* Below is a list of the participating decision makers for the 2021 ICFF Industry Day (Italian Delegation).
ENRICO BALLARIN
Director of Mestiere Cinema and Line Producer of Cyrano
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After working for many years in theatre production, Enrico Ballarin moved into the film & TV business working for many international productions as Location Manager, Production Manager, and then as Line Producer for feature films, TV movies, and advertising. He joined Mestiere Cinema, one of the leading Italian production service companies for foreign film and TV series productions, becoming one of the directors of the company.
ANDREA BISCARO
Producer of Across the River and Into the Trees
Andrea Biscaro is the Co-Founder and Producer at Bmovie Italia and Borotalco TV, where he has worked on more than 200+ projects. His work includes successful films, TV shows, documentaries, and music videos produced and distributed in almost 30 different countries.
Throughout his 20+ years of career, Biscaro has worked with international filmmakers and studios to produce content distributed globally. His recent filmography, of both films and TV series, includes: “Across the River and Into the Trees”, “Niente di serio”, “Hagane no renkinjutsushi”, “The Girl from Nagasaki”, “War Games”, “Africanus”, “El Coraçon de l’impero”, among many others.
SILVIA GIULIETTI
Director, Producer
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Silvia Giulietti is an award-winning Italian producer and director. Her first job in the film industry was at the Gaumont Italia Production Company, where she had the opportunity to work with major filmmakers such as: Federico Fellini, Ettore Scola, Liliana Cavani, Lina Wertmuller and many others. In the early 80s, Silvia was part of the camera production team under the direction of Armando Nannuzzi, becoming one of the first female directors of photography. In 2004, she founded her independent production company, iFrame.In 2018, Silvia produced and directed La Morte Legale, and finally in 2020 she directed FELLINOPOLIS.
EZIO GREGGIO
Producer, Director, President of Monte-Carlo Film Festival “de la Comédie”
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Ezio Greggio is an actor, screenwriter, director, and producer with over 30 years of experience in the film industry. Following his extraordinary success as a comedy actor and TV personality, in 2001 Greggio became the Director of the Monte-Carlo Film Festival “de la Comédie”, the only film festival in the world dedicated to comedy films. Throughout his career, Greggio has won countless awards for his work as a writer, director, actor, and producer of films such, as Silence of the Hams, The Good Bad Guy, Dracula: Dead and Loving It by Mel Brooks, 2001 – A Space Travesty by Allan Goldstein, amongst many others
ANDREA IERVOLINO
Animation and Film Producer
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Iervolino is an Italian-Canadian producer who, since the age of 16, has produced, financed, and distributed over 60 films and has won several international awards and recognitions. In 2013, Iervolino co-launched AMBI Media Group that, since then, has been producing several award-winning films. He also produces animation with his company Iervolino Studios, amongst them the latest work, Puffin, a cartoon voiced by Johnny Depp. Iervolino was awarded Best Producer at the 71st edition of the Venice Film Festival and was named filmmaker of the year for his role as producer of In Dubious Battle at the Capri Hollywood Film Festival 2016.
VERONICA MANSON
Director, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto
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She has dedicate most of her career to the promotion of Italian culture and language around the world. After completing her law degree, she started as a junior lawyer with the Studio Legale Monti & Partners in Milan. After moving to San Francisco in 1991, she was appointed Director of International Projects with the National Center for Employee Ownership Foundation. In 1999 she started to work for the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in San Francisco as Project and Cultural Events Coordinator. In 2007, she was confirmed Cultural Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome and, since 2012, she has been directing the Istituto Italiano di Cultura first in Singapore, then Strasbourg, and now Toronto.
BENEDETTA MARASSI
Senior Trade Analyst / Project Manager, ITA – Italian Trade Agency
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Benedetta Marassi is the Senior Trade Analyst/Project Manager at ITA, the Italian Trade Agency. Marassi has been working with the Italian Trade Agency for over 20 years, overseeing the Editorial Arts & Agrifood Sector, and coordinating external communications.
