Gao Xingjian
Writer, painter and film director, France
Born January 4, 1940 in Ganzhou (Jiangxi province) in eastern China, is today a French citizen. Nobel Laureate in Literature in 2000, is a total artist, that it entrusts, at the same time, own artistic expression to the writing (in the forms of the novellistic, dramaturgy, poetry, literary essays), to the theatrical direction, the cinematography, the painting.
A number of his works have been translated into various languages, and today several of his plays are being produced in various parts of the world. Gao Xingjian paints in ink and has had some thirty international exhibitions and provides the cover illustrations for his own books.

Elena Golovina
Journalist, Russia
Elena Golovina was born in Moscow, graduated from a philological department of the Moscow State University, majoring in european literature. During the last 15 years she has been working as an editor for major Moscow magazines. As a professional journalist  she published lots of interviews with prominent artists from different fields, especially  actors,  filmdirectors and screenwriters.

Silvio Maselli
Apulia Film Commission Director
A degree in Political Science and Master degree in Cultural Management.
From 2001 to 2006 responsible of training courses, organisation of cultural events, new media, public and private funding, management control, internal auditing for the Italian production and distribution company Fandango.
From 2007 he’s chief executive officer at Apulia Film Commission Foundation. From March 2006 up to now he’s professor of “Techniques of Audiovisual Productions at Bari University.”