Giuria 2019
Pedro Armocida was born in Madrid in 1971, graduated in Letters from La Sapienza in Rome, and is an essayist, professional journalist and film critic. He contributes to Ciak, 8 ½, Film Tv and Il Giornale. He is the artistic director of the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema in Pesaro, a member of the steering committee of the Association of Italian Film Festivals (AFIC), and secretary general of the Italian Film Critics Union (SNCCI). He is a professor of film criticism at the Sapienza University of Rome. He has edited, alone or with others, several publications, including: L’attore nel cinema italiano contemporaneo. History, performance, image, (Marsilio, Venice, 2017); Romanzo popolare. Narration, Audiences and Stories in Italian Cinema in the 2000s (Marsilio, Venice, 2016); Italian Debuts. The 1910s in Cinema (2010-2015) (Marsilio, Venice, 2015); Contemporary Argentine Cinema and the Work of Leonardo Favio (Marsilio, Venice, 2006); Beyond the Frontier. Contemporary Mexican Cinema (Revolver, Bologna, 2004); Cinema in Spain Today, (Lindau, Turin, 2002).
Igor Prassel was born in 1971 in the Slovenian coastal town of Koper. Since 1992 he has directed a monthly series devoted to animated film at the Slovenian Cinematheque, where he currently works as a film curator. He has been a member of the jury and program selection at major international animation and short film festivals around the world. Since 2010 he has been a lecturer in the history and theory of animated film at the University of Nova Gorica. In 2012 the Slovenian Cinematheque published his book The Filmography of Slovene Animated Film 1952 – 2012. Since 2014 he has been in charge of the Animated Film Section at the Croatian Audiovisual Center (HAVC). In 2004 he founded the International Animation Film Festival Animateka, of which he is the artistic director.
Michele Bernardi originally from Finale Emilia, in the 1980s he collaborated on animated TV series, including Altan’s La pimpa and Osvaldo Cavandoli’s La Linea; he continued with the creation of animated TV theme songs for companies such as Barilla, Ikea and Pomellato; in the 1990s he began confronting technological changes and experimenting with new modes of representation, making video clips for contemporary artists such as Le Luci della Centrale Elettrica, Colapesce, Punkreas, 24 Grana, Prozac, The Zen Circus and others, also beginning a fruitful collaboration with Davide Toffolo, frontman of the band Tre allegri ragazzi morti.