International Jury

Bill Morrison
Bill Morrison has been called “the poet laureate of lost films” (New York Times, 9/22/21). He makes films that reframe long-forgotten moving images. He has premiered feature-length documentary films at the New York, Sundance, Telluride and Venice film festivals. Morrison had a mid-career retrospective at MoMA in 2014. His found footage film Decasia (2002) was the first film of the 21st century to be selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) was named among the best films of the decade (2010) by Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair and others. In 2021 Morrison became a member of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. His most recent feature film, The Village Detective: a song cycle (2021) was screened at Telluride Film Festival and distributed by Kino Lorber. Incident (2023) presented at Visions du Réel film festival, won the award for best short film in the first edition of UnArchive Found Footage Fest.

Sara Fgaier
Sara Fgaier is an Italian-Tunisian filmmaker. She studied Film History and Criticism at the University of Bologna. She received the Rolex Award for the Arts (2012-2013) which allowed her to work for a year and a half under the tutelage of Walter Murch. She has directed a number of short films, including L’umile Italia (2014, Authors’ Days) and Gli anni (2018, Orizzonti), loosely based on the novel of the same name by Annie Ernaux. Gli anni was chosen by the Horizons jury as a candidate for the European Film Awards, and the European Film Academy decided to award it the Best European Short Film 2018 Award. The film also won the Silver Ribbon for Best Documentary Short Film. She is co-founder with Pietro Marcello of the production company Avventurosa. As an editor and producer, she has made several films including. La bocca del lupo (2009) and Bella e perduta (2015).

Firouzeh Khosrovani
Born in Tehran, Firouzeh Khosrovani settled in Italy to pursue art studies at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. She made her debut in 2004 with Life Train; in 2007 she directed Rough cut, a film about mutilated plastic mannequins in Tehran shop windows, followed in 2008 by Cutting Off, an installation for the Milan Triennale museum. Her 1001 Iran (2010) is a documentary about the image of Iran, outside Iran. She has worked on the collective films Espelho Meu (2011), Iran, Unveiled and Veiled Again, (2012) and Documentarist, (2014) a seven-episode film made by seven Iranian women directors. With Fest of Duty (2014), she tells of a religious ceremony in Iran aimed at teaching girls Islamic beliefs and values when they reach the age of nine. Radiograph of a Family (2020) is the pre- and post-revolutionary story of the daughter of a secular father and a devout Muslim mother coexisting under the same roof. Winner of the “Creative Use of the Archive” and “Best Film” awards at Idfa 2020.

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

Giovanni Piperno
Giovanni Piperno has directed numerous documentaries including, Un thè sul set (co-directed with Laura Muscardin) at the Venice Film Festival in 1995, Interview to my mother on air at Rai 3, Mario’s film also broadcast by ARTE (both together with Agostino Ferrente) and L’esplosione winner of the Turin Film Festival 2003 and candidate for the David di Donatello 2004. CIMAP! centoitalianimattiapechino, participated in the 2008 Locarno Film Festival and won the 2009 Libero Bizzarri Prize. The film about the Agnelli family, The missing piece, after participation at the 2010 Torino Film Festival, was released in theaters in 2011 and aired on Rai 1.Le cose belle, co-directed with Agostino Ferrente, participated in the 2012 Venice Film Festival, won twenty-five awards and was released in Italian theaters in 2014. With the collective film 9×10 novanta he participated in the 2014 Venice Film Festival. At the 2015 Rome Film Festival, in the “Alice in the City” section, he presented the short film Quasi Eroi which won the Silver Ribbon as the best short film of 2016. Since 2017 he has been director of the Perugia Social Film Festival, and since 2020 he has taught documentary direction at the Gian Maria Volonté School. His latest work Cipria was presented at the XL Torino Film Festival and was successfully released in Italian theaters in March 2023.

Jurors

Thanks to the professors

Marta Perrotta, Agnese Grassetti, Alessandro De Carli, Anastasia Lazareva, Andrea Landolfi, Benedetta Lucidi, Chiara Laurin, Civita Mariafrancesca, Costanza Cassano, Delio Di Giovanni, Domenico Rocchi, Elisa Parello, Gabriele Guerrieri, Gabriele Traietti, Giacomo Tazzini, Giulia Palazzo, Iris Russo, Jacopo Abballe, Lorenzo Nuzzo, Lucille de Rochefort, Lucrezia Lauteri, Lucrezia Munari, Matteo Delle Chiaie, Michela Porcu, Michele Isoldi, Nicolò Pioli, Raffaele Lafiandra, Roberto Lamendola, Runkai Wu, Sara Cacciarini, Valeria Di Brisco, Yvonne Mascioli

Andrea Minuz, Professor of Film History and Screenwriting, Department of History Anthropology Religions Arts and Entertainment, Faculty of Humanities, La Sapienza University of Rome
Antonio Falduto, Professor of Film History, UNINT TEA Master Coordinator
Daniele Guastini, Professor of Aesthetics, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, La Sapienza University of Rome
Dario Cecchi, Professor of Aesthetics, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, La Sapienza University of Rome
Fabio Capalbo, Course Advisor Leader, Three-year Film and Animation Program, NABA Rome
Giacomo Ravesi, Department of Philosophy, Communication, Entertainment, University of Roma Tre
Luca Mazzei, Professor of Film History, Department of History, Cultural Heritage, Education and Society, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Roberto De Gaetano, Professor of Film History and Criticism, Department of History Anthropology Religions Arts and Entertainment, Faculty of Humanities, La Sapienza University of Rome

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.