Jury 2023

Jury 2023 - The Magnificent

Firouzeh Khosrovani

(Iran), author-director Born in Tehran, Firouzeh Khosrovani settled in Italy to pursue her artistic studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. She made her debut as a filmmaker in (2004) with Life Train, In (2007) she directed Rough Cut, a film about mutilated plastic mannequins in the shop windows of Tehran, followed in (2008) by Cutting Off, an installation and video art piece for the museum of Triennale di Milano. Her 1001 Irans (2010), was a documentary about the image of Iran, outside of Iran. Espelho Meu (2011) Iran, Unveiled and Veiled Again (2012) Profession: Documentarist, (2014) a film in seven episodes, made by seven Iranian women directors. Fest of Duty (2014), is about a religious ceremony in Iran designed to instill Islamic beliefs and values into girls, when they reach the age of nine. Radiograph of a Family (2020) is a Pre- and Post-revolutionary story of the daughter of a secular father and a devout Muslim mother as they co-exist under one roof. Winner of “Creative Use of Archive” and “Best film” at Idfa 2020.

Daniele Alet

(France), author-director My personal and professional history is the result of extraordinary meetings that I wish to share with you. Black or pink, life is a novel... Or a movie ! And she reminds us of this every day… Writing, observing, telling, testifying without judging, documenting in short, that's what drives me... Justice, health, history, education… My explorations often take me where reality goes beyond fiction. I tell you stories... true stories. I like this very colorful popular Mexican proverb: "Querían enterrarnos pero no sabían que éramos semillas" "They wanted to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds". I also like this quote, fundamental in my opinion, from Martin Luther King: "Our lives strats to end the day we become silent about the things that matter". Making a documentary means going through a long road of obstacles and in difficult times I always tell myself that no one is immune to a stroke of luck. Because it is a chance in life to meet extraordinary people.

Atilio Caballero

(Cuba), author, art critic and theatre director No, I don’t like salsa: I like blues and southern rock; I don’t like rum, I prefer whiskey or a good red wine; I prefer tennis to baseball, and I don’t even know how to dance "as Lord intended", as the Caribbean archetype advises. I don’t look like a good Cuban, as you love to think. But it was in Cuba where I did most of my theatrical performances, and where I wrote all my books and screenplays. From a Woyzeck with a strong Caribbean accent, staging that has given the world the opera of the Teatro de La Fortaleza, passing through the historical and documentary history of a part of our homeland and hidden history (Montañeses), to a recent review "tropical" of that singular marriage between the Cuban Paul Lafargue -"The right to laziness"! - and Laura Marx (Everything solid melts in Paris). Twenty-five years between one and the otherr, and among novels (L'ultima spiaggia, Natura morta con le api, La macchina di Bukowski...), among books – L'arco e la corda, Tarantola, o Rosso Lombardo e La valigia di B. , these last two winners of the prestigious fiction award "Alejo Carpentier" (one of my few orgies), and a couple of text collections for the theatre (Quartetto and "Dittico") and the occasional audiovisual film (Il vecchio e il lago, Ekaterina, Broken Shadow...). Every now and then, as a "mnemonic expedient" - Hemingway said -, and to keep the mind active, I translate some other Italian writer of the '900 that fascinates me: Montale, Magris, Zanzotto, Luzi, Magrelli, Calasso, all unknown on that warm and green islet until they were published (modesty aside). "If this sounds like the story of a lifetime, that’s fine," as my beloved Carver would say.

