Antonietta De Lillo was born in Naples on March 6, 1960. In 1985, she co-directed with Giorgio Magliulo her first feature film Una Casa in Bilico , winner of the Nastro d’Argento as Best First Feature. In 1990, she made her second film Matilda , also made in collaboration with Giorgio Magliulo. In 1987, she founded Megaris, a company that became a reference point for the new generation of Neapolitan directors. Between 1992 and 1999 she signed numerous documentaries and video portraits. In 2004, she filmed Il Resto di Niente , presented at the 61st Venice Film Festival. It was a great success. In 2011, she created the Participatory Film project, now in its third edition, in which she invites several authors to shoot short documentaries on a chosen theme to converge into a single work. During her 40-year career, her films have been selected for numerous national and international festivals, including the Turin Film Festival, Rome Film Festival and Locarno Festival. They also have won awards at the David di Donatello, Nastri d’Argento, Ciak d’Oro and Fedic Awards.

Maria Ida Bernabei is a researcher at the Study of Liberal Arts Department of the University of Turin, where she teaches Cinema and Visual Culture. Previously, she was a research assistant at the University of Udine where she taught Semiotics of Audiovisual Media. She worked on the avant-garde reception of scientific cinema (Un’emozione puramente visuale. Film scientifici tra sperimentazione e avanguardia, 2021) and on Italian documentaries during the years of fascism (La linea sperimentale. Un percorso di ricerca attraverso quarant’anni di cinema documentario italiano, 2013). Her works deal with visual culture, cultural history of cinema, non-theatrical and specialised cinematography, and her essays have been published in collections and both Italian and International magazines, such as “1895”, “Cinéma & Cie”, “Cinergie”, “Comunicazioni sociali”, “Immagine. Note di storia del cinema” and “Fata Morgana”. She is a member of the Film Forum, International Film and Media Studies Conference Project and organisational board. She is also a trainer for the Piano Nazionale Cinema and Immagini per la Scuola programs.

After graduating in Law, Lo Faro did his first experiences in the private sector working at Credito Italiano. He has then worked as a lawyer before being hired by Inail where, among his first assignments, he was in charge of Training at the Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Directorate and later in Venice for the Veneto/Friuli Venezia Giulia Interregional Directorate. He then won the Inail manager tender for which he managed the offices of Oristano, Sondrio, Cremona, Sesto San Giovanni (MI), Pordenone and Trento Provincial Directorate. He subsequently performed his duties as Director of the Central Prevention Directorate in Rome, with vicarious functions of Central Director, and then as Head of Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Directorate. After the role of General Manager, he oversaw Calabria Regional Directorate. He has been the Regional Director of Inail Piedmont since February 1, 2024.

Tatiana Mazali is a cultural and communication processes sociologist, and an Associate Professor at the Interateneo Department of Science, Design and Territorial Policies of Turin Politecnico. She is the representative for the three-year and master’s degree courses in Cinema and Media Engineering, where she teaches Interactive Media, Immersive Cinema and Digital Creative Industries. She co-founded the digital creativity platform ‘Officine Sintetiche’. She studies the digital impact in creative processes, in artistic and cultural businesses and, more broadly, in the transformations of work in the context of the fourth industrial revolution.

Pedroni works for Rai Cinema. He was the selector for the Turin Film Festival from 2007 to 2019. He has been part of the selection committee for the Venice International Film Critics’ Week since 2022, and the artistic co-delegate of the Villerupt Italian Film Festival since 2023. He writes on Cineforum and Duels.it and he has collaborated with many websites and magazines. He edited the critical anthologies dedicated to Mike Leigh and Aki Kaurismäki for the publishing house Feltrinelli. He translated “ Paul Newman . Una vita” for the publisher Dalai and edited, together with Emiliano Morreale, the Italian edition of “ The Story of Film” by Mark Cousins for Bim Distribuzione. He also edited the volumes dedicated to Alba Rohrwacher, Jasmine Trinca and Valerio Mastandrea for the series “Pagine di MoliseCinema”.