Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani (23 settembre 1963)

In 1990 he is granted a scholarship for the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, in Roma, directed at the time by Lina Wetmuller.

He directed "MARE LARGO"(1998) produced by FILMTRE, RAI, Istituto LUCE. Cast: Claudio Amendola, Isabella Ferrari, Rade Serbedzija Liberto Rabal, Catherine Wilkening. Official selection at the Festival of Montreal, Annecy, Villerupt, Cairo, Shanghai, NICE (New Italian Cinema Event) in NY, San Francisco and Moscow, Rio Film Festival, Istambul…

In 2001/2002 he produced, wrote and directed “HANNOVER” a TV movie, the first co-production Italy-China and the first Italian film shot in HD.

With Marcello Fois he is wrote “THE CRUELEST DAY” (Ilaria Alpi – Il più crudele dei giorni) GAM Film Production. The film was released in Italy in March 2003. Distribution Lantia/Istituto Luce – Produced with the support of RAI Cinema. Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Rade Sherbedgia, Amanda Plummer.

Winner of the Italian Cinema Days in Paris.
Winner of LAIFA (Los Angeles Italian Film Awards)
Special price of the jury Bastia film featival.
Price AGIS-Ippocampo best actress
Giovanna Mezzogiorno winner “nastro d’argento” best actress.

Again with Marcello Fois, Diego De Silva, Andrea and Antonio Frazzi, he wrote “CERTI BAMBINI” from the novel by Diego De Silva, a film directed by Andrea and Antonio Frazzi.

Winner or the Carlovy Vary film festival
Winner of Gifoni film festival (Gifone d’argento)
Winner of the 2004 European OSCAR – Fassbinder price
Nomination “nastro d’argento” best script.

“Zulu meets Jazz”: Durban, South Africa… Ten years in the new era of democracy… The famous Italian Jazz trumpet player and composer Paolo Fresu is invited to perform a few concerts (in Durban and Cape Town) with the Kzn Vintage Legends Orchestra, a group of 26 local jazz musicians from the town ships.

‘68: about the 1968 student movement in Italy, produced by ISTITUO LUCE.

Executive producer of VIVA ZAPATERO, a documentary by Sabina Guzzanti, un international success, shown in Venice, Sundance, San Sebastian…

He recently produced two feature films: ALTROMONDO (Otherworld) by Fabiomassimo Lozzi – Festivals: Montreal and Chicago LA VELOCITA’ DELLE LUCE (The speed of light) by Andrea Papini – Festivals: Noir and Shanghai.

Flavio Florencio (Argentina, 1979)

His passion to study the Muslim World motivated him to study Arab philology at the University of Barcelona. He settled in Spain and thus began his travels around the Arab World. After a number of trips to Asia, the Middle East, and the African continent, he developed a passion for the cinema of these regions, and decided to study documentary filmmaking. After participating in a number of film projects, he moved to Mexico. In 2005, he volunteered at the Zanzíbar International Film Festival, where he continues to collaborate to this date. This experience inspired him to organize the first African Film Festival in Latin America AFRICALA in Mexico City, which earned him international recognition. He then developed a strategy for expanding the festival to the rest of Latin America, and bringing renowned African directors to Chile, Brasil, Venezuela, and Argentina.

Florencio has served as a jury member in a number of international film festivals, and has curated many museum exhibitions, including the Apartheid Museum in Latin America. He recently co-organized, along with the United Nations Information Office in Mexico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, the commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Florencio has traveled to 37 countries throughout his life, and currently divides his time between Africa and Latin America, where he serves as an advisor to several festivals on the subject of contemporary African cinema and is the editor of the Film Library magazine of the University of Mexico (UNAM).

Jean - Pierre Bekelo Obama

Director

“Cinema is an important tool for social change. I don’t see a difference between film and public service, for me it’s all about education. The tools are there, the interest is there, we just need to create a method of acquiring knowledge that uses what is today the most immediately accessible medium”.

Filmmaker’s Mini Biography:

• Cameroonian filmmaker - film teacher / professor - television promoter.
• Lives between - Cameroon, Toronto, Paris, USA, South Africa.
• Developed -Television: EVENEMENT TV YAOUNDE 4, Cameroon.
• Previously based in South Africa, developing and directing the youth & HIV/Aids reality series `Imagine Afrika’, initiated by the Born Free Media and SABC with youth across the African continent.
• Secretary General of the GUILD for African Filmmakers.
• Won second place for feature film "Les Saignantes" at FESPACO 2007’.
• Currently writing and producing a feature film about soccer youth legend, Samuel Eto’o.
• Also developing an accessible film education methodology for young people in developing contexts.