Federica M. Cumer has always fostered her passion for cinema: her family tradition connected her from a very early stage to the activities of Cineforum Bolzano. She published several articles on children literature and cinema on the newspaper "Bolzano Mese”, and edited various publications and translations for Cineforum, ZeLIG School for Documentary and Filmclub Bolzano. On behalf of the Provincial Councillorship for Italian Culture, she has overseen and realized several cinematographical publications and activities, such as "OperaZione Cinema”, "Bit&Tutù”, the series "Itinerari nel Cinema” and the montage film "Madamina, il catalogo è questo”. Currently she is employed at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

Franca Verda Hunziker (Bellinzona, 1951) is a journalist since 1974, joining the Swiss national television news, working as a reporter, presenter and special correspondent. For twenty years she has mainly concentrated on international politics. She has been sent as a special correspondent in many European countries, in the Middle East, South America and in Southern Africa. In 1995 she worked for the in-depth column at the Information Department of TSI "FAX”. There she mainly concentrates on enquiries and documentaries with political or social themes, though she also covers the environment and cultural stories. She is in the executive committee of Castellinaria Festival in Bellinzona.

Leonardo Gandini was born in Bolzano in January 1961. He graduated in the History of Cinema from the Entertainment Department at Bologna University in November 1985. In the summer of 1990 he was assigned a Research Doctorate in the entertainment sector with a thesis on urban spaces in American cinema from the silent era to the talkies. Currently he teaches the history of Cinema at Trento University and teaches the Iconography of Cinema at DAMS in Bologna. He has published books about film direction and Hollywood cinema.

Andrea Natella is creative director of the communication agency guerrigliamarketing.it, with which he oversaw the marketing campaigns for several film productions. A sociologist and writer for television, he recently realized the TV program "Arcana – Inchieste sulla Magia” for the Italian public channel RaiDue. As a journalist, he investigated youth culture and communication for the newspapers "Il Giorno", "L’Unità”, "Liberazione” and others. Of late he collaborates with the daily paper "ePolis”. He was editor of the first Italian book on the phenomenon of illegal rave parties, "Rave Off” (Castelvecchi, 1995), and, using a variety of pseudonyms, he published essays on UFOs, extreme sex and the art of sabotage. He was born and lives in Rome.