DANIELE CIPRÌ – director, screenwriter, and cinematographer

Awards: 2 David di Donatello, 4 Nastri d’Argento, 3 Ciak d’Oro, 3 Globo d’Oro
Nominations: 4 David di Donatello, 15 Nastri d’Argento, 9 Ciak d’Oro, 5 Globo d’Oro

He worked as a director alongside Franco Maresco as part of the duo Ciprì e Maresco, known for their work on Rai 3 and for films such as Lo zio di Brooklyn and Totò che visse due volte.
As a cinematographer, he has collaborated with directors such as Renato De Maria, Marco Bellocchio, Roberta Torre, Matteo Rovere, Luca Miniero, and others.
He is the winner of numerous awards, including 3 Globo d’Oro, 2 David di Donatello, 4 Nastri d’Argento, 4 awards at the Venice Film Festival, 1 Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival, and 3 awards at the Bobbio Film Festival.

MARCO SPOLETINI – film editor

Awards: 3 David di Donatello, 3 Nastri d’Argento, 3 Ciak d’Oro
Nominations: 6 David di Donatello, 9 Nastri d’Argento, 9 Ciak d’Oro

He has edited films by directors such as Gianluca Maria Tavarelli, Riccardo Milani, Daniele Vicari, the D’Innocenzo brothers, Alice Rohrwacher, Paolo Genovese, and Massimo Venier. He has long collaborated with the multi-award-winning director Matteo Garrone, editing L’imbalsamatore, Primo amore, Gomorra, Reality, Il racconto dei racconti, Dogman, and Io Capitano.
Winner of 2 Nastri d’Argento, 2 David di Donatello, and 1 Ciak d’Oro, he has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars) since 2019. In January 2024, his film Io Capitano was nominated for an Oscar in the Best International Feature Film category.

MASSIMO CANTINI PARRINI – costume designer

Awards: 1 EFA (European Film Award), 5 David di Donatello, 6 Nastri d’Argento, 5 Ciak d’Oro
Nominations: 2 Oscars, 1 BAFTA, 8 David di Donatello, 7 Nastri d’Argento, 4 Ciak d’Oro, 2 CDG (Costume Designers Guild Awards)

At the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, he studied under Oscar winner Piero Tosi. Tosi’s esteem led him to join the renowned Tirelli Costume House, where he met Oscar-winning designer Gabriella Pescucci, with whom he collaborated for about ten years.
Since 2016, he has won five David di Donatello, five Nastri d’Argento, and four Ciak d’Oro, along with numerous national and international awards, including an EFA. In 2019, he was named Honorary Academician by the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence.
Since 2020, he has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars), receiving his first Oscar nomination in 2021 for the costumes of Pinocchio by Matteo Garrone, and his second in 2022 for Cyrano by Joe Wright.

DARIA D’ANTONIO – cinematographer

Awards: 1 David di Donatello, 2 Nastri d’Argento, 1 Ciak d’Oro
Nominations: 4 David di Donatello, 5 Nastri d’Argento, 3 Ciak d’Oro

She studied cinematography at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and began her career working as a camera assistant alongside Luca Bigazzi, with whom she collaborated on several acclaimed films and series. Over the years, she has become one of Italy’s most respected directors of photography, known for her refined visual style and poetic use of light. She has collaborated with prominent directors such as Paolo Sorrentino, Mario Martone, Emanuele Crialese, Francesca Archibugi, and Edoardo De Angelis.
Among her most notable works are È stata la mano di Dio, L’amica geniale, Qui rido io, Il vizio della speranza, and Comandante. In 2022, she won the David di Donatello for Best Cinematography for È stata la mano di Dio.

MARICETTA LOMBARDO – sound engineer

Awards: 3 David di Donatello, 4 Nastri d’Argento, 1 Ciak d’Oro
Nominations: 7 David di Donatello, 6 Nastri d’Argento, 6 Ciak d’Oro

After earning her diploma from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, she began her career in 1998, collaborating with several directors and soon establishing a long-standing professional partnership with Matteo Garrone.
Over the years, she has worked on numerous acclaimed films and TV series, including Noi credevamo, Suburra, La terra dell’abbastanza, and Romanzo criminale.
She holds the record of four Nastri d’Argento for Best Sound, awarded for Gomorra, Tale of Tales, Dogman, L’intrusa, and Pinocchio; two David di Donatello awards for Gomorra and Dogman; and one Ciak d’Oro for Pinocchio.

