the jury for the categories in competition

born in Lucania, graduated in the United States in 2002. In 2006 she graduated in Digital Arts for Entertainment at La Sapienza University of Rome with a dissertation about religion in various films shot in the Sassi of Matera area. In the same year she worked as an Artist Liaison for Terry Gilliam and Andy Garcia at Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. In 2010 she obtained a Master’s Degree in Television, Cinema and Multimedia Production at IULM University in Milan with the dissertation “Lo schiaffo nel cinema Italiano” having as supervisor the film critic Gianni Canova, with whom she collaborated for an episode of the tv show “Il Cinemaniaco” on Sky.

As a freelance journalist, she has always written about cinema, being a columnist of “In platea” for the weekly magazine “Controsenso”. She has worked as a screenwriter for various documentaries such as “Partiti per Bergamo” by Marco Pozzi and she has written and directed creative documentaries such as “Cannibal love”, “Rimettiti il cappello” and “Tracce”.

As a freelance journalist, she has always written about cinema, being a columnist of “In platea” for the weekly magazine “Controsenso”. She has worked as a screenwriter for various documentaries such as “Partiti per Bergamo” by Marco Pozzi and she has written and directed creative documentaries such as “Cannibal love”, “Rimettiti il cappello” and “Tracce”.

After working in 2010 for Magnolia on the production of the eighth season of Camera Café, today she is an author and director. She works at Boogie Production managing the production of audiovisual products and multimedia events. She’s founding member of Air Drone s.r.l. for which she carries out development activities for both television and cinema.

In 2014 she worked as a teacher in “Tecniche per il cinema” at the Viggiano high school, and she made the short film “Linea 8” together with the students.

One of her latest works is the short film “Papaveri e Papere” (2015): a modern fairy tale whose main characters are children between 7 and 12, taking part in a singing competition, a very important event for the mothers of the city. A melancholic comedy shot in Matera, starring Dino Paradiso, Grazia Leone, Anna Rita Del Piano and little Michela Di Cuia. In competition at the Ischia Film Festival, where it premiered, the film then continued to travel, winning various international awards. In 2017 De Fino made the short film “La pace dannata”, written by Maurizio Odoardo De Fino and starring Nadia Kibout and Nicole Millo, produced together with the Milanese production company Kinedimorae, and bought by Rai Cinema in 2019. The story of two mothers Miriam and Elena; barricaded in their apartment building and united by the pain and desperation for their two sons enlisted in ISIS, they come up with a plan to bring home their sons. This work has also premiered at the Ischia film festival and received numerous awards both in Italy and abroad. “Professor C.”, a fantasy film written together with Silvia Scola and Nicola Ragone is currently in the making. Also in production is the 3D computer-graphics animated short movie “Mezzária”, an adventure fantasy about the integration between real and virtual produced by Effenove; also, the international thriller “Rea” is coming soon.