Amarcort Film Festival 15th edition - Rimini (italy) - from 22nd to 27th November, 2022

Is the Festival Director and co-founder of Show Me Shorts Film Festival, Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading international short film festival. The festival puts on more than 100 screenings at 40 cinemas nationwide each year. They also produce a range of educational programmes and operate a sales agency. Dellabarca is Vice-chair of the Board for the Short Film Conference – a world-wide organisation working to promote the status of the short film and unite the global short film community. She has tertiary qualifications in film, marketing and management from Victoria University of Wellington. Her background includes cinema management, marketing and publicity. She is a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to the New Zealand film industry.

Is a scriptwriter, a director, a producer, a script consultant, and a lecturer in Film, Theater, and Media. He started his career in Film and Theater in 1994, and since then he has written, directed and/or produced theater plays, films and documentaries, among which: Void (Lebanese submission to the OSCARS in 2015), Good Morning & C-Section (Golden Globes Shortlisted). Founding Chair of Beirut Film Society, a non for profit association that promotes for Responsible Cinema, and works with national and international parties towards a vision for a “Film Friendly Lebanon”. Listed for three years at the Arab Cinema Center Magazine, Festival de Cannes edition, among the Golden 101 names that matter in the Arab Cinema. Founder and Director of many film events and programs: Beirut International Women Film Festival, Beirut Shorts, Cinema for Peace Summer Camp Academy, Lebanese Film Festival in Canada, among others. Senior Lecturer in Media and Film at Notre Dame University-Louaize, where he served as Director for the Division of Audio Visual Arts, Chairperson for the Department of Media Studies, and Founder and Director for the Office of Communications. Since 2001, he taught Scriptwriting, Film Production, Directing, and Media Law and Ethics.

Is author of short novels, screenplays, scripts and tv programs. His success started with the sketch-comedy The Pills. The Pills is a web-series born on YouTube in 2011 and then spread across several media, arriving at cinema with "THE PILLS – Sempre Meglio che Lavorare". With the short film "A Christmas Carol" wins the Rai Cinema Channel award, the Studio Universal award and the Nastro d’Argento for best short 2018. He worked for brands like SONY, Playstation, IKEA, Poste Italiane, NETFLIX, Peroni, La Repubblica, CONTROL, Eni, TEDx and many more.

Francesca Fabbri Fellini was born in Bologna in 1965 under the sign of Gemini, Libra rising. Since that day was written in the starts that she would be curious, equipped with a great sense of humour, of the dramatic, communication skills and a great friendliness. Costantly looking for intellectual stimuli. Her profession when she grew up? She would have to deal with the world of words. In Bologna, on June 6th 1965, day of her baptism, her parents, Maria Maddalena Fellini and doctor Giorgio Fabbri chose her uncle, Federico Fellini, has her godfather and Giulietta Masina, her aunt, as her godmother. Uncle 'Chicco', as she used to call him, taught her since she was little that two ways exist: the one with your eyes open and the one with your eyes closed. As Emiliano-Romagnola, she has personal courage, industriousness, a keen sense of hospitality, an upright, open and cheerful character. She graduates at Linguistic High School. At 23, years after her degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures, she moves to Rome where her life will go on until 2006, year in which she returns to Rimini, where she still lives and works. In 1987 she has signed her first writing in video for Rai, for "Muoviamoci" tv program on Rai Due, with Sydney Rome, 180 episodes. After this experience, she had signed many other contracts with Rai, with the qualification of writing in video. From 1999 to 2006 she was one of the envoys of "La vita in diretta", historical afternoon program on air on Rai since 1991. She has worked with famous television authors such as Michele Guardì, Enza Sampò, Giovanni Minoli, Daniel Toaff, Licia Colò.
She really likes television, but cinema has always been in her DNA (she defines herself "raised with cinema and tortellini"): between 1993 and 1997 she collaborated with RTL 102.5 radio network, taking care of cinema, and thanks to this experience she became professional journalist in 1997. Francesca in 2003 with her mother Maria Maddalena signs a book of memories and recipes called 'A tavola con Fellini', which in the new 2013 edition became 'A Tavola con Fellini - Ricette da Oscar della sorella Maddalena.' kitchen, family, cinema and films. A Federico Fellini told through his preferences and habits at the table. A trip through Emilia-Romagna's traditional flavors and the history of world cinema. "A book to popularize to the whole world Fellini's passion for traditional kitchen". This is the reason that pushed Francesca to publish this volume. From 2004 to 2006 she has signed and hosted again for RTL the program "Asa NIsi MAsa - L'ANIMA del cinema" that took its name by the famous magical sentence repeated by Guido/Mastroianni, protagonist in "Otto e mezzo". Since 2009, after meeting the photographer Graziano Villa (life and work partner), she takes care of the curatorship of her photographic exhibitions, from the idea to the realization. She manages and organizes Villa's portfolio, presenting it to galleries and festivals. She elaborates projects on photographic exhibitions, writes press releases and manages the communication of the event by herself, knowing the techniques of illumination and preparation useful for the exhibits. 'Fellinette', as she was colled by her uncle Federico (drawing her in crayons on a notebook paper), loves good food, cinema, theatre, radio, books, photograph, flowers and especially taking long walks on the beach with her biggest friend, Alfie, a white poodle who lacks the words.
For the celebrations on the centenary of the birth of uncle Federico Fellini, Francesca has written and directed a short film with mixed technique which starts from the animation of the drawing that Fellini drew her when she was a child, 'La Fellinette', to arrive in a live action dream, then going back again to animation with a grand finale. For her debut as director Francesca chose a mute fairy tale, suspended between dream and reality. The short film has received the prestigious acknowledgement of SNGC, union of cinema journalists: 'Premio speciale 75' Corti D'Argento, a the 75th Nastri d'Argento edition. Starting from her uncle Federico's famous metaphor: 'The only real realist is the visionary', thanks to the collaboration with Graziano Villa, as photographer as well as web designer and webmaster, she has created and realized a website about culture, dedicated to visionaries of all ages, www.fellinimagazine.com. During the 78th Mostra del Cinema in Venice was presented the pioneering project by Campari Red Diaries titled 'Fellini Forward' realized with AI, by using techniques of machine learning. A short film between science and fantasy which was able set the oneiric. Francesca was involved by Campari in this tribute to her uncle early on the stages of the project, ans she has collaborated with the directors Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper (documentary) and Maximilian Niemann (short film) by presenting them some of the main collaborators of her uncle Federico and sharing her advices and memories linked to the direct acquaintance with the uncle, in addition to contributing to casting, costume design and screenplay for the short film. In the Fellini Family tree, Francesca Fabbri Fellini is the last heiress by DNA of the Maestro Federico Fellini. She is Ambassador in the world of the Man with 5 Oscars. A fellow journalist one day told her: "I wish with my heart Francesca that you remain for life Senator of the oneiric fellinian in the world!'
Francesca Fabbri Fellini in an aphorism? 'Nothing is known, all is imagined'.

