John Canciani is a film collector since he’s a teenager. He acquired his first experiences in curating films, when he founded and organised a film club in Winterthur. In 2009 he became member of the selection team and board member at the Swiss Youth Film Festival in Zurich. In 2009 he joined the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and was, amongst others, Head of Youth Programme, Programmer of the International Competition and Assistant to the Artistic Director. In 2012 he was assigned as Artistic Director. John is also a film curator at Kino Cameo Winterthur, where he advices the programme manager, regularly curates film programmes and moderates film talks.

Daniela Persico (Treviso, 1981) is film critic and programmer, based in Milan. She is the Head of special events and she is part of the selection committee of Locarno Film Festival. She’s founder and editor in chief of the online quarterly Filmidee ( www.filmidee.it ) and she manages the Filmidee Summer School. She’s in the selection’s committee of International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg (Germany), she is consultant for Nara Film Festival (Japon), Festival dei Popoli (Florence, Italy) and ISreal – Festival di cinema del reale (Nuoro, Italy). She wrote essays for various collective books and edited books on the work of Claire Simon (2008), Wang Bing (2010), Ross McElwee (2013) and Emmanuel Carrère (2014). In 2022, she was appointed artistic director of the 40th edition of the Bellaria Film Festival.

Stefanie Rusterholz is Co-head of the Swiss film distributor trigon-film. The film foundation trigon-film has been releasing carefully selected films from Latin America, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe since 1988 and runs its own DVD edition and the streaming platform filmingo.