Luca Acito
Director, Italy
Born in 1978 in Matera. Director and author of audiovisual projects. Author of documentaries (Wu-ming – Havana Glam, Adrian Calm – The Believer, Pornologos), videoart (Heritage, Extracreato – Project59), animations (GrandBrasserieCyrano with Giuseppe Palumbo’s drawings), he collaborates with drama companies and research/innovation centers all over Italy leading a study on the contamination of the languages between theatre’s truth and virtual screening. In 2006 he directs the feature film L’ Eredità di Caino with Filippo Timi. It works in Cinefabrica-Matera from the 2006 (Nomad Cinema – Memories in Travel). In 2008 he drops everything and becomes a beggar in order to obtain superfluous (www.surplusneedy.com).

Carmen Laurino
Artist, Italy
She’s an artist and a cinema researcher. She graduated from La Sapienza di Roma with a degree thesis about the director Luca Curto. This work was published in the 2009 with the title “Il Cinema Live: il Caso Luca Curto” for the UFF publisher. She’s member of Amnesiac Arts, a young arts gallery in Potenza and of the artistic group of visual art L+L.

Massimo Pallottino
Writer and scripwriter, Italy
Was born in Rionero in Vulture on 27th February 1962.
He is the author of “Io Aspetto nel Buio”, a detective story published by PeQuod in 2006 and that was favourably reviewed by national papers and magazines.
He provides literary reviews for a number of magazines. His next detective story is about to be published, always by PeQuod.

Ram Prasad Devineni
Director, producer, editor UDA – India
Ram Devineni recently produced Vegas: Based on a True Story, by Amir Naderi, which was selected for competition at the 2008 Venice Film Festival, and is working on a documentary about the poet Allen Ginsberg’s life in India called Ginsberg’s Karma. He is one of the founders of the Academia Internacional de Cinema – the first independent film school in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is the founder and editor of Rattapallax.

Linda Cleary
Poet and Performer, UK
Poet, writer, artist, performer, Linda Cleary has been writing poetry and prose for over 20 years. Her performance poetry and style has been seen as unique, strong, raw and challenging.
She is interested in creating non traditional, diverse performance that impact the word into the soul.
The use of film began in spring 2005 when she developed a 10 minute piece. She became interested in exploring the paradox in a modern society. She collaborated with two film makers: Alban Roinard and Brian Johnson.
She writes about all and everything and she feels that part of her work is to out the uncomfortable truths.

Xavier García Puerto
Artistic Director of REC International Film Festiva, Spain
History (1997) and Audiovisual Comunication Graduate (2006), he studied also Exhibition Curatoring and Archive Film Preservation.During ten years works as a university teacher, researcher, writer, curator, documentary filmmaker, and in making film literacy projects. Nowadays he’s focused as a film&video curator, his works have been seen in Berlin’s Kunst Werke, CaixaForum (Madrid, Barcelona and others spanish cities). His last program, an spanish videocreation retrospective, will be on world tour by Instituto Cervantes in 2010.
He is co-founder of REC International Film Festival of Tarragona in 2001, and his director and main programmer since 2005.

Davide Monteleone
Fotoreporter, Italy
Has been involved in photography since 1998, and currently works for some important magazines in Italy and in the international outlook such as L’ Espresso, Io donna, Time, Newsweek, Stern. From 2002 on he started working on some long-term subjects which are Russia and some East Europe countries. Through this he could be awarded many international prizes A large number of his portfolios are published on the main international magazines of photography such as Foto8, Foam, RVM.

Rona Grünenfelder
Vision du Reel and Winterthur Film Festival co-ordinator
She studied Communication & Media, Cinema, and Art History Arts at the University of Zürich and Directing and Script-development at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
She’s member of the Cercle de Travail for the documentary film festival Visions du Réel in Nyon and coordinator of the Doc International Outlook Market.For the last two years she was production assistant for Vega Film, working on the new films by Jean-Luc Godard, Béla Tarr, Silvio Soldini and others.
She’s co-organizer of the International Short Film Festival Winterthur.

Alì Salmi
Choreographer and dancer, Belgium
Born in France in an Algerian family, he achieved the dance late, with architecture’s studies behind his back. Discovered the dance, he has studied for a short time in the school of Marcel Marceau and he has worked in the main European companies of contemporary dance. In 1993 he has founded in Nancy the Osmosis Cie in order to breast the most current topics of our contemporary age. Nomadic creator Alì in its performances always tries to inquire the expressive value of different languages – as the dance, the theatre, the audiovisual and the music – through their contamination.