Was born in Rome in 1977. Film and tv critic, he collaborated with several magazines, like “Film TV”, “Cineforum” and “Filmcronache”. In 2014 he founded davidlynch.it, and around its Facebook page is collected the biggest Italian community for “Twin Peaks”’s director’s fans. Also his is the booklet of the limited edition Blu-ray of INLAND EMPIRE, realized by CG Entertainment. After publishing for Lindau and Il Castoro Cinema, in 2016 he starts collaborating with BeccoGiallo, for which he wrote with Claudio Gotti and with illustrations by Daniel Cuello, three tv series dictionaries, collected in 2021 in a single volume, revised and updated, with unpublished content, titled “Serie tv cult OMNIBUS”. Again for BeccoGiallo, he is author of “FILM POP ANNI ‘80”, written with Simone Stefanini, with illustrations by Zeno Colangelo, Jacopo Starace and Arturo Lauria (2020), and of “I segreti di David Lynch” (2018) with illustrations by Elisa2B.

Turin, 1975. Storyteller. Professional journalist, film critic, playwright, screenwriter, and director. Graduated in Political Science at Università Cattolica di Milano, with a degree in screenwriting and directing at Tracce, Rome. She had on stage theatrical plays and debuted as director in 2016, realizing short films and documentaries. She knows and uses Abramovic Method after taking part to the “Cleaning the House” master. She teaches screenwriting and film critics at Scuola d’Arte Cinematografica Florestano Vancini in Ferrara and creative writing for cinema and theatre at DVSA – Dalla Vita alla Scena – Entr’Arte, Florence.

Family, cinema, theater, journalism , music and poetry: here's Enrico Zoi, Florentine born in 1959, graduated in Literature on a poem from the 1500s. To his credit also various books, including two poetic sillogues and the recent collections of fairy tales “Favole per Irene” (2018) and “Lo Zampacchione Giallo e altre storie” (2020), illustrated by his son Filippo. Zoi has been writing press releases for the Municipalities of Bagno a Ripoli and Impruneta for 25 years. He published thousands of interviews, articles, film and theater reviews and puzzles and seen (currently) 7355 films, a figure destined inexorably and daily to rise. With Philippe Chellini, Zoi is Alessandro Benvenuti's cinematographic biographer (three books) and the author of the twenty-year volume of Leonardo Pieraccioni's 'Ciclone'. Zoi He was part of the Juries of 'Underflorence' (Florence Film Festival, 1991), 'Under Rock - Futurock a Firenze' (1992), 'Schermi Irregolari' (2001, 2016, 2017 e 2018), 'Amarcort Film Festival' (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022), 'Cartoon Club' (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022), 'Stenterello Film Festival of Author's Comedy d'Autore' (2022). He collaborates on the Shortisworth.com portal with the column "Short to Success". He also has an editorial football incursion, having written a book, "Firmamento Viola", on Fiorentina, his favorite team. In recent times, he has ventured into theatrical writing, with the monologue show "Zenrico, or his clone?" (Co-author Massimo Blaco), 'A Red Heart in the Fist' (Co-authors Massimo Blaco and Philippe Chellini) and the two cinemonologue shows "As time goes by", dedicated to Humphrey Bogart, and "Dr. Jekyll & Mister(o) Totò”, obviously about the Prince of laughter.

