MEET THE REBELS
Check out the outstanding protagonists of all editions of Riviera International Film Festival.
President
Emily Mortimer
Actress
Emily Mortimer, a versatile British actress, has excelled in films like “Shutter Island” and the series “The Newsroom,” showcasing immense talent and adaptability.
Tamás Yvan Topolánszky
Director
Tamás Yvan Topolánszky is a Hungarian director and screenwriter known for the film “His Master’s Voice.”
Filippo Scotti
Actor
Filippo Scotti, Italian actor, gained recognition for his performance in Paolo Sorrentino’s film “The Hand of God.” A rising talent in Italian cinema.
Ludovica Rampoldi
screenwriter
Ludovica Rampoldi is an Italian journalist and writer. She is a co-author of “Gomorrah” and has contributed to prestigious magazines, standing out in the contemporary literary scene.
Anna Favella
actress
Anna Favella is a talented Italian actress, acclaimed for theatrical, cinematic, and television roles. Among her works, stands out “Sissi – The Musical,” where she shone in the role of the famous Austrian empress.
Maren Olson
Agent
Agent of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency.
President
Michela Andreozzi
Actress
Michela Andreozzi is a versatile Italian artist: actress, director, writer, and TV presenter. Versatile and talented in the Italian entertainment landscape.
Vanessa Beecroft
Artist
Vanessa Beecroft, Italian artist, is famous for her performances blending art and fashion. A pioneer in merging the human body with artistic context.
Vincenzo Venuto
Biologist, TV presenter and author
After working for ten years as a researcher, he begins his career on TV and leads programs such as Alive – Stories of survivors and Melaverde.
President
Rula Jebreal
JOURNALIST AND WRITER
Rula Jebreal is an award-winning journalist, writer, screenwriter and foreign policy analyst renowned for her groundbreaking work in Europe, the US.
Nigel Tapper
Climatologist
Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007.
Barbara Tarricone Hamilton
Journalist
Journalist and Author of Sky Cinema Italia.
Casey Affleck
ACTOR
An accomplished and striking performer, Academy Award® winner Casey Affleck has established himself as a powerful leading man with performances in multiple projects.
Dante Spinotti
PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTOR
Dante Spinotti is an Italian photography director. In 1993 he received the British Academy Film Award for “The Last of the Mohicans” he was also nominated for an Oscar for L. A. Confidential and Insider.
Joan Bergin
COSTUME DESIGNER
Joan is one of the most talented costume designers currently working in film, television and theater
Benedetto Habib
PRODUCER
Benedetto Habib is a producer and he is also partner of the multimedia company Indiana Production.
President
Andy Lipkis
Activist
Andy Lipkis has spent his life crowdsourcing climate disaster relief for emergency and long-term issues. At age 18, he founded TreePeople, and served as its president from 1973 to 2019.
Chiara Francini
ACTRESS
Chiara Francini is an italian actress and writer, known for Miracolo a Sant’Anna (2008), La peggior settimana della mia vita (2011) and Maschi contro femmine (2010).
Roberto Pisoni
MANAGER
Roberto Pisoni is the Sky Entertainment Channels Senior Director at Sky Italia.
Barbara Schiavulli
Journalist
War Correspondent Journalist
Alessandro Gassmann
ACTOR AND DIRECTOR
Alessandro Gassmann is an actor and writer, known for Transporter: Extreme (2005), Razza bastarda (2012) and Il silenzio grande (2021).
Nils Hartmann
Producer
Nils Hartmann has led Sky Italia’s original productions from its origins and is Senior Vice President of Sky Studios in Italy and Germany.
Gabriele Muccino
Director
Gabriele Muccino was born on May 20, 1967 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for La ricerca della felicità (2006), Come te nessuno mai (1999) and Ricordati di me (2003).
Luca Zingaretti
Actor
Luca Zingaretti is an italian actor and director, known for Alla luce del sole (2005), Alla ricerca di Nemo (2003) and Il commissario Montalbano (1999).
Giuseppe Camuncoli
CARTOONIST
Giuseppe Camuncoli, also known as Cammo, is an Italian cartoonist. He has worked tirelessly for DC Comics, Marvel and Image Comics.
Paolo Ruffini
Actor
Paolo Ruffini is an Italian actor, TV host, director and screenwriter.
Anna Safroncik
Actress
Anna Safroncik was born on January 4, 1981 in Kiev, Ukraine. She is an actress, known for Nine (2009), Metronotte (2000) and Le verità (2017).
