8. Queer Lion Award: jury

Alessandro Zan
Alessandro Zan

Heading the jury this year is Alessandro Zan, rounding up the jury, Daniel N. Casagrande, creator of the Queer Lion Award, and Marco Busato, General Delegate of the cultural association CinemArte.

Alessandro Zan (Padua, 1973), member of the Italian Parliament, working in the Commission for Environment of the Parliament, and LGBT rights activist. Managed to activate the first Italian anagraphical registry for unmarried couples, either homosexual or heterosexual, and has been in the past, Assessor appointed to Environment, Labor and Social Policies, and International Cooperation for the Town Council of Padua. Former President of Arcigay Veneto, and creator of Padova Pride Village, one of the main summer-long shows in Italy. During his MP mandate, he presented several law proposals, among them one concerning the training of school teachers against homophobic bullyism, and one aiming at the legalization of same-sex civil unions.