A closer look at the professional curricula and bio of Ilaria Feole, Antonella Benanzato, Angelica Lorenzon. Here, all about the Queer Lion 2021 jury
ILARIA FEOLE
president
Ilaria Feole, born in Milan in 1983. She writes about cinema and tv series for the weekly magazine Film Tv. Author of the monographic books Wes Anderson – Genitori, figli e altri animali (Bietti, 2014), Michele Soavi – Cinema e televisione (Bietti, 2018) ) and C’era una volta in America di Sergio Leone (Gremese, 2018); she is co-author of Il mio terzo dizionario delle serie tv cult (BeccoGiallo, 2019), Tutto Fellini (Gremese, 2019) and Architetture del desiderio – Il cinema di Céline Sciamma (Asterisco, 2021).
ANTONELLA BENANZATO
Antonella Benanzato is an Italian journalist reporting for Askanews Press Agency based in Venice (North-East Italy). Artist, musician, and composer who endeavors to portray her world of sound onto canvas, painting music as if she wrote it on musical staff paper. Therefore, the basis for her artistic research relates to music, sound, light, and movement. In the creation of her pieces, Benanzato employs mixed techniques and mediums. “Cromogonie – A inner landscape portrait” is her last art exhibition. Antonella Benanzato is one of Cantiere delle Donne (Facebook group) founders.
ANGELICA LORENZON
Angelica Lorenzon, born in the province of Treviso in 1990. Interpreter, she began during her university career she began a now well established collaboration with the website Vero Cinema, during her university years. Thanks to that, she got to interview several prominent figures of the international cinema scene, including Golden Lion 2016 winner Lav Diaz.
The jury will be coordinated by MARCO BUSATO, General Delegate and Vice President of Queer Lion Association, DANIEL N. CASAGRANDE, founder of the award, journalist, member of SNCCI (Union of Italian Film Critics), teacher of History of Film Language at Università Popolare in Venice, and by LGBT activists ADRIANO VIRONE and JANI KUŠTRIN.