VINCENZO NISCO
Art Director, Rainbow
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He began his career as a comic strip artist working or the most popular European publishers. In the ’90, he moved to Australia at the Disney Animation Studios to work on movies such as, Peter Pan 2, Tarzan 2, Lilo & Stitch 2, The Lion King 3, Brother Bear 2, The Three Musketeers, among others. From 2007 he has joined Rainbow as the Art Director for the CGI part for films and series. Amongst his achievements, Nisco is nominated for the David di Donatello Award for the visual effects of the Winx film “The Secret of The Lost Kingdom”, becoming permanent member of the Italian Movie Academy.
GUIDO PAPPADA’
Director, Vfx sup., Producer
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He is an award-winning film director and a VFX supervisor and producer. He is the Co-founder of Dyte-Digital Filmworks and the CEO of Sirenae film post. He supervised the VFX production for many features films, such as: “The legend of 900’” by G. Tornatore, “Jesus” by R. Young, “Malena” di G. Tornatore, “Resurrection” by P.and V. Taviani, “Fire on me” of L. Lambertini, nominated as Best visual effects for David di Donatello Awards, “A family’s Friend” by Paolo Sorrentino, “Fascists on Mars” by C. Guzzanti nominated as Best visual effects for David di Donatello Awards. In 2010 he also debuted as a director with the award-winning feature film, “Nauta”.
MARCO SALADINI
Trade Commissioner at Italian Trade Agency – Ice-Agenzia
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Marco Saladini manages the Toronto and Montréal offices of the Italian Trade Agency, tasked with developing trade and investment relations between Canada and Italy in a wide range of industries, ranging from industrial machinery to food and wine. Marco has extensive overseas experience and holds a Master’s degree in Political Sciences and a Certificate in Emerging Markets.
CHRISTINE REINHOLD
CEO and Creative producer
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She has over 10 years of experience in theatre and cinema between New York, London, and Milan. In 2011 she produced her first documentary, ‘Fukushame: The lost Japan’ by Alessandro Tesei. In 2012 she started the production of a new documentary, ‘Fukushima: a Nuclear Story’, released in 2015 and distributed in over 20 countries, airing on Sky Cinema, Al Jazeera America, and CBC Canada. From 2018 to 2020, Christine was the producer and executive producer of ‘Sanpa – Sins of the Savior’, Netflix’s first Italian Doc-Series, and winner of the 2021 Nastri d’Argento. In 2021, she finalized her last two productions which were presented at festivals, ‘DIVIDED: What language do you express Love in?’, and ‘In the Eyes of Others – the Italians’.
FRANCO SERRA
Producer
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Franco Serra is an animation film and TV series producer with a long experience in co-productions. Currently, Franco is working on a new 3D CGI TV series project in cooperation with RAI for which he is looking for a co-production deal investing in work and financing.
GIORGIO SCORZA
CEO, Director, and Artistic Director at Movimenti Production
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Giorgio Scorza is the Co-Founder, CEO, Director, and Artistic Director at Movimenti Production, the production company that produces captivating international series. Among them, he has produced and worked on: “Lupo”; “Topo Gigio”; and the latest Netflix series success by Zerocalcare, “Tear Along The Dotted Line”, realized in collaboration with BAO Publishing. In his career, he has worked and produced several commercials and videos for artists like Mika, Tha Supreme, Marta sui Tubi, PTN, and la Machete Empire Records.
ALAN VELE
CEO, Founder and Producer, AL-ONE
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Alan Vele began his career working for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. In 2011 he founded Al One Srl, a production company that was established by positioning itself in the international market of audiovisual content for many noteworthy brands including Fox International Channels USA, National Geographic, Nike and A + E Networks, among others. In the TV landscape, Vele has won several international awards, including the silver medal at the Young Director Award in Cannes, the gold medal at the New York Film and Television Festival and the gold medal at the Los Angeles Promax. As executive film producer, he made several acclaimed films and documentaries, and produced the first animated feature film by Al One Srl, Trash.
