Luca Buzzi Reschini
Luca Buzzi Reschini was born in Varese in 1995. He graduated in Film from the Scuola Holden in Turin in 2018, winning the Phoebe Award for Best Project.
He made his debut as a director and screenwriter with the short film Fame in 2019, which won a special mention at the Ermanno Olmi Award. In 2021 he co-directed the self-produced feature film Islanda. He participated in the Biennale College Cinema in 2021 with the project The Essential, produced by Valentina Noya. In the following years he worked with directors such as Felix Van Groeningen on The Eight Mountains, Mike White on The White Lotus, Joe Wright on M: Son of the Century, and Wes Anderson in the post-production of the film The Phoenician Scheme.
In 2024 he wrote and directed the short film Oro e Contanti, produced by AMNC and Notte Americana.
FILMOGRAPHY
Oro e contanti – 2024 – Short film
Islanda – 2021 – Film
Fame – 2019 – Short film
Hleb Papou
Hleb Papou (1991), born in Belarus, has been living in Italy since 2003. He graduated in Directing from the Centro Sperimentale in 2017 with his graduation short film Il Legionario, which was presented at the Venice Film Festival’s International Critics’ Week in 2017 and included in the Future Frames program at the 2018 Karlovy Vary Film Festival. In 2021 his debut feature film Il Legionario (based on the short of the same name) premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in the Cineasti del presente section, where Hleb won the award for Best Emerging Director. Produced by Clemart srl, the film was released in Italian cinemas in February 2022 and was nominated for the Nastro d’Argento for Best Debut. In 2024 Hleb was selected for Berlinale Talents and made two short films including Fellini, presented in competition at Alice nella Città 2024 in Rome, and Lettera di un sicario, a found footage short film produced by Aamod. Meanwhile Hleb is working on his second feature film.
FILMOGRAPHY
Lettera di un sicario – 2024 – Short film
Fellini – 2024 – Short film
Il legionario – 2022 – Film
L’interprete – 2018 – Short film
Il legionario – 2017 – Short film
Giochi di guerra – 2014 – documentary
La foresta rossa – 2013 – Short film
Elia Bei
Elia Bei was born in Fermo in 1990. He graduated as an actor in 2012 from the European Academy of Dramatic Arts with a BA in Performing Arts. In 2015 he wrote, directed, and produced his first short film, Décadence, which was selected for various Italian and international festivals. In 2017 he attended the directing course led by Piero Messina at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and, in the same year, together with Alessandro Lui, began developing two new short films: Il ladro di spezie and Vittoria per tutti. The first won the SIAE – S’illumina grant for international distribution in 2018; the second won the Rai Cinema Channel Award for Best Short Film at the Rome Independent Film Festival (RIFF) in 2019. Since 2020 he has been working on his first documentary, Un angelo in bilico, about the life of the renowned Marche artist Osvaldo Licini.
FILMOGRAPHY
La clessidra umana – 2025 – Short film
Vittoria per tutti- 2019 – Short Film
Il ladro di spezie – 2018 – Short film
Decadence – 2016 – Short film
Giacomo Scoditti
Giacomo Scoditti, born in Bari in 1994. After graduating from high school he earned a degree in law focusing on tax credit and film financing. He began working as a videomaker in the communication market and then moved into music videos. He studied at the Luchino Visconti Civic School in Milan and later attended a directing master’s program at the CSC in Milan. He currently works as an assistant director. In recent years he has begun his journey as a filmmaker. Son is his second short film, produced by Nichel Film and distributed by EarlyBird.
FILMOGRAPHY
Son – 2025 – Short film
RENATA LA SERRA
Renata La Serra (2002) is a director and screenwriter from Puglia who lives in Rome.
In 2019, she studied film and literature at Oxford Sixth Form College.
In 2021, she was among six students selected for the directing course at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome for the academic course 2021-2024.
In 2025, she worked in Paris as an intern on the film “Les Matines Meravilleux” by Avril Besson, produced by “To be Continued Production.”
In the same year, she was selected by director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to be part of his “School of Cinema” in Naples, and her short film “Forse in un’altra vita” was screened at the “Lago Film Festival.”
Over the years, she has explored themes such as femininity, the body, the fragility of family roles, and the meaning of having a place to belong.
She is currently working on her first feature-length documentary, shot between Italy and Georgia.
Gregorio Sassoli and Alejandro Cifuentes
Gregorio Sassoli: Born in Bologna, Gregorio studied film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He worked as an assistant on the sets of Paolo Sorrentino, Woody Allen, and Roger Spottiswoode. His films Il dente del giudizio, Il Provino, and San Damiano have received recognition at international festivals. His feature film San Damiano (Rome Film Fest – 2024) entered the top 10 of the Italian box office in 2025.
Alejandro Cifuentes: Focusing on informative writing and storytelling, he collaborated with the television company Stand by Me. He wrote the short Il Provino (2022) and wrote and directed San Damiano (2023), both short films gained international recognition. His feature film San Damiano (Rome Film Fest – 2024) entered the top 10 of the Italian box office in 2025.
Maria Francesca Begossi
Originally from Milan, she immersed herself from early adolescence in a kaleidoscope of creative practices, including photography, music, and writing, for which she has received small recognitions since 2016. Given her love for cinema, and following her first behind-the-scenes experiences working as a set photographer, she decided to channel her eclectic passions into filmmaking. Alongside her studies in directing and screenwriting, completed in 2025 with a degree in Media Design and Multimedia Arts from NABA in Milan, she pursues music production, which she incorporates into her ever-evolving artistic research.
Francesco Thérèse
Francesco Thérèse was born in Rome in 1981 to an Italian mother and a Mauritian father. He studied cinema in Rome and began working on film sets very young. Dividing his time between art and film, writing and visual work, he became assistant director, directed short films, and created installations. In 2019 he directed 𝘉𝘓𝘜𝘌, an experimental short that became the first chapter of a trilogy on the relationship between humans and cosmic laws. That year he also won the Pigneto Film Festival / Karawan Festival award with Symphony of Pines and Pots, a participatory video art piece. During lockdown he made IN | there, exploring human confinement and astronauts’ isolation. In 2021 he created Re: 𝘉𝘓𝘜𝘌, an immersive installation expanding his cosmic research through lights, sounds, and interaction, and presented Visual 𝘏𝘈𝘐𝘒𝘜, a video art interpretation of Japanese poetry exhibited with Hiromi Suzuki. In 2023, he directed 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘌𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, co-produced with 8 Production, the second episode of the trilogy started with 𝘉𝘓𝘜𝘌, focusing on one of the many characters introduced in the original short.