Peter Zeitlinger
Photography director
He has been collaborating with the German director Werner Herzog between 1995 among his works Bad Lieutenant (2009) and Queen of the Desert.
Erri de Luca
Writer
After his debut with the book Not now, not here, he published fiction works which were translated into over 30 languages.
Davide De Michelis
Journalist
Davide Demichelis is an Italian journalist, TV presenter and documentary maker.
Cote de Pablo
Actress
Protagonist of the NCIS series in the role of Agent Ziva David.
Cristiana dell’Anna
Actress
She starred in Un posto al sole and as Co-protagonist in the Gomorra series in the role of donna Patrizia.
Yalitza Aparicio
Actress
Nominated for the Academy award 2019 AS Best Actress FOR the film Rome by Alfonso Cuaron.
Stefano Bises
Scriptwriter
We remember among his projects the TV series Gomorra. He also wrote other series, such as: Il Capo dei Capi, Distretto di Polizia, La Squadra.
Ada Bonvini
Executive producer
CEO and executive producer of The Family / Maremosso, a company that deals with the development and production of feature films, documentaries, TV and web series.
John Campisi
Agent
He works for the CAA of Hollywood, a dominant and influential company in the field of film talent agencies.
Paola Casella
Journalist
Professional journalist and film critic.
Linda Caridi
Actress
Interpreter of films such as Felice Impastato, Antonia, Mamma + Mamma and Nome di Donna, directed by Marco Tullio Giordana.
Carlo Carlei
Director and screenwriter
Director and screenwriter, since he was a child, he cultivated a passion for cinema, comics and American literature. He has worked on numerous successful national and international projects.
Martina Colombari
Actress and model
She starred in Carabinieri, Un Medico in Famiglia, Al di là del Lago.
Andrea Crosta
activist
International consultant to government agencies that fight environmental crimes, he is the founder of the Earth League International (ELI).
Marton Csoksas
Actor
Interpreter of films such as The Lord of the Rings, The Bourne Supremacy, The Equalizer.
J. Miles Dale
Producer
Oscar winner for the film La Forma Dell’Acqua by Guillermo Del Toro. He produced Hollywoodland with Ben Afflek, The Thing (2011), La Madre with Jessica Chastain.
Joséphine De La Baume
Actress and model
Greta Ferro
Actress
She started working as a model for the Why Not Model Agency. Her professional turning point came in 2018 when she was among the interpreters of the short film for Armani entitled Una giacca.
Maurizio di Giovanni
Writer
Author of I bastardi di Pizzofalcone and of the books on Commissario Ricciardi.
Cristina Donadio
Actress
Co-protagonist of the Gomorra series in the role of “Scianel”.
Stella Egitto
Actress
She starred in the Italian series Distretto di Polizia and in the film In Guerra per Amore with Pif.
Claire Forlani
Actress
Protagonist of Meet Joe Black with Brad Pitt and of the CSI New York series.
David Franzoni
Writer and producer
Ridley Scott’s Gladiator Academy Award. Amistad scriptwriter, directed by Steven Spielberg and King Arthur, directed by Antoine Fuqua (2004).
Carlo G. Gabardini
Actor and author
He has been an actor and author of Cameracafé, Piloti, CrozzaItalia, Stasera Casa Mika. He has acted in L’uomo della carità by A. de Robilant, Si può fare by G. Manfredonia, Patria by F. Farina, and in other films for the cinema.
Marta Gastini
Actress
She starred in the film The Rite with Anthony Hopkins, for which she was awarded with a Nastro d’Argento (2011) as Best Supporting Actress. Interpreter in the recent Italian film Bentornato Presidente.
Adriano Giannini
Actor
He starred in the films such as The Revolution on Two Horses, Baciami Ancora, The Prince of the Desert, The Hidden Color of Things and in the In Treatment and 48 Hours series.
Eleonora Giovanardi
Actress
She starred in the film Quo Vado con Checco Zalone and Christmas in London – God save the queen.
Remo Girone
Actor
Protagonist in the TV series La Piovra and interpreter of films such as L’angelo con la Pistola, Persona non Grata and in the recent Le Mans ’66 – the great challenge.
Nicolò Govoni
Activist, writer
Founder of the Still I Rise association, he opened the Mazì school in Samos and is the author of the book Bianco come Dio.
