Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino |
International Festival Signs of the Night - Urbino |
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7° Festival internazionale Segni della Notte - Urbino - November 21th - 26th, 2023 21th International Festival Signs of the Night - Italy |
SHORT FILM JURY
| Daniele Davie | Lebanon |
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Danielle Davie is a filmmaker and visual-anthropologist. She directed several short documentaries and film essays. Her first feature creative documentary premiered at IDFA 2023 - Luminous section. |
| Roberto Mario Danese | Italy |
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Roberto Mario Danese, Università di Urbino Carlo Bo . H e is full professor of Classical Philology, Fortuna della cultura classica, Literature and Cinema at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, where he directs the Centro Internazionale di Studi Plautini and founded and chairs the Cesare Questa University Theatre Centre. He is deputy scientific director of the Carlo and Marise Bo Foundation for Modern and Contemporary European Literature. He deals with archaic Latin theatre and especially Plautus´ theatre; he works on the Editio Plautina Sarsinatis, of which he is co-director. At the University of Urbino, he directed the Master Professionals in Cultural Information and the Master Professionals in Cinematographic Language. His studies include filmology, the reception of antiquity in modern and contemporary culture, anthropology of the ancient world, translation for the stage, ecdotics of ancient theatre texts, and archaic Latin metrics . He teaches in the Doctorate in Philology and Criticism at the University of Siena, and is a member of the Centre for Atellana Studies and the Centre for Anthropology and the Ancient World. He founded and directs, at the publisher Carocci, the series Hypokrisis. Teatro Poesia Traduzione and Ludi Plautini Sarsinates. H e co-directs the series Letteratura e antropologia at the publisher Argalia. At the University of Urbino he is Recto´;s Delegate for Libraries and the University Press. |
| Pierpaolo Loffreda | Italy |
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PIERPAOLO LOFFREDA was born in 1959 in Pesaro. He graduated in Literature in Bologna cum laude in 1985. Free lance journalist, film critic and, in the past, consultant to various public administrations (including the Municipalities of Pesaro, Senigallia, Cagli, Gabicce Mare, Saltara, Ravenna, the Marche Region, the Province of Pesaro and Urbino, the Republic of San Marino), collaborates with "Cineforum" (since 1988) and with other publications, and has been stably curating, since 1982, reviews and screenings of films high quality, study seminars and film culture courses for schools and the public. He has collaborated in the past with "Il Manifesto" (from 1979 to 1988), "Corriere Adriatico" (from 1988 to 2001), "Frigidaire", "The Wild Bunch", "Garage", "VivilCinema", "Il Titolo", “Umus”, “Lengua”, “San Marino RTV”, and was among the writers, from 1996 to 2003, of the “Gambero Rosso” Italian Restaurant Guide. His fiction book Le notti e il tempo was published in 2012. He worked as assistant director on the documentary films Esame di maturitá and Mostar. History of the Divided City, and as co-writer, co-writer and co-producer of the documentary film Mostar Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (all directed by Predrag Delibasic). He is one of the national directors of the Italian Cineforum Federation (since 1986), and, since 2000, he has been among those responsible for the Pesaro International New Cinema Festival, of which, from 2001 to 2003, he directed the International Retrospective Review. He is a tenured professor of Mass Media Theory and Method, Theory and Analysis of Cinema and Audiovisual and History of Cinema and Video at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino (where he has worked since 2002). In the same Academy he is President of the New Art Technologies Course. |
