After her master’s degree in Visual Anthropology and Documentary Filmmaking at the University of Manchester, she made several documentaries as author and director, which were awarded at many International Festivals, such as Al Jazeera Film Festival, RAI Film Festival, Fespaco, Venice Film Festival and Turin Film Festival. Among her most recent movies, Les enfants en prison was co-produced and screened by French television Arte. It won the Etoile de la Scam, an award given to the best documentary film broadcast in France. Affiorare (Surfacing) is an experimental film in virtual reality, selected by the Venice Biennale and the Annecy Festival. She completed a PhD in Digital Media at the Universidad Nova in Lisbon – in collaboration with the Austin University of Texas and the University of Turin – with research on new media and visual anthropology. She has taught in university seminars, such as at the Goldsmith’ s Master’s in London, in Manchester, at the Holden school in Turin, and at the Scuola Civica di Cinema in Milan. She recently worked as an Adjunct Professor at NYU.

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She was born in Turin in 1994. At 19, she was admitted to the Civica Scuola D’Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi where she graduated in 2016. Fluent in English, she trained with several professors at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Shortly after graduating from the Academy, she was chosen by Francesca Archibugi to play the role of a navy cadet in her series ?Romanzo Famigliare?, which aired on Rai uno in 2018. 

At the same time, she pursued the studies of pop, jazz and musicals by training with several Vocal Coaches. In 2022, she starred in the series “l a Vita Bugiarda Degli Adulti” , based on the novel by Elena Ferrante, directed by Edoardo De Angelis. Thus, realising her two dreams: to play a character from the genius of Elena Ferrante, and to be directed by Edoardo De Angelis. In the same year, she starred alongside Riccardo Scamarcio in the film “ Race for Glory” directed by Stefano Mordini. The cast also included Daniel Bruhl and Volker Bruch. In 2023, she starred in the Luxvide series “ Che Dio ci aiuti?”(May God help us!). In 2023, she played the role of Ornella Vanoni in the RAI movie “Califano” , directed by Alessandro Angelini, alongside Leo Gassmann in the role of Franco Califano.

He was born in Rome in 1981. Niola struggled with his career until he became a blog critic. He got to achieve a paid job only by the end of 00s and he alternates working as a critic to freelance reporter for many newspapers. From 2009 to 2012 he was selector for the Extra section of the Rome Film Festival, becoming then a programmer and finally co-director of the Taormina Film Festival for a year. From 2015 to 2021 he was news correspondent from Italy for the British newspaper, Screen International. He was a professor of the Journalistic Review Master at the Silvio D?Amico Academy of Dramatic Art. He published with UTET a book-interview to Gabriele Muccino called La vita addosso and a pamphlet titled Odio il cinema italiano published by Bietti . He is currently collaborating with Badtaste, The Post, Wired, and Esquire. In 2023 he wrote and narrated the podcast Storyboard.

Since 2020, he has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce Council and Deputy Vice-President of Turin CCIAA. He has been a member of the Turin CCIAA Council since 2014 and President of Turin CNA. Since 1996, he has been Sole Director of SAMEC srl, a leading company in the production of components and sheet metal handling systems on transfer presses. An expert in understanding work situations, he founded and promoted two Business Networks: MTN ‘Mech Tron Net’ in 2012, a network composed of 3 companies specialised in complex integrated systems in the automotive sector; and B2N ‘ BUSINESS TO NET MECHANICAL MACHINING’ in 2013, composed of 3 companies for mechanical processing in the aeronautical, motorbike racing sector.

Bruno Surace, Ph.D. in Semiotics and Media is a researcher at the University of Turin, where he teaches Cinema and Audiovisual Communication and Forms of Seriality. He is author of the volumes, I volti dell”nfanzia nelle culture audiovisive. Cinema, immagini, nuovi media (Mimesis 2022) and Il destino impresso . Per una teoria della destinalità nel cinema (Kaplan 2019). He took part as a speaker in Italian, European, Chinese and US conferences and seminars. He has been a visiting scholar at UCC (University College Cork). He is an official indexer for FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives). Since 2023, he has been teaching History and Analysis of Film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Turin Branch). He is a film critic for the online magazine Gli Spietati .