Fond. Cinema Roma - Juries

MEMBERS OF INTERNATIONAL JURY

President
ENNIO MORRICONE
Composer and conductor Ennio Morricone has risen to worldwide fame for his soundtracks for Sergio Leone’s westerns For a Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West and Duck, you Sucker. Since 1960 he has scored over 400 films by Italian and foreign directors, including Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Giuliano Montaldo, Lina Wertmuller, Giuseppe Tornatore, Brian De Palma, Roman Polanski, Warren Beatty, Adrian Lyne and Oliver Stone and many others. Among his most noted films: The Battle of Algiers, Sacco and Vanzetti, Cinema Paradiso, The Legend of 1900, Malèna, The Untouchables, Once Upon a Time in America, Mission, and U Turn.  Morricone has conducted a great number of orchestras around the world, including a series of seasons with the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, as well as the Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala, the Rome Opera House Orchestra, the Budapest Opera House Orchestra, and the Spanish National Orchestra. Member of the Santa Cecilia Academy, over his extensive career he has received numerous honors, including 9 Silver Ribbons, 5 BAFTAs, 5 Oscar® nominations, 8 David di Donatello, 3 Golden Globes, 1 Grammy, 1 European Film Award, and the Golden Lion and Oscar® Lifetime Achievement Awards. For his recording work, he has received 27 Gold Albums, 7 Platinum Albums and 3 Golden Plates. In 2009, the soundtrack of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly has entered the Grammy Hall of Fame.

SUSANNE BIER
Susanne Bier is among the most prominent directors in Denmark while also having attained significant international success. Her first major breakthrough was in 1999 with the romantic comedy The Only One which grossed the largest financial amount of any feature in Danish history. Her Dogme 95 drama Open Hearts became her first international breakthrough and won several awards, such as the International Critics’Award at Toronto 2002. Susanne has achieved international recognition primarily through Brothers which received the Audience Award at Sundance and Best Acting awards at San Sebastian; After the Wedding, nominated for an Academy Award; Things We Lost in the Fire and her most recent success In a Better World, 2011 Academy Award winner and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. Susanne Bier is currently working on her new feature All You Need is Love, which is set to premiere August 2012.

ROBERTO BOLLE
Etoile of  Teatro alla Scala di Milano and the only Italian nominated Principal Dancer of the American Ballet Theatre in New York, Roberto Bolle has performed in every major theatre and with the most prestigious companies worldwide. Last year saw him working with two world-renowned directors: Peter Greenaway has chosen him to symbolize Italian art in his installation “Italy of the Cities,” created for the Italian Pavilion of the 2010 Shanghai Expo; while Bob Wilson dedicated to Bolle one of his voom portraits, Perchance to Dream, an impressive multi-media installation inaugurated in New York in November 2010.  UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Roberto Bolle was named Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum in Davos and since 2007  he has established a collaboration with FAI - Fondo Ambiente Italiano.

CARMEN CHAPLIN
English actress, director and writer, Carmen is the granddaughter of the great Charlie Chaplin and great granddaughter of the playwright Eugene O'Neill. Her career started with director Wim Wenders in Until the end of the world. Carmen worked with directors such as André Téchiné in My Favorite Season which opened the Cannes Film Festival in 1999. She starred in Philippe Rousselot’s The Serpent’s Kiss and in the romantic comedy Snapshots by Rudolph van der Berg, as well as in TheDay on Fire directed by Jay Anania. She appeared in the remake of Sabrina directed by Sydney Pollack and All About the Benjamins directed by Kevin Bray. She just completed Tryst in Paname, a short film that she wrote and directed in Paris. She is currently preparing Bombay nights, a feature film that she wrote and will direct next year in India.

DAVID PUTTNAM
He spent thirty years as an independent producer of award-winning films including The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local Hero, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone and Memphis Belle. His films have won 10 Oscars, 25 Baftas and the Palme d’Or at Cannes. From 1994 to 2004 he was Vice President and Chair of Trustees at the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) and was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship in 2006. He retired from film production in 1998 to focus on his work in public policy. From 2002 to 2009 he was president of UNICEF UK. He is the present Chancellor of the Open University, President of the Film Distributors’ Association and Deputy Chairman of Channel Four. For ten years he chaired the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television. David was awarded a CBE in 1982, a knighthood in 1995 and was appointed to the House of Lords in 1997.

PIERRE THORETTON
Pierre Thoretton (France, 1967) is a photographer, visual artist, director, screenwriter and delegate producer of Les Films de Pierre. He made his first, self-produced medium-length film, Entre chien et loup, in 2007. He acted in Pierre Coulibeuf’s Le Demon du passage (1997) and Antoine Santana’s La Ravisseuse (2005). In 2008 he co-produced Grégoire Colin’s short film La Baie du renard. He wrote and directed the documentary L'amour fou, which screened in the 2010 International Rome Film Festival.

DEBRA WINGER
Her role in Urban Cowboy  by James Bridges brings her to the world’s attention. Three Oscar® nominations for An Officer and a Gentleman by Taylor Hackford, Terms of Endearment by James L. Brooks, Shadowlands by Richard Attenborough, a Golden Globe nomination for A Dangerous Woman by Steven Gyllenhall and an Emmy nomination for  Dawn Anna. She works with Bernardo Bertolucci in Sheltering Sky and stars in many other successful films. Away from cinema for a few years she is the subject of the documentary Searching for Debra Winger by Rosanna Arquette. She later works in Rachel’s Getting Married by Jonathan Demme and in 2009 she produces Gasland, in competition in EXTRA 2010, nominated for an Oscar® for Best Documentary. She is a Board member for the Tahirih Justice Center which lends legal services to immigrant women fleeing gender bias. In 2009 her first book of essays, Undiscovered, was published. She just completed work on Lola Vs. to be released next year by Fox Searchlight.


