GIULIA COSENTINO

Giulia Cosentino is a director and screenwriter born in Catania, Sicily. She trained in cinema and visual arts at Roma Tre University, the Sorbonne in Paris, Nova University in Lisbon, and Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She has collaborated as an assistant director for several filmmakers, including Miguel Gomes, Pietro Marcello, Matteo Garrone, and Aleksandr Sokurov.

In 2019, she directed her first short film, He and I (Lui e io), which premiered at the Torino Film Festival, followed by her second short in 2020, Why are you running? (Perché scappi?), part of the collective feature The stories we will be. In 2022, she won the Solinas Prize for Best Screenplay for the feature film Two Friends (Due amici).

She currently lives between Rome and Palermo, where she has taught directing and archival reuse at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia since 2020. Her latest short film, The First Times (Le prime volte), co-directed with Petra Sardella, premiered at Visions du Réel 2025.

ANGELA NORELLI

Angela Norelli is a Rome-based director, screenwriter, and editor. She holds a degree in Philosophy from La Sapienza University and graduated in Film Editing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.

Her short films—most notably her latest work, We should all be futurists (2023)—have been selected and awarded at numerous national and international festivals. She has received prestigious honors including a David di Donatello nomination, a Special Prize at the Nastri d’Argento, and the award for Best Technical Contribution at the Venice International Film Critics’ Week (SIC) during the 80th Venice Film Festival.

Furthermore, she is the winner of the 2023 Franco Solinas Prize and served as the editor for The Dependent Variables, which won the 2023 David di Donatello for Best Short Film.

BEATRICE BALDACCI

Beatrice Baldacci was born in Città di Castello in 1993. After studying psychology at the University of Padua, she moved to Rome in 2014 to pursue filmmaking. She attended the Rome University of Fine Arts, where she studied directing under Daniele Ciprì, Susanna Nicchiarelli, and Claudio Cupellini. In 2017, she graduated with honors under the supervision of Susanna Nicchiarelli with the short film Corvus Corax and a thesis on anthropomorphism in cinema.

In 2019, she won the Zavattini Prize with the autobiographical short Superheroes without Superpowers (Supereroi senza Superpoteri), created entirely from family archive VHS tapes. It was the only Italian short film selected for the Orizzonti section at the 76th Venice International Film Festival, where it received the FEDIC Special Mention for Best Short Film. It subsequently screened at over fifty national and international festivals.

In 2021, she was the Italian director selected by Biennale College Cinema, receiving funding for her first feature film, The Den (La Tana), which premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. The Den won numerous international awards, including Best Italian Film in the Alice nella Città section of the Rome Film Fest. Released in theaters in April 2022, the film was warmly received by critics, who described it as “a promising debut of pure cinema.” It received a Nastro d’Argento nomination and was featured in Nanni Moretti’s Bimbi Belli showcase.

In 2024, she was selected for InProgress (Milano Film Network), where she won the Jury Special Mention for her second feature film project, Possible events and probable scenarios of my imagined life. That same year, she presented the short film Anyway, Well (Comunque bene) in the Onde Corte section of Alice nella Città.