2010

Francesco Costabile was born in Calabria (Italy) in 1980. After graduating in directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, he made several short films and documentaries, including La sua gamba (2002) and L’armadio (2005). In 2004, along with other directors, he took part in the Gabbiani project, a feature-length adaptation of Chekov’s The Seagull. His graduation short, Dentro Roma (2005), was selected for several festivals, including Clermont-Ferrand. In 2008, he made L’abito e il volto, a documentary on the work of the costume designer Piero Tosi, with interviews, notably, of Claudia Cardinale and Charlotte Rampling. He also worked as an assistant director on TV series, and as a tutor for students at the Palermo Centro Sperimentale.    He is currently working with B24 Films on the development of his first feature, Fuoco all’anima, and on a documentary project about the architect Hans Walter Muller.

Scott Scott Graham is a Writer-Director from a small fishing town in the North East of Scotland. His first short film (Born To Run 2006), based on his experiences of growing up in the north of Scotland, premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Scott’s second short film (Shell 2007), a roadside movie about a young woman trapped by her life in a remote petrol station, won the UK Film Council Award for Best Film at the London Short Film Festival 2008. In September 2008 Scott attended the Binger Film lab in Amsterdam where he developed Shell into a feature script. His third short film Native Son, a Cinema Extreme commission for Film4 and the UK Film Council, received its world premiere in Cannes 2010 as one of seven short films selected for Semaine de la Critique.
Shell is now being financed and the shooting will happen after the summer.

Hugues Hariche is Franco-Swiss, and wrote and directed the short film Les Liens du Sang (2003), which was selected for several festivals, won an award in Reus, and was broadcast on Arte. He has also made two other shorts and two documentaries, between France and the US. 
He is currently working on the production of his first feature, La Frontière, and the development of two other, both of them located in North America, where he lived for several years.

Vincent Mariette graduated from the scriptwriting department of La fémis in 2009. Her encounter with Amaury Ovise, Kazak Productions, enabled him to make his first short, Cavalier Seul. He has just made Tristesse Club (project of the Angers Workshops under the title Chiens errants), his first feature, which was selected for the session of Emergence in 2010. Tristesse Club was released in 2014. 
He has made a short film for the Collection Canal+ 2010, Le Meilleur ami de l’homme.

Since 1999 Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza have worked as writers, development consultants and acquisition consultants for Italian production companies. In 2004 they wrote the film Ogni volta che te ne vai, a romantic musical comedy set among the night clubs of the Romagna coast, produced by Fandango. In 2009 they had their debut as directors with the short film Rita, premiered in France at Festival d'Angers Premiers Plans last January winning Prix Arte, selected in many international festivals (Cannes, Rotterdam, Aspen, Edinburg, Los Angeles…), and winning several awards. Rita was shot in the problematic and fascinating Palermo neighborhood of Arenella, the same place where they will soon shoot their first feature film Salvo, produced by Acaba Produzioni and Cristaldi Pictures. The script of Salvo was selected for Berlinale Talent Campus 2008, Binger Filmlab 2009 and awarded a Special Mention by the Jury of the Solinas Prize and a Production Award of TorinoFilmLab. 
The film is screened in world premiere in Cannes, in the Critics' Week en 2013 and was awarded (Grand Prize and France 4 Prize). He was released in 2013. 

Natacha Samuel was born in Paris in 1973. She studied at the Ecole Normale and holds a higher degree in comparative literature. She started in cinema with two documentaries, A l’improviste, in 2000, followed by Pola à 27 ans, which was discovered at the Belfort Film Festival and released in 2003. She continued working in video documentaries with, among others, Autoportrait-robot in 2006, which was shown in museums and art galleries, and Beau que soit ton pays, which follows a contemporary art adventure in Bamako, and is currently in post-production. She made her first fiction film in 2005, J’ai besoin d’air, a medium-length film which was selected for, and won awards in, several festivals, including Locarno, Brive and Pantin, among others. Since 2008 she has been working with Bizbi Productions on her first feature film, Je me sauverai et je ne reviendrai plus, which will be filmed entirely in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.

Born in Trieste (Italy) in 1978, Martin Turk was graduated in film direction at the Ljubljana Academy for Film, TV, Radio an Theatre (AGRFT). While studying, he worked as an assistant director on feature films such as No Man's Land by Danis Tanović. His graduating short film The Excursion won several international awards (Montpellier, Bologna, Wiesbaden). His professional debute film A Slice Of Life was selected in many festivals such as Premiers Plans 2007 and won prize for the best Slovenian short film in 2006. His second professional film Every Day Is Not The Same premiered in Cannes 2008 in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and was screened on more than 30 international film festivals and was awarded at Zagreb IFF and Tehran ISFF. He was selected for the 18th session of the Cannes's Cinefondation Residence with the project Feed Me With Your Words, produced by Bela Film.

Annarita Zambrano was born in Rome in 1972. She arrived in Paris in 2000 to finalise her doctorate on the aesthetics of cinema. She made 4 short films, which were selected in the most important international festivals: La Troisième fois (ACID selection at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006), Andante Mezzo Forte (Berlin Festival in 2007), A La Lune montante (Mostra del cinema di Venezia 2009) and Tre ore presented at the last Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight. Her first feature, Fragments d’un siècle en fuite, is produced by Sensito Films.