Jury Members

Annibale Salsa - Italy
General President of Italian Alpine Club
Annibale Salsa was born in Savona in 1947. He teaches cultural anthropology at Genova University; he has carried out didactical and scientific activities at the university clinic of psychiatry in Genova; he is a member of the international institute for phenomenological research and advanced studies in human science - Belmont University - Massachussetts (USA); he is the scientific manager of the operating unit "Frontiere culturali e fenomenologie religiose nelle Alpi" in the ambit of the CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) project "I segni dellÕuomo nelle terre alte"; he has been collaborating with national and European study centres; he is a member of the scientific committee for the magazine "Il vaso di Pandora" (psychiatry and human science); he is a member of the Italian mountain writers group (GISM), he has been the general vice-president of the CAI, Italian Alpine Club (responsible for culture and environment); he is the vice-president of the documentation centre for the protected areas of Sondrio (MIDOP).
He has published varies articles and essays about general theories of culture, psychiatric anthropology and mountain anthropology. He is the scientific manager of LASA.

Domenico Gargale - Italy
President of Cooperativa "La Città del Cinema"
Domenico Gargale was born in 1940 in Messina, Sicily but has always lived in Turin, where he graduated in Law. Together with his activities as manager for several important Italian and foreign companies, he has always cultivated and developed his interest in music and cinema. Since the beginning of the eighties he has been continuously collaborating with the Associazione Museo Nazionale del Cinema, which was personally directed at that time by Maria Adriana Prolo.
He was elected into the board of directors, and then later became President and now holds the position of vice-president. He actively participated in the birth of the Museo Nazionale del Cinema - Fondazione Maria Adriana Prolo.
In 2003 he founded the cooperative "La Città del Cinema" with the aim of promoting the organisation and the management of events and to increase the value of the Italian and Piedmontese film cultural heritage, including the creation of the web site www.torinocittadelcinema.it and the project "Il Piemonte e il cinema, in Europa" which he organised, in varies stages throughout Europe, a series of screenings and meetings for film directors, institute and film personnel. As from May 2004 he is again into the board of directors of the Museo Nazionale del Cinema - Fondazione Maria Adriana Prolo.

Mia Santanera - Italy
Director "Ambiente Italia"
Mia Santanera was born in 1951 and graduated with an Arts degree with a thesis on the relationship between cinema and television. She began working for RAI in 1987, and has subsequently worked beside film directors like Enzo Trapani, Edmo Fenoglio, Daniele Danza, Dante Guardamagna, Silverio Blasi. She has worked as a director since 1992, making numerous programmes about various subjects, both live and recorded. In 1997/98, she took part in the day of "Artè" organised by RAI SAT culture, and for the same satellite channel she made various environmental documentaries about Australia. In 1998, she presented a documentary on the events of "Luci d'artista" at the Turin Film Festival. Since 1998, she has directed "Ambiente Italia", a live weekly television programme on RAI TRE which deals with environmental issues.

Jonathan Slator - USA
Director Taos Mountain Film Festival
Jonathan Slator has spent 25 years in the film business working as producer, director, assistant director and location manager. He has also worked professionally as actor and stunt man. He has written for many mountaineering journals including "Mountain", "Climbing" and "Rock and Ice". He is the founding director of two film festivals: "Taos Mountain Film Festival" and "The Taos Picture Show".

Simon Yates - GB
Mountaineer and writer
Simon Yates was born in Leicestershire in 1963 and lives with his wife and children in Cumbria. After the accident on the Siula Grande, in the Peruvian Andes, together with Joe Simpson (the epic adventure narrated by Joe Simpson in his book "Touching the Void", which later became a film), he has continued to travel and climb at high levels all around world, including many first ascents and new routes. Spanning his 20 year career in mountaineering and exploration, Simon Yates has traveled from Alaska to Australia, from the extreme north of Canada to South America. Yates has made ten visits to the Pakistani Karakoram, including the first ascents of Leyla Peak (6300m) and Nemeka (6400), and in Kazakhstan where he climbed various 6000m peaks. Recently, he has made a successful first ascent on Monte Ada in the Tierra del Fuego.
During his thirties, he became a professional mountaineer and now he leads teams and expeditions to the highest mountains in the world. He has written two books "Against the Wall" and "The Flame of Adventure", and his ambition is to continue climbing and writing books about mountaineering.

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