International Jury Trento Film Festival 2010

MAURIZIO ZACCARO
Zaccaro was born in Milan in 1952. He is an Italian cinema and television director. After attending classical studies at high school, he graduated at the School of Cinemaof Milan in 1977, workingwith directors such as Olmi, Nichetti and Bozzetto. After a few experiences as assistant director on short and documentary films produced in collaboration with Ermanno Olmi (Camminacammina, Milan ‘83 and Lunga vita alla signora), he worked with Maurizio Nichetti to make the films Ratataplan and Ho fatto splash. Zaccaro made 16 short films including Overkill, which won the Juso award for best film in 1982 at the Oberhausen International Festival. From 1982 to 1990 he collaborated with Ipotesi Cinema, a cinema and television workshop created from an idea of Paolo Valmarana and Ermanno Olmi. Un uomo perbene (1999) was an intense and successful film, inspired by the judicial affair of Enzo Tortora, a television anchorman and journalist, played by Michele Placido.Also in the film are Mariangela Melato, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefano Accorsi, Leo Gullotta and Giuliano Gemma. The film won several awards including the “Pasinetti” Prize of Cinema Review; the “I. Silone Prize”, Grolla d’Oro 1999 for best actor to Stefano Accorsi, David di Donatello Awards, for best actor in a supporting role, to Leo Gullotta and “Nastro d’Argento” Prize, for best writing to S. Tortora. In 1990 Dove comincia la notte was presented at the 48th Venice Film Festival, at the Wurtzburg International Festival and at the Annecy International Festival; with this film, Zaccaro won the David di Donatello Award for best new director. In 1992, he presented Kalkstein – La valle di pietra, which starred Charles Dance, Alexander Bardini, Miroslav Donutil, Fabio Bussotti, in competition at the 49th Venice Film Festival, the Montreal International Festival, the Goteborg International Festival and the Annecy International Festival; with this film, he won the Grolla d’Oro 1992 award for best screenplay, the Targa Anec award for best director and the San Fedele Award for best film of 1993. His filmography includes: In coda alla coda (1988 starring Alessandro Haber), L’Articolo 2 (1993) presented at the Berlin Festival in 1994, where it was awarded the Solinas Award for best original screenplay, as well as several other awards for best film and special mentions; Testa matta (1995 starring Anna Galiena and Alessandro Haber, winner of the Golden Globe for best actor in a leading role), Il Carniere (1996) multiple awards at the David di Donatello Awards, the Karlovy VaryInternational Festival,and the Annecy, Grosseto, Freistadt and Kiev Film Festivals; La Missione (1997, starring Michele Placido, Massimo Ghini, Barbara De Rossi, Eliana Miglio). Moreover, Zaccaro has a wide film and TV-series catalogue including: Cristallo di Rocca (1998 starring Tobias Moretti, Virna Lisi, Teresa Zajkova, Leo Gullotta, Omero Antonutti), Un dono semplice (2000 starring Murray Abraham, Virna Lisi, Regula Grauwiller), Cuore (2001, starring Giulio Scarpati, Anna Valle, Leo Gullotta, Giuseppe Battiston), I ragazzi della via Pal (2002, starring Mario Adorf, Virna Lisi, Nancy Brilli, Giuseppe Battiston), Al di là delle frontiere (2003, starring Sabrina Ferilli, Johannes Brandrup, Giuseppe Battiston, Leo Gullotta, Lino Capolicchio, Olivia Magnani), Il Bell’Antonio (2004, starring Daniele Liotti, Nicole Grimaudo, Leo Gullotta), Mafalda di Savoia (2005, starring Stefania Rocca, Clotilde Coureau), ‘O Professore (2006, starring Sergio Castellitto, Luisa Ranieri, Donatella Finocchiaro, Antonio Catania, Peppe Lanzetta, Pietra Montecorvino, Gianni Ferreri) and Il bambino della domenica (2007, starring Giuseppe Fiorello, Anita Caprioli, David Coco, Maurizio Marchetti).

