Jury | Gabbiano Competition
Meet the jury of the Gabbiano competition: Alessandro Comodin, author and director; Carla Vulpiani, programmer and distributor; and Roberto Cavallini, producer.
They will be in charge of the Gabbiano section, awarding the Best Film Award and the Film Innovation Award.
Alessandro Comodin is an Italian director who studied filmmaking in Belgium. He lives in Paris but likes to shoot his films in the region where he grew up, Friuli, in the countryside and among the trees. He has written and directed three films for the cinema, but has never been able to define whether they are fiction or documentary films.
Carla Vulpiani lives between Ireland and Italy. After graduating with a degree in Cultural Heritage and a diploma in Documentary Practice in Milan, she began her career as a Festival Programmer and then co-artistic director at the Milano Film Festival. Dedicated to short films and animation of any length, she works as Production Manager for Animation Studio and Maps and Plans in Dublin, is Head of Animation Division at MIA Market & CoProduction Forum (Rome) and co-founder of Varicoloured Holistic Film Agency, a distribution company exclusively dedicated to short films. Since 2021, she has held the position of Short Film Advisor for the Venice International Film Festival – Orizzonti Corti.
Roberto Cavallini studied History of Art at Cà Foscari University in Venice then earned a PhD in Visual Cultures in 2010 with a thesis on Pier Paolo Pasolini (Goldsmiths, University of London) and from 2012 to 2016 he was Assistant Professor in Film and Media Studies at Yasar University (Izmir, Turkey). Since 2021, he has been an expert trainer at MIUR for the National Plan Cinema and Images for School. Founder and producer of the independent production company Altrove Films (2017-2022) with which he has produced documentaries such as Malditos, Hoa, L’incorreggibile, To Us the World Remains – On the Paths of the Wu Ming Foundation, since 2020 he has been working as a producer at Albolina Film (Bolzano), where he is in charge of developing and producing fiction films, documentaries and co-productions for the international market. Roberto is an EAVE graduate, Rotterdam Producer Lab fellow 2023, and named European Emerging Producer 2020 (Jihlava IDFF) and has been a member of the European Film Academy since 2021.
