Cervino Film Festival

	CERVINO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 6th edition Breuil-Cervinia/Valtournenche, July 23rd-27th, 2003 JURY MEMBERS VITTORIA CASTAGNETO She was born in 1963 in Turin and she graduated in modern letters, getting an artistic specialisation in theatrical history and criticism. Her degree thesis “Lungo viaggio verso il silenzio: l’allestimento di Massimo Castri del ‘Piccolo Eyolf‘” di Ibsen” ( a long trip to the silence: the Massimo Castri’s staging for Ibsen’s “Little Eyolf”) was published by Tirrenia Stampatori. She worked, as assistant director for drama and opera, with Flavio Ambrosini, Massimo Castri, Giancarlo Cobelli, Franco Gervasio, Ugo Gregoretti, Michal Kirby, Gabriele Salvatores. She is freelance journalist and since 1988 she has been working as author and director for RAI – RAISAT – STREAM of radio and television formats. Among her movies -which were presented and awarded at many mountain festivals - we mention :“La ballata di Geraldina”, “La Draja”, “Escarton, una storia di montagne”, “1896-1996: Cento anni di sci italiano”, and “La saponetta”. The latter got a nomination as best short film at Cannes Festival – CCAS- Kodak Short Review. As director, she edited for over ten years many RAI programs, collaborating to programmes such as “Leonardo”, “Ambiente Italia” and lots of others. She is author and director for several RAISAT’ s formats and special issues such as “Così fa il Piccolo”, “Trenker-il mito del Cinema di Montagna”, and “Settimane Musicali di Stresa”. In 2002 she edited “Snowfood – striscia quotidiana di sport e cinema” (“Snowfood- daily report on sport and cinema”), for STREAM/Festival Cinema Sportivo, presented at the last edition of the Cervino FilmFestival, and in 2003 for Aiace Nazionale “Absolute beginners – dieci minuti con registi e autori di cinema dell’ultima generazione” (“Absolute beginners – ten minutes with brand new directors and film makers”). a
	PAOLA VIRGINIA GIGLIOTTI She was born in Catanzaro in 1952. Since 1971 she has been living in Perugia, where she works as Physician. She is married with a physiologist, Francesco Coscia and she has got a son. Paola was a gymnast when she was five until the age of 17. She won with the National Team a gold medal at a European Championship, and then she gave herself up to exploration mountaineering. Her experience as a climber, together with her former husband - Massimo Marchini, died in 1990- was characterised by the winter exploration of the Sibylline Mountains, of the Alps and the great mountains lying outside Europe, in particular the Peruvian Andes, the Saharan mountains and the Sinai. She has made one hundred first ascents. In 1986 she represented Italy at the International Mountaineering Meeting in Chamonix for the Bicentenary of the first climb upon the Monte Bianco. She is the Italian Alpine Club’s delegate at the International Union of the Mountaineering Associations, she wrote many scientific essays on sports medicine, of monographs and articles on specialised magazines and she organises national and international meetings on outdoor gymnastic exercises. With her husband, she created and manages a sport physiology lab operating within the Perugia University, where she works as researcher on Physiology applied on gymnastics. Moreover, she is a member of the board of experts for the doping analysis at the Perugia University. In 1983 she presented at Trento filmfestival an out -of -competition multivision “Relazione di Racconti Incredibili nelle Antiche Cittàdel Nera”, which was a novel focused on medieval tales on hermitage and magic on the Sibylline Mountains. a
	PAOLA OLIVETTI Paola Olivetti was born in Turin in 1944. She got a degree in Classical Letters and taught in many high schools in Turin. Since 1970 she has been collaborating with the National Film Archive of Resistance. She worked for the creation of numerous documentaries; she directed Le barricate di Parma (1983), Guerra sul lago (1985) and Bahio, festa di una valle occitana (1987). She also directed the latest video productions of Ancr Eppur si muove, Italia repubblicana, Storie di lotte e deportazione. She co-operates with Gianni Rondolino for Il nuovo spettatore and the series Quaderni. She published with Mr. Rondolino many essays on cinema and history, and also a book dedicated to Paolo Gobetti (Turin, 1999). She has got a true passion for mountain and alpinism: recently she has reduced her activity as alpinist and now she prefers brief and quiet excursions. a
	PAOLA PEILA Paola Peila is the general director of the Italian Alpine Club (CAI) – headquarters in Milan. She was born in Pavone Canavese in 1958; she graduated in Letters at the University of Turin and spent a period of intensive training in the United States. She directed the Canavese and Lanzo valleys tourist agency for the Region Piedmont, where she carried out successful initiatives, such as the promotion of the Castles in the Canavese zone. Her whole professional experience has been marked by works published on magazines, by sectional books, and by professional acknowledgements, such as the assent to the Soroptimist International Club and the assignment of the prize Amici del Gran Paradiso 1999 for the engagement on the mountain promotion. Paola Peila’s curriculum vitae witnesses this love for the mountains and for the CAI. In 1982 she joined the CAI section in Ivrea attending the Alpinism and Ski Alpinism courses, becoming trainer for Ski Alpinism (ISA). The mountain is one of the main spots of her several travels of the past in the ANDE, Island, Himalayas and Africa. She has got a true passion for travelling, and in June 2000 she took part in the initiative of the Soroptimist International “Open heart open door”, creating a professional exchange program along the West Coast in the USA. Among her most fascinating travels she mentions: Tibet, Israel, California, Florida, Sweden, Ladakh and Kashmir, China, Pakistan, Peru, New Zealand, Island, Nepal. Her aim is: “to give the CAI the acquired skills and knowledge in order to widespread the values, the activities and the services that this associations represents”. a
	INGRID RUNGGALDIER She was born in Bolzano in 1963 and grew up in Ortisei, in the Gardena Valley. Mountaineering is a tradition in her family, since her father Franz Runggaldier was an alpine guide. Franz was one of the founder members of the well-known Catores group and of the Gardena Valley Alpine Rescue, which he led for twelve years. Franz taught his daughter to love the mountains and he used to take Ingrid with him on his trips to the Dolomites. Her mother was an alpinist, too and she was also the first woman joining the Alpine Rescue as a volunteer in a “non-mobile phone” era. So when Franz was far from home, leading the rescue Group, she worked at home as telephone operator. Ingrid attended the Marcelline Sisters High School specialising in foreign languages in Bolzano and she studied foreign languages at Innsbruck University. As a student, she stayed for a long time in the United Kingdom, in the USA and in France in order to prepare her degree thesis on the novelist Oskar Jellinek. She worked as English teacher at the technical school and at the Junior High School in Ortisei. Since 1997 she has been working as translator at the Language Affairs Bureau of the Self- Governing Province of Bolzano. She lives in Bolzano with her family. She translated and published several texts from English into Ladin. She carried out programs and reports for the radio and the television, among which "Daheim in Jerusalem" and "La montagna al femminile", with which she took part in a large number of Festivals, including the Cervino International Film Festival. She writes on topics regarding mountaineering, emancipation of women, ethnic and linguistic minorities. She is a member of the directory board of the Trento Mountain Filmfest. Up \| Back to Home Page

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