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Silvia Mazzieri is an Italian Actress .

After high school,  encouraged by her family, she  entered the Miss Italia contest in 2010, where she was voted Miss Cinema.

Later, she began to study acting, initially in the theatre Il Genio della Lampada of Florence until 2011, then in the acting and voice acting academy Actor’s Planet of Rome until 2014, and finally in Gisella Burinato’s C.I.A.P.A. Acting School in Rome until 2015. During those years, Mazzieri acted in advertisements and short film projects. In 2015, she appeared in the sixth season of Provaci ancora prof! In 2015–2016, Mazzieri played Bella, the friend and later girlfriend of one of the main characters, in the second and third season of Braccialetti rossi. Mazzieri also worked in Il paradiso delle signore as Silvana Maffeis, a cinephile salesgirl and fan of Audrey Hepburn’s, who dreams of becoming a famous actress.

In 2017, she was in La strada di casa as a woman, Irene Ghilardi, carrying out an investigation into her brother's suspicious death.

In 2020, she started playing Alba Patrizi, a medical resident, in Doc - Nelle tue mani. In the same year, she started playing Giada Ruggero in Vivi e lascia vivere.

In 2021, she played Claudia in the movie Bentornato papà.

On 1 June 2022, Mazzieri gives birth to her first child, Greta.

Yari Gugliucci was born in Salerno. After graduating in Sociology, he moved to the United States to study acting. In New York he attended workshops given by Susan Strasberg, Arthur Penn and Michael Margotta.He Founded the M.A.S.(modern acting system). He appeared in many films including: Ferdinando e Carolina and Francesca e Nunziata by Lina Wertmuller, and many more. He also had parts in foreign film productions: My House in Umbria directed by Richard Loncraine (HBO), A Room With a View directed by Nicholas Renton (ITV1). His work includes TV series and dramas: Gossip Girl directed by David Warren, Luisa Sanfelice directed by Paolo e Vittorio Taviani, and others. Stand up at Carlyle Hotel directed by Woody Allen. His various roles in the theatre have included: Caliban in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Rebinsky’s version where he appeared with Michelle Pfeiffer and Kevin Klein. He wrote two books (Billy Sacramento) and (Billy Sacramento 2).

Anila Nugmanova is an award winning producer of Kazakh origin based in Los Angeles. She has remarkable experiences of working on various motion pictures in Kazakhstan, Canada, Thailand, Hong Kong, Laos and United States. 

Among her work are projects with Jamie M. Dagg on the international movie River that became an official selection at the Toronto Film Festival in 2015, a collaboration with Hollywood oldie Jeff Vespa on the internationally acclaimed feature film Paris Song and the outstanding Timur Bekmambetov on the web series Dead of Night together with Snapchat. She currently develops and produces films at Bazelevs production company that has recently signed a deal with Universal Studios to make 5 movies in Screenlife format, an innovative film language invented by the company. The company stands behind the successful projects such as Wanted, Night Watch, Unfriended, Searching and many more. 

Ablay Nurmanbetov is an award-winning screenwriter and director well-known for the short movie “The Burning Blue” that participated in 40 festivals and received 16 awards around the globe including nomination from Oscar qualifying The Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival. One of his recent works include film “Qash” (“Run”) with internationally acclaimed director Aisultan Seitov. It is the most anticipated film of 2022 year in CIS countries and the USA.

Currently, Ablay signed the contract with Tengri Production founded by Sergei Bodrov, Oscar nominated director and screenwriter. At the same time, he also works on the feature movie “Canary” with Radiance Pictures. 

Inspired by his father, who told him stories about fantastic and
mythological worlds, Giuseppe’s love for writing spawned from a need
to continue to live those enchanted worlds and to let others know
them. In 2004 he graduated from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
in Milan in Foreign Languages and Literatures. He attended several
screenwriting and directing courses. In 2020 he wrote his first
screenplay: "Put A Price On Emotion", a drama/suspense genre which won
many awards in different Festivals all around the world, such as:
Florence Film Awards, Venice Film Awards, New York Neorealism Film
Awards and Oniros Film Awards. He wrote another feature screenplay: “A
Shot For Freedom” which won two gold awards at Hollywood Gold Awards
and Milan Gold Award. He has already finished writing his first short
script: “A Writer In The Darkness ” , totally inspired by the magic of
the films of the great director Alfred Hitchcock.

Her passion for cinema was born at the middle school and after this passion has grown and developed to become a profession and subject of study.

She graduated from the DAMS in Florence and she's currently attending the Master of Science in Performing Arts but she's alsoo a graduate in Directing and Screenwriting at the Accademia del Cinema di Bologna and as an assistant director at the School i mestieri del cinema. 

From 2017 until 2020 she worked in several festivals in Florence such as the River to River film festival, the Balcanic film festival, the middle east film festival and the Cinema e Donne, covering different duties as a juror, assistant in the hall and host guests. 

In 2019 she was assistant director for the short film about Margherita Datini directed by Massimo Smuraglia and joined the Film School Anna Magnani as director teacher.

From February 2021 to September 2021 she worked for several productions such as Netflix and Disney covering various tasks as assistant extras, covid manager assistant and production assistant.

She wrote and directed two shorts including Family dinner, winner of the special mention as best thriller for the Florence film awards in 2020. 

Gabriele was born and raised in Rome, the city where he received his main cinematographic, theatrical, and professional training with a degree in cinema studies at the DAMS - Roma TRE University with a thesis on the use of colors in M.Night Shyamalan picture “The Village”. He also studied anthropological theater and Commedia dell’Arte at the Ygramul Theater of Rome. As a video experimenter, he perfectionated his film training at USC - School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles with a 16mm filmmaking program, producing and directing “Shades”, a sci-fi short movie.
Gabriele mainly works as an actor and voice actor, profession for which he is best known.
He directs and produces his own shows and independent movies. He recently founded his own production house, Galaxia Prime Productions.
Avid entertainment-event organizer, he is passionate about fiction, comics and storytelling games.

Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in the field of painting. Andrea  fascinated by the film script and directing, enrolled in the National School of Independent Cinema thanks to which he obtained a degree in directing, and had the opportunity to make the personal short film Behind the Door with which he won the monthly Florence Film Award as the best experimental short. Currently, as a lover of the theater, he has attended and still is attending theater directing courses at the Zeffirelli Foundation.