Vittorio Dalle Ore

Jury President

Vittorio Dalle Ore graduated Bachelor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University in the USA. Then he studied filmmaking at New York University and in Rome, before joining the team of Akira Kurosawa, which he followed for a period of 15 years. The collaboration with the great Japanese director began in 1983 as a volunteer assistant working on Ran. He was then hired as assistant director and assistant editor for Dreams, Rhapsody in August and Madadayo.

His long relationship with the Japanese brought him in close contact with Japanese culture and the world of international cinema. Currently he writes, he works for film production and he is responsible of Villa Maser, a monument of Andrea Palladio that has received the Unesco World Heritage.

Martha Capello

Juror

Martha Capello was born in Nuoro in 1980. Still very young she moved to Rome where she attended classical studies and then Electronic Engeneering in La Sapienza University. Her first experiences within the media concerned newspapers and local broadcastings. In 2007 she stared the first cinema production called Edifilm and which became later Martha Production. She signed the script of several short films, all acknowledged of Cultural Interest by Mibac and she personally produced two of them Nel ventre della balena directed by G. Petitto, finalist in some film contests like Giffoni Film Festival (2009) and Dentro di me directed by E. Fiorini, which in 2008 received the ministerial contribution for the production. In 2007 she founded -together with other 15 cinema production societies- the A.G.P.C. Associazione Giovani Produttori Cinematografici, of which she is the president.

Andrea Dall’Asta

Juror

After finishing its studies on Architecture in Florence, Andrea Dall’Asta joined the Society of Jesus in 1988. He studied Philisophy and Theology in Padua, Paris and New York. He’s now working in Milan in the Galleria San Fedele, he’s been running since 2002. He concerns himself mostly with the formation and training of young artists. The Galleria San Fedele was born soon after the end of the Second World War (1949) and since the 50’s it is known for the organization of famous artists’ exhibitions, from Lucio Fontana to Marc Chagall, from Robert Ryman to Henri Matisse, but above of all, it is famous for San Fedele Prize, reserved to young artists and to which take part some authors who soon join the most representative of Italian contemporary art, such as Claudio Parmiggiani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Franco Vimercati, Enrico Della Torre.

Prati Kulshreshtha

Juror

Graduated in Botanical Sciences in India at the University of Delhi in the capital city of Delhi. She studied Italian language and literature, working simultaneously for The Times of India, India’s largest selling English Daily. Wrote articles on education and the challenges faced by India’s education system. After the first year of Italian studies, got a scholarship by the Government of Italy to study Italian culture in Perugia. The first contact with Italy was so fascinating that decided to continue the Italian studies in India. Successfully completed Masters and M.Phil in Italian History and Literature at the University of Delhi. She is now about to begin her Doctoral thesis on a comparative

study between Machiavelli’s Il Principe and the most important work of a second centuary Indian political thinker, Chanakya. Currently working as a Research Intern at the Indian Parliament in New Delhi.

Saretto Cincinelli

Juror

Saretto Cincinelli was born in Montevarchi (Ar) on 15th May 1956. He contributes to Flash Art (Milan) and Ars Mediterranes (Barcelona) and his writings have been published on Periodico del Palazzo delle Papesse (Siena), El guia (Barcelona), Paper’s Art (Girona), Juliet (Trieste), Next (Rome), Arte critica (Rome), Titolo (Perugia), Bartleby (Prato) and on many catalogues and publications.

Through the years he collaborated with several private and public institutions, among which: Contemporary Art Centre Luigi Pecci, Prato; Contemporary Art Centre Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena; the civic gallery, Modena, Museo Cantonale, Lugano; Querini Stampalia Foundation, Venice; Fondaciò Esapis, Girona; Man Museum, Nuoro; Art Foudation Teseco, Pisa; Palazzo Strozzi Foundation, Florence; BSI Art Collection, Lugano; La Gallera, Valencia.