MARIA GIUSEPPINA TROCCOLI
Head of Film and Audiovisual Department, DG Cinema and Audiovisual, MiBACT
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Maria Giuseppina Troccoli has been heading the Cinema and Audiovisual Department of the Italian Ministry of Culture for fourteen years. Recently, she has carried out all the activities related to the implementation of the new state aid supports. She is member of the evaluation committee of all the existing bilateral co-development funds, she is the Italian representative in the IBERMEDIA Board, and she has led many international delegations abroad. In the framework of her international activities, Maria Giuseppina Troccoli deals with her foreign counterparts for the purpose of creating and renewing coproduction agreements.
– Enrica Abate
Public Affairs Officer
Enrica Abbate is in charge of Culture, Academic Relations, Innovation, and Advocacy at the Embassy of Canada to Italy.
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– Boris Bertolini
President Nuvole e strisce
Boris Bertolini is the founder of the Italian animation and distribution studio “Nuvole e strisce”, he is a scriptwriter and producer and co-produced the first season of the episode series “WOOF-MEOW” (2018-2019); in 2020 has wrote the script of the feature film “La Grande Guerra del Salento”.
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– Bianca Bisarra
Project Manager, Minerva Pictures
I’m the Project Manager of Movieitaly, a project of the group Minerva Pictures. Movieitaly is a new streaming platform on demand that spreads Italian culture around the world, able to offer the best of contemporary and past Italian filmography. Movieitaly film’s offer is varied, with titles of various genres and different historical periods: neorealism, Italian comedy, social cinema, crime, westerns and much more.
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– Daniele Buzzurro
Founder, DW – DreamyourMind
Daniele Buzzurro is an entrepreneur in social media marketing, search marketing, online & viral marketing & web design & web development. He is a University Professor, a movie critic and a judge for Italian and international awards.
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– Leopoldo Caggiano
Director / Screenwriter
Care for the aesthetic development and a solid narrative structure are the keystones of Leopoldo Caggiano’s works. Writer and director of short comedy films, since 2015 he has worked on several movies including “Dear Susie” and “How to Save Your Darling”, distributed and awarded internationally, which led him to be a young Italian talent at the Venice Film Festival and talent of excellence at the Italian Cinema Style of Los Angeles for two years in a row. He is currently developing his first feature film. Author and creative of branded content, entertainment and commercials, he always works in close contact with companies. Among his latest works the short film “The Master Bridge” for Riva Motoscafi, dedicated to the philosophy of its founder, Carlo Riva.
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– Davide Cavuti
Director
He is a theatre and cinema composer for directors like Michele Placido, Pasquale Squitieri and Giorgio Albertazzi. In 2009, he debuted with his first score for Il grande sogno by Michele Placido. In 2010, he participated in the composition of the score for Vallanzasca – Gli angeli del male, also by Michele Placido, presented, out of competition, at the 67th edition of the Venice Film Festival. Since then, he has composed scores and original songs for plays and films.
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– Marco Coppola
Director, Producer
Marco Coppola is an Italian filmmaker. After writing and directing three award winning short films in Italy, he studied an MFA in Film and TV Production at NYU. His short film Grand Morelos premiered at Slamdance Film Festival 2014. His first feature film, The Nearest Human Being, set in New York City, premiered in 2016.
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– Elena De Verda
Producer, Director
Elena de Varda is a director and film producer at WOJTEKFILMS (Warsaw, Poland) and a film producer at FILMLUX (Milan, Italy). She develops documentaries, promos, commercials, news, feature films, and innovative content. Her independent film production company, FILMLUX, produces documentaries and feature films in coproduction with Poland and Germany. Filmlux is an official supplier of RAI, Italian National television, and TVP, Polish National broadcaster.
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– Roberto Dell’Angelo
CIO, SD Cinematografica s.r.l.
Roberto Dall’Angelo is a documentary film producer and C.E.O. of SD Cinematografica since 2000.
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– Luca Ferrara
Production Assistant
Director, Writer and Producer. Graduate from the University of Westminster, London. Founder / President of “La Fabbrica | Cinema” Association in Palazzolo sull’Oglio (BS). Former President of the UWSU Film Society and Festival Founder and Director at the Westminster Film Festival 2019 and Brixia Film Festival 2019.
