The Jury of the Third Edition of the Andaras Traveling Film Festival
Classical Jury
Saverio Pesapane
Screenwriter and Distributor
Saverio Pesapane graduated in Architecture in 2006. His degree thesis “Lost Highway” is a documentary on the highway system built between Naples and Caserta with the funds allocated by the reconstruction law after the 1981 earthquake.
In 2008 he wrote A Water Tale, a short film included in "Stories on Human Rights", a film made up of 22 short films commissioned by the United Nations for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In the same year he wrote Aral Citytellers, produced by Art for the World, a documentary shot in Kazakhstan, on the Aral Sea.
In 2009 he wrote Dubai Citytellers, produced by Unicredit & Art, a documentary shot in Dubai on neo-slavism.
Between 2011 and 2012 he wrote and directed It's countryside, a documentary shot in the Nile Valley and Cairo, Egypt, produced by the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale.
In 2013 he won the Solinas Award - Stories for cinema, with Una Buona Ragione.
In 2018 he wrote and produced Yousef, a short film selected at the 2018 Venice Film Festival and winner of the best editing award in the Migrarti category, in competition at the Clermont-Ferrand 2019 International Short Film Festival and selected in the five finalists for the David di Donatello 2019 award.
Since 2017 he is a partner of Premiere Film, a film production and distribution company, which in 2019 was in charge of the executive production of The Nest, a feature film produced by Colorado Film in collaboration with Vision Distribution.
He teaches at NABA, New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.
Lorenzo Richelmy
Actor
Born in 1990, Lorenzo Richelmy is the youngest actor to have ever been admitted to Experimental Center of Cinematography. He performs on theatrical stages from a young age and in 2007 he is chosen to play a role in the TV series “I Liceali”, gaining considerable popularity that brought him to win a prize from Ministry of Tourism for “emerging European celebrity”.
Among the many characters from movies and TV, we recall Marco Polo in the Netflix Original Series. Than he played a lot of leading roles in films such as “Il terzo tempo”, “Una vita spericolata”, “Ride”, “Dolceroma”, and “Il talento del calabrone” with Sergio Castellito.
His other films appearances included roles in “Sotto una buona stella”, by Carlo Verdone, “La ragazza nella nebbia” by Donato Carrisi, “Una questione privata”, by Paolo e Vittorio Taviani.
Francesca Schianchi
Journalist
Originally from Parma, after a degree in Literature and a master's degree in Journalism, she first worked in Paris and then in Rome. After many years collaborating with La Stampa, L’espresso, Il Secolo XIX, she became a parliamentary journalist and followed some of the most important political events, from the Italian elections to the French presidential elections. Since 2007 she has been at La Stampa and, for five years of great fun, she has been part of the cast of Gazebo first and Propaganda Live after.
Francesca Mannocchi
Journalist and Writer
Investigative reporter, Francesca Mannocchi worked in Libia, Iraq, Tunisia, Libano, Siria, Egitto, focusing on issues of migrants and war zones. She wrote for important international newspapers (L’Espresso, Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Stern) and she has directed documentaries for Rai3, La7, SkyNews. “Isis, Tomorrow”, directed with Alessio Romenzi, was presented to Venice International Film Festival in 2018. She published “Se chiudo gli occhi”, “La Guerra in Siria nella voce dei bambini” (2018), “Porti ciascuno la sua colpa” (2019) e “Io Khaled vendo uomini e sono innocente” (2019).
Among her many awards, the “Franco Giustolisi” prize for her reports on the smuggling of migrants and the Libyan prisons, and the prestigious award “Premiolino”.
Sylvester Serra
Touring Club's media director
Silvestro Serra: native roman, after collaborations with Paese Sera, L’Espresso, Radio 2 Rai, Rai 2, now he contributes regularly with La Repubblica, for Weekend and Dossier 1976-1982 supplements, e for its radio.
From 1982 to 2000 worked in editorial staff of Panorama, section manager of Vita Moderna, Società, Spettacoli, and in the central office. He joined Hachette, for 10 years he directed the monthly Gente Viaggi. From 2012 he works in Touring Club Italy and runs the Touring association’s monthly. He’s Magazine and media relationship Director.
