Announcement of the 33rd Torino Film Festival’s Jury Members

During the opening ceremony, this evening at Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli at Lingotto, the Director Emanuela Martini announced the composition of the Jury of the 33rd Torino Film Festival.

Here is the complete list of Jury Members:


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Marco Cazzato (Turin, Italy) has worked with different newspapers and magazine and publishing houses, such as “La Stampa,” “Corriere della Sera,” “Tuttolibri,” “Carta,” “Il Sole 24Ore,” “Linus,” Slow Food, Einaudi, Baldini e Castoldi, Logos, “ANIMAls” (Coniglio Editore). Since 2008 he has been teaching illustration at the IED in Turin. In 2010 Grzzetic Editore published his book Mood. Moreover he realized placards and edited the image of 2011 Torino Film Festival. In 2014 he won the Best Illustrations European Newspaper Award and in 2015 the Gold Medal Autori di immagini.

Josephine Decker (London, UK, 1981) was nominated by “Filmmaker Magazine” as one of the twenty-five most promising independent filmmakers, and was celebrated in the prestigious magazine “New Yorker.” She made her entrance in the international film festival scene at the 2014 Berlinale in the Forum Section, presenting a diptych comprising her two features Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely. Aside from directing, she also acts, writes, and edits all her projects, which include several documentaries, short films and video clips. The Torino Film Festival paid tribute to her work in the Onde section of last year’s edition.

Jan Ole Gerster (Hagen, Germany, 1978) worked at X-Filme Creative Pool productions on the sets of Tom Tykwer’s films, and then he was assistant to director Wolfgang Becker on Goodbye, Lenin! (2003). He began studying screenwriting and direction at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin in 2004. In 2012 he debuted with his firt feature Oh Boy, which premiered at Karlovy Vary and was then released to cinemas in over 20 countries. The film also won six German Film Prizes and the European Film Award for Best Debut Film. He is currently working on his second feature.

Corin Hardy (UK) initially came to the attention of the world with his much-awarded animation short, Butterfly. Having premiered this film at Edinburgh, he moved into music videos directing many pieces of work for a diverse range of artists and winning numerous MVA’s and a Rushes Soho Shorts prize as well as many international awards. He was recently selected as a “star or tomorrow” by “Screen International” and has a number of features in development. His first feature The Hallow will be screened this year at the 33 Torino Film Festival, in the “After Hours" section.

Valerio Mastandrea (Italy) performed as an actor for theater, television, and cinema. He made his debut in 1994 in Piero Natoli’s Ladri di cinema. He has acted in over fifty movies, working with the most prominent Italian directors, the likes of Ettore Scola (Gente di Roma), Nanni Moretti (Il caimano), Paolo Virzì (N, Tutta la vita davanti, La prima cosa bella), Carlo Mazzacurati (La sedia della felicità), Gianni Zanasi (Non pensarci, La felicità è un sistema complesso), and Marco Bellocchio (Fai bei sogni). He produced and supported the making of Non essere cattivo, Claudio Caligari’s posthumous film, selected to represent Italy at the next Academy Awards.

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Maja Bogojevic (Montenegro) is a film critic and she was a film professor for years and the dean, first of Faculty of Arts at the University of Donja Gorica, then the dean of Faculty of Visual Arts at the Mediterranean University. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the first Montenegrin film magazine, “Camera Lucida,” founder and president of FIPRESCI Montenegro, member of Fedeora and Union de la presse francophone. She has been a selector and jury member at many international film festivals, including the FIPRESCI jury member at Cannes in 2013.

Leonardo Di Costanzo (Ischia, Naples, Italy, 1958), moved to Paris after graduating to pursue his studies in documentary filmmaking at the Ateliers Varan. He made several documentaries with Les films d’ici, which were screened at major festivals. L’intervallo (2012) was his first fiction; it was presented at the Venice Film Festival in the Orizzoni section, and it received a FIPRESCI Award, a Pasinetti Award, and a David di Donatello for Best New Director. He directed the short L’avamposto as part of the collective film I ponti di Sarajevo, which was presented at Cannes.

Marie Losier (France, 1972), filmmaker and curator based in France and New York, she has made various films dedicated to avant-garde directors, composers and musicians. She directed The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011), which was presented in Torino. Her films have been presented at international festivals and museums such as the Tate Modern, MoMA, the Centre Pompidou, the Berlinale and the Cinémathèque française. She will present at 33rd Torino Film Festival, Waves section, L’oiseau de la nuit, from the collective film Aqui, em Lisboa.

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Jonas Carpignano (Rome, Italy, 1984) is an Italian-American filmmaker. He received several international awards for his shorts A Chjana and A Ciambra, including the Controcampo Award at the 2011 Venice Film Festival and the Discovery Prize in Cannes in 2014. His first feature, Mediterranea, was presented this year at Cannes’ Semaine de la critique and was selected by the Karlovy Vary and the London Film Festival, among others. Mediterranea was also a runner up for the European Parliament’s Lux Award and was picked up for distribution in movie theatres in France, Germany, and the United States.

