Adriano Devita. Born and lived in Venice, Italy. Psychologist, anthropologist, and filmmaker. I have been working for many years in the VET international system (vocational education and training). I’m a specialist in lifelong learning processes, web learning, guidance and counseling, recognition, validation, certification of competencies, and active policies toward employment. I think cinema is essentially a visual knowledge medium. This specific characteristic must be exploited to the maximum degree. I don’t like explanations or voiceover It’s not about writing or saying something, it’s about showing it. I founded this festival to encourage talented young authors to develop this approach.

Marco Aliano is a young filmmaker and a writer, particularly interested in the relation between philosophy and cinema, and the experimentation with the audio-visual arts in general. He started an experimental blog named “le cinefrontiere” developed by the dissertation of his Degree in Philosophy, inspired by the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the writings of Enrico Ghezzi. 
He was born in Venice and now he is finishing a Master Degree in Philosophy. He followed 2 week courses at Rome about the bases of writing and directing a film; he won the section “Best backstage” at Cortinametraggio in 2015, and a special recognition by “Europe Direct” for the shortfilm “Se il silenzio fosse libero di esprimersi” in 2016.

Zeynep Kaserci is a documentary filmmaker and researcher based in London. Born in Izmir, Turkey, she moved to Scotland to pursue her undergraduate degree and completed her MA at the Granada Center for Visual Anthropology in Manchester. She has done research on Mahayana Buddhism in Dharamsala, India (2016) and gender inequality in north-eastern Turkey (2019). Zeynep hopes to make short films and documentaries that generate conversations and humanize social issues.

Negin Vaziri is a production designer and curator who is using film, photography, scenery designs, and contemporary performing arts to incite public dialogue and social change. She is the artistic director and founder of NVP Design. Born in Tehran, Iran, Negin Vaziri holds an MA in Scenery Design from the University of Cinema and Theatre of Tehran and a MA from Venice Art Academy. Her 2009 short film, Crushing Stones, screened at the Venice Film Festival; and subsequently at the Woman Voices Now festival in Los Angeles. She was the creative producer of many exhibitions during Venice Art and Architecture Biennale since 2008. She is mostly known internationally for her performances focused on human rights.”

Laura Ostan is an Italian curator and founder of Galleria Perela’ in Venice Italy, with a background in contemporary art and literature studies. She has curated and supported over 12 years, of multimedia international exhibitions, film screenings, and performances at Perela’, Venice, and abroad.

Cinzia Carrus is a filmmaker and a photographer. She first experimented drawing and painting, then in 2000 she started to focus on photography – with cycles and sub-cycles works – and on filmmaking. Born in Sardinia, co-founder of Über Pictures, with her background she aims to overcome the barriers of language(s), refining especially her exploration of ethnographic films and visual anthropology issues.

Nicola Marongiu is a filmmaker and photographer, who loves to experiment with the intersections between installation and performing arts. Born in Sardinia, the founder of Über Pictures, Nicola Marongiu started on a journey based on his will to discover the treasures of his homeland, connected with the other Mediterranean and Eastern cultures, by analyzing the traces, from the particular to the universal: this is how documentaries making has become his core mean of investigation and expression, in research mostly centered on visual anthropology and ethnographic films.

Tommaso Vianello is a student of the University of Padua of the faculty DAMS (disciplines of arts, music and entertainment). After finishing high school he decided to follow his great passion, cinema, enrolling in a degree course that deals with the history of cinema and all its facets. He will participate in the Venice Intercultural Film Festival and Cinematci Perception as an intern. Tommaso dreams one day to become an actor and a film producer.