Born 07-04-1962 in Forlì. He organises cineforums and film literacy activities. In 2004, he founded the Sedicicorto Association. In the same year, he has been the Artistic Director of the SEDICICORTO International Film Festival Forlì. He is a member of the promoting committee of the CNC (National Short Film Centre). Since 2009, he has been a councilor of FEDIC (Italian Federation’s Cineclub). In 2011, he founded ANIMARE in Cesenatico, (Animation Festival for children and young people 3/13 years old). Since 2014, he has coordinated the REFF network (composed of 17 festivals). In 2018, he founded IRANFEST, a festival dedicated to Iranian cinematography. In 2020, he created SHORTer a network of film festivals in the Emilia Romagna. He has participated as a juror and selector in several National and International Festivals. He collaborates with various cultural associations to promote projects dedicated to short films and the development of the cinematographic language in schools of the area. He joins with several Italian and International Festivals to support the short film distribution network in Italy and abroad.

(Naples, 1991) graduated in "Modern Literature" from the University Federico II of Naples and in "Cinema" from Université Paris VII - Diderot. He has been making short films since the age of 17 and has directed several backstage films and TV series for productions such as Warner Bros and Disney. "Santa Lucia" is his first fiction feature film. FILMOGRAPHY: Anna Ivanova (cm, 2009), A Christmas Carol (cm, 2010), Kindergarten (cm, 2011), Elle (cm, 2012), Eva (cm, 2013), A Matter of Life and Death (cm, 2013), Yellow (cm, 2014), Lisboa Antiga (cm, 2015), L'étranger (cm, 2015), A Day in Life (cm, 2016), Viral Video (cm, 2020), The View From The Window (cm, 2020), Locked Out (cm, 2020), Santa Lucia (2021).

Born in Rimini in 1963, graduated in sociology with a specialization in mass communications and a master’s thesis on animation films. From 1990 she has been working in the field of social research, particularly on issues such as juvenile disadvantage, intercultural disciplines and mass media. She is an expert in cinema and mass communications and has worked extensively in various cultural activities of the city of Rimini, collaborating on the organization of a large number of events dealing with music, film and visual arts. Since 1991 she has been taking care of the ACLI Rimini cultural activity, from the association activities (music clubs, dance, theater, photography and movie culture) to “Progetto Immagine”, a special project including various activities and events dedicated to the world of communications. In 1984 she organizes two video-film events and since 1991 she becomes their Artistic Director: “Round - Video film festival for short films, dedicated to independent authors” (1984/2012). “Cartoon Club - International Festival of animation, comics and games”.
Since 1999, she’s been organizing activities and cultural events for the detained of the Prison of Rimini. From 2000 to 2008 she has been president of the ACLI of Rimini Province. From 1999 to 2009 she has coordinated the activities of the Social Services of the town of Verucchio. From 2001 to 2003 she has coordinated the activities of the Culture of the Municipality of Riccione. From 2005 to 2013 she has been president and director of “Foundation Enaip S. Zavatta” which organizes training courses and social activities. From 2008 to 2013 she has been managing director of CO.AP. Cooperativa Comunità Aperta a.r.l. that manages radio channels, TV and web in the Rimini province. In 1998, together with the musician Andrea Felli of Acanto Snc, she founded a sound research center located in Rimini which includes a professional recording studio called Farmhouse, a recording label and music publishing.

(Rome, 1960) is sole director and creative director of the creative agency and production company GraFFiti Creative (Graffiti srl), founded in Milan in the 80s. After the first experiences as animator for Piero Angela and Bruno Bozzetto’s animated series SuperQuark, he curated the production of medium length animated films for Ferrero Kinder Sorpresa, then realized several animated one-shot films, TV mini-series and commercials. For 15 years Federico has been delegated producer of Canzoni Animate by Zecchino d’Oro for Antoniano and Rai Ragazzi, series awarded with prestigious prizes. He has created and produced the TV film, a mix of animation and live-action H2O Team – Missione Mare, great success of the TV season 2021 for Rai Ragazzi, which enjoys the patronage of MITE. In Autumn 2021 the special got selected in the quintet of two between the most prestigious TV prizes in the world.
Federico is critic, historian, communicator of drawn imagination and has signed more than 300 articoes, essays and monographies on comics, illustration, and animation cinema. Relator in conventions like MIA market in Rome and professor in University Masters and at several institutions on animated cinema, history of cinema, advertising, and communication. Artistic director of the animation festivals Asolo Cartoon Preview and BergamoToons, Federico has been member of juries at several festivals, including the prestigious Annecy. For more than 30 years now he curates events and exhibitions on animated cinema and cartoons, like the personal one on Bruno Bozzetto: animation, Maestro! at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, the exhibition Cartoon Stars 1914-2016 in San Marino, Dalla carta ai cartoni and Questi pazzi, pazzi pazzi Toons in Bergamo, Mickey 90 in Desenzano del Garda and the itinerating I Simpson – L’Arte dietro le quinte.
During the years Federico has taken part to the foundation of Associations Cartoon Lombardia and Animation Italia, both by now exhausted experiences, with which he has organized conventions, events and formation programs. In 2017 he was artistic director of BergamoToons and today is president of Animation Art Association.