Chiara Marotta

(Italy), author-director Chiara Marotta (Salerno) is author, editor and film producer, founder with Loris G. Nese of the film production and distribution company Lapazio Film. She worked as comic author for Fabrique du Cinéma magazine, as screenwriter, director and editor for videoclips and commercials. In 2018 she is producer and editor of "Those Bad Things", in competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2019 and awarded for Best Editing at the 75th Venice Film Festival. In 2019 she writes and directs "Veronica doesn’t smoke", awarded as Best Short Film at 34th Venice International Film Critics' Week. In 2020 she produces and edits the short film "Bad Mood", awarded at Torino Film Festival, Dok Leipzig, Krakow Film Festival, selected among others at Annecy International Animation Film Festival and at Slamdance Film Festival, and admitted to the selection of the Oscar Academy Awards. In 2021 her short film "The Shift" is selected at the Venice Film Festival. Her first documentary, "The moment of transition", is presented at the IDFA and at the Festival dei Popoli, where it is awarded; the film is also winner of the Solinas Award 2018, and the In Progress - MFN award. With her company she works on the executive production, direction and editing of "The villages of tales", a documentary series of thirty episodes focused on the story of the internal areas of Salerno, and two museum audiovisual projects realized in 2023 in collaboration with Libera - Associazioni, nomi e numeri contro le mafie. She is currently involved with Lapazio Film in the production and editing of the animated short film "Z.O.", in the development of the feature film "Disneilend" - selected at theBiennale College Cinema -, in the development of the animated series "Balls", awarded with the Pitch Me Award at Cartoons on the Bay 2018.

Antonio Borrelli

(Italy), producer and documentary programmer Manager of the film association Arci Movie in Naples, he has been involved in cultural planning, organization of film festival and movie production for more than 20 years. Since 2009 for Arci Movie he has been artistic director of "AstraDoc - Viaggio nel Cinema del Reale," a film festival that brings the best of international documentary cinema to Naples every year. Since 2014 he has been among the founders and a member of the steering committee of the training and production center "FILMaP - Atelier di Cinema del Reale," directed by Leonardo Di Costanzo, Alessandro Rossetto and Bruno Oliviero from which 27 short films and 5 full-length documentaries have been produced. In 2019 he produced the documentary "Up to Down” (Giù dal vivo) by Nazareno M. Nicoletti, which had its world premiere at the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and then at the Filmmker Festival in Milan. In 2021, he also produced "Seafarers” (Naviganti) by Daniele De Michele, a documentary selected as a world premiere at Venice Days at the 78th Venice Film Festival and later winner of the Audience Award at the Salina Doc. In 2022 he curated the production of "30 anni di Cinema a Ponticelli" by Isabella Mari, presented at the Biografilm Festival in Bologna. He has also collaborated with Ischia Film Festival, Napoli Film Festival, Faito Doc Festival, Naples Human Rights Film Festival and Planet Sea Film Festival. Since 2019 he has been Vice-President of U.C.C.A. (Unione Circoli Cinematografici Arci), one of the 9 national movie associations recognized by the Italian Ministry of Culture.

Youth Jury

Rita Dora Baldassarre

Born in Naples in 2003. I live by cultivating my passions for music, art, photography and architecture, synthesising them in myself and in what I aspire to. I feel I have grown up through art, surrounded by the wonders of a city that has moulded me and given me, along with my mother's commitment and love, a passion for beauty and curiosity in the search for it. The cinematic experience is itself an artistic experience, and so I love to seek harmony between the parts, the fusion of rule and expression.

Olivia Beckers

I am Belgian, 24 years old and specialising in marine biology. I am passionate about human beings and their interactions with nature. The diversity in every living being inspires me in my work and personal life and I am always looking for experiences and encounters. Discovering new knowledge and points of view is exciting for me. Watching films and finding unexpected perspectives through watching other people is a real pleasure and helps me to better understand the world we live in.

Louise Hollander

I recently graduated in Urban Space Studies at ENSAV in La Cambre, Belgium, and I am passionate about cinema. Watching a film for me is really cathartic, it helps me understand myself and the world better. The power of cinema is that it can transport you from one reality to another very easily. It allows you to virtually live thousands of experiences without taking too many risks. Seeing the perspectives of many international filmmakers will broaden my understanding of human interactions.

