the formula
The formula of recent years mainly includes two prizes awarded by two different juries. One by EXPERTS in the sector and one by AUTHORS, former remusic artists, who have participated in past editions of the competition.
The two juries judge the contestants simultaneously and independently. I can then reward the contestants themselves. Each individual juror is required to judge the works independently and without first knowing the other jurors. The jurors collectively discuss who to award only after mathematically determining the super finalists of the competition.
ancient jury
Musician
Paolo Archetti Maestri
He is a songwriter, composer and musician but also singer, guitar player and founder of the band Yo Yo Mundi.
With Yo Yo Mundi he produced eight albums and played lots of concerts and shows, among them various re-settings of soundtracks – in Italy and all over the world.
He lives in Acqui Terme (Monferrato), is a fan of the football club Torino, and with a bit less enthusiasm, of the ice-hockey club Ambrì-Piotta.He is passionate about photography, art, literature, politics and – in general – about environmental protection and human rights.
Live sound engineer
Maricetta Lombardo
Hee has worked in dozens of Italian film productions including Gomorra (film and series) by Matteo Garrone of which he is the reference live sound engineer. She holds the record of victories, four, at the Silver Ribbon for best sound.
Musician
Henk van Dreumel
Founder of the German festival “Staub und Kratzer short film festival”. He spent his time as a musician, DJ and record producer. He has produced short documentaries, experimental sound collages and sound sculptures. He is also a great collector of vintage hi-fi, 16mm film and a thousand other things. He has worked in Australia, England and the USA. He currently lives and works in Duesseldorf.
Musician
Sergio Lopez Figueroa
Sergio is a Spanish creative producer, composer and cultural entrepreneur. He currently lives in London, he studied piano at the conservatories of Las Palmas, Bologna and Madrid. Having specialized in film music in the UK from Bournemouth University (PGDip) and the national Film & Television School, NFTS, his style of film music has strong European influences which blend contemporary classical writing with typical film scoring techniques. Collaborates with various film libraries. In 2008 he founded Big Bang Lab.
Musician
Valentina Mitola
With Paolo Cipriano she founded the Supershock group with which she created soundtracks for silent films that took her on tour in Italy, France, South America, the Middle East, for over 500 performances. He creates the music and plays in international theater shows, including "Le Pays des Aveugles" by and with Nino D'Introna, produced by Théatre Nuovelle Génération in Lyon (France). Graduated in Cinema at D.A.M.S. of Turin, she is currently enrolled in the Cuneo Conservatory, a pupil of Paolo Costa and Riccardo Fioravanti.
Customer Support Lead
Bruno Di Marino
A scholar of the moving image, in particular in audiovisual experimentation, new media and the relationships between cinema and other artistic fields. Since 1986 he has written for specialist reviews (“Segnocinema”) and newspapers (“Il Manifesto”), and has published numerous books and essays. He runs courses, workshops and conferences both in Italy and abroad. In 1993 he founded the audiovisual archive of the Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea in Rome. He currently teaches Mass Media Theory and Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts in Frosinone. He is also editorial adviser to Rarovideo, has directed various specialist festivals (Metamorfosi) and exhibitions, and created shows and retrospectives (Animania - 100 years of experiments in animation cinema, Pesaro 1998). He lives and works in Rome.
Music supervisor
Giovanni Guardi
With a degree in Economics and an EMAM (European Master in Audiovisual Management) diploma from the MEDIA programme, Giovanni Guardi deals with music for Fandango’s films and follows the recording projects of, among others, Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, Pacifico, Gianmaria Testa, Musica Nuda, Nada and Zamboni. As music supervisor, he has also worked with Matteo Garrone, Nanni Moretti, Gabriele Muccino, Ferzan Ozpetek and Paolo Sorrentino. He holds courses on the language of music for images at the Scuola Holden (Circus) and at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, and has worked for five years with the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome for their seasons of silent classics accompanied by live music.
Cineteca di Bologna coordinator
Guy Borlee
With a degree in Journalism and Communication from the Free University of Brussels, he works for the Bologna Municipal Film Theatre and the International Exhibition of Free Cinema. Since 1995 he has been the coordinator of the “Cinema Ritrovato” international festival, as well as of the summer programme “Sotto le stelle del cinema”. He has worked since 1994 on the creation of various European film restoration projects and on training for the Film Theatre’s staff (Caleidoscopio, Raffaello, EFG, FIAF Summer school). In 1994 he worked on the congress of the Fédération Internationale des Archives de Film. His publications include all the catalogues of the Cinema Ritrovato festivals and the Exhibition of European Film Schools.
Foley artist
Luigi Tota
He worked as a noisemaker for many Italian productions such as Nirvana (1997), Don Matteo (2000) and I hope that I get along (1992).
Live sound engineer
Marco Fiumara
Coordinator of the Sound Recording course at the "Gian Maria Volontè" school in Rome. -Professor of sound in live capture at the Civic School of Cinema "Luchino Visconti" in Milan. -Teacher of Sound Technique and Sound Film Analysis at Zelig (Bolzano) -NUCT and ACT (Rome) and seminars at schools and universities throughout Italy -Wrote and co-produced various documentaries and edited the live sound of numerous Italian and foreign series and films, including: Gomorra 2 (B UNIT) – directed by C. Cupellini – TV series 2015-16, The Young Messiah – directed by C. Nowrasteh (USA – 2016), Males against females – directed by F. Brizzi (2010), Bar Sport – directed by M. Martelli (2010) EX – directed by F. Brizzi (2008), Lacapagira – directed by A.Piva (1999)...
Ermitage Cinema Director
Piero Di Domenico
Journalist and film critic, he collaborates with the cultural pages of the Emilia-Romagna edition of the "Corriere della Sera" and has numerous activities in the publishing field to his credit. Professor at the University of Bologna, at the university consortium ECCO of Bologna and the CIEE of Ferrara of courses on cinematographic language and on the relationship between the image and new technologies, he was director of the multimedia publishing house Ermitage Cinema and curator of the sector home video of the Cineteca di Bologna. He is also didactic supervisor of the Bottega Finzioni storytelling school founded by Carlo Lucarelli.
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