Riccardo Mazzoli, born in Milan, April 2nd 1969, after a degree at Milan’s Artistic High School and, later, at Scuola Civica di Cinema, realizes hundreds of animated commercials (Kinder Ferrero, Loacker, Polaretti, Giochi Preziosi etc. Always as a cartoonist, he has collaborated as animator to successful feature films, such as Volere Volare by Maurizio Nichetti (winner of the David di Donatello), La Gabbianella e il Gatto by D’Alò, Oppomoz and Johan Padan, written by Dario Fo. Since 2000 to this day, he realizes 13 animated music videos for Zecchino D’Oro (Ho visto un re, Annibale, La gallina brasiliana, La nina la pinta la santa Maria, Alì Babà, Il rompigatto, Saro, Il pescecane, Toro Loco, O Tucano Goleador, Il serpente balbuziente, Il riccio capriccio, L’orso col ghiacciolo), all available on YouTube. He realizes during the same period, other music videos for Mondadori – TV Sorrisi (La balena, Nella vecchia fattoria, I watussi, Dove andranno a finire i palloncini, Esatto, Mille bolle blu, Sei forte papà, Mi scappa la pipì papà, Obabaluba, Giumbolo), also on YouTube. Riccardo Mazzoli is the creator of the animated clip Calciatoons (sporting satire about the world of soccer, with animated caricatures of sport and non-sport characters), born on Sky in 2007 and moved to Mediaset from 2011 to the present day. As caricaturist, for Giochi preziosi (“Ma chi è?” game), he realizes 100 caricatures of famous characters to be guessed. He also realizes for Yoga (producer of fruit juices) 40 animated caricatures with, as subjects, A Series soccer players, on lenticular cards, and for Rai Uno’s program (Sala Giochi) with Maria Teresa Ruta, 40 caricatures for the game “guess the character”. In the publishing industry, he worked for the comic book “Il paninaro” by creating the character Supergallo and, for the same, publishing company, he realized the monthly strips magazine Dino Gildo (Jurassic Strip). He was teacher at Scuola Civica di Cinema in Milan from 2001 to 2017 and is presently animation teacher at Milan’s Scuola Comics. As voice actor he lent his voice to Minivip by Bruno Bozzetto in the Psicovip series and was the voice of Lupo Alberto in Supergulp’s dvd special published for newsagents by Gazzetta dello Sport. In 1993 with the animated short “Sex or Sex” he wins the audience award and the jury award at Festival dell’Umorismo in Salò, organized by Osvaldo Cavandoli.

Born and raised in Rimini, Giorgia Ubaldi has shown from a tender age an immense love towards cinema and animation. She attended the Liceo artistico Volta Fellini in the graphic design course and decided to pursue her passion at Urbino's ISA by specializing in animation ad illustration, later she moves to Turin, attends the CSC and gets her degree in 2021 in Animated cinema, with her graduation short film "Lucerna", winner in the "Italian panorama" category of View Conference, "best graduation film" at Piccolo Film Festival, "best gratuation film" at "Glocal Film Fest", "best student film" and "best film score" at "2D e 3D Festival". After studying, she started working as a freelancer for small studios and personal projects. In 2021 she wins the call issued by Rimini City with the project "Nessuno mi può limitare" ('nobody can limit me') on the topic of gender gap. She continues unabated her journey in the field of cinema by carrying out several personal projects, her dream is to be an author and to be able to narrate, through the animation language, stories capable of moving.

Florence, 1967. After graduating from Liceo Linguistico Internazionale, he studies at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and becomes student of Nikolaj Karpov, Moscow Theater’s Academy of Dramatic Art. During the following years, he works as co-protagonist and protagonist until today, in more than 50 pieces, performing in the most important Italian and European theatres (BurkTheater Wien, Fringe Festival, Edinburgh,Teatri Stabili Locarno, Losanna, Lugano) and as many products for TV and cinema. He becomes member of Actors Centre in Rome, founded by Michael Margotta, member of Strasberg Studio in New York, and he is student of Meisnter Studio in Los Angeles, where he develops his personal technique of creative psychosynthesis®, bringing it to Italy as professor at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and Milan. Today he is artistic director of the Scuola d’Arte Cinematografica Florestano Vancini in Ferrara and trainer for DVSA – Dalla Vita alla Scena – Entr’Arte, Florence.

In 1983 he started his activity as director and screenwriter, realizing several feature films which received awards in the most important festivals for independent cinema. For over twenty-five years he’s been directing and acting teacher at Scuola di Cinema Immagina, founded by himself in 1994. During his numerous productions as director and author, he has always involved in the technical and artistic staff his school students. Among his most important works are listed: the feature film Infernet, written and directed by Ferlito in 2015, produced by AC Production and portrayed by Ricky Tognazzi, Roberto Farnesi, Remo Girone, Katia Ricciarelli, Andrea Montovoli, Daniela Poggi. The feature film Né terra né cielo, directed by Ferlito in 2001, financed by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage as a film of cultural-national interest and co-produced by Immagina Cinematografica Productions and Arbash. The feature Femmina (1998), produced and distributed by Cecchi Gori Group, portrayed by Monica Guerritore and Roberto Farnesi and written by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. The feature Re Minore (2019), shot almost entirely in Sicily with the participation of students from the cinema school and local actors. Re minore gained several awards, among which Gran Trofeo Golfo di Salerno “Ignazio Rossi”, the International Audience Award at Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Salerno 2020.

