Guests at the 11th CinemAmbiente

Underlining the broad scope of CinemAmbiente 2008, the 6-day annual environmental film festival, was the list of invited special guests at this year’s event: film directors, distinguished jury members, journalists, environment experts, institutional representatives, film personalities, and environmental activists.

Special guests

Palden Gyatso – Tibetan monk, appeared in 'Fire under the Snow'
Daryl Hannah – actress and environmental activist
Evans Maendeh - former Sudanese child soldier, appeared in 'WarChild'
Carlo Marrapodi – appeared in 'ThyssenKrupp Blues'
Nanni Moretti – film director and former director of the 'Torino Film Festival'

DIRECTORS

Giancorrado Barozzi
Pietro Balla
Marcel Barelli
Luca Bellino
Hartmut Bitomsky
Claudio Bonivento
Simona Casonato
Guido Chiesa
Luca Cusani
Andrea Deaglio
Boris Despodov
Andrea Di Nardo
Shaheen Dill-Riaz
Francesco Maria Dominedò
Riccardo Farina
Salvatore Fronio
Vincenzo Gioanola
Ali Habashi
Zacharias Kunuk
Dario Samuele Leone
Danilo Licciardello
Silvia Luzi
Eugenio Manghi
Adonella Marena
Ray McCormack
Lisa Merton
Angelo Miotto
Cafi Mohamud
Vittorio Moroni
Andrew Nisker
Robert Nugent
Justin Pemberton
Peppe Ruggiero
Makoto Sasa
Yves Scagliola
Matteo Scanni
Rossella Schillaci
Daniele Segre
Silvio Soldini
Francesco Uboldi
Jobie Weetaluktuk
Kazuja Yamada
Sandro Vannini

WRITERS AND JOURNALISTS

Andrea Bajani

Oliviero Beha

Milena Boccadoro

Santo Della Volpe

Leo Hickman

Marco Gisotti

Carlo Grande

Marc Innaro

Massimo Mapelli

Elena Martelli

Cristina Mochi

Paolo Odinzoff

Bruno Pampaloni

Michela Pasquali

Pierangelo Sapegno

Institutional representatives

Alfio Bastiancich – founder of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Dipartimento Animazione di Chieri (Center for Cinematographic Studies, Dept. of Animation, Chieri)
Hon. Antonio Boccuzzi – ThyssenKrupp steelworker and survivor of steel mill accident; member of parliament
Riccardo Casale – president Iride Energia, ENEA board member (Comitato Nazionale per la ricerca e lo sviluppo dell’Energia Nucleare e delle Energie Alternative (National Council for Nuclear and Alternative Energies)
Stephane Cloutier – special legal consultant on Inuktitut language to the Nunavut government
Hon. Cesare Damiano – member of parliament, former Minister of Labor, promoter of Carovana per il Lavoro Sicuro (Coalition for Work Safety)
Nicola De Ruggiero – environment commissioner, Region of Piemonte
Silvestro Greco – environment commissioner, Region of Calabria
Domenico Mangone – environment commissioner, City of Turin
Ermanno Maritano – vice director Confindustria, Piemonte (Italian Manufacturers’ Association, Piemonte section)
Angela Massaglia – environment commissioner, Province of Turin
Pietro Mercandelli – president, ANMIL (Associazione Nazionale Mutilati e Invalidi di Lavoro - National Association of Disabled Workers)
Valeria Veglia – head of environmental education and planning office and Agenda 21
Carlos Villan Duran – member of the office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights

Artists

Marco Alotto – stage director
Valerio Berruti – painter
Guido Catalano – poet-singer
Gattico & Suzuki – musicians
Michel Fuzellier – film animator
Piero Gilardi – artist and director of PAV (Park of Living Art)
Manomanouche – musicians
Francesco Mariotti – artist and author
Mariella Nava – singer-songwriter
El Tres – musicians
Le Vibrazioni – musicians

Environmentalists and researchers

Barbara Avila, RIEC-IWFE (Rencontres Internationales “Eau et Cinèma” - International “Water and Film” Events)
Flavia Bianchi – architect, urbanist
Riccardo Casale – president Iride
Stefano Ciafani – Legambiente
Devra Davis –director of the Center for Environmental Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, USA
Giorgio Diaferia - physician, head of communications office, Medici per l’Ambiente (International Society of Doctors for the Environment [ISDE])
Aldo Fasolo - biology professor
Charris Ford – environmental activist
Marco Glisoni – ARPA Piemonte (Agenzia ambientale della Regione – regional environmental protection agency)
Simonetta Greco – Legambiente
Silvestro Greco – Legambiente
Serenella Iovino – researcher, lecturer in moral philosophy
Tiziana Lanza – Institute of Vulcanology
Evelyne Lyons – engineer and geologist
Antonella Marsili – Institute of Vulcanology
Luca Mercalli – meteorologist
Franco Merletti – lecturer in medicine
Roberto Mezzalama – president and managing director of Golden Associates
Riccardo Noury – director of communications office, Amnesty International, Italian section
Jeela Palluq – anthropologist and Inuit linguist
Paolo Pobbiati – president, Amnesty International, Italian section
Gian Carlo Povero – high school teacher
Paolo Rabitti – engineer and urbanist
Marilisa Schellino – Legambiente
Giuliano Tallone – national president, LIPU (Lega Italiana Protezioni Uccelli – Italian League for the Protection of Bird Wildlife)
Ugo Volli – lecturer in semiotics
Salvatore Venezia - Legambiente

FESTIVALS AND TELEVISION REPRESENTATIVES

Stephen Ashton, Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival

Salvatore Ditaranto, assistant of programming Current tv

Barbara Ferrieri, Discovery Italia

Marielle Grosse, Image de ville
Yang Hee-cha, Seoul Green Archive
Hey-Rim Hwang, Green Film Festival in Seoul
Sidney Jang, Green Film Festival in Seoul
Jaume Jil I Llopart, Ficma Barcellona
Claudio Lauria, Ficma Barcellona

Tommaso Tessarolo, director of programming Current tv
Dominique Le Texier, FIFE Parigi
Nikolas Nikoladis, Ecofilm Rodi
Lisandro Nogueira, FICA Goyas Brasile
Loukia Rikaki, Ecofilm Rodi
Stefania Sandrone, Image de ville