| Tommaso Lusena de Sarmiento|

Born in Milan 1977. Approached photography and video in 1998. In 2000 he attends the Saint Lucas Film School in Bruxelles following the documentary course. He moves in Berlin where he produces and directs four short-films. With Il ritorno di Cagliostro and Come inguaiammo il cinema italiano by Ciprì and Maresco he starts to work as assistan camera for cinema: Cuore sacro by Ferzan Ozpetek, Nuovo mondo by Emanuele Crialese, Il dolce e l’amaro by Andre Porporati, Caos calmo byAntonello Grimaldi, La straniera by Marco Turco and La Sicilia by John Turturro. He is d.o.p. for tv: La storia siamo noi, Ritratti and programms of Tatti sanguinetti and Achille Bonito Oliva for Cult Network Sky and for other tv productions (Endemol, La7, Raisat cinema).
In 2007 he partecipates to DOCS Barcelona Pitching Forum and in the same year to Eurodoc media progamm. In 2008 to the Workshop by Werner Herzog(Holden School,Turin). Since 2002 he lives in Roma where he works as filmmaker.

Filmography:
Momó; 25 min. documentary about the strange exhibition of the Sicilian painter Antonio Calascibetta. 2002: Yol; short film about a boy from Poland who is intended to travel to Berlin.2001: Il libro ubriaco/Caos Communication/Rotondo, experimental short–films about the story telling.

| Giuseppe Schillaci |

Born in Palermo on 1978. Graduated in Communication Studies; Master in Show Business Management at the University of Bologna on 2002. Cultural journalist since 2005.

On 2010 he published his first novel L’anno delle ceneri (Nutrimenti Edizioni), selected for PREMIO STREGA 2010.

Since 2004 he works as a free-lance producer and director for documentary films. He is member of EURODOC, Doc It and participated to many pitching forum (Docs Barcelona and Thessaloniki). He is director of the documentary Cosmic Energy Inc. produced by EIE and funded by Piemonte Film Commission.

He is producer for the documentary “The Island Inside” by Arapan Cinema, 75 min (release in December 2008). He worked as location manager for the docu-fiction “Prove per una tragedia siciliana” by John Turturro (2008); production assistant for the feature film The Palermo Shooting by Wim Wenders (2007). Script-writer and project development manager for the film production company Eurofilm and Cinemare (2006-2007). Production assistant for many feature films and executive producer for many short films.

| Nicola Tescari |

Pianist, conductor and composer, Nicola Tescari is a complete and eclectic musician, with many prestigious experiences ranging from classical music to pop from contemporary compostion to improvisation, and from theatre to cinema. Born in Milan in 1972, after studying music in Italy, in the United States and in France with great artists such as Ligeti, Berio, Carter, Takemitsu for composing, Chung, Gelmetti, Renzetti and John Adams, he made his debut as a conductor in 1999. As a composer he has written numerous scores for the theatre, TV and film soundtracks, like “Texas”, “The Eyes of the other”, “Waiting for the Sun”, and most recently ‘”I, Don Giovanni”, and “The White Space”. Among his most important musical partnerships there are those with Katia and Marielle Labèque, Sting, Daniel-Day Lewis, Viktoria Mullova, Nicola Piovani, John Zorn, Trilok Gurtu, Giovanni Sollima, Meg, Patti Smith,  Caparezza. He composed the music for Alessandro Baricco’s “Totem” and “Moby Dick”.

| Chris Tsoupas |

Born in Australia, he began his career writing and producing music for contemporary artists and bands in the late 1990’s. He has worked alongside many of the industry’s most talented and successful people. These include Proof (D12), Maceo Jones, Nadeah (The LoveGods, Nouvelle Vague, Hollywood Mon Amour, Venus Gets Even) Jermain Japan, Nicola Tescari, Waajeed (Platinum Pied Pipers), Reno (Pacific Heights/Shapeshifter), Ladi 6, Taay Ninh (Solaa/Electric Wire Hustle) Dallas (Fat Freddys Drop) and Inga Liljestrom. His ability to work in any and every genre makes him a shining and rising talent in the world of music and film.