Jury | Casa Rossa International
The jury of the Casa Rossa International competition:
Chiara Malta, director; Federica Illuminati, film agent and producer; and Tommaso Colliva, musician (Calibro 35) and record producer.
Chiara Malta has directed several short films presented and awarded in numerous international festivals. After the documentary Armando e la politica for La Lucarne Arte/ZDF, she became resident artist at Villa Medici. Her first feature film, Simple Women with Jasmine Trinca and Elina Löwensohn, opened the Discovery section of the Toronto Film Festival in 2019. Linda e il pollo, her first animated feature film, won the Cristal at Annecy and was nominated for the EFA’s five-year run, and received the Cesar 2024 for best animated film. In France she regularly directs episodes of the series Un si grand soleil for France TV. In Italy she directed the first season of the series Antonia, produced by Grøenlandia and Fidelio for Amazon Prime.
After graduation, Federica Illuminati began her career at MTV Europe, later moving to Rome to collaborate with Marco Bellocchio. She then worked with several film productions, collaborating with professionals such as casting director Francesco Vedovati, director Gabriele Muccino and producer Pietro Valsecchi. Later, she worked as a film agent, first at Officine Artistiche and then founding her own agency, Atelier Illuminati, in 2019. She has been a member of L.A.R.A., an association that has brought together the main representation agencies in the Italian film industry for nearly 30 years. In 2003 she founded Produzioni Illuminati, with which she has produced films, documentaries and fashion movies. She has experience in film scouting for over a century.
Tommaso Colliva is an Italian record producer, a multiple Grammy Award nominee and winner. Records produced by him have won the most prestigious awards in music including David di Donatello, Targa Tenco, Nastri D’Argento and many others. The song Fai Rumore (Diodato) produced by him won the 70th Sanremo Festival. He is the creator and founder of Calibro 35, the band sampled by Dr.Dre and JayZ. With Calibro 35 he has recorded and produced albums distributed worldwide, as well as numerous soundtracks including that of the TV series Blanca.
They have the burden and honor of decreeing the first winning film of the new Bellaria Film Festival competition.
