JUDGING TEAM 2020

Giulia Mazzoni is an Italian composer and pianist, she studied at Conservatorio G.Verdi of Milan. In 2013, her first album “Giocando con i bottoni” won the prestigious “Premio Ciampi” and she performed at the Christmas Concert (Rai 2) with Dolores O’ Riordan, Patty Smith, Asaf Avidan. Giulia performed in very important theaters in Italy and abroad like Oriental Arts Center of Shanghai, Auditorium Parco della Musica of Roma, Jinwan Grand Theater of Tianjin, Blue Note Milano and many others. On 2016 she released her latest album “Room 2401” with Sony Music Italy, Sony Music China and Sony Music Taiwan, where the artist performs regularly and enjoyed a great success with three sold-out tours Tianjin, Xi’an, Chongqing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Beijing, Nanning, Putien. In this project she collaborated with Maestro Michael Nyman creating a special version of “The departure” for two pianos. Currently Giulia is working on her new album with Sony Music and in July 2019 she will return to China for a fourth tour.

Emanuela Mascherini is an Italian actress, writer and director. She graduated in Acting at the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome and she got a Diploma in Digital Filmmaking as a director at the NYFA in New York. She got a Degree in Theories and Techniques of Film Language at the University of Florence. She has been working as an actress in theater, television, and film. She wrote award winning books in different genres. Her works were selected and awared in several National and International Film Festival, included the selection of Nastri D’argento and the selection of David di Donatello Shortlist. She has been Jury member of  Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Salento Finibus Terrae, Florence Korea Film Fest and many others. In 2019 she was selected by EFA European Film Award- and Toscana Film commission for a “A Sunday in the country”.

Born  in Rome, Italy, and based in New York, Stella is an actress, playwright, screenwriter and producer. She has been working in Theater since the age of 16 as an actress and started writing and producing when she was 23 after graduating in Languages at the University Roma Tre. Among all her productions, she was awarded for several plays including  “How To Become  Widows Without Affecting the Criminal Record", “There It  Comes The Light, “My Birthday", “Lions Don’t Hug". She also co-wrote, acted and co-produced  the short movie L’Appuntamento (The Date), awarded with the Golden  Globe in 2013. She  is currently writing her first feature film in English and she is  working on her first direction of the Off Broadway play Lions Don’t Hug,  selected at the New York Theater Festival and on stage at the end of  January 2020. In 2018 she founded the blog Ninablablà.

 Carlotta Galmarini is  an actress originally born in Leghorn, but living in Rome from her childhood. She studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris, then later graduated with a degree in Literature and History. She began acting during her studies in Paris and she continued her studies in New York with Susan Batson and in Europe with June Jasmine Davis. She  speaks Italian, French, English and Spanish. She has been working as an  actress in television, cinema and theatre winning in 2018 some awards in Los Angeles, Toronto and Las Vegas as best leading role actress for the film “The Mirror“ directed by Massimiliano Mauceri. She worked even in the movie Maria per Roma directed by Karen Di Porto and winner of the Globi D’Oro, in Television for the series 1992 directed by  Giuseppe Gagliardi and we will see her in some new projects.