Roberto Danovaro
Specialist in deep-sea biodiversity, ecosystem function, and impact of climate change on marine ecosystems, Danovaro is professor of marine biology, Politecnico delle Marche, and president of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples. Former president of the Italian societies of Ecology, Limnology and Oceanography and the European Federation of Scientific Societies, he is currently president of the scientific board of WWF Italia, He is a panel member of international agencies (IUCN, UNEP) and coordinates three European Union (EU) projects (Horizon2020, DG ENV, EASME). He is a member of the EU Academy of Sciences. He has received the BiomedCentral (BMC) Biology award, an award from the French Oceanographic Society, and the ENI award for protection of the environment.
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
After studying at the London Film School, he made his directorial debut with Suzanna (1996), a documentary on anti-personnel mines in Angola, the first in a series of films made in Ethiopia, Afghanistan, and Brazil for ARTE and other French TV channels. Nauru, une Île à la dérive (20009) was shown at Hot Docs, Toronto, and the Festival dei Popoli, Florence. His most recent documentary The Salt of the Earth(2014), co-directed with Wim Wenders, was shown at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival and garnered him a special mention jury award. Other awards are the Audience award, Festival di San Sebastian, Best Documentary award at Cesar 2015, and 2015 Oscar nomination for best documentary.
Maciej Nowicki
Nowicki is president of the executive board of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR), a major European human rights NGO founded in 1989 and based in Poland. In 2001 he co-founded and is currently director of the WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film International Film Festival, Warsaw, a major film festival on human and social rights. He initiated the concept of Future Docs, a European platform where human rights and documentarists can share artistic production.
Daniele Segre
Author, film and stage director, his films have been shown on public TV networks and at international festivals, garnering him the Giuliani De Negri award at the International Exhibition of Cinema-Venice Biennale, the Golden Tulip, International Film Festival, Istanbul, and the Maria Adriana Prolo career award. He holds courses and curates projects for universities; he teaches reality cinema at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome, which awarded him a diploma honoris causa for current events reportage. Recent documentary titles to his credit include Ragazzi di stadio, quarant’anni dopo (2018) and Tonino De Bernardi (2021), shown at the Giornate degli Autori (GdA) section at the 78thInternational Exhibition of Cinema-Venice Biennale.
Elena Past
Instructor at the Department of Classical and Modern Language and Literature, Wayne State University, Detroit, and co-editor with Danielle Hipkins and Monica Seger of The Italianist Film Issue. She is currently Prize Fellow at the American Academy, Rome. Publications to her credit are: Italian Cinema Beyond the Human (Indiana University Press, 2019); Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction (University of Toronto Press, 2012), Landscapes, Nature, Ecologies: Italy and the Environmental Humanities (with Serenella Iovino and Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia Press, 2018), and Thinking Italian Animals: Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film(with Deborah Amberson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).