Gazes from the World's Jury
Anabela Salcedo
Photographer - Filmmaker
Venezuelan, at a young age she attend and graduate in photography in Caracas, at “Escuela Foto Arte”. She traveled around the world and she moved to Rome where she continued her studies in photography and cinema. In 2016 she moved to Miami, Florida, where she worked mainly with photography, having a great success that led her to expose her works in New York, Miami and back in Venezuela. With the photo exhibition “The will of the body” she attends to many photo festivals, and with her short film “Roraima” she wins prizes all over the world.
Slow Food's Jury
Giacomo Miola
Slow Food Italy
Born in 1981, passionate about art and food, he achieved a PhD in Design for sustainable agri-food production.
After his studies, he moved back to Costa d’Amalfi, his native land, where he starts “Metafarm Social Food Lab”, an organization that deals with tourism and promotion of gastronomic heritage and local communities. In Metafarm he develops “Gastronomic Trekking”, offer of experiences that involve the traveler in a real full immersion in the territory, in the best of agri-food production, in the food and the most authentic cooking traditions.
Elisabetta Pagani
Journalist - La Stampa
Elisabetta Pagani. She works for La Stampa from 2015, for 3 years was manager of “Tuttigusti”, now she is in Gusto.it staff, Gedi group website dedicated to food and wine, where she deals mainly with travel.
Paula Manfredi
Journalist - Vanity Fair
Paola Manfredi, Vanity Fair’s journalist, she writes about travel, food and sustainability. She loves to believe that the world can change for the better and that travel must be a state of mind.
The Guests of the Third Edition of the Andaras Traveling Film Festival
Shobha
Fotografa
Shobha is a well known international photographer from Palermo, winner of many awards, among which stands out a double “World Press Photo” prize. Her life and her activity has been divided between Italy and India for many years, and in India she runs a photography center since 2007, the “Mother India School”, that she started. The activities of the school are mainly dedicated to female universe and they give voice, through their stories, to brave women that fight for a real change.
From “Mother India School” website: “Life is not a travel. It isn’t a destination, it’s a process. You arrive step by step. And if every step is wonderful, if every step is magic, so it will also be your life.”
Her photographic history is one with her focus on social issues, and her full immersion in the universe of the last is one with her way of life.
Michela Marchi
Director of Slowfood.it
Sociolinguist, specialised in editorial design, after a short period in “Slow Food Editore”, she found her path in the communication team for Slow Food Italy. After she paid her dues, she specialized in digital communication. Now, she runs the editorial staff of slowfood.it, she studies, she plans and she lead the social channel of Slow Food Italy (but don’t you dare call her social media manager!), she represents Italy in Slow Food’s international campaigns and she deals with communication for Slow Food Travel. Fine eater, ice-cream expert, she is a proud supporter of agro-ecology and passionate about natural wines, that she would like to drink to excess, but you know, with age is not recommended!
Native of Barbagia, she travels as she could, and she brings Sardinia always with her, in her thoughts, in her ways, and in her accent.
Enrica Pintore
Actress
Enrica Pintore was born in Nuoro in 1985, but she grew up in Ottana, a small village in the province. She moved to Roma to attend acting school “Il Cantiere Teatrale” under the direction of the actress Paola Tiziana Cruciani.
Her very furst debut was in 2011 when she joined the cast of the movie “10 regole per farla innamorare” with Guglielmo Scilla and Vincenzo Salemme.
She played roles in “Centovetrine”, “Un medico in famiglia 10”, Disney’s series “Alex&co”, “Don Matteo 11”, “Il Paradiso delle Signore” and in the TV movie “Enrico Piaggio - Un sogno italiano” by Umberto Marino.