Director and videomaker. Since a young age he's into cinema and videomaking. He graduated from Scuola Nazionale di Cinema di Bologna as cinema editor. He works as director, camera operator and editor for cinema and tv productions, realizing short films awarded in several national and international festival (at Amarcort Film Festival in Fulgor and Gradisca delections), and documentaries, school visual-projects, comedic videos for the web. He also collaborates with companies, institutions and associations for the creation of commercials, realizes promotional videos and music videos for artists and musicians.

Psychoanalyst, Assosciate of Società Italiana Psicoanalisi della Relazione (SIPRe). For many years has worked in the field of psycho/educational intervention of minors and families with psycho/social distress. Carries out private clinical activity.

After a course of study that, from a degree in Science of Cultural Heritage at Milano’s Cattolica, brought her to managerial formation for Social Enterprises and No-profit at SDA Bocconi School of Management, and now is president of Cooperativa sociale Smart and vice-president of Rete Communia – Fondazione di Partecipazione ETS. Her curriculum is full of activities in the field of youth policies, communities’ development and urban regeneration cultural-based participated, which she has done also on Rimini’s territory with Coop. Smart in partnership with Il Palloncino Rosso.

With two degrees with full marks in Spatial, urban and environmental planning at Università degli Studi in Padua and IUAV in Venice and several formative and professional experiences in Italy and abroad, has developed a strong interest in the territorial development policies. She had several collaborations in participatory planning and is a cultural operator for APS Il Palloncino Rosso.

With a degree in Human Sciences at Università Carlo Bo in Urbino and a master in Visual Art Management & Curating at American Richmond University in London, is a cultural operator for APS Il Palloncino Rosso and works as Digital Marketer, Copywriter and Content Creator for a company of the territory.

Already worked with short films for the Anteprima Festival/Bellaria Film Festival and Visioni Italiane in Bologna, arriving in distribution and promotion with Vitagraph for more contemporary productions and with Fondazione Cineteca in Bologna for cinematographic history and culture works. She collaborates with Caucaso, creative and productive reality in Bologna, and with APS Lasbus and Il Palloncino Rosso for the shared administration of common goods.

1968 is the day, the month, and the year of birth for Alioscia Bisceglia, project leader of the band Casino Royale, formed in Milan in 1987.
He grew up in the suburbs and observes what happens on the city streets with great attention, attracted by the youth gangs phenomenon. He attends the Istituto Statale d’Arte in Monza, studying Design of the Space, and enrolls at the Faculty of Architeture while, at the same time, he starts collecting the first positive results with his music project. In 1991 he occupies and reopens the space of former Cinema Zara in the popular district of Isola, transforming and renaming it “Garigliano Social Club”. He will collectively manage this “self-managed” multifunctional space, making it become a reference point for cultural activities and meeting place for the city of Milan.
His work as record producer in the 90s sees the bitrth of three albums (Dainamaita, Sempre più Vicino, CRX) asnd the opening of the label Royalty Records.
In 2001 he starts collaborating with the Red Bull brand as responsible for Italy for the cultural marketing and training project linked to music Red Bull Music Academy, a role he will fill until 2007. With a group of other cultural operators and promoters of his city, he founds the collective ELITA, which projects and develops formats for musical and cultural entertainment, for the audience and for companies. The collective instantly becomes a reference point for a big city community.
He assumes the role of “director of music programming” for the free-to-air broadcaster ALL MUSIC of L’Espresso group, a role he will fulfill later until 2015 on the media DEEJAY TV, developing format and tv programs and collaborating to the production of branded contents with several companies.
He keeps, with the Elita cultural association, to operate as connector and artistic director on several projects, he has the artistic direction of Red Bull Culture Clash of the 2014 and 2017 editions and the fatherhood of the format Milano Trasmette Milano. At the moment he is resuming his discographic activities with the project Casino Royale, after the concept album QUARANTINE SCENARIO published in 2019, he publishes the new EP POLARIS. Alioscia is partner of the photographic narration project about the city of Milan “Perimetro” and has curated for MATERA2019 as artistic director a part of the project Open Sound Festival, and in 2020 – again in Matera and again with the role of artistic director – he curated the creation of the Suite #OSA.

