, such as “Il mercante di Venezia” by Michael Radford and discovering new talents. He founded the first Euro-Mediterranean Centre of Cinematography in Morocco, and in Argentina he was the promoter of the development agreement for Italian-Argentinian co-productions.
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 1995 to 2018 he was the director of a premiere cinemas circuit in Genoa. 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.
