VITTORIO DALLE ORE

Vittorio Dalle Ore got the Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree at the Northwestern University, USA and studied cinematography at the New York University and in Rome before working with the Akira Kurosawa’s équipe for 15 years. His collaboration with the great Japanese master began in 1983 as voluntary assistant during the making of “Ran”, taking care of the preparation, the editing and of the international promotion during the launch of the movie. He was then hired as director and editing assistant in “Dreams”, “Rhapsody in August”, and “Madadayo”. His long working relationship with the Japanese director gave him the chance to appreciate Japanese culture and the world of international cinema. Currently he writes, works on film productions, he lives and is the owner of Villa di Maser (Villa Barbaro), a building made by Andrea Palladio, included in the UNESCO World Heritages list.

MIKKEL MALTHA

Mikkel Maltha was born in 1973. He has been working for the Zentropa Group since 1998. From 1998 to 2003 he worked as in-house production lawyer and from 2003 he became music supervisor. He has been responsible for the legal production of films like “Dancer in the Dark” (Lars von Trier) and “Dogville” (Lars von Trier) and he supervised the film soundtrack productions of more than 30 films including “Antichrist” and “Melancholia (Lars von Trier), “After the Wedding” (Susanne Bier) and “Island of Lost Souls” and “A Royal Affair” (Nikolaj Arcel). Besides his work as music supervisor, Mikkel Maltha worked as composer on various film and TV projects. He composed the music for the 2008 Oscar Academy Awards nominated short drama “At Night” and he was nominated for the best original song at the 2007 Robert Film Award (Danish Academy Awards) for the feature film “Råzone”.

PRATI KULSHRESHTHA

Graduated in Botanical Sciences in India at the University of Delhi. She studied Italian language and literature, working simultaneously for “The Times of India”, India’s largest selling English Daily. She wrote articles on education and the challenges faced by India’s education system. After her first year in Italy as a scholar, she got a grant from the Government of Italy to continue studying Italian culture in Perugia. She then completed a Master and MPhil programme in Italian History and Literature at the University of Delhi. She’s currently studying to achieve a PhD in Italian Literature at the University of Delhi, where she works as a lecturer of Italian Literature at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She has also worked in the Indian Parliament in Delhi as Research Intern. She has collaborated with “La Stampa” at “Salone Del Libro” in Turin in 2010, interviewing various Indian authors and Italian intellectuals. She collaborates with Mediaset for the TV broadcast “Le Iene” as Indian correspondent.

CARLO BRAGAGNOLO

Carlo Bragagnolo is a freelance documentary film-maker and photographer. His first major documentary “RAKENA”, made on behalf of P.A.M.- O.N.U, in Tchad, won a prize in Vancouver (CND).
At the TV festival in Kyoto, he won an award as a cinematographer for a television series produced by Kengy Yamashita. He has worked with major TV networks worldwide, which allowed him to travel extensively and come into contact with other realities and sensibilities, especially with reference to the genre of documentary. He has directed, with Nico Garrone, “Montichiello, the story of a band and a town” two episodes of 50 minutes for RAI TRE, and “La villeggiatura” by Carlo Goldoni, theatrical direction by Gabriele Vacis with Vittorio Barattolo. He has also directed “G. Battista Tiepolo”, five episodes of 55 minutes, and the documentary “The Last Dogaressa” about Peggy Guggenheim. As a cameraman and co-director he has worked on “Overland 4, from Portugal to China”, 13 episodes of 56 minutes for Rai. In his 40 years professional activity, he has dealt with various video technologies, starting from 16mm through to 35mm and to the newest technologies. Recently he has been appointed as teacher of Filming Techniques at the Professional Institute IRIGEM. He also teaches photography and film-making at various cultural centres.

MANLIO BRUSATIN

Manlio Brusatin has been working as a lecturer at the Department of Conservation of Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and at the Faculty of Design at the Politecnico of Milan since their foundation. He has coordinated the setting up of the degree course in Design at the Faculty of Architecture of Alghero. In the course of his professional activity, he has been gradually outlining a critical history of forms that investigates the technical dimension and the creative implications which took the form of a trilogy translated into several languages: “History of colours” (1983), “History of images” (1989) and “History of lines” (1993 ). With the essays “Art of wonder” (1986), “Art of oblivion” (2000) and “Unnamed Colour” (2006), he has investigated aspects of the history of ideas and communication systems of images intended as suggestion-perception-reception-obliteration. The essay “Art as Design” (2007) identifies the relationship between design and contemporary art by interrelating subject/project/object. He has collaborated with various Venice Biennale of Visual Arts, Architecture and Theatre and in particular with Paolo Portoghesi (1980) and Jean Clair (1995). He has international experience on the theme of “Colour”, a topic on which he has held lectures, conferences, seminars in foundations, museums and universities.