Jury
Chiara Bersani
Chiara Bersani is an italian visual and performing artist. She is manly active in experimental theatre, contemporary dance and performing art. As an actress / performer she collaborated with important figures and institutions, like Lenz Rifrazioni (IT), Alessandro Sciarroni / Corpoceleste_C.C.00 (IT), La Tristura (E), Rodrigo Garcia (E), Jérôme Bel (FR), Babilonia Teatri (IT). Her most important work, Family Tree, received several prizes, among which the prize Prospettiva Danza 2011 and the selection in the Nuova Piattaforma della Danza Italiana 2014. Affected by brittle bone syndrome, Chiara has been always interested in the political implications of the body. She started in 2013 a research project that will be developed in three performing experiments that will be staged between August 2015 and September 2016: Tell Me More (performance with a chorus of 8 male voices); Miracle Blade (dysfunctional family movie) and Goodnight Peeping Tom (performance with a young man, a young woman, an handicapped person, a pornstar and a transgender).
Davide Turrini
Davide Turrini is a journalist, film critic, screenwriter, radio author. He appreciates, among others, Bergman, the first films by Sorrentino, the pre-1992 Woody Allen. He has written for Liberazione, Cinematografo, Carnet, Film Tv, Primissima, ZIC, and still writes for IlFattoquotidiano.it, spietati.it, Segnocinema. Twitter @davide_turrini
Mick Hannigan
Mick Hannigan is Co-Director of the IndieCork Film Festival, an event he founded with Úna Feely in 2013. For many years he was the Director of Cork Film Festival which he developed as the premiere festival for shorts in Ireland. He was the founding Cinemas Director of the Irish Film Centre, leaving that position to establish the Kino Arthouse Cinema in Cork which he ran for 13 years. He has served on the boards of the Federation of Irish Film Societies, the Irish Film Institute and the Irish Film Board. He has a special commitment to that art of the short film and in 2005 organized a three-day International Short Film Symposium as part of Cork’s year as European Cultural Capital.
Monika Bulaj
Monika Bulaj Monika Bukaj (Warsaw, 1966) is a photographer, reporter, documentarian. The main issues of her research are the borders of faiths (mystic, archetypes, divination, possession, pilgrims, body, cult of the dead), minorities, nomads, migrants, outcasts, dispossessed in Asia, Europe, and Africa. Among others, she collaborates with Corriere della Sera, GEO, Il Venerdi di Repubblica, National Geographic, Freundin, TEATR (Poland), EAST – European and Asian Strategies, Courrier International, La Repubblica, D- La Repubblica delle Donne, Io Donna – Corriere della Sera, Gazeta Wyborcza, Internazionale, Avvenire, Famiglia Cristiana, Il Piccolo. She has held more than 60 exhibitions worldwide, between New York and Il Cairo. Awards: Grant in Visual Arts 2005, by the European Association for Jewish Culture; Francesco Gelmi di Caporiacco Award 2008; Bruce Chatwin Award “Occhio assoluto” 2009; The Aftermath Project Grant 2010; Luchetta-Hrovatin 2011 Award; TEDGlobal Fellowship 2011; Lucchetta Grant 2011; Tomizza Award 2012; City of Trieste for the Reportage Award 2012; FIAF Award for Best Author of FVG 2012.
Teho Teardo
Teho Teardo is a prominent contemporary musician and composer. He collaborated with Blixa Bargeld (Einsturzende Neubauten’s singer and ex guitarist of Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds) in the production of the LP “Still Similing” and EP “Smile!”; more recently, he composed the original soundtrack for the theatre play “Ballyturk” by Irish playwright Enda Walsh, featuring Cillian Murphy, Joe lally (Fugazi) and Lori Goldston (Nirvana’s cellist). Ballyturk’s soundtrack awarded Teardo the “Best Soundtrack” prize at the Irish Theatre Awards. Teardo is also one of the most active musicians involved with cinema, he created many soundtracks for important directors like Paolo Sorrentino, Andrea Molaioli, Daniele Vicari, Gabriele Salvatores, Guido Chiesa.