Tommaso Santambrogio is an Italian filmmaker. He lived and studied in between Milano, Paris, Roma, Firenze and La Habana and he worked with several internationally acclaimed directors, like Werner Herzog and Lav Diaz. His first short movies (The Last Scene and The Oceans Are the Real Continents) both premiered at the Venice Film Festival and were screened in many other important festivals all over the world, winning several prizes. Closing Time, his last short movie (2021), was presented at the 36° Settimana della Critica of the Venice Film Festival, and was shortlisted at the 2022 David di Donatello prizes. Taxibol (2023), his medium-length artwork starring Lav Diaz, had recently its world premiere at Visions du Réel and its North-American premiere at Telluride Film Festival; Oceans Are the Real Continents (2023), his first feature film shot entirely in Cuba, was presented at the 80th Venice Film Festival opening the Venice Days program. Santambrogio’s cinema deals mainly with the themes of identity, separation and memory, often focusing on the effects of post-colonialism on our societies; his filming style is characterized by an essential and poetic approach.

Paola Dubini is Management professor at Università Bocconi, and coordinator of the advocacy

group “Culture for sustainable development” ASviS. Her research and professional interests focus

on the conditions of economic viability of cultural organizations, private, public and no profit, and

on culture led policies according to UN SDGs 2030. She sits in the board of several cultural

organizations Her most recent publications include Dubini “Con la cultura non si mangia. Falso!”

Laterza 2018. Bertoni, Dubini. Monti “Participatory Event Platforms in the Urban Context: The

Importance of Stakeholders’ Meaning of “Participation” in De Martini et al “Cultural Initiatives for

Sustainable Development” Springer 2021; Dubini, P., & Monti, A. (2022). Essere luoghi di

comunità. L’importanza del fan club per le biblioteche. In: (a cura di) Faggiolani C., Geografie

culturali - Le biblioteche nel “Sistema del benessere”. Uno sguardo nuovo, p. 91-114, Roma,

Editrice Bibliografica. P. Dubini, & Monti, A. (2022). An Exploratory Study of State-Owned Museum

Performance in Italy: The Interplay between Director’s Characteristics and Board Diversity. In Jung, Yuha,

Neville Vakharia, and Marilena Vecco (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management OUP

Among her collaborations as script consultant and / or co-writer: DISCO BOY by Giacomo Abbruzzese Berlin Film Festival 2023 Silver Bear– LEGUA by Filipa Reis & Joao Muller Guerra

Directors Fortnight Cannes 2023- VIA CASTELLANA BANDIERA (Palermo) by Emma Dante (Coppa Volpi Venice Film Festival), IL 5 APRILE MI UCCIDO, by Sergio Canneto, (Short Competition Rotterdam FF) TOMBE’ DU CIEL by Wissam Charaf (ACID Cannes Festival), MEN DON’T CRY (Special Jury Prize, Europa Cinema Label in Karlovy Vary) RADIOGRAM by Rouzie Hassanova.

Previously she worked out as Sales Manager for Gemini Films and Project Manager for the European co-production Funds, Eurimages. She’s appointed as Head selection for the Project Market of the Red Sea Film Festival, and she works as consultant for the Residencies as Moulin d’Andé, Maison du Film, Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti.

Licia wrote and directed three shorts INTIMISTO, LA PETITE FILLE, FRATERNITAS selected in Cannes, Venice and other Festivals, winning several awards