Tuesday August 16, 2016
MARIANGIOLA CASTROVILLI
Mariangiola Castrovilli was born in Rome where she attended the International University of Journalism Pro Deo, now Luiss. She worked for RAI as a journalist and programmer- director, and for the newspaper Il Giornale, then contributed to leading European newspapers. A member of FIPRESCI, she served on numerous juries including those at Karlovy Vary and San Sebastian. She is a member of the National Union of Italian Film Journalists, which each year awards the Nastri D'Argento, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar. In the 1980s she was the first woman in the world to fly at twice the speed of sound for direct radio and television on the Aermacchi MB-339PAN and she did all the stunts of the Frecce Tricolori, the Italian Air Force aerobatic team. Auto legend Enzo Ferrari invited her to ride in his new Ferrari 40 and she reached 324 km/hr on the track in Maranello, always live on air. These exploits earned her the title: “The butterfly with iron wings”.
MAURIE ALIOFF
Montreal film critic Maurie Alioff writes about movies for publications off and online. He is also a screenwriter collaborating on a documentary featuring Bob Marley’s granddaughter that is now filming. A longtime faculty member of the English Department at Vanier College, Alioff is researching and developing other Jamaica-related projects, including a magical-realist crime film drawing on stories he hears on the island. He has written for radio and television, programmed films for the Just for Laughs comedy festival, taught screenwriting, and been a contributing editor for various magazines. Alioff’s articles have appeared in POV Magazine, Canadian Cinematographer, Take One, Salon l.l, CTVM.Info, northernstars.ca, The New York Times, and many other publications.
Pierre-Henri Deleau
Pierre-Henri Deleau began his career as an assistant director to Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Pierre Kast and then as a director in educational television. He directed a short, Virginie ou la double rupture, in 1969. He is the co-founder of the FILMOBLIC production house which produced or co-produced films by Hugo Santiago, Jean-Louis Comolli, Jean-François Dion, Claude Miller, Edouardo de Gregorio and Jean-Pierre Lefebvre. In 1969, he co-founded the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and was its director for three decades. In 1996, he co-founded the Forum of European Cinema in Strasbourg, and in 1987 co-founded FIPA and directed the event in Cannes, Nice and Biarritz until 2009. That year he became member of the selection committee for first works at the European Film Academy. As director of the Cinéma and Littérature collection of Les Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès, he has published books on Michelangelo Antonioni, Groucho Marx, Andrezj Zulawski and Yilmäz Güney, among others.