FERRAN PAREDES RUBIO – cinematographer

Awards: 1 Ciak d’Oro
Nominations: 2 David di Donatello, 1 Nastro d’Argento, 2 Ciak d’Oro

Since 2006, he has worked as director of photography on numerous documentaries, feature films, and TV series, including Indivisibili, for which he received a David di Donatello nomination for Best Cinematography, and Perez, which earned him a Globo d’Oro nomination for Best Cinematography.
For Indivisibili, he won the Ciak d’Oro for Best Cinematography in 2017. Among his other works are Comandante, Il sindaco del rione Sanità, Fiore Gemello, L’ora legale, and the acclaimed TV series Gomorra.

PAOLA FREDDI – film editor

Nominations: 3 Nastri d’Argento, 1 Ciak d’Oro

Over the years, she has worked as an editor on numerous national and international film productions, including Another End, Ho visto un re, Iddu, Mi fanno male i capelli, Bassifondi, Primadonna, Princess, I figli di Caino, Sulla stessa onda, Assandira, Guida romantica a posti perduti, Non odiare, Nour, Il sindaco pescatore, Fiore gemello, Cuori puri, Cronaca di una passione, L’attesa, La foresta di ghiaccio, Bellas mariposas, L’estate di Martino, Sonetàula, Una notte blu cobalto, and Il rabdomante, among others.
She was nominated for the Nastri d’Argento in both 2021 and 2023.

PIETRO MORANA – film editor

Nominations: 1 Nastro d’Argento, 1 Ciak d’Oro

Over the years, he has edited numerous films and TV series, including I Soliti Idioti, Rocco Schiavone, Rosy Abate, Benedetta Follia, La befana vien di notte, La Dea fortuna, Vita da Carlo, Belli ciao, Le Fate Ignoranti, Call My Agent, and Come può uno scoglio, among others.
He is also the editor of all Checco Zalone’s (Luca Medici) box office hits directed by Gennaro Nunziante, such as Cado dalle nubi, Che bella giornata, Sole a catinelle, and Quo vado?, as well as Tolo Tolo, directed by Zalone himself.
In 2021, he was nominated for a Nastro d’Argento for Best Editing for the film Non mi uccidere.

MENOTTI – screenwriter and comic book artist

Nominations: 1 David di Donatello, 2 Nastri d’Argento, 2 Ciak d’Oro

Since the mid-1980s, he has published illustrations and comic stories in several Italian magazines, including Cyborg, Frigidaire, Comic Art, and Blue.
From 1998, he began working as a screenwriter for Rai and Mediaset, contributing to popular TV series such as Un posto al sole, La squadra, Incantesimo, and 7 Vite.
Together with Nicola Guaglianone, he co-wrote the screenplay for Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot by Gabriele Mainetti, which earned him a David di Donatello nomination in 2016.
In 2019, he wrote the Italian Netflix series Zero, released in 2020. He has also written for films and TV series such as Benedetta Follia, Non ci resta che il crimine, La befana vien di notte II, and Vita da Carlo.

FRANCO PISTONI – actor, theatre director, and poet

Awards: 1 Ciak d’Oro
Nominations: 3 Premi Ubu, 1 Ciak d’Oro

Originally from Rieti, he has worked in theatre with Julian Beck, Marco Baliani, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, Mario Martone, and the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio of Romeo Castellucci, earning three Premio Ubu nominations.
He made his film debut in The Name of the Rose and later collaborated with directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Luigi Magni, Francesco Massaro, and Massimo Troisi.
He appeared in films including Tale of Tales by Matteo Garrone and Si può fare by Giulio Manfredonia, for which he won the Ciak d’Oro.
Since 2012, he has also become a familiar face on television, appearing in Paolo Bonolis’s show Avanti un altro! as Lo Iettatore (“The Jinx”), a character inspired by the role he played in Luigi Magni’s film ‘O Re.

PEDRO ARMOCIDA – journalist, university lecturer and film critic

He collaborates with Ciak, CinecittàNews, 8½, Film Tv, Box Office, MyMovies, and Il Giornale.
He is the Artistic Director of the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Vice President of the Italian Film Critics Union (SNCCI), and Vice President of the Association of Italian Film Festivals (AFIC).
Appointed by the Italian Minister of Culture, he serves as an expert member of the Subcommittee for Development and Screenwriting for selective funding of film and audiovisual works.
He is also a jury member of the Premio Solinas and a member of the Accademia del Cinema Italiano – David di Donatello Awards.

MARIO SESTI – director, journalist and film critic

He directed L’ultima sequenza (about the “alternate ending” of Federico Fellini’s 8½) and several film essays on Pietro Germi, Nanni Moretti, and Jane Campion. A renowned film critic and journalist, he collaborates with La Repubblica and Ciak, and is among the artistic directors of the Rome Film Fest.
His documentaries have been screened at prestigious venues and festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival, the MoMA in New York, Princeton University, the Locarno Film Festival, the Torino Film Festival, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
His documentary La voce di Pasolini was distributed in Feltrinelli bookstores.