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– Alessandro Gatto
Producer
Alessandro Gatto is an Italian film producer. In 2018, he produced the horror-thriller L’ombra del lupo by Alberto Gelpi, and in 2019 he was the producer of La mia seconda volta, also by Alberto Gelpi, a drama that talks about life and the importance of owning up to ones’ mistakes. At the moment, Gatto is working on two projects Va bene così by Francesco Marioni, and Troppa famiglia by Pierluigi Di Lallo.
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– Tak Kuhora
Producer, Director
Born in Tokyo, Tak Kuhora grew up in Milan and spent his childhood watching manga and reading sci-fi books. His films Clacson and Road to Sundance have been screened in more than 60 Film Festivals around the world, winning more than 20 prizes. He was also shortlisted at Cannes for the YDA Young Director Award with an edgy viral campaign for Ford Kuga. Today he works as a screenwriter, story editor, film and commercial director across three continents with bases in Los Angeles, Milan, Tokyo, and Bangkok.
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– Edi Mills
Director
Edi Mils (Edilio Stefano Milsani Bedetti) is a filmmaker and screenwriter, who directed over documentaries and five self-produced short films, among them “Museum”, a project awarded at Hollywood festivals. Mils holds a degree in Movies and TV Production at the SAA in Turin and has worked as an event organizer with the “Cinema Island” of Rome.
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– David Stefano Moscato
CEO, Kobalt Entertainment
David Moscato is the Founder and CEO of Kobalt Entertainment. Moscato has a long experience in top management positions at multinational companies in tech and media areas. He was VP for Ingram Micro, Director for Microsoft, and Managing Director of Universal Pictures International Entertainment Italy. Inside Kobalt, David takes care of the Company’s strategy and is in charge of the TV and New Media offers.
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– Francesca Moino
Delegate Producer
Francesca Moino has extensive experience as an executive across film acquisitions, sales, feature films and audiovisual production. Having worked both in Italy and in the United Kingdom for Hardy Pictures, DocLab, P.F.A. Films, Todos Contentos Y Yo Tambien, and Paco Cinematografica. For Minerva Pictures Group, she worked as Head of Development and Consultant for TV Serials and Documentaries. She currently works as a Consultant and at K+ as Delegate Producer for int. co-productions.
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– Michael Paletta
Producer
Michael Paletta is the producer of Across The River Into The Trees, The Martini Shot, Campton Manor, Defining Moments, You’re Bacon Me Crazy and Above The Best.
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– Francesco Papa
Producer
Francesco Papa is a cinema, television, documentary, and commercial independent producer. He is an expert in Italian and EU movie finance subsidies. He is the founder of Italia Film Service, a business offering operational and financing advisory services to producers in Italy and abroad.
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– Federica Pazzano
Marketing & Business Development
Federica Pazzano works in marketing and business Development at Graphilm Entertainment. She is the founder of DARO Studio and previously the sales manager at Rai Com.
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– Maria Romanelli
CEO
Francesco Papa is a cinema, television, documentary, and commercial independent producer. He is an expert in Italian and EU movie finance subsidies. He is the founder of Italia Film Service, a business offering operational and financing advisory services to producers in Italy and abroad.
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– Lucia Geraldine Scott
Producer
Lucia Scott is a Producer and the Head of Developments and Productions at Red Monk Studio, a production company based in Milan, and mainly focused on animation production both 2D and 3D.Red Monk produces animation series, commercials, corporate reels, and web series with client-tailored production pipelines.
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– Ouida Smit
Producer
In 2011, Ouida was awarded the 15 Years UNICEF prize, in recognition of exemplary effort in supporting children’s programming that promotes children’s rights. She was awarded by the European Observatory on Children’s TV at The Barcelona International Audiovisual Festival, for ‘The Sky in her Eyes’. Ouida has worked for 30 years in the TV and film industry. For the last 20 years she has been working in Post Production in Italy at Augustuscolor, a Film laboratory in Rome. Before that, she lived and worked in SA as a director in children’s educational programming.
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– Edoardo Tranchese
Producer
Edoardo Tranchese is an Italian producer who attended the Cine-TV R. Rossellini Institute in Rome, working on national and international sets. He co-produced a film and produced several short films that were distributed worldwide by industry leaders such as Amazon Prime.
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