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Bruce Sterling [Neon]
Bruce Sterling is the author of ten novels, three of which were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. The Difference Engine, co-written with William Gibson, was a national bestseller. He has also published four short-story collections and four nonfiction books. He has written for many magazines, including Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Technology Review, and Wired, where he has been a contributing editor since its inception. Sterling lives in Austin, Texas.
Antonio Serra [Neon]
Antonio Serra is an Italian comic designer. He starts moving his first steps in the publishing world in the late seventies. In 1982 he meets Michele Medda and Bepi Vigna with whom he creates for Sergio Bonelli Editore some scripts for Martin Mystery and Dylan Dog and prepares the draft for Nathan Never and Legs Weaver. Since 2005, along with Gianmauro Cozzi, he has been working on the project that, in the fall 2009, will debut on the newsstands with the title Greystorm.
Gilles Esposito [Neon]
Gilles Esposito is a Franch journalist and film critic. After collaborating with prestigious magazines such as “Sofa” and “La Lettre du cinéma”, today he works for “Mad Movies”, a magazine focusing on fantastic and genre films, founded in 1972.
Enzo G. Castellari [Méliès d'Argent]
Enzo G. Castellari, born Enzo Girolami, is a director, screenwriter, actor, editor and Italian film producer. Considered one of the best Italian directors of action movies, he has experimented various genres, from spaghetti westerns to Poliziotteschi, from post-nuclear to adventure. He directed films become cult, High Crime, 1990: The Bronx Warriors, Keoma, The great white, The Inglorious Bastards.
Andrea Magnani [Méliès d'Argent]
Andrea Magnani is the administrator of the production company Pigrim Film and he has a long time experience as a screenwriter for television. He created TV series Grandi Domani, broadcasted by Italia 1 in 2005. In 2002 he won the Solinas Award with La lunga corsa, a story for a movie, and his short film The screenwriter has been selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus.
Marcello Rossi [Méliès d'Argent]
After completing his studies in Engineering, he devotes professionally to science fiction. Publishes the "Encyclopedia of science fiction on TV", winner of two “Italia prizes”. He founds the production company Serenity, and one of his first projects is the TV program Wonder Stories (Jimmy-SKY), which earns him the third “Italia prize”. He now works with home videos dealing with hundreds of titles, including The Twilight Zone, UFO and Space 1999. In 2005 he became consultant of the Sci Fi, international TV channel dedicated to the fantastic and science fiction.
