A graduate in Economics and Commerce, he is the CEO of “Dottor Gallina s.r.l.” family-run business specialized in producing polycarbonate sheets and systems for the construction and automotive industries. He was the Vice-President of the Turin Industrial Union’s Young Entrepreneurs Group from 2004 to 2007, then he was President of the Small Industry Group from 2014 to 2016 and President of the Turin Industrial Union from 2016 to 2020. Since 2020, he is the President of the Turin Chamber of Commerce, Vice-President of Technoholding Spa, Vice-President of Unioncamere Piemonte and an Executive Board member of the ICC – International Chamber of Commerce. Since 2021, he is a member of the Executive Committee of Unioncamere Nazionale and in 2022 he was elected Council Vice-President of the World Chambers Federation with responsibility for Europe for the three-year period of 2022-2025.

Lia Furxhi, after graduating in Cinema History and Criticism from the University of Turin, she has worked as a production manager for some of the most important Italian independent films, including those of Davide Ferrario, Daniele Gaglianone and Gianluca Tavarelli. She has held various roles in numerous cultural initiatives, collaborating with the organization of movie festivals (FilmBreve, Sottodiciotto Film Festival, CinemAmbiente) and the creation of the Centro Nazionale del Corto (National Short Movie Center). She has curated various publications, among which  Le forme del corto (2007), the first ?on field? investigation dedicated to Italian short films, Corti&Autori (2006) and the essays collection: In Breve (2009).

Coming from a family of artists, Ludovico Fremont was born in Rome in 1982. He grew between France and Italy. When he was a teenager, he worked in various television series. He graduated from the Silvio d?Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts. He worked with Mariangela Melato and Luca Ronconi. He studied the ?Lee Strasberg? method. He reached popularity by participating in the T.V. series I Cesaroni. He landed on the big screen with the movie Scrivilo sui muri in 2007. In 2009, he started working with Hollywood stars: from Brian Cox to Jordi Mollà. He alternates between theater, cinema and television, from Angelo Longoni to Giacomo Campiotti. He is currently working in a new T.V. series for Rai.

Matteo Tortone (1982, Italy) is an author, producer and photography director. He won the jury prize at the Kazan Film Festival (White men, 2011, co-directed with Alessandro Baltera) and the Best Photography award at the Krakow Film Festival (Rada, 2014, by Alessandro Abba Legnazzi). In 2016, he founded the production company Malfé Film. His first La sua opera prima, Mother Lode, won the Eurimages Lab Award at Agorá WIP (Thessaloniki, 2019) and it premiered at the 36th International Critics Week in Venice plus other numerous international festivals.

Silvio Alovisio is a full-time professor of Cinema at the University of Turin. Among his main research interests we find the relationship between cinema, modernity and sciences of the mind, history of movie audiences, cinema origins theories, the social and aesthetic study of Italian silent films, the forms of modern and contemporary cinema. He is a board member of the magazines «Immagine. Note di storia del cinema», «L?Avventura» and «La Valle dell?Eden». He has published studies in numerous Italian and international magazines («Film History», «Archivos de la filmoteca», «1895», «Bianco & Nero», «Cinergie», «Fata Morgana»). Some of his latest monographs and curatorships: La scuola dove si vede (2016), Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922 (with Francesco Casetti and Luca Mazzei, 2017), Luis Bunuel (2022).