Chloé Barreau is a French director based in Rome, Italy. Born from an extraordinary love story –that of a priest and a nurse– she told this scandalous affair in her first film, La Faute à mon père (awarded at the Biografilm Festival). A graduate in French Literature from the Sorbonne, she has written and directed short films (Acqua passata with Riccardo Scamarcio), TV specials (Anna M. with Anna Mouglalis), and docuseries (Blue Is the Colour, Raindance Festival) before pursuing a career in television as Creative Producer. For years, she has worked with prestigious international TV brands –such as National Geographic, History Channel–, as well as on more personal documentary projects, both films and podcasts: Stardust Memories (Carboluce, 2008 / Radio Rai 3, 2020), Malafemmina (Storytel, 2021). Her debut feature film, Fragments of a Life Loved (presented at the Giornate degli Autori in Venice in 2023), has won numerous awards worldwide (Best Feature Documentary – Frameline Festival, San Francisco) / Grand Prix – Chéries Chéris LGBTQIA&+ Festival, Paris).

Júlia Berkes is a Hungarian producer. After finishing her studies, she started working at Proton Cinema as a line producer on several international productions. Since 2009 she has produced a line of shorts and feature films. Her passion lies with finding new voices, young talents of Hungarian cinema. She has produced 5 short films and 4 feature films of Gábor Reisz and the first and second feature film of Hajni Kis. Her latest features include Evolution by Kornél Mundruczó (Cannes 2021), Wild Roots by Hajni Kis (Karlovy Vary 2021) and Explanation for Everything by Gábor Reisz (Venice Orizzonti 2023- Best Film Award). In 2026 she premiered the 4th film with Gábor Reisz Ground Floor in Venice Film Festival. Júlia is an EAVE and Producers on the move alumni and a member of the European Film Academy.

Caterina Mazzucato is a writer, cultural curator, and film industry Professional. She is Head of Industry at Bio to B – Industry Days | Doc&Drama and Senior Programmer at Biografilm, where she focuses in particular on documentaries, Italian cinema, and relations with the audiovisual and publishing industries. Over the years, she has conceived and curated projects dedicated to the development and support of films and series, working closely with writers, directors, and producers. She is also involved in film acquisitions and distribution and works as a film educator and trainer. In 2020, she published her novel Io, sono il mare with Il Saggiatore. Her second novel will be published by the same publishing house in early 2027. She writes about cinema, literature, and contemporary culture, and is currently working on new literary and audiovisual projects.

Raffaella Di Giulio began working in the film industry in 2000. After seven years in production and on international film sets, she joined Fandango in 2007, later becoming Festival Coordinator and Sales Executive at Fandango Portobello. Since 2013, she has been Head of Sales at Fandango Sales and, since 2025, Managing Director of International Sales and Acquisitions.

Giulia Grandinetti made her directorial debut with the 2020 Alice and the Land that Wonders, before working on a dystopian short film trilogy: Guinea Pig, Tria – Del sentimento del tradire (premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti Short Films competition) and Majonezë, one of the 2025 finalists at the David di Donatello and Nastri D’Argento, qualifying for the Oscar race. She is currently developing her new feature Jaune et Bleu, produced by Lupin Film. She is creatively obsessed with understanding the human being through her exploration of taboos and the world of dreams. The starting point for all her creations is the body.

Paola Piacenza, filmmaker and journalist, began to explore the theme of borders in 2009 with The Land of Jerry Cans, filmed along the border between Iraq and Iran; she further developed the theme in her subsequent films In No Language in the World (2011) and In a Free State (Special Mention at the Solinas Prize for Documentary, 2012), filmed on the border between Tunisia and Libya. She is among the authors of Milano 55.1: Chronicle of a Week of Passions, a collective film on the 2011 municipal elections in Milan coordinated by Luca Mosso and Bruno Oliviero. Ombre dal fondo, with war correspondent Domenico Quirico, her first collaboration with Frenesy Film Company, a production company led by Luca Guadagnino, was the closing film of the 2016 Venice Days and produced an essay by Domenico Quirico of the same title (Neri Pozza, 2017). The War Within (Il fronte interno – Un viaggio in Italia with Domenico Quirico, 2021), a Frenesy production, co-produced by Rai Cinema, was presented at IDFA – Amsterdam and Turin Film Festival.