Cristina Battocletti is a writer, a journalist for the “Domenica” cultural supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore, and a film critic. She co-authored Figlio di nessuno (Son of No One, Rizzoli, 2012) with Boris Pahor, a biography that won the Manzoni Prize for Best Historical Novel and was republished in June 2022 by La Nave di Teseo with previously unpublished material. She wrote the novel La mantella del diavolo (The Devil’s Cloak, Bompiani, 2015), winner of the Latisana Prize for the Northeast; Bobi Bazlen. L’ombra di Trieste (The Shadow of Trieste, La Nave di Teseo, 2017), winner of the Comisso and Martoglio Prizes; Giorgio Strehler. Il ragazzo di Trieste. Vita, morte, miracoli (The Boy from Trieste. Life, Death, Miracles, La Nave di Teseo, 2021); and the novel Epigenetica (Epigenetics, La Nave di Teseo, 2023), winner of the Flaiano, Merano, and Dolores Prato Prizes and considered by La Lettura’s quality ranking as one of the best novels of 2025.

Agata De Laurentiis is a co-founder and programmer of Il Cinemino and Noise, the new cultural space on the Naviglio Pavese. She holds a degree in Film History and, after working in television, joined a film agency where she handled film launch and marketing strategies. In 2018 she founded the cineclub Il Cinemino, where she oversees programming and coordinates image-education projects. Since 2020 she has also been the author of the film history podcast Cinemaconfidential, and since 2025 she has served as Programming Director of the Milano Film Fest.

Domizia De Rosa has been President of Women in Film, Television & Media Italia since 2021, an association she helped found in 2018. She is also Vice President of Women in Film & Television International. Previously, she was Executive Director, Television at Warner Bros. Entertainment Italia, a company she joined in 1995 and where she held various roles. She teaches as an adjunct professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. Her research interests include gender media studies, production studies, and visual cultures.

Luisella Farinotti is a full professor at IULM University in Milan, where she teaches Film Studies and Aesthetics of Cinema. Her research focuses on the theory and history of the image, particularly the relationship between image and memory, self-writing and home movies, and the connections between cinema and photography, with special attention to photographic archives conceived as vast visual Atlases. She has also worked extensively on the relationship between cinema and history, on political cinema, and has conducted various studies on modern and contemporary Italian cinema. Together with G. Canova, she co-edited Atlante del cinema italiano. Paesaggi, corpi, figure del contemporaneo (2011); among her publications are Overlapping Images. Between Cinema and Photography (2016, co-ed.) and Harun Farocki. Pensare con gli occhi (2017, co-ed.).

Ilaria Floreano was born in Desio in 1984. After working as a TV editor and copywriter, she now directs the film non-fiction series for the historic Milan-based publishing house Bietti. Her publications include Concerto per macchina da presa, Amori fatali. Grandi passioni tra cinema e realtà, Shakespeare e il cinema, Volevo dipingere la luce del sole. Vita di Edward Hopper tra pittura e cinema, and Gudrun Ensslin. Attrice, madre, terrorista, prigioniera. She has translated from English David Carradine’s Kill Bill Diary, from French Jacques Rancière’s Béla Tarr. Il tempo del dopo, and from German Stefan Aust’s Il gruppo Baader-Meinhof. Storia della Rote Armee Fraktion.

Annamaria Granatello has been President and Director of the Premio Solinas since 2006, with which she has collaborated since 1992. Over 17 years she has innovated the Prize by designing, creating, and implementing new competitions for the selection, development, and production of documentaries, short films, web series, and pilots for TV series. She is a creative producer. She founded Arià Film, Apollo 11, and the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio. She has served as Head of Project Development for E.T. Fiction, consultant for the Carisal Banking Foundation, and Italian correspondent for Cinemed. She has worked in theatre and contemporary art, collaborating with RomaEuropa, Teatro Palladium, and Tevereterno. She has taught communication at Herzog, Karta Bianca, and at Roma Tre University for the Advanced Training Course in “Economics and Management of Cultural Heritage.” She was a member of the Theatre Advisory Commission for the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism in 2012 and 2013. She is the author of the series Ritratti di Donne and Ritratti di Donne 2 – Scienza: the 20 videos are available on Italiana.it, the portal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In September 2023, for her work as Director of Premio Solinas, she received the Graziella Lonardo Buontempo Award, and in October 2024 she won the Women in Cinema Award – WICA.

Vittorio Lingiardi, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is a Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome and a Senior Research Fellow at the Sapienza School for Advanced Studies (SSAS). Among his most recent books, translated into several languages, are: Farsi male. Variazioni sul masochismo (Einaudi 2025); Corpo, umano (Einaudi 2024, Premio Bagutta); L’ombelico del sogno (Einaudi 2023); Arcipelago N. Variazioni sul narcisismo (Einaudi 2021); Diagnosi e destino (Einaudi 2018); and Mindscapes. Psiche nel paesaggio (Cortina 2017). He has received several awards, including the Musatti Prize of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (2018), the Research Award of the American Psychological Association (2020), and the Sigourney Award (2023). He contributes to la Repubblica, La Stampa, and il Venerdì di Repubblica, where he has written the “Psycho” column since 2015.

Paolo Mereghetti (Milan, 1949) is a journalist and film critic for Corriere della Sera and Io Donna. He has written for Ombre rosse, Positif, Linea d’ombra, Reset, Lo straniero, Ciak, and Blow Up. In addition to numerous essays and volumes on cinema, in 2007 he published a book on Orson Welles for Cahiers du Cinéma and Le Monde, later released in Italy by Rizzoli and in Spain and the United Kingdom by Phaidon. In 2012 he curated the volume Movie Box for Contrasto, translated into six languages. Since 1993 he has published the most widely read film dictionary in Italy, known as “il Mereghetti.” He collaborated with the Venice Film Festival during the directorships of Lizzani, Rondi, and Barbera. He co-hosted the program La Mostra della Laguna with Serena Dandini (Rai 3, 1998 and 1999). He has received several awards for film criticism, including the Flaiano Prize (2001), the De Sica Prize (2014), the Lo Straniero Prize (2015), and the Amidei Prize (2018).

Enrico Nosei (La Spezia, 1958). A graduate in Film History and Criticism with a thesis on Roberto Rossellini’s Voyage in Italy, after various editorial experiences, university teaching roles, work in film schools, and collaborations with several film festivals, he has been working since 1999 at the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana in Milan, where he is responsible for theatrical programming.

Camilla Toschi has been responsible for film programming at Toscana Film Commission since 2011 and for programming at “La Compagnia,” the Cinema House of the Tuscany Region. Since 2023 she has directed the Festival di Cinema e Donne in Florence, where she founded, together with Jasmine Trinca, the project L’Assemblea, a network of women in Italian cinema aimed at developing new strategies of support and awareness. She holds a degree in Film History and Criticism and has been a journalist since 2012.

Deputy Director of Rai Cultura – Film Programs and Events. Since her early twenties, she has held various professional roles in the film industry before joining Rai in 1984, working from Rai Uno to Rai Cultura, with experience also at Rai Cinema. She served on the Board of Directors of ACEPRODUCERS (Atéliers du Cinéma Européen) until 2022 and of the Veneto Film Commission until 2023. Since 2010 she has been a member of the EFA – European Film Awards.