Nils Hartmann
Senior director di Sky Italia TV
Executive producer of “Original Sky” products including X Factor, the Gomorra series, 1992, Romanzo Criminale and ZeroZeroZero.
Paola Jacobbi
Journalist
Since 2003 he has been special correspondent and Entertainment Senior Editor of the weekly Vanity Fair. He has written several essays on fashion and cinema and in 2013 he published the novel You know who I am.
Giampiero Judica
Actor
Performer in Don’t Kill and Night Passengers and Boardwalk Empire. He also starred in Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World.
Eric Kopeloff
Producer
He has produced both independent films and high-budget films, working with many directors and actors, from rookies to Oscar winners. He is the producer of Snowden (2016) directed by Oliver Stone.
Silvia Locatelli
Journalist
Elle journalist.
Valentina Lodovini
Actress
She starred in Benvenuti al Sud, The Right Distance and A Liberal Passion.
Kenneth Lonergan
Screenwriter
Kenneth Lonergan (New York, October 16, 1962) is a screenwriter, playwright and director. In 2017 he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Manchester by the Sea.
Nicola Lusardi
Screenwriter
Writer of In treatment, for cinema wrote Come il vento.
Margherita Mannino
Actress
Inteprete in Lovers e La mafia non è più quella di una volta.
Alessandra Mastronardi
Actress
Protagonist of the TV series I Cesaroni, of the film To Rome with Love by Woody Allen and of Life by Anton Corbijn.
Mokadelic
Band
Italian musical group specialized in the composition of soundtracks for cinema, TV and theater.
Matthew Modine
Actor
Protagonist of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, Birdy by Alan parker, Robert Altman’s Streamers, which earned him a Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival, and the Stranger Things series.
Eddy Moretti
Producer and co-founder of Vice Media
Co Founder of Vice Media and Emmy Award winner for his documentaries. Producer of films such as The Report with Adam Driver.
Sergio Múñiz
Actor, singer and model
Interpreter in La Signora delle Camelie and I Cesaroni.
Gianluca Neri
Producer
Italian film producer, television author, radio host and blogger.
Gaia Trussardi
Businesswoman
She was the creative director of the Trussardi house until 2018, and then she definitively dedicated herself to music.
Marta Perego
Journalist and writer
Presenter of Adesso Cinema she wrote the book Le Grandi Donne del Cinema.
Fiorenza Pieri
Actress
She is of Florentine origin, an actress, and director. She made her debut as an actress at the Stabile Theater of Genoa and played leading roles in numerous productions of national theaters.
Violante Placido
Actress and singer
Protagonist of Sergio Rubini’s Soul Mate, The American with George Clooney, Ghost Rider-Spirit of Vengeance with Nicolas Cage and 7 Minutes by Michele Placido.
Aubrey Plaza
Actress
American actress, comedian, stand-up comedian and producer, star of the kult Ingrid Goes West and Best sellers with Micheal Caine.
Marta Pozzan
Journalist and Influencer
Professional fashion blogger started collaborating with Vanity Fair. In the United States she puts her signature on the columns of the Huffington Post and collaborates with Vogue Japan and The New York Times.
Gianni Quaranta
Set designer
Oscar for Best Production Design in 1987 for Camera con vista by James Ivory. Set designer of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci, a leggenda del Santo Bevitore by Ermanno Olmi.
Nathalie Rapti Gomez
Actress
Interpreter of films such as L’abbuffata by Mimmo Calopreste, Ex by Fausto Brizzi and Ride by Jacopo Rondinelli. On TV R.I.S. Imperfect Crimes, Inspector Coliandro.
Fabio Resinaro
MOVIE DIRECTOR
Director of Dolceroma he is also a screenwriter and producer. Together with Fabio Guaglione he directed the film Mine, with Arnie Hammer.
Stefano Sala
Model
He was part of the cast of Notti sul ghiaccio and Ballando con le stelle, presented on Raiuno by Milly Carlucci.
Dougray Scott
Actor
Antagonist of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2 and protagonist of The legend of a love-Cindarella and Ripley’s Game.
Nina Senicar
Actress and model
Interpreter of Papillon with Rami Malek and in the film Tutto Molto Bello.
Ed Solomon
Screenwriter
His films include Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black, McG’s Charlie’s Angels and Louis Leterrier’s Now You See Me. Screenwriter of the MOSAIC series directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Paolo Stella
Writer, Art Director
Interpreter in Un Ciclone in Famiglia and Donna Detective.
