Nicola Piovani is a composer and conductor, especially known for his compositions for cinema and theatre. He has worked with some of the most important directors of Italian cinema, such as Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Paolo e Vittorio Taviani, Marco Bellocchio, Giuseppe Tornatore.

Made his debut with ‘Domani Accadrà’, produced by Nanni Moretti and Angelo Barbagallo’s SacherFilm. Filmdirector and occasionally theatre andad-film director, he is known both in Italy and abroad for his ‘IlPortaborse’, ‘LaScuola’, ‘Miofratello è figlio unico’, ‘La Nostra Vita’, ‘Anni felici’, ‘Dillo con parole mie’, and the TV mini-series ‘Chiamatemi Francesco’, distributed abroad on Netflix Original.

Anthropologist and Director at InternetLab, Fernanda is a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). She holds a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo, as well as a pedagogy degree from the Sumaré University Center.

Manager, journalist and professor at several universities, is currently CEO of Rai Cinema. He is a member of the board of directors of the “Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino”; member of the board of directors of the “U.S. Lecce”; member of the Giunta Anica; member of the EFA (European Film Academy).

Professor of observational cosmology at Leiden University, the Netherlands. His research aims to shed light on the nature of dark matter and dark energy— the main ingredients of the Universe we seem to lack a good explanation for.

Simon Jon Andreasen is a director of radio, TV, film and games. Simon has for the last six years been working as a teacher at the National Filmschool of Denmark heading the education for animation directors and he is now the head of DADIU (the Danish Academy of Interactive Entertainment)…

Ralitsa Assenova holds a PhD in European policies and practices in the field of film education for youth, National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA), Bulgaria.

Tereza Barta has worked on more than 25 documentaries, a feature film and several television productions. For 12 years she was a writer and a director at the Romanian National Film Board in Bucharest.

Hoang Da Vu is a lecturer and Deputy Director of the Institute of Theater and Cinema, Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema (HATC), Vietnam. 

Manuel Flurin Hendry is an award-winning director of feature films for the cinema and TV. As a teacher for visual language and acting, he heads the «Screen Acting» program at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK), Switzerland.

Dr Jillian Holt is a Senior Lecturer in the Swinburne University of Technology Bachelor of Film and Television (Honours) program.

Peter Hegedus’ filmmaking career spans over 25 years. His work is characterized by a commitment to social justice be they documentary or drama.

Rachel Landers is a filmmaker with a PhD in history. Her films have screened all over the world and won a number of prestigious awards.

Nico Meissner is Associate Professor and Deputy Director (Learning & Teaching) at Griffith Film School in Brisbane, Australia.

Sunedria Nicholls-Gärtner started her career on international film sets in Vancouver, Canada, before moving to Germany in 1993 and into the editing room.

Dimitris Papadopoulos studied pedagogy, social exclusion, film & media education/literacy and holds a PhD from the AUTH, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Federico Spoletti is co-founder and CEO of SUB-TI, a film subtitling company based in London, which provides audiovisual translation services all over the world.

Linda Sternö is a senior lecturer in film, based in HDK-Valands film education at Göteborg University, Sweden.

Yang Yi is Vice President of Communication University of China.

Adriano De Santis after studying piano and composition at S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, moves between artistic creation and managerial organisation.

Caterina d’Amico was Dean of the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC, 1988-1994, 1999-2007, 2013-2018). Between 1996 and 2000 she collaborated with Martin Scorsese throughout the making of the documentary My voyage to Italy on the history of Italian Cinema.

Professor Bruce Sheridan is CILECT President, and from 2014 —2018 was Chair, CILECT North-America. He has directed or produced several award-winning feature documentaries, including Perfectly Frank, Spellbound, Head Games, and Our Blood is Wine.

Dr. Kym Campbell heads digital storytelling, broadcast, and cinema studies at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, with ties to the School of Art Design and Media.

Michael Kowalski has a B.A. in Semiotics from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in Visual Anthropology from the University of Southern California. His areas of specialization are Sound Design and Documentary Film.

Manuel José Damásio holds a Ph.D. in Media Studies from the New University of Lisbon. He is the Head of the Film and Media Arts department, Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal.

Raúl López Echeverría specialized in editing and screenwriting at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy, and is Film Directing Professor at Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico. He represents UG at FEISAL (Federación de Escuelas de Imagen y Sonido de America Latina).