Editor
Born in Rome in 1980. Following completion of high school in Rome (Liceo Classico Torquato Tasso), he obtained a diploma in film editing from Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 2004. He curated the editing and colour correction of many of Italy’s and foreign film directors, amongst whom: Abdellatif Kechiche, Pietro Marcello, Gabriele Mainetti, Claudio Noce, Pippo Mezzapesa, Daniele Segre, Lamberto Sanfelice e Carlo Sironi. In 2005 he taught post production at Turin’s Experimental Cinematography Centre, animation department, then at L’Aquila’s Centre in 2011. From 2013 to 2019 he taught digital post production at Rome’s Experimental Cinematography Centre. In 2016 he won the David di Donatello award for best film editing with the film “Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot” directed by Gabriele Marinetti, which won 7 awards. Amongst others, he curated the colour correction and post production of Mektoub My Love by Abdellatif Kechiche, selected by the 2017 Venice Film Festival, of Tir by Alberto Fasulo winner of the Marc’Aurelio d’Oro Roma award 2013 and of Sacro Gra by Gianfranco Rosi winner of the Leone d’Oro award in Venice in 2013.
Producer
Born in August 1953, Turin - Italy, where he graduated in Medicine in 1979. In 1984, together Elena Filippini and Stefano Tealdi, he founded Stefilm. He runs writing, production and pitching lab for Documentary in Europe, Docu Regio, Zelig School-Bolzano, Raccontare l'Avventura-Trento Film Festival, Bottega Finzioni-Bologna, IDS Academy, Opening Doors-Scuola Holden Torino, Film Garage-Scuola Holden Torino, Sguardi Factory Lab-Arezzo, Maja. Member of the Doc/it board and Documentary in Europe. As a producer he trained and followed most of Stefilm's productions“first director" for TV and Cinema. His last production is "My home, in Libya" by Martina Melilli was selected in the official selection at the Locarno festival 2018 and won the Corso Salani award, Trieste 2019.
Author and producer
Born in 1952, studied literature in Marburg and Hamburg. University lecturer at the University of Hamburg and at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" 1985-1991. Author of biographies. Television journalist since 1983 for ARD, ZDF, 3sat, arte. Founded in 1999 the film production "Magic Mountain Film Berlin" with focus on the cultural documentary. Author of numerous documentary films. „Wohin denn ich. Der arme Hölderlin, NDR 1985, „Kriminalgeschichte einer Verfälschung. Der Fall Friedrich Nietzsche“, ZDF 1999, „Der Kreuzzug der Kinder“(zus. mit Martin Papirowski) ZDF, arte 2006; „Einmal einen Mönch vergiften. Umberto Eco“ BR, arte 2007, „Klassentreffen in der Toskana. Der junge deutsche Film“ (zus. mit Natalie Schulz) WDR, 3Sat 2008; „Richard Strauss. Das umstrittene Musikgenie, mdr, arte 2014; „Branford Marsalis. The Soundillusionist“ hr, arte 2016, „Alexander Kluge. Der Universalkünstler aus Halberstadt“ mdr 2018.
Producer
Georg Tschurtschenthaler is a Berlin-based creative producer, writer, and showrunner of high-quality documentaries, series and interactive projects with more than 15 years of experience. In his career Georg has earned some 25 credits for his work on non-fiction projects, mostly for the international market. In addition he is co-founder of the Bolzano-based production house ECHO FILM. In 2013, he was awarded with the Grimme Award, the most important German TV award, as creative producer / showrunner in the 6x52 min series FAREWELL COMRADES; in 2014, he was nominated for the Emmys for THE WAGNER FILES, and in 2019 he was awarded with the Grimme Award as creative producer for the Sundance-premiering documentary THE CLEANERS.
The Valley, feature length documentary realised by ZeLIG graduate Nuno Escudeiro, with a team of mainly ZeLIG graduates (above all Nikolaus von Schlebrügge as DOP and Beatrice Segolini as Editor), received the Emerging International Filmmaker Award at the recent edition of the Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival, which took place in Toronto, Canada, few days ago.