ALAN FORMÁNEK
Alan comes from Slovakia, where he started climbing the Tatra mountains at the age of 14. By the ripe age of 16 he was already leading dubious rock routes using home made climbing shoes, home made pitons, and (almost) home knitted ropes. He was one of the pioneers of modern free climbing in Czechoslovakia in late 1970s and early 1980s, and he is credited for freeing many milestone multi-pitch rock routes in the High Tatras. Among other things, he did the second ascent of “Tempi Moderni” on his beloved Marmolada in early July of 1984, and a rare ascent of then badly protected and mysterious “Amplesso Complesso” in Val di Mello in 1985, both climbed fast and lightweight, in home made soft bedroom-slipper-type shoes, home made harnesses and without using friends. Alan graduated in Electrical Engineering and Comparative Literature. He later blended his academic credits with his blasting climbing fire to create two mountain film festivals in Vancouver and Bratislava (Slovakia). He has been running the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival since 1998, and the Hory a mesto / Mountains and City festival in Bratislava since 2000. In his academic studies he zoomed on film and literature and on the ways of adapting novels into films. He compiled a thesis on adapting the Carmen novel into three different films, including the one by Francesco Rosi. He is planning to make his own climbing adaptation of “Carmen la grimpeuse” starring Lynn Hill as Carmen and Timmy O’Neall as José.

LEENA PASANEN
Leena Pasanen, born in 1965, started her carreer as a journalist 1998 at the Finnish News Agency, first as a reporter and later on as a political commentator in the Parliament house. In 1993 she joined YLE, Finnish Broadcasting Company, where she worked as a reporter, political commentator, subeditor and TV-presenter for the current affairs magazine programme on YLE TV1. After that she was the head of documentaries for YLE TV1 years 1999-2000. When the digital cultural channel YLE Teema was launched, she was chosen as Head of Programme responsible for cultural, factual and fiction programmes in YLE Teema, a channel focused on culture, science and education. She stayed with the channel until November 2005 when she started her works as the director of EDN, European Documentary Network in Copenhagen. In November 2008 she returned to YLE in Finland as Coordinator of Programmes at YLE Fact and Culture. She’s been a regular expert, tutor and lecturer for several training programmes, for example EDN, Discovery Campus, EURODOC and Television Business School. She’s an EURODOC graduate year 1999 and a member of the international advisory committee of Hot Docs. She’s also been a member of the board of IDFA Forum, INPUT and the Bonnier’s Journalistic Award in Finland.

MICHELE RADICI
Michele Radici graduated in Architecture and worked as an architect for a number of years. At the same time, however, he also worked as a journalist and photographer specialising in travel, adventure and extreme sports. In the early 1980s, he gave up architecture and devoted his work to filmmaking. As a director and filmmaker, he has made television series on extreme sports for Istituto Luce, Fininvest and Italy’s State channel RAI (Sector no limits, Point Break, Jonathan dimensione avventura, Il mondo della montagna). He has produced and made a range of industry documentaries, multimedia projects, advertising spots, travel documentaries and mountain films. His work includes documentaries The Nameless Ship (1993), Nordica ski boots, lange ski boots (1998) and extreme skiing films La parete che non c'è, The Time Machine and Face to Face. His Acqua, nuvole e picchi was the first climbing film to be shot in China. Buildering, which Radici devised and directed, launched Alain Robert in his career as a skyscraper climber. He also made Climbing in Thailand with François Legrand, and Jim Bridwell: the Yosemite living legend. Radici has won a host of awards at major film festivals worldwide.

RENÉ VERNADET
As a mountain cameraman, René Vernadet stares into the void, camped on a suspended platform, hanging from a rope, or hooked to a crane cable. In the company of Marmier, Terray, Desmaison and Rebuffat, he has filmed from the Saussois, Mount Jannu, the Eiffel Tower, Pierre Saint Martin in the Grand Capucin, as well as on the Pilier du Freney and the west face of the Drus. In his long and legendary career, René Vernadet has shot mountain documentaries, as well as feature films, with such eminent names as Robert Frankenheimer, Albert Lamorisse, José Giovani, Jacques Ertaud and Costa Garvas. He is often commissioned by television stations to film reportage in extreme conditions because he is one of the few who can. Over the years, he has also devoted his time to exploring Tibet where, almost secretly, he has shot countless films and written carefully documented books on the country, its culture and its people. After twenty-two journeys to Tibet and to regions of Tibetan culture, he also immersed himself in the study of Tibetan Buddhism and the ancient religion of Bön. He has made or shot footage for over two hundred films, including: La grande crevasse, an unfinished German film which he shot with Hermann Buhl; Les Étoiles de Midi (1958) by Marcel Ichac, for which he did the photography. The film won the Grand prix du cinéma français in 1959 and the Italian Alpine Club (CAI) Trophy at the Trento Festival the same year; Jannu (1959) with Lionel Terray, which was entered for the 1960 Trento Festival; Le Pilier du Freney (1967) with René Desmaison, which won the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) prize at the 1968 Trento Festival; Mort d'un guide (1974) by Jacques Ertaud, which won the “City of Trento” Grand Prize in 1975; Les horizons gagnés (1974) with Gaston Rebuffat, which was entered for the 1975 Trento Festival.