Here is the “Spazio Campania” jury for the fiftieth edition of Laceno d’Oro!
Three different perspectives on cinema, an art form that increasingly reveals the creative vitality of our region.
Toni D’Angelo (Naples, 1979) is a film director, screenwriter, and producer. After spending his childhood in Rome, he studied and trained at DAMS Bologna and Roma Tre University, where he graduated with a dissertation on Abel Ferrara. From 2002 to 2004, he worked as Ferrara’s assistant, collaborating on story development and co-directing the music video Move with Me. During this period, he directed his first short films, including Bukowski, Casoria, and L’uomo che amava gli ascensori, marking a personal and visual debut that anticipated many traits of his future filmmaking. Una notte (2007) was his debut feature-length film, which earned him a nomination for the David di Donatello Award for Best New Director. In 2009, he directed Poeti, a documentary selected for the 66th Venice Film Festival, followed by L’innocenza di Clara (2011), in competition in Montréal, and the short movie Ore 12 (2014), presented at the Festa del Cinema in Rome, a brief and tense work about an underground, collective violence. In 2015, he directed Filmstudio Mon Amour, paying tribute to a legendary place in Italian cinema, which earned him a special Nastro d’Argento. This was followed by Falchi (2016), an urban noir produced by Rai Cinema and Minerva Pictures, and the short Nessuno è innocente (2018), selected for Venice Critics’ Week. With Calibro 9 (2019, presented at Torino Film Festival), a contemporary reimagining of Italian crime drama, D’Angelo signed his most ambitious project, confirming a filmmaking course rooted in reality, visually sharp and narratively restless, and innervated by a constant civil and existential tension. In 2023, he founded the production company Isola Produzioni Srl, through which he personally oversees the development and production of several projects, including his latest film: the documentary Nino. 18 Giorni, dedicated to his father and presented at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.
Lucrezia Ercolani was born in Rome in 1992. A professional journalist, she graduated in Philosophy from La Sapienza University with a predilection for experimental artistic expressions and the intersection of different disciplines. An editor at the daily newspaper Il Manifesto, she has collaborated with various periodicals (Extra! Music Magazine, The New Noise, Theatron 2.0, La Falena). Since 2021, she has been one of the editors of the Filmmaker Festival catalog.
Alessandro Zoppo has been watching movies and listening to music since he was six. Proudly from Sannio but Roman by adoption, he is a programmer for the MedFilm Festival in Rome, co-creator and programmer of Karawan Fest, and collaborator for the Rendez-Vous – Festival of New French Cinema and the German Film Festival in Rome. He has worked for the Rome Film Fest and Capalbio Cinema and was editor-in-chief of Good Short Films, the first Italian web platform entirely dedicated to short films. In his second life, he writes for websites and magazines covering culture and entertainment, travel, economics, and finance.