Minnie Ferrara was head of Indigena, a promotion agency for production companies and independent filmmakers. In 1990 she founded her own production company, Minnie Ferrara & Associati, producing feature films in collaboration with Mediaset, Rai Cinema, and Medusa Film. She worked as executive producer on Io sono l’amore (Luca Guadagnino) and AmeriQua (Marco Bellone, Giovanni Consonni). She teaches at IULM and at Civica scuola di cinema in Milan, and she is also a board member of the Fondazione Lombardia Film Commission.

Giovanni Giommi (Italy) graduated with a degree in architecture and started working on documentary filmmaking, debuting in 1999 with Nel cuore delle alghe e dei coralli. He participated many times at the Torino Film Festival over the years, notably with Politica Zero (2006, made with Massimo Coppola and Alberto Piccinini), Les Ninjas du Japon (2007), and Bad Weather (2011), which received several awards including an IDFA nomination, the Doc/it Professional Award for Best Italian Documentary, and a nomination for the 2013 David di Donatello.

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François Farellacci has made documentaries and works of fiction, video art and photography. In 1997 he began his collaboration with Laura Lamanda with the short L’età forte. The next year, Volo sulla città received the Audience Award in the Spazio Italia section at the Torino Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the Aix-en-Provence Film Festival. He then presented in Torino two other films: Famille (2009) and L’île des morts (2012). In 2014 he directed Lupino, which received the Jury Award at Filmmaker Festival in Milan.

Tiziana Lo Porto (Bozen, Italy, 1972) lives between Rome and New York. She works as translator and she writes about music, cinema and graphic novels for newspapers and magazines, such as “La Repubblica”, “D,” “Il venerdì” and the blog minimaetmoralia.it. She is the translator of Charles Bukowski’s The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Jim Carroll’s The Basketball Diaries and James Franco’s novels. With Daniele Marotta, she is the author of the graphic novel Superzelda: The Graphic Life of Zelda Fitzgerald, which was translated and published in Spain, South America, United States, Canada and France.

Giuseppe Peveri a.k.a. Dente (Fidenza, Parma, Italy, 1976) is a songwriter and musician who started playing very young. His debut album is Anice in bocca (2006). In 2007, Non c’è due senza te was among the best twenty italian records chosen by the Italian Independent Music Award. In 2009 he played over eighty gigs with the tour of L’amore non è bello, which wons the PIMI prize. In 2014 he published Almanacco del giorno prima, a collaboration with musicians such as Afterhours, Perturbazione, Zen Circus, Selton and Rodrigo D’Erasmo and Enrico Gabrielli.

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Francesco Tullio Altan (Treviso, Italy, 1942) studied architecture in Venice and in the late 1960s moved to Rome, where he was involved in making sets and writing screenplays for films and TV. He moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1970 and in 1974 began collaborating with Italian newspapers. He returned to Italy in 1975, created Pimpa and published his first comic strips in “Linus.” Two years later, he created his most famous character, Cipputi. His satirical political cartoons are regularly published in “l’Espresso” and “la Repubblica.”

Mariano Morace (Naples, Italy, 1947), after graduating in literature from the Università Statale in Milan, taught in Lugano and worked as a film and theatre critic for a few publications in the Ticino area. In 1982 he started working for Switzerland’s Italian-language public broadcaster (RSI) and made his way up to heading the cinema department for its three radio channels. He was press officer for two editions of the Locarno Film Festival. He was one of the founding members of its Critics’ Week, and served as a delegate general and a member of the artistic committee for Locarno as well as for the Castellinaria Festival.

Costanza Quatriglio (Palermo, Italy, 1973) made her debut with L’isola, which was selected at Cannes’ Quinzaine des réalisateurs in 2003 and received several other awards. At the Venice Film Festival that same year, she presented Racconti per L’isola. Among her precedent projects, Ècosaimale? won a special mention at Torino in 2000. She presented Terramatta (2012) in Venice and won the Nastro d’argento for Best Documentary Film. In 2013, her short Con il fiato sospeso was screened out of competition in Venice. Triangle (2015) won Cipputi Award in Torino and Nastro d’argento for best documentary.

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Luca Pellegrini (Italy) is a professional journalist with a degree in literature from the Univesity La Sapienza in Rome. He was one of the promoters of the Tertio Millennio Film Fest, organized by Fondazione ente dello spettacolo. He collaborated as a film critic with the papers “Il Corriere del Giorno” and “L’osservatore romano,” and he currently works with “Avvenire,” “La rivista del cinematografo,” the website cinematografo.it, and “Radio vaticana.” He has been a member of the selection committee of the Venice International Film Critics’ Week from 2013 to 2015.

Győző Mátyás (Budapest, Hungary, 1954) is a filmcritic, writer and university teacher. He has published several articles and essays about film, his latest work being a book about the oeuvre of David Fincher, the american cult director. He is also known as a prose writer, and editor of the magazine “Kritika.” He works as an associate professor at King Sigismund College in Budapest, lecturing on film.

Kerem Akca (Istanbul, Turkey, 1983) is a Turkish film critic. He graduated from Bilgi University’s Management of Performing Arts department and got certificates from two of New York University’s filmmaker’s workshop programs. He has worked as editor and film critic in several publications since 2002, including cinema magazines “Sinema” and “Empire Turkey.” From 2008, he is the film critic of the major newspaper “Haberturk.” Recently he is the consultant of Malatya International Film Festival and also giving lessons in Istanbul Culture University Graduate School.