Antonio Cosentino
(President of the Jury)
Founder and director of the Centro di ricerca sull'Indagine Filosofica, High School teacher of Philosophy and History, professor and supervisor at the SSIS (Teacher Training College) of the Università della Calabria. Co-editor of the series "Impariamo a pensare", Liguori editore, which also published his work Costruttivismo e formazione. Proposte per lo sviluppo della professionalità docente. Editor of Filosofia e formazione. 10 anni di Philosophy for children in Italia, and other publications. Author of articles and essays on philosophical and pedagogical-didactic issues appeared in books and journals. In 2008 he wrote Filosofia come pratica sociale (Apogeo).

Marco Aime
Anthropologist, journalist and writer. Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Università di Genova. Researcher in Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali, as well as on the Italian Alps. Contributor to many Italian newspapers, he also published anthropology essays based on his expeditions: Chalancho, ome, masche, sabaque. Credenze e civiltà provenzale in valle Grana (Centre de Minouranço Prouvençal, Coumboscuro, 1992); Il mercato e la collina. Il sistema politico dei Tangba (Taneka) del Benin settentrionale. Passato e presente (Il Segnalibro, 1997); Le radici nella sabbia (EDT, 1999); Diario dogon (Bollati Boringhieri, 2000); Sapersi muovere. Pastori transumanti di Roaschia, with S. Allovio and P.P. Viazzo (Meltemi, 2001); La casa di nessuno. Mercati in Africa occidentale (Bollati Boringhieri, 2002), Eccessi di culture (Einaudi, 2004). Other writings: Taxi brousse; Fiabe nei barattoli. Nuovi stili di vita spiegati ai bambini; Le nuvole dell'Atakora.

Andrea Lissoni
Art historian and curator. While researching the relationships between contemporary art, performing arts, moving images and marginal imagery he is also a scholar, a lecturer (Università di Udine, Università Bocconi), an art exhibition organizer and the editor of many publishing projects. Co-director of the Netmage International Festival and co-founder of the xing network. Editor of Cujo, contributor to "Le Purple Journal", "Flash Art", "Mousse,Close-Up" and Rolling Stone Italia" (Arts section). In 2005 he developed one his most important projects: Circular, an exhibition sponsored by Domus at the San Siro stadium in Milan. In 2006 he was artistic director of Domus Free Zone. Editor of Frontiere e territori, Il cinema di Amos Gitai, Gabriele Basilico, Architetture, città, visioni and Fra le immagini. Foto, cinema, video di Raymond Bellour for Bruno Mondadori Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Buziol in Venice, in 2008 he organized two video festivals Ballads from our invisible parks (La rada, Festival del cinema di Locarno) and Clouds of sounds, innerparks (Fair:play, Lugano), participated in an interdisciplinary research project Check-in architecture on new European urban landscapes and organized the exhibition Daydream Fields (Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venezia) as well as Jimmie Durham's solo performance La vida continua at Codalunga (Vittorio Veneto, Treviso).

Paolo Mazzucato
Author and director at Rai Bolzano since 1997. Curator and speaker of "Zeppelin" a cultural programme on RadioDue Regione. He makes documentaries on local issues for Rai Bolzano. He directed "É domenica papà", a Raitre Sunday programme for children and currently works as a television director for RaiSport productions.

Anna Scalfi
Artist. Her activity is based on the attempt to let contemporary language break into everyday life, often critically rethinking common spaces such as universities and administrative buildings . Currently in London, she is working on the project From inside (I like the system), a PhD program of the Department of Accounting, Finance and Management at the University of Essex. Among her recent work: Celata (sotto la piazza scorre una roggia), Manifesta 7 Parallel Events, Trento (2008); Italia, esterno notte, agosto 2008, Loggia degli Abati, Palazzo Ducale, Genova (2008); Ogni nostra cognizione prencipia da' sentimenti, Videoart Yearbook 2008; Always half full, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d'Alba (2008); Welcome to Italy, Mart, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (2007); Money will save the World, Palais Brongniart, Place de la Bourse, Paris (2007).

Sara Ventroni
Poet and writer. Contributor to many magazines and newspapers ("Nuovi Argomenti", "L'immaginazione", "Poesia", "Accattone", "Liberazione", "Il Foglio", etc). She took part in major national and international festivals and worked with musicians such as Alberto Mandarini, Luigi Cinque, Canio Loguercio, Maria Pia De Vito. She narrated the lives of Jim Morrison and David Bowie on RadioTre. As a playwriter, she authored Chi fa la spia (regia di G. Vacis) for RadioDue. Her writings appear in many poetry and narrative anthologies, among which A occhi aperti, Mondadori 2008. Her work has been translated into Spanish by Isabel Miguel, into English by Alistair Eliot and Anamaria Crowe Serrano, into French by Jean Portante and into Croatian by Snježana Husić. In 2005 she published the play Salomè for No Reply; in 2006 she published Nel Gasometro for Le Lettere, which was awarded the Premio Napoli 2007.