Federico “Ghigo” Renzulli was born in Manocalzati (AV) on December 15th, 1953. At the age of 8 he moves to Florence with his family. During his teenage years he listens to a lot of music, in particular rock, country, folk and blues; the passion is so great that, at 14, he picks up the guitar for the first time. At the end of 1976 he moves to London and will stay there for two years. The experience in London is very educational for Ghigo’s career in music. At the end of 1978, moving back to Florence, he meets Raf and founds with him Cafè Caracas, with Enzo Franchi playing the drums. The group starts establishing itself in the underground circuit up to the occasion of playing as opening act for Clash in Bologna in 1980. A few days later, after a phone call from Gianni Maroccolo made by mistake, the first core of a band is born: Gianni at the bass, Antonio Aiazzi at the keyboard, Francesco Calamai at the drums, Sandro Dotta at the soloist guitar. Ghigo at the beginning plays the rhythmic guitar and sings, but after a while they decide to get a singer. Antonio Aiazzi introduces Piero Pelù to the band, Sandro Dotta decides to abandon the formation and Ghigo goes to the guitar permanently.Saturday December 6th, 1980, at 10 p.m. is the first concert of the new band. The chosen name for the band is Litfiba and the idea is Ghigo’s, who created it by composing a hypothetical telex address. In 1982 are the first acknowledgements for Litfiba, with the victory at “Il Rock Mette I Denti” festival, the publishing of their first EP album and several concerts. In 1983 the theatre company Krypton presents the Aeneid, from Virgil’s poem: the music score by Litfiba is published in the album titled “Eneide di Krypton”. In 1985 “Desaparecido” is published, and it’s the first proper album by Litfiba. The album has discreet selling, and the band conquers the covers of Rockerilla and Mucchio Selvaggio magazines. In 1986, after an intense concert activity in Italy and Europe, are published the EP “Transea” and, most importantly, “17 Re”, double album and milestone for the band. The subsequent tour has stops also in Belgium, France, and Australia, will end on May 12th, 1987, at Florence’s Tenax. The concert is recorded and published as “12-05-87 (aprite I vostri occhi)”. The following year “Litfiba 3” is published. The promotional tour is divided between dates abroad (France, Russia, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Switzerland) and dates in Italy. In the Russian dates, Litfiba perform in Moscow in the Red Army’s Sports Arena and in Leningrad. “Litfiba 3” ends and historical period of the band: due to artistic discrepancies, Gianni Maroccolo decides to leave the band, followed by Antonio Aiazzi.
In the spring of 1989, Litfiba’s members are Ghigo, Piero and Ringo De Palma, permanent member since “Desaparecido”. In the autumn of 1989 is published “Pirata”, in which Maroccolo and Aiazzi will take part only as collaborators. “Pirata” is the first album from Litfiba with huge audience success and to gain the first golden disc for the band. “Pirata” is also Ghigo’s first experience as house arranger.In 1990 “El Diablo” is published. The album, arranged by Ghigo, confirms, and enhances greatly the success of the previous album. With “El Diablo” and the subsequent tour, Litfiba ultimately shift from the underground scene to a big audience fame, maintaining however their outsider nature. Memorable is the performance at Montreux Jazz Festival in 1991 in the edition presented by Quincy Jones. In 1992 is published “Sogno Ribelle”, a collection of historical songs revisited and, again in ’92, Litfiba play in Mexico, in Mexico City and in Hermosillo. In 1993 “Terremoto” is published. The subsequent tour has more than 70 dates, shot in a DVD that however will be published by Warner only in 2015. The “audio” testimony of the Terremoto Tour is instead the double live “Colpo di Coda”, published in 1994, documenting the concert in Bologna.Again in 1994 is published another album with unpublished songs, “Spirito”, produced by Rick Parashar (“Ten” from Pearl Jam). “Spirito” is followed by a long tour which is documented in the following album, “Lacio Drom”. In 1997 “Mondi Sommersi” gets published after a long gestation which lasted all the previous year. In the same year the VHS “Croce e Delizia” gets recorded, and the revenue is donated to charity to the people hit by the earthquake in Umbria and Marche. From the last Italian date of the same tour is, instead, taken the double live “Croce e Delizia”. In 1999 is published “Infinito”, the biggest commercial success for the band. The album stays in the hit parade for 47 weeks but, at the same time, the relationship between Ghigo and Piero is increasingly tense. The tour could have been the right chance to save the union but doesn’t manage to.
At Monza Rock Festival, last contractual commitment, on July 11th, 1999, is the concert which represents the epilogue of a 19 year long story, and Piero and Ghigo’s paths diverge.With a letter on the band’s website, Ghigo announces his will to continue the activity with a new singer, Gianluigi Cavallo, aka Cabo, a collaboration that in 6 years will produce 3 albums and a big number of concerts. In 2000 “Elettromacumba” is published and, at the end of the same year, 15 live tracks in free download are available on Lycos portal, a truly news for Italian market; they are then collected in “Live On Line”, published by EMI. In 2001 is published “Insidia”, followed by a very long tour. In 2005 is published “Essere o Sembrare”. In 2006 Ghigo decides to break up the band. On December 11th, 2009, a statement on Litfiba’s official website declares that “The desire to get on stage and play concerts together is unstoppable!”. It took years for a rapprochement, both human and artistical, but in the end Ghigo and Piero are together again. The live debut of the Reunion is in the April of 2010 with a mini tour in Italian sports halls, preceded by a small warm-up with three dates abroad. From the two concerts in Florence is published the double live “Stato Libero di Litfiba”, released in June 2010. Follows a long tour made by several trances and, during the European one, in March 2011, is shot the documentary “Cervelli In Fuga – Europa Live 2011”. On January 17th, 2012, “Grande Nazione” sees the light. In September of the same year, Litfiba take part in “Italia Loves Emilia”, a concert organized with the aim of collecting funds for victims of the earthquake that hit Emilia a few months before. The event is held in front of 150.000 attendees. In 2013 the big dream of many historical fans of the band gets real: Litfiba, in their original formation, play together again in a celebration tour of their 80s repertoire. On stage with Ghigo and Piero are Gianni Maroccolo and Antonio Aiazzi. At the drums, the task of standing in for the deer departed Ringo De Palma, is entrusted to Luca Martelli. The two dates in Milan in January are recorded and published in the double live CD “Trilogia 1983 – 1989”. In 2016 “Eutòpia” is published, as the fourteenth Liftiba album of unpublished songs. The album is composed by 10 tracks but the vinyl version, which got to number one in the charts, has two bonus tracks. One of these is “La Danza di Minerva”, instrumental song written by Ghigo and with Davide “Boosta” Dileo from Subsonica at the keyboard, and the string quartet Gnu Quartet. The tour that follows, ends in Prato on September 2nd, 2017. Now Ghigo is busy realizing No.Vox, his first fully instrumental project.