She starred in the film “Il ragazzo della Giudecca” (2016) based on the book, with Farnco Nero, Luigi Diberti, Giancarlo Giannini and Tony Sperandeo, and in “Oltre la bufera” inspired by the life of Don Giovanni Minzoni. Produced and distributed by Controluce Produzione, the film was presented at Rome Film Festival in October 2019, and shortly after it was released. For a few years now, she host the Hbbtv Awards in Rome and the European Digital Forum in Lucca, event dedicated to development and innovation in digital interactive TV.
From 2019 she is testimonial of Fondazione Pangea Onlus.
Fondazione Pangea Onlus
Fondazione Pangea Onlus works in Italy, Afghanistan and India with all women that have suffered violence and discrimination to help them start a new life, becoming source of wealth for themselves and their families.
The work of Pangea is based on Listening, Hospitality and Support, to help women rebuild their project of life e star from themselves. The approach is to “do it together”, building a mutual trust and respect, creating a personal, familiar and social transformation that last in time.
Nicola Baraglia
Filmmaker
He was born in 1983 in Iglesias, and since he was young he felt the need to express through images.
His first step towards the cinema is definitely the master’s degree in restoration of films and “home movies”.
Later, he specialized in Cinema, TV and New Media at IULM University in Milan. He started to work with the most important national media, traveling around the world and working in photography for many docu-stories.
His work doesn’t stop to documentary, but he tell about art, design and the subject of work in different forms.
His personal story brings him an attentive and sensitive gaze, empathetic with faces and with the “invisible’s” stories, the common people.
Federico Geremicca
Journalist
He started in Naples on the editorial board of l'Unita', back in 1976. In 1983 he was called in Rome by Emanuele Macaluso, who was director of the PCI's newspaper back then. in 1990 he moves to Repubblica, where he became head of the political editorial board, to then move again - seven years later- to Palermo to lead the newborn Sicilian edition. At the end of 1999 he was called by La Stampa to become vice director and head of the editorial board in Rome. Nowadays he's still one of the columnist of the newspaper.
Matteo Incollu
Filmmaker and Screenwriter
Sardinian director and author, he was born in Baunei on 17th March 1981.
In 2007 he was assistant director for “Sonetaula” by Salvatore Mereu; his collaboration with the Sardinian director continued for “Bellas Mariposas” (Ita, 2012) and in short films “Transumanza” (Ita 2013) and “Scegliere per Crescere” (Ita 2015).
In 2015 he wrote and directed the short film “Disco Volante”, winner of “Best Film” award in Visioni Sarde competition. In 2017 he directed the short film “Coins”, and in 2018 another short film “Male Fadàu”, currently on screen.
Felice Montervino
Actor
He trained from a young age at Riverrun Theatre in Cagliari, woth Rino Sudano anda Elio Turnoa Arthemalle. He continued his studies specialising at “Teatro Stabile della Sardegna” under the direction of Veronica Cruciani and Kevin Crewford. Later, he moved to Milan and participated to “Laboratorio Permanente di Formazione Attori” with the A.T.I.R. company and then he attended “Repertorio” Permanent School for High Training for resident artists, led by Danio Manfredini at Corte Ospitale of Rubiera.
Actor and performer, he worked with permanent theaters and independent companies for many directors: Rino Sudano, Orlando Forioso, LucidoSottile, Alessandro Serra/Compagnia TeatroPersona, Veronica Cruciani, Serena Sinigaglia, Paolo Magelli, Compagnia Umberto Orsini. He played roles in theater productions, in Italy and abroad: “Il Calapranzi”; “Il Ballo delle Anime”; “Holy Peep Show”; “Macbettu” (Premio UBU 2017 - Miglior Spettacolo); “Il Giardino dei Ciliegi”.
In these past years, he worked as actor for music videos, audiobooks, commercials, short and long films:“L’incolore Tazaki Tsukuru e i suoi anni di pellegrinaggio” by H.Murakami, directed by A.Toscano e V.Vannicola; Vodafone Commercial; Sardex.net web&Tv Commercial; “Sinuaria” by R. Carta; “L’Ospite” by N.Caponio e S.Latini; “Male Fadau” by M.Incollu; “Figlia mia” by L.Bispuri; “Il Muto di Gallura” by Matteo Fresi.