Our Team

Buffalo Roots Film Festival

Greta Pierotti

Honorary Chairwoman

Sveva Manfredi Zavaglia

Visual art direction

Valentina Cafagna

Location manager and film industry professional

Igor W. Schiaroli

Festival Creator, Expert of communication and technologies on Internet network.,Functional Specialist. Economist and Technologist, Creator & Reporter, Headline Editor, Future Trend Planner.

Delphine Pediconi

Young juror passionate about cinema, with previous experience as assistant director and set designer, currently a student of “Theatre, Cinema and Media” at the university La Sapienza

Michele De Gasperis

Extensive experience in internationalizing Italian companies and attracting foreign investment to Italy; has handled media and communication for multinational corporations, universities, central government agencies; on local, national, and international companies boards.

Gastone Seletnich

As part of a video production, featured as food expert and historian drawing from extensive research and passion for exploring how food has shaped human society.

Pietro Giacone

Film School Professor. VR pro.

Song O’Neal

A consummate lover of cinema, she has dabbled in the industry by writing, directing, acting and producing UK short films.

Carlo Infante

Lecturer in Performing Media, cultural designer and founder of Urban Experience. He directed, in the 1980s, festivals such as Scenarios of the Immaterial, an area in which video theater and early experiments in performing media were developed.