Born in the province of Brescia in 1959. He met the Music at 16 and immediately fell in love with it, finding in her a lifestyle, a goal to reach. His studies led him to obtain a diploma as a surveyor, but his career behind a desk stopped shortly. Guido Elmi, a historical Artistic producer of Vasco Rossi, notices him and, after a concert organized by Diego, asks him to be a professional member of the Group. Since 1982 Diego follows Vasco Rossi in the role of Stage Manager, coordinates people and things necessary for the best performance of the Show as well as making his artistic contribution with his Performances as Master of Ceremony during the Band's presentations since 1996. He founded and is a director of ATTIVI E CREATIVI, a company that deals with entertainment services. His clients include many other Italian and foreign artists, as well as entertainment agencies. In addition to the technical role, he is involved in musical projects as DubMaster and Singer. When he's not busy touring In Diego, he likes to cook, hang out with people and design shows. He is currently busy writing a theater project.

Director and choreographer, soloist in Alterballetto and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.Born in Messina, educated at Accademia Nazionale di Danza, from 1980 to 1984 he is part of the corps de ballet of Teatro Comunale in Florence directed by E. Poliakov, as soloist and principal dancer: Lo Schiaccianoci by E. Poliakov, Miro Ballet by J. Russillo, La Bottega Fantastica by L. Massine, Le Noces by M. Béjart, Incontri by Paolo Bortoluzzi; he dance with international étoiles such as T. Nureyev, C. Fracci, P. Dupond, M. Fontaine. In 1984 he enters Alterballetto, directed by A. Amodio and from 1998 by M. Bigonzetti, dancing in choreographies by A. Aley, W. Forsythe, J. Kilian, G. Tetley, A. Amodio, G. Balanchine, M. Bigonzetti.
Partner for A. Ferri (Romeo and Juliet), R. Terabust (Step Text by W. Forsythe) and L. Savignano (Bolero by M. Béjart). Since 2003 he is Responsible for Special Projects in the Educational field for Fondazione Nazionale della Danza – Compagnia Alterballetto and in that role he curated the artistic ideation, directing and choreography of projects born from the collaboration between Fondazione Nazionale della Danza and Federazione Nazionale Associazioni Scuole di Danza (FNASD – Federdanza – AGIS); he signs the directing of performances like Rosa Mystica (2003), Cenerentola, in 2005 at Milan Auditorium with orchestra G. Verdi directed by M° G. Grazioli, Brigata Sassari una generazione di sardi e il flauto magico (2006), I 2007, Vittime del Silenzio (2013), Cittadine alla Conquista del Voto (2017). As freelance director and choreographer he signs Triscele, Another Carmen for Teatro Comunale and FF Federico Fellini. In 2001 he receives the Urban dance award for lifetime achievement from Regione Calabria, in 2004 he receives from the Bishop of Ascoli the Medaglia di S. Egidio for the realization of Rosa Mystica, in 2011 he is awarded the Grand Prix Giuliana Pensi for the activity of audience education, in 2016 Roma e Danza for the creations thought for young dancers, in 2019 from City of Noto he is awarded the Lifetime Achievement. Since 2018 he curates Dance section (Premio Dance Award of Parma Music Film Festival). He signs the directing of Balletto Cittadine alla Conquista del Voto for the Giornata Giovani&Memoria for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

Professional dancer (peruvian spanish), outstanding in classical dance, tango and contemporary dance. It is worth highlighting her role as prima ballerina in the company "Danza experimental de Bogotá" (Bogotá, Colombia), as well as a soloist in the companies "Ballet Municipal de Lima" (Lima, Peru), "Ballet Universel" ( Paris, France), "Mulvabé danse" (Paris, France), "Koldmama" (Tel Aviv, Israel ), "Panov's dance company" (Ashdod, Israel ), "GH contemporary dance theatre" (Wien, Austria), "Spirit Contemporary dance theatre" (Wien, Austria), "Ballet Anna Pavlova" ( Bogotá, Colombia), "Ballet de cámara de tango argentino" (Bogotá, Colombia), "Ballet del teatro Centro de Arte" (Guayaquil ,Ecuador). She currently lives in Algiers (Algeria) where she trains and dances with the dance school "Sylphide". Her last presentation was at The National Theater of Algeria in June ths year performing the prelude to the ballet "Chopiniana".

