Francesco Conversano and Nene Grignaffini are film authors and directors. Since 1980 they have produced through Movie Movie, a small factory in Bologna, documentaries that investigate the collective imagination and tell contemporary stories. Titles to their credit include Il bravo gattoprende i topi (2005) winner of a David di Donatello award, Megalopolis (2008) and Muri, winners of the Ilaria Alpi journalism award. They have also made travel logs and portraits of writers, including Francesco Guccini, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Mo Yan, and Vladimir Sorokin.