“Only in the darkness of the room in contact with other spectators, in fact, it is possible to feel the cinema”
Peppe D’Antonio, Twenty Years of the Future. History of Linea d’Ombra Festival Culture Youth, Salerno, Anima di Gomma, 2015
MAURIZIO DI RIENZO
Journalist and film critic, consultant and programmer of Film Festivals, co-director of ShorTS International Film festival of Trieste, collaborator of FICE, creator and curator of reviews dedicated to Italian cinema for Cinèmatheque Suisse and documentaries for the Casa del Cinema in Rome. Since 1980 he has written for newspapers, periodicals, cinema magazines. He has hosted radio and television programs and specials. He organizes and conducts conferences, workshops, cinema lessons, press conferences; he has written for books, catalogs, specialized publications. For the National Union of Italian Film Journalists since 2002, in synergy with the SNGCI Board of Directors, he has been responsible for the preselection of Italian short films and documentaries for the annual Nastri d’Argento Awards.
He has been a member of national and international festival juries.
FLAVIO NATALÌA
Flavio Natalìa, a graduate in modern literature, has been with Sky since 2004, where he was, among other things, director of product communication, editor in charge and editor-in-chief of ‘Sky Life’, creator and editor of the digital newspaper ‘Sky Evening News’, for which he won the 2016 Smau Award and the 2017 Ischia Award for editorial innovation. Before that he had been with Mediaset from 2001 to 2004, as Head of the Press Office of the South Center and curator of special communication projects and until 2001 at ANSA, correspondent of the Culture and Entertainment editorial staff. Author from ‘88 to 2001 of Rai programs (news, entertainment, in-depth analysis, quizzes, social and cultural news), since 2002 he has been teaching post-graduate specialization courses. Among the awards, the Ischia 2013 Award as Communicator of the Year. Since 2019 Natalìa is director of CIAK, the Italian cinema magazine.
CHRISTOPHE SABER
Born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1991. Egyptian, Swiss nationality. He graduated from the University of Arts and Design, Lausanne Switzerland (ECAL) with a bachelor degree in cinema. His graduation film, Discipline, premiered during the 2014 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. The short film went on to win the Swiss Academy Award along with 90+ international prizes in more than 200 international film festivals. In 2016, he released his first documentary feature film, The Valley of Salt, which premiered at Thessaloniki and Hot Docs Film festival in Toronto. He completed and released Punchline and Sacrilege in 2017. In 2018, Canal+ and SoFilm offered him the opportunity to write and direct the adaption of a short story by french novelist Hervé Commère Tomatic. The film went on to have its premiere at the Locarno International Film Festival 2018 and in competition at Linea d’Ombra Festival. Christophe is currently in development of his first feature film.