International Jury

Federica Foglia

Federica Foglia is a visual artist and PhD researcher in Cinema & Media Studies at York University – Toronto. Her practice revolves around tactile, recycled, amateur cinema, archives, ecofeminism, and materialist cinema. She works within the domestic space to rework found footage and orphan films, intervening directly on the celluloid body through a sculptural approach.
Her work engages with the physical qualities of the cinematic medium and the political significance of fragmented aesthetics. She is currently working on a project that involves ecological Emulsion Lifting techniques to rework 16mm archival films and the development of eco-sustainable photographic processes using algae-based materials.
Her works have been exhibited and received recognition in numerous international art galleries and festivals, including Macau Art Garden, Images Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Ann Arbor Film Festival, International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Bilbao Arte Foundation, Toronto International Film Festival, Antimatter [Media Art], Crossroads San Francisco, Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal, NYU Orphan Film Symposium, Centro de Cultura Digital Mexico City, Camerimage, Mostra del Cinema di Pesaro, and Torino Film Festival.

Costanza Quatriglio

Costanza Quatriglio is director and artistic director of the Palermo branch of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. She makes hybrid films that straddle reality and fiction and documentaries whose language proposes reflections on the very gesture of filmmaking. He has presented his films at the Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Locarno festivals. He made his debut with the multi-award-winning L’isola (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes 2003). He has won prestigious awards including the Nastro d’Argento for best documentary three times. His films include Terramatta; (2012), Con il fiato sospeso (2013); Triangle (2014), 87 ore (2015); Sembra mio figlio (2018, winner – among others – of a Ciak d’oro); La bambina che non vuole cantare (TV movie 2021); Trafficante di virus (2021) and Il cassetto segreto (2024).

Eyal Sivan

Filmmaker, essayist and mentor born in Palestine-Israel, Eyal Sivan is the founder and artistic director of the Marseille-based film production and distribution company, Momento!
Known for his controversial films, over his more then 35-year career, Sivan directed more than a dozen worldwide awarded feature-length political documentaries and produced many others. His cinematic body of work was shown and awarded in various prestigious festivals. Beside theatrical releases and TV broadcasts, Sivan’s work is regularly exhibit in major art shows around the world and continuously inspire scholars and researchers from various disciplines.
In parallel to his filmmaking practices, he publishes and lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary ethics, political crimes and representation, use of memory, archives and archival footage, artistic research etc.
Former associate professor in media production at the University of East London (UEL) Sivan co-led the MA program in Film, Video and New Media. Following several years as visiting professor and program adviser of the Master in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy, Sivan became the program’s principal professor and head of research in cinema and artistic research at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AhK).
Based in Marseille since 2019 Sivan conducts an extensive activity of worldwide masterclasses, teaching, lecturing, mentoring and supervisions of academic theses.

PRIZES

UNARCHIVE AWARD € 3000 open to all selected projects.
AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM €1500 chosen among projects lasting more than 60 minutes.
AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM €1500 chosen among projects lasting less than 60 minutes.

Students Jury

President

Agostino Ferrente

Born in Apulia to a Lucanian father and Calabrian mother, after studying at the DAMS in Bologna and attending Ermanno Olmi’s Ipotesi Cinema, he founded the Pirata Manifatture Cinematografiche production company, with which he produced and directed the short films Poco più della metà di zero (1993) and Opinioni di un pirla (1994), which won awards at international festivals.
After working as assistant director for Silvano Agosti and co-writer for Nico Cirasola, he made Intervista a mia madre (1999) and Il film di Mario (1999-2001) with Giovanni Piperno, both of which won awards in festival circuits and became small television cases.
In 2001, together with a dozen or so accomplices, he founded the Apollo 11 group in Rome, the first to offer continuous programming dedicated to Reality Cinema. As part of Apollo 11, Ferrente established a close collaboration with Alberto Grifi and Vittorio De Seta and, together with Mario Tronco of Avion Travel, created the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, one of the first multi-ethnic bands in the world. In 2006, he presented the film L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio at the Locarno Festival. Together with Annamaria Granatello, he created the Premio Solinas – Documentary for Cinema. He has made two video clips, both awarded at the P.I.V.I.: Ena Andi by the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio and Alfonsina e la bici by Têtes de Bois, with the participation of Margherita Hack and Militant A of the Assalti frontali. In 2012 he presented Le cose belle, co-directed with Giovanni Piperno, at Venice Days. The film became the most awarded Italian documentary of 2014. In 2019, he presents Selfie at the Berlin Film Festival, an award-winning documentary designated Film of the Critics 2019 by the SNCCI, nominated in the five-round of the EFA – European Film Awards as Best European Documentary. In 2024 he made Il coupon della Felicità, a musical short inspired by the song Coupon by Andrea Satta (Têtes de Bois), with Milena Vukotic, Pier Luigi Bersani, Maria Grazia Calandrone and Paolo Lombardi.
He is working discontinuously on a documentary entirely based on the unused footage from Selfie, with the working title Lato B.

Jurors

Abballe Jacopo  Aghajani Bamdad Antonov Ivan Audino Alessia  Babini Axel Bracoloni Andrea  Bucciantini Niccolò Cacciarini Sara Calcara Chiara Capodicasa Sofia  Caruso Aurora  Castelli Beatrice Censi Alessandro Chambon Aurora Colacito Camilla Cominelli Fabio  Conflitti Francesca Costa Eleonora Di Bruni Kevin  Di Sano Serena Feltrin Giovanni Fernandez Anaisha  Ferraiuolo Andrea  Formichella Pierluigi  Foti Mattia Giuliani Arianna  Governanti Alice Grilli Christian  Isgrò Carmen  Jordan Shaw La Rosa Federico Lancellotti Sofia Lerro Claudia Longarini Gioia Maric Dunja  Marziale Giacomo Matteini Martina Mengucci Margherita  Mennella Tonino  Merenda Maria Claudia Morace Domenico Alessandro N’kombo Joaldo Nicotra Emanuela  Ortiz Miguel Presencio  Ostanska Patrizia Parmar Vishwa Pediconi Delphine Porzia Emanuele Rinaldi Miranda Sabatini Michele  Sacchi Emily  Salvatelli Giacomo Scrofani Noemi Taddei Edoardo Teaca Raluca Maria

From

Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma John Cabot University NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo Roma La Sapienza Facoltà Lettere e Filosofia  Roma Tor Vergata Dipartimento di Storia, Patrimonio culturale, Formazione e Società Roma Tre Dipartimento di Filosofia, Comunicazione e Spettacolo RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts

AWARDS

UNARCHIVE AWARD open to all selected projects.
BEST FEATURE FILM chosen among projects lasting more than 60 minutes.
BEST SHORT FILM chosen among projects lasting less than 60 minutes.