The jury
In alphabetical order
Dr Fran Apprich is an award winning filmmaker, academic and innovative researcher with over 20 years of experience in education, creative industries and entrepreneurship. Dr Fran loves experimental cinema and to inspire the new generation of filmmakers. The art of film needs to be challenged and continuously updated.
Eleonora Ceccarelli, 27 anni, vive a Priverno, ha una laurea triennale in Lettere Moderne e una laurea magistrale in Filologia Moderna conseguite presso la Sapienza di Roma. Da sempre appassionata di cinema e scrittura collabora da due anni con la rivista online di cinema Taxidrivers. Ha partecipato a diversi corsi di critica cinematografica (il seminario residenziale di critica cinematografica del Bobbio Film Festival, il workshop What a Critic! del Bellaria Film Festival e il corso trimestrale di critica digitale di Sentieri Selvaggi). Dal 2017 segue la Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia, il primo anno come giovane giurata del Leoncino D’Oro, gli anni successivi come studentessa accreditata. Ha partecipato come volontaria per due anni al Trieste Film Festival e al Sole Luna Doc Film Festival (Palermo).
Maria Roberta Novielli specialised in Cinema at Nihon University in Tokyo and teaches disciplines related to cinema, as well as Asian multimedia processes, at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. She is the editor of the AsiaMedia website, director of the Master in Fine Arts in Filmmaking and organises and directs the Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival. She has collaborated in various film activities at international festivals (Venice, Tokyo, Locarno, among others). Her main publications include Metamorphosis. Splinters of Violence in New Japanese Cinema for Epika, Floating Worlds. A Short History of Japanese Animation for Crc Press and the volumes History of Japanese Cinema, Animerama, and History of Japanese Cinema in the New Millennium for Marsilio.
