CV Winter school

Oscar Cosulich

He was born on 1957. He’s graduated in Political Science. He’s a free-lance journalist. He writes for “Il Mattino” and “L’Espresso” where he’s the responsible of the Cartooning column. Since the 2003 edition he directs with Giulietta Fara the Future Film Festival, the most significant Italian event dedicated to animation and special effects: every year, the most important film-directors, art-directors and creative-producers come to Bologna to show their own films’ premiéres, backstages of their successes and exclusive pictures from new productions. He has taken part in the realization of “La Repubblica.it” pages, writing movies and music reviews for the web pages of that daily. Has was the curator of a lot of shows and festivals of comics, painting, music, animated cinema. He gives lectures about these themes in several schools and universities.

Jef Nuyts

In the late 70’s Jef Nuyts started with an arthouse distribution in Belgium called “Ossessione Films”. Although obsessed with italian movies the company never managed to distribute an italian film but imported films such as Eraserhead (David Lynch), Die Konsequenz (Wolfgang Petersen), Schwestern (Margarethe von Trotta), The Demon Pond (Masahiro Shinoda)…

In 1982 he moved to Italy and started in the worldsales business, first with Intra Films, and later on with Medusa, Adriana Chiesa Ent., Cecchi Gori Group, Achab Film, Intramovies and he worked also in production for the companies Fandango and Alia Film.

Since the end of 2014 he works as an independent film consultant for festivals and producers and as a sales agent.

Italo Spinelli

Scriptwriter and director. He wrote Roma-Paris-Barcelona, Corsica and Gangor, an Italian-Indian co-production. Originator and director of the International festival Asiatica Film Mediale.

Stephen Natanson

Stephen Natanson has directed, produced and filmed documentaries, publicity and tv programs for the last 30 years working with the major Italian, European and American tv broadcasters (RAI, Fininvest, ITV, BBC, CBS, CNN, ABC etc.). He has been nominated for all three of the Italian cinema industry major awards, winning two of them, as well as more than 20 best film awards at film festivals worldwide. His films have been shown or been in competition at the Venice, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, London, Montreal, Toronto, Hong Kong, Auckland, Mannheim, Mumbai, Doha, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Buenos Aires etc. film festivals. He is a graduate of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia di Roma and the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and has taught filmmaking and new media technology at various Italian universities since 1995.

Dario Formisano

Journalist, Film Producer and Manager in Audiovisual and Publishing Area.

As professional journalist he worked for ten years at the daily l’Unità as film critic, reporter and editor in chief of the pages “Entertainment and Media” and then as Responsible of the Special and Multimedia Projects.

As founder and ceo of the Film Company Riverfilm he has produced shorts, documentaries and feature films (Il Tuffo / The Dive, Isotta, L’ultima Lezione/The Final Lesson), theatrically and tv released and presented in various international Festival.

From 1999 to 2005 he has been the Editor Chief and Responsible of the Rights Marketing of Elle U Multimedia, a Video & Multimedia Distribution Company specialized in independent and arthouse movies (more than 800 titles distributed).

In 2006 he founded eskimo, a media label involved in development and making innovative projects in the areas of film production & distribution and dvd publishing. 

Silvia Finazzi

Since 2009 consultant at Directorate General Cinema of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.

Recently also co-responsible and member of selection committee of Co-development Funds (Italian – French, German, Canadian, Macedonian Co-development Funds).

Chiara Fortuna

Chiara Fortuna has been working at the Italian General Directorate for Cinema of the Italian Ministry of Culture since 2009. Her responsibilities include International Affairs and co production. She is also in charge of many funds for co-development with Europe, Latin America and Canada. She is the Italian representative of The Creative Europe Programme in Brussels and the Italian representative inside the EFADs (European Film Agency Directors) Board. Prior to working in the film industry, Chiara worked as a communication officer for the FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization) of the United Nation in Rome.

Deborah Young