Antonio Eduardo Perretta

I was born in Naples on 31/01/1998, and live in Saviano. After high school, I obtained a diploma in Screenwriting at the International School of Comics in Naples and then graduated in Photography, Cinema and Television at the Academy of Fine Arts where I attend the two-year Filmmaking course. The theme of this 16th edition, Diversity, is very dear to me; it is linked to the history of my family, which emigrated to South America in the 1950s. In addition to the desire to view works from all over the world, I want to broaden my horizon and meet people who share my passion.

Prisca Perisse

I am Prisca I am 20 years old and I study film in Paris. I would quote one of my favourite directors to introduce myself: "I imagined and I launched myself", with this sentence Agnès Varda sums up my being adventurous and my imaginative spirit, which allows me to look beyond reality or at least to filter it in my own way. I am increasingly interested in documentaries, especially auteur ones. The Faito Doc Festival is therefore an excellent and further experience to enrich my cinematographic knowledge.

Nicola Ricci

My name is Nicola and I am almost 17 years old. I was born in Brussels to Italian parents. Since childhood, cinema has been a pleasure for me, real moments of pleasure, and as I grew up I approached it, without explicitly wanting to, step by step and this world began to occupy my free time and then school... I convinced myself to participate in the Young Jury this year because this experience is so well placed in my path that it would be absurd not to try, that's what summer is for after all.

Jury Il Camino

The team of therapists at Centro Il Camino has always stimulated culture and supported the initiatives proposed by the Festival. Residents participate in the event in different forms and roles:
some follow trainingThe team of therapists at Centro Il Camino has always stimulated culture and supported the initiatives proposed by the Festival. Residents participate in the event in different forms and roles :
some are trained to become ‘human books’ of the Faito Doc Living Library. Others are involved in a Permaculture Workshop. Others make up a Camino Jury that views the competing short films in the Casa del Cinema and awards the Camino Prize, an artistic work of theirs that they donate to the best film. Their critical sense is invaluable to the Festival.ne to become ‘human books’ of the Faito Doc Living Library. Others are involved in a Permaculture Workshop. Others make up a Camino Jury that views the competing short films in the Casa del Cinema and awards the Camino Prize, an artistic work of theirs that they donate to the best film. Their critical sense is invaluable to the Festival.

Jury CPS

The CPS of Castellamare has been present at Faito Doc for many years :
– With the exhibition and sale of objects created in the Baobab workshop, works that come through the Fair Trade chain, creations in different materials, from wood to ceramics or products (chocolate, spices, herbal teas…)
– In the organisation of a fashion show and sale of Senegalese clothes that enhance the work of the Global South by supporting its economy.
– With the participation of Arianna Schiano – Carmela Mauriello – Matteo Terracciano – Lucia Turrini in the CPS 2023 Jury who will offer a fair trade prize from the Baobab shop.

Jury Faito Doc Camp

A heartfelt thank you to the ProFaito Onlus Association will offer a plaque for the Audience Award.
The Il Camino community awards one or two prizes they create and donate to the best film.
The Ottica Sacco Prize to the sharpest eye.
Camp guests each day will be able to vote by expressing a preference indicating which documentary of the day they preferred. At the end of the days’ screenings, the documentary that has received the most votes will be awarded the Faito Doc Camp Prize.Pietro Falco, the community manager, and the entire therapeutic team for their constant welcome and participation, in particular Aldo Ivano Iezza, Carmela Coppola, Margherita Di Maio, Luigi De Gregorio

AWARDS

A Belgian surrealist artist, Cricou is an inventor of unusual objects. For ten years, he has been the creator of the Faito Doc awards. Cricou gives the winning films of the International Jury and the Young Jury his starfish or his tree made of copper wire as a prelude to a starry sky or he transforms a disused object into a human face, as a prize for the best short and feature films.

Faito Doc Festival - International Documentary Film Festival | 18 - 25 July 2023