ALAIN PARRONI
Alain Parroni was born on February 14, 1992, in the Roman hinterland. Before following the basic course in film directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, he graduated from Rome University of Fine Arts, where a jury chaired by Karim Rahid awarded him for A casa ovunque (a project about the places and spaces where he grew up, using an avant-garde technique in VR). He received a special mention at the Nastri D'argento for Il Miracolo. In 2017, his short film Adavede was selected at the Venice International Film Critics' Week, subsequently gaining worldwide recognition. In 2018, he began developing his debut feature in the context of the Torino Film Lab. In 2023, Alain won the Solinas Experimenta Serie award while working as a photographer for some of Italy’s major directors. His first film, An Endless Sunday, debuted at the 80th Venice Film Festival.
ANNA MARZIANO
Anna Marziano (Padua 1982) took courses in experimental theatre, followed by studies in Political Science. She trained as director of photography at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In France, she graduated in documentary directing at the Ateliers Varan, where she met Marie-Claude Treilhou, Yves De Peretti and Leonardo di Costanzo. With the support of Fresnoy - Studio National, she made Della mutevolezza di tutte le cose e della possibilità di cambiarne alcune and Variazioni ordinarie. With the support of the Goethe-Institut, she was invited to bangaloREsidency in southern India, where she began filming Al di là dell'uno (2017). During the making of these two films, Marziano created two installations with the same name, presented respectively at the Fresnoy-Studio National and at the Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan. The first retrospective of her works was presented in 2019 in Berlin, where she now lives; the second in Pesaro, in 2022.
RODRIGO D'ERASMO
Born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1976, Rodrigo D'Erasmo lives and works between Rome and Milan. A classically trained violinist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and producer, he graduated from the S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome in 1998 and the Ekaterinburg Conservatory in Russia in 1999. He has recorded dozens of albums worldwide with bands and artists such as Daniele Silvestri, PFM, Calibro 35, Le luci della centrale elettrica, Diodato, Steve Wynn, Muse, Rokia Traoré, Afghan Whigs, Mark Lanegan, Damon Albarn, and many others. In 2008, he joined Afterhours. In 2011, he was awarded by M.E.I. prize for Best Musician of the Year. He has composed soundtracks for film and television, including the documentaries Sergio Leone - L'uomo che inventò l'America and Volonté, l'uomo dai mille volti by Francesco Zippel and Caracas by Marco D'Amore.
THE JURY OF STUDENTS
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:
Bamdad Aghajani, Sapienza - Università di Roma
Barcucci Clara, Scuola di cinema e fotografia - Pigrecoemme
Catozzi Felice, Sapienza - Università di Roma
De Martino Giuseppe, Università degli Studi di Salerno
Di Pasquale Tommaso, Università degli Studi di Salerno
Diozzi Francesco, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Giovagnoli Elia, Università degli studi di Urbino Carlo Bo
Leone Stella Giuseppe, Sapienza - Università di Roma
Magno Sofia, Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti - Fondazione Milano
Marchetti Giuliano, Università degli Studi di Roma di Tor Vergata
Marsano Simone, Università del Salento
Mauri Federico, Università degli studi di Urbino Carlo Bo
Mazzotta Melissa, Accademia delle belle arti di Lecce
Mercati Fabiola, Sapienza - Università di Roma
Montinaro Emanuele, Sapienza - Università di Roma
Nobili Francesca, Sapienza - Università di Roma
Pinto Colomba, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli
Rosato Elisa, Accademia delle belle arti di Lecce
Saggese Sofia, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli
Serafini Margherita, Università del Salento
Troilo Angelica, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Undecimo Matteo, Blow-up Academy
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 sign- ing of a memorandum of understanding between the National Union of Italian Film Crit- ics (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 tradi- tional Jury – is composed of the following three film critics belonging to the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI):
Fabrizio Croce
Fabrizio Croce (Rome, 1977) is a film critic. He collaborates with Close-Up, storie della visione and Schermaglie cinema, inoltre among others. With Armando Andria and Alessia Brandoni, he is the co-editor of interview-books Da una prospettiva eccedente. In dialogo con Antonio Capuano and La vita attiva di Gianni Fiorito. Fotogiornali- smo, fotografia di scena e altri territori (Artdigiland, 2022 and 2025).
Sarah Van Put
Sarah Van Put. A film journalist and critic, she started working at Il Manifesto, namely the arts section Alias. She also works for Il ragazzo selvaggio, a scientific magazine of the Centro Studi Cine- matografici recognised by the Ministry of Education, and Il Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia.
Vittorio Renzi
Vittorio Renzi (Rome, 1971), a film critic and author of a book on the Coen brothers, of the first monographic volume published in Italy about Kim Ki-Duk, and a collection about M. Night Shyamalan. He is the founder and editor of the portal “Garden of Silence - Storie e visioni del cinema muto”. He cur- rently collaborates with Quinlan and Lo specchio scuro.