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President
FRANCESCA COMENCINI
Francesca Comencini was born in and currently lives in Rome, after living in Paris for many years. She has written and directed numerous films and documentaries, including Pianoforte; The Words of My Father, which screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival in the section “Un Certain Regard”; Elsa Morante;Carlo Giuliani, Boy, which screened out of competition at Cannes in 2002; I Like to Work, which premiered at the Rome Film Festival in 2006; and The White Space.

PIETRO MARCELLO
This thirty-five-year-old filmmaker made the radio documentary Il tempo dei magliari (2002) and the short films Carta and Scampia (2003). His documentaries include Il cantiere (2004), winner of the Libero Bizzarri Festival; and La baracca (2005), which won the Audience Award at Videopolis. He first attracted international attention with Il passaggio della linea, which screened at the 2007 Venice Film Festival in its Horizons section. Marcello’s The Mouth of the Wolf  (2009) won two prizes at the Turin Film Festival, and he has received numerous other awards, including the Teddy Bear for Best Documentary at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival.

JAMES MARSH
James Marsh’s first feature film, The King, was selected for entry at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. His previous documentary, Wisconsin Death Trip, premiered at the Venice Film Festival and won many awards, including a BAFTA and an RTS award. It was theatrically released in the UK and the US. His Oscar®-winning documentary, Man on Wire was presented at the 3rd International Rome Film Festival in the section Extra, then it was distributed by Feltrinelli and sold more than 50000 copies. His most recent film, presented at Rome’s Festival in 2009 - Red Riding 1980 - forms part of a trilogy of thriller films, known as the Red Riding Trilogy.

ANNE LAI
Producer of Sundance Institute, she oversees the creative producing fellowships and labs.  She selects participants to the Screenwriters and Directors Labs, also providing strategic support to projects coming out (Sin Nombre, Treeless Mountain and Cold Souls).  Prior to joining Sundance, Anne served as Vice President of Production at Scott Free, the company by Ridley and Tony Scott.  Early on, she provided physical production support on projects including G.I Jane, Where The Money Is, and Clay Pigeons. She went on to play an integral role in projects including Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Domino and The Gathering Storm.

MEGHAN WURTZ
She is currently the VP at Film Movement, a film distributor based in NYC that specializes in foreign arthouse and indie feature films, documentaries and shorts (Corpo celeste, Days & Clouds, Alamar…). Meghan is responsible for launching new VOD distribution channels such as Film Festival on Demand. She has secured company sponsors and has established partnerships with US cable operators as well as partnerships with Hulu, iTunes, YouTube, Amazon and Netflix for online streaming. Having held positions with EFP, Peacefulfish and Northstar Media, Meghan has extensive int’l experience and knowledge of the North American and European film and tv markets.


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President
CATERINA D’AMICO
Daughter of historian-music critic Fedele d’Amico and screenwriter Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Caterina D’Amico (Rome, 1948) studied Philosophy at the University of Roma and Social Science at England’s University of East Anglia. She has worked in Italy and abroad as a theatre organizer, radio presenter, television writer and programmer of film series and retrospectives, and has published essays on theatre, fashion and social customs. She has conceived and curated 40 documentary-exhibits on themes inherent to arts and entertainment. She is the supervisor of the Luchino Visconti Archives at the Fondazione Istituto Gramsci. For numerous years she directed the National Film School of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. From 2007-10 she was the CEO of RAI Cinema. In February 2011 she was appointed director of Rome’s Casa del Cinema.

LEONARDO DIBERTI
Leonardo Diberti (1971) graduated in Political Science from Rome’s La Sapienza University. Son of renowned Italian actor Luigi Diberti, since 1989 he and his mother Marina have run the Diberti & C. agency, representing some of the most illustrious Italian and foreign actors, directors and screenwriters. Diberti is a permanent member of the David di Donatello Awards jury.

ANITA KRAVOS
Italian actress Anita Kravos studied at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Moscow. In 2010 she was nominated for the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress and won the L.A.R.A. (Libera Associazione dei Rappresentanti di Artisti) Prize for Best Performer for Alessandro Angelini’s Keep Your Head Up. The lead in Marina Spada’s multiple award-winning As the Shadow (2007) is also a member of the David di Donatello Italian Film Academy and the European Film Academy (EFA).

GIANFRANCESCO LAZOTTI
Born in Rome, Gianfrancesco Lazotti graduated from DAMS in Bologna and worked as assistant director to Ettore Scola, Dino Risi, Steno and Carlo Vanzina; as creative director and director of commercials; and as a writer and presenter of RAI radio programmes. In 1987 he began working as a screenwriter and director in film and on numerous televisions shows. For the cinema, he wrote and directed “Lo sbaglio” (an episode of the film Corsica), presented at the Venice Film Festival, and Tutti gli anni una volta l’anno, also presented at Venice and awarded at numerous European festivals, including Valencia, Annecy and Locarno. His most recent feature, From the Waist On, won the 2010 Taormina Film Fest, the Montreal World Film Festival and Magnagrecia Film Festival.

GIUSEPPE ALESSIO NUZZO
Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo (1989) is Artistic and Organizational Director of the Social World Film Festival, an international festival of social cinema, the first edition of which was co-financed by the Ministry of Youth and received the Medals of the President of the Republic and of the Senate. An organizer of cultural events, he has directed numerous shorts, documentaries and socially themed commercials, including on the recent earthquake in Abruzzo, Auschwitz and Birkenau, and road safety, for which he has received distinguished European awards.