Emilio Della Chiesa graduated from the School of Architecture (Venice) and is the Artistic Director of the River Film Festival. He began his career in cinema with music documentaries by Brian Eno, John Lourie, Arto Lindsay and Lidia Lunch. He regularly participated in Città in Cinema in L'Aquila, where he took part in internships and workshops with many of the greatest directors of photography, Rotunno, Storaro, Alekan, Almendros, Bayle, Zsigmond and others, after which he became a member of the AIC (Italian Association of Cinematographic Authors). Emilio was influenced by the personality of Joris Ivens, whom he met at the Venice Film Festival where he worked for over 30 years as a projectionist. In Venice, he also met many of the great personalities of cinema, such as Fellini and Bergman. He continued his training in cinema by working first as an assistant, then cameraman and then as director of photography at Olmi's school for 12 years. Subsequently, he was a jury member at various festivals around the world. As Director of Photography, he has made several documentaries, feature films and short films.

She fell in love with cinema when she first saw it at the age of 10, infected by her parents and Truffaut's Effetto Notte. She graduated in communication design, then graduated in film direction at the Luchino Visconti Civic School of Cinema, was an editor for a period, then assistant to an advertising director, author and television editor for Rai 2, DeAgostini - DeAbyDay, La3 TV.

Federico Grandesso works as a journalist specialised in cinema for the Chinese news agency Xinhua (Brussels office) and the European weekly New Europe. For these two newspapers, he has regularly published interviews with actors and directors he met during prestigious film festivals such as Venice, Cannes and Berlin; he has also written for national newspapers such as Le Soir Magazine (Belgium), Daily Mail (UK) and Together Magazine (Belgium). Grandesso is currently Board Member and contact person for the European Union and Asia of the Fellini Foundation for Cinema (Sion-Switzerland), this position has led him to organise exhibitions on Fellini in Singapore, Jakarta, Brussels, Bangkok and Calcutta. During his career, Grandesso was Academic Guest at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where he also gave monographic lectures and masterclasses. He then took care of communication for the Veneto Region (Brussels office) for four years, also managing exhibition and film projects; still in the field of communication and press office, he then realised projects with Fujitsu Belgium, the Catholic University of Milan and the Ministry of Health.

A graduate in Language Mediation and Modern Literature, Annalia Leone has translated articles and written film impressions for several cultural blogs.
She combines her passion for film narratives with her vocation for translation, handling subtitles for several Film Festivals. Since 2023 she has also worked in the audiovisual production sector as a coordinator, production assistant and travel & accommodation manager.
She trained at the three-year course in Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritage and Activities at Ca' Foscari University in Venice and at the master's course in Cinema, Television and Multimedia Production at Alma Mater Studiorum University in Bologna.

A Welshman who was introduced to the Festival through his friendship with Vincenzo Dimasi. As a retired engineer and safety officer, he was happy to combine a holiday in Italy with assistance with the Festival on technical and safety issues.

Teaching collaborator at the IUAV Diploma Course in Industrial Design; contract lecturer at SSIS of Ca' Foscari in Venice. Founder of FLUXUS TATA; initiated DESIGN WORKSHOP, InGuardia!, VENEZI.A.RTE etc.. He has curated and set up art and design exhibitions. He edited the 'Diario di Bordo' series for Overview. He was a founding member, secretary and president of the AR/CO (Contemporary Architecture) Association. He was editor of 'Padova e il suo territorio'. Author of hundreds of scientific articles dedicated to Architecture, Urbanism and Art. He has organised and participated as a speaker in numerous national and international courses and conferences. He carries out architectural design, work direction, safety coordination and design activities in Padua.

Born in Mantua, class of 1997, graduated in Graphic Design and Communication, and graduated in 2020 in Science and Techniques of Graphic and Multimedia Communication, at the IUSVE University of Verona.
Passionate about music and vinyl, he started his professional career in 2016 with the Strongvilla record label, creating visual communication for numerous music events and album covers.
Since 2020 he has been working with the web agency Logistic Design, designing websites and social media marketing campaigns.
Since January 2022, together with Leonardo Cavazzoni, he has been working with the River Film Festival for website maintenance and management.