RÄ DI MARTINO
Film director Rä di Martino studied in London at the Chelsea College of Art and Slade School of Art and then moved to New York 2005 through 2010; she now lives and works in Rome. Her work was exhibited in the London Tate Modern, the New York MoMA|PS1, the Venice Palazzo Grassi, the Rome GAM and MAXXI, the Bolzano Museion, the Chicago MCA, and the Milan HangarBicocca and PAC. Her films were selected in international film festivals such as Locarno, Turin, and Venice, where in 2014 she won the SIAE Prize and the Gillo Pontecorvo Award with The Show MAS Go On (2014), which also received a Silver Ribbons special mention. Her first feature Controfigura (2017) premiered at the Venice Film Festival. In 2021, she made the documentaries The Garden That Doesn’t Exist, revisiting Giorgio Bassani’s novel The Garden of the Finzi Continis, and Fuori dai teatri. In 2022, she had two solo exhibitions, one at the Florence Forte Belvedere and one dedicated to the Carmelo Bene archive.
PABLO MARÍN
Pablo Marín (Buenos Aires 1982) is a filmmaker, film critic, and professor. As an independent researcher and curator, he gave lectures and presented film programmes in the United States, Canada, Spain, Austria, Finland, and Switzerland. He was a member of the research team for the project ‘ISM ISM ISM: Latin American Experimental Cinema’ promoted by the Los Angeles Filmforum and the Getty Foundation. He teaches at LAV (Madrid), the Friedl Kubelka School for Independent Film (Vienna), and the Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola (San Sebastián), where he also served as tutor. He translated the writings of Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, John Waters, and J. Hoberman among others, and his first book, Una luz revelada. El cine experimental argentino, was published by La Vida Útil in 2022. His films were shown at international museums and festivals; the latest one, Trampa de luz, was awarded the Principal Online Prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2021).
FRANCESCA MAZZOLENI
Film director and screenwriter Francesca Mazzoleni (1989) works on the edge between fiction and documentary. After graduating in Directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, she began making shorts, including Il premio, nominated at the 2015 Silver Ribbons. In 2018, she debuted as a feature director with the coming-ofage film Succede, produced by Indigo Film and Warner Bros Italia. In 2020, she made her sophomore film, the documentary Sacred Point revolving around the community that lives at the mouth of the Tiber River, that won Best international film in Visions du Réel 2020, was nominated at the 2021 David di Donatello Awards, won the Valentina Pedicini Prize at the Silver Ribbons, and was awarded in over 70 festivals across the world. She then directed an episode of the Romulus II TV series, produced by Groenlandia and Cattleya for Sky, and two episodes of Supersex, a series produced by The Apartment and Groenlandia for Netflix, upcoming in 2023.
LA GIURIA STUDENTI
The Jury of Students for the Competition “Pesaro Nuovo Cinema” - Lino Miccichè Award coordinated by Mariantonietta Losanno is formed of the following students from Italian universities and film schools:
Sofia Amato, Sapienza – Università di Roma
Camilla Ardissone, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Cristiano Arni, Sapienza – Università di Roma
Dario Bartoletti, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Sabrina Bernardi, Università degli studi di Urbino Carlo Bo
Anna Bortoletto, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli
Enrica Calenda, Università degli Studi di Salerno
Martina Cardinale, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli
Elena Celentano, Scuola di cinema e fotografia Pigrecoemme
Giada Ciliberto, Sapienza – Università di Roma
Ener Colombo, Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti – Fondazione Milano
Samuele Consoletti, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale
Arianna D’Erasmo, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale
Matteo Di Lizia, Accademia Cinema Renoir
Salvatore Gambone, Università degli Studi di Salerno
Alessia Giallorenzo, Sapienza – Università di Roma
Elisabetta Giamporcaro, Scuola di cinema e fotografia Pigrecoemme
Irene Jimenez, Accademia Di Belle Arti di Lecce
Marco Macauda, Università degli Studi di Roma di “Tor Vergata”
Federico Mango, Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti – Fondazione Milano
Anna Simona Moliterni, Accademia Di Belle Arti di Lecce
Lorenzo Nuzzo, Sapienza – Università di Roma
Luca Pacchiarini, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale
Gabriele Parodi, Accademia Cinema Renoir
Giada Vigiano, Università degli studi di Urbino Carlo Bo
SNCCI ITALIAN CRITICS’ AWARD THE JURY in collaboration with AFIC
The Pesaro Film Festival welcomes a new jury composed of film critics. The jury of film critics will assign the ITALIAN CRITICS’ AWARD (SNCCI), recently created after the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) and the Italian Film Festivals Association (AFIC). The new award will be adopted by over hundred AFIC-associated events, including our Festival.
The SNCCI Jury – who will evaluate the films in Competition, in parallel with the traditional Jury – is composed of the following three film critics belonging to the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI):
Alessandro Cuk
Francesco Grieco
Chiara Nicoletti