Drama Desk Award Winner 2017. Internationally acclaimed Shoe Designer, Broadway Performer / Choreographer / Master Class Dance Teacher. Phil has performed with, choreographed, sang, danced with, or designed for every major star in the industry for over the last forty years. The most recognized name in dance shoes is LaDuca. But before the shoes, there was Phil LaDuca, the performer.
His early dance career started in classical ballet where Phil danced with Rudolf Nureyev in “Romeo and Juliet”. On Broadway he appeared in “Brigadoon” for Agnes DeMille, the “Pirates of Penzance” with Kevin Kline for Graciela Daniele and was the original understudy for the Gene Kelly role in “Singin’ In the Rain” for Twyla Tharp. Phil also toured in “Camelot” with Richard Harris, and in the lead role, of Bill Snipson in “Me and My Girl”. Later choreographing, directing and teaching master classes ‘around the world”; from Amsterdam to Alaska *in Russia he was dubbed the ‘Godfather of Jazz’ - the first American jazz dance teacher in St. Petersburg, Russia, as well as choreographing several pieces in Vienna for the Wien Opern Haus. Fulfilling another creative side, Phil created and founded the international acclaimed LaDuca Shoes, being crowned the “Shoemaker to the Shoes”; designing shoes for the likes of Katy Perry, Meryl Streep, Taylor Swift, Emma Thompson, Hugh Jackman, Catherine Zeta Jones, Lea Salonga, Pink, Shania Twain, Penelope Cruz, Selena Gomez , Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman, Judith Dench, Glen Close, and Tatum Channing to name a few.

Freelance photographer and professor of photography, for years he takes care of social issues related to the Middle East and, in particular, Lebanon and Syria. He has worked for American University of Lebanon, UNICEF Lebanon and AVSI. His photographs were published on ICON, D La Repubblica, Rolling Stone, La Stampa, The New Arab and were exhibited in several national and international venues, including Washington DC’s World Bank.

Oristano, 1977. Screenwriter and Director, debuts with several short films, among which Olivia, Il Canto delle Cicale and Sono Alice, presented in the international festivals of Taipei, Giffoni, Istanbul and Sao Paulo. After that, he realizes his opera prima Un attimo sospesi (2008) with Paolo Bonacelli, Nino Frassica and Ana Caterina Morariu, and then I bambini della sua vita (2011) which gains the Globo d’Oro for best actress for Piera Degli Esposti. In 2012, Dimmi che destino avrò is presented at Torino Film Festival, and La nostra quarantena, portrayed by Francesca Neri, is a special event at Mostra Internazionale di Pesaro and finalist at Nastri d’Argento. He directed several documentaries, Liliana Cavani – una donna nel cinema (2010), presented at Giornate degli Autori at Venice Film Festival and at Moscow International Film Festival, Tutte le storie di Piera (2013), Torino Film Festival and Nastro d’Argento Speciale, Ma la Spagna non era cattolica? (2007) and Silenzi e parole (2017), both on LGBTQIA+ rights. In 2018 he is at Festival di Trieste and London and Ghuanzhou’s documentary ones, with Uno sguardo alla Terra. The same year he is back at Giornate degli Autori at Venice Film Festival with the short film L’unica lezione, dedicated to Abbas Kiarostami. Nilde Iotti – il tempo delle donne, his last documentary, with the participation of Paola Cortellesi, was presented at Giornate degli Autori of the 77th edition of Venice. Film Festival. It gained a nomination at Nastri d’Argento, and was released in Italian cinemas and online, distributed by I Wonder Pictures. His works testify a strong interest in a cinema tied to artistic, social and politic themes.

Florence, February 15th 1960. After his artistic studies, he founds with his brother the Larione10 society. Since the beginning, Larione10 develops on two parallel tracks: audio and video.
In 1992 he opens a new recording studio, which becomes an important national reference point. From here, go by many national and international artists and producers. Marco Masini, Litfiba, Irene Grandi, Mia Martini, Cassandra Wilson, Marius Westernhagen, Terence Trent d’Arby, etc. At the same time, he continues his journey in cinematographic productions based on music. He collaborates with Francesco De Gregori, Renato Zero, Diaframma, Aleandro Baldi, Banda Osiris and many more. In 1998, with the video “Una notte in Italia” by Ivano Fossati, he wins the Midem at Cannes for best European music video. Since the early 2000s, at the time as developing interactive products, he dedicates to realizing several films for scholastic publishers and for MIUR. Since 2016 he starts producing, for his company, documentary films. With “La regina di Casetta”, co-produced by RAI Cinema, he wins Festival dei Popoli and Trento Film Festival. In 2021-22 he produces “I Mille cancelli di Filippo”, now in distribution and already selected in six festivals. In 2022 he becomes member of the governing council of CNA Cinema Firenze.