Jury and awards

International Jury 62nd Festival dei Popoli

The international jury of the 62nd Festival dei Popoli is composed of:

Kieron Corless is a British writer, editor and programmer. For the past 15 years he has worked full-time at the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound Film magazine, first as Deputy Editor and currently as Associate Editor. He was the instigator and now a co-programmer of the Essay Film Festival, an annual event that takes place primarily at Birkbeck University and the ICA. He has taught film history and film criticism at various UK universities at masters level. He is co-author with Chris Darke of "Cannes: Inside the World’s Premier Film Festival", published by Faber & amp; Faber. He has also published in numerous other books and magazines in the UK and internationally, including Time Out, The Independent, Frieze and most recently Textur in Austria.

Anita Piotrowska

Anita Piotrowska is a Polish film critic, curator of the documentary section of the Krakow Film Festival and member of FIPRESCI. He writes regularly for the weekly Tygodnik Powszechny and also contributes to film magazines such as KINO and EKRANy. She is the co-author of several film books, including Encyclopedia of Cinema, New Turkish Cinema, Polish Cinema Now !. She worked as a scholar and script consultant. Today he focuses a lot on the art of documentary and contemporary Middle Eastern cinema. She has been a member of the jury of numerous festivals in Poland and around the world. For his achievements in film criticism he received the Polish Film Institute Award in 2014 and the ZAIX Award in 2021.

Luciano Barisone

Film club animator, journalist (La Stampa, Il Manifesto), film critic (Filmcritica,
Cineforum, Duellanti, La Rivista del Cinematografo), Luciano Barisone created the magazine Panoramiche in 1990, of which he is the director. Since 1997 he has collaborated with numerous international
film festivals, including the Locarno International Film Festival, the Venice International Film Festival, the Venice
Venice International Film Festival, and the Rencontres Internationaux de Cinéma in Paris. In 2002 he created the Alba International Film Festival, of which he was the director until 2007. From 2008 to 2010 he is the director of the Festival dei Popoli and then of the Visions du Réel festival.

International Competition Award

The international jury will award the following prizes:

- Best Short Film Award (duration: up to 30 minutes): € 2,500.00, equally divided between director and production;
- Best Medium-length Film Award (duration: between 31 and 60 minutes): € 4,000.00, divided equally between director and production;
- Best Feature Film Award (duration: over 60 minutes): € 8,000.00, divided equally between director and production;
- “Gian Paolo Paoli” plaque for the Best Anthropological Film.

Italian Jury of the 62nd Festival dei Popoli

The Italian jury of the 62nd Festival dei Popoli is composed of:

Irene Dionisio

Irene Dionisio born in 1986 in Turin is an author, director and visual artist. His production includes video-installations and documentaries, including "Sponde" (2015) and "The factory is full" (2012) which have participated in numerous international festivals, including the Torino Film Festival, Visions du Réel, Taiwan Film Festival , etc., and received numerous awards, including the Audience Award at the Festival dei Popoli, the Filmmaker Award and the Jury Award at the Cine Verité in Iran, thanks also to his masterpiece “The Last Things”. She was nominated for the David di Donatello, the Globo d'Oro and won a Special Silver Ribbon for the script in 2017. Her video installations have been exhibited and projected at the Magazzino Italian Art in NY, at the OCAT in Shanghai, at the Pac in Milan, at the Center d'Art Contemporain in Geneva, among others. In 2020 he won the Giuseppe Bertolucci Award.

Jérémie Jorrand

Born in 1977 in Grenoble, France, Jérémie Jorrand studied documentary filmmaking in Lussas, home of the "États Généraux du film documentaire", one of the most important documentary festivals in France. He has directed three documentary shorts, "Souffle" ("Breath", 2005), "L'Éclaircie" ("Bright Interval", 2008) and "Blanche" (2011). Until 2016, he was responsible for the development of Bathysphere productions, which he founded in Paris in 2005 ("A Cow's Life", "Makala", "Oh la Pauline" ...). He is now president of Pulp Films, a young production company based in the south of France ("Once You Know", by Emmanuel Cappellin, released in September 2021). Since 2019 he is editorial and programming manager of Tënk, a European documentary platform.

Giovanni Marchini Camia

Giovanni Marchini Camia is a Berlin-based writer, editor and programmer. His film criticism has appeared in many international magazines including Sight & Sound, The Guardian, Cineaste, Cinema Scope, Das Magazin and MUBI Notebook. In 2020 he joined the selection committee of feature films of the Locarno Film Festival. He is co-founder of Fireflies Press, a publishing house specializing in contemporary cinema. Their publications include Fireflies, a magazine that explores the works of two directors; Decadent Editions, a series of ten monographs on ten films from the first decade of the 2000s; and Memoria, on the creation of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest film.

Italian Competition Award

The Italian jury will award the following prize:

- Best Italian Documentary Award: € 3,000.00 divided equally between director and production.

Other festival prizes

CG Digital on demand distribution award for the Best European Film in the Habitat section
The distribution houseCG Entertainment offers the winning European film the opportunity to be distributed on demand on the cgdigital.it platform.

CG Entertainment distribution award for the best film in the Italian competition section
The award offers the winner the opportunity to be published on DVD in the "POPOLI Doc - The Festival dei Popoli series" distributed throughout the country and On Demand distribution on major digital platforms.

Distribution award in the "Unmissable" room
The "Unmissable" prize will be awarded by the programming manager of La Compagnia together with his staff. The winning film will be held in programming at La Compagnia for a period to be agreed with the production / distribution.

"Il cinemino" theatrical distribution award
“Il Cinemino” is a cultural project born in Milan in 2018. The prize will be awarded by the founding members to the film that best embodies commitment, social value and innovative language. The winner will be scheduled during a dedicated evening and held in programming in the following days.

SVOD "Tënk" distribution award
Tënk is the SVOD platform dedicated to independent documentary films available across Europe on tenk.eu.com. The Prize will be awarded to the best Italian film presented in an international competition or in an Italian competition. The award consists of financial support for the director and the purchase of SVOD rights for broadcasting on European territories.

MYmovies.it Award from the Public Side
The festival audience will express their preferences on the films presented in the International Competition and in the Italian Competition by voting

SudTitles Award "Cinema for all"
SudTitles Palermo has been operating since 2011 for the promotion of film culture, creating various services including subtitles, subtitles for the deaf and audio descriptions for the blind. The prize, awarded as part of the professional day of the Doc At Work - Future Campus, offers the winning work the realization of the audio description of the film and the upload on the SudTitles app (if in Italian) or inclusive subtitles in Italian and uploading to the SudTitles app (if in a foreign language).

Jury and awards

International Jury 62nd Festival dei Popoli

International Competition Award

Italian Jury of the 62nd Festival dei Popoli

Italian Competition Award

Other festival prizes

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