BIOGRAPHY DIRECTOR: SIMONETTA ROSSI (Asmara, Ethiopia)
Director and ART director, graduated in Modern Letters at the University of Parma. She worked as a photojournalist for several newspapers before dedicating herself to art multimedia and in 2001 founded digitalsquad (www.digitalsquad.net: video productions - assembly - special effects - documentaries - DVD - communication). She has written many screenplays for short, fiction and documentaries. She won a scholarship for a Master's degree in computer science and techniques of the show promoted by Dario Fò and Bernardo Bertolucci, comes into contact with professionals as Gabriele Salvatores, Pappi Corsicato and decides to devote herself to film direction. The love for the cinema leads this young director to work in the field of special effects at Cinecittà Studios in Rome as a visual artist.

MARCO GALLANTI, (Parma, Italy).
Music Composer, Sound Technician, Production Assistant and responsible for International Public Relations. After completing college at nineteen years old, he attended a one year course in Sound Engineering. Passionate about music since his youth, he started playing the guitar, singing and studying sound synthesis on synthesizers. He has always been keen on cinema and this led him to start experimenting with composing music for video. He now composes music soundtracks for Digitalsquad, besides being the Production Sound Mixer and Audio Post Production manager. www.marcogallanti.com

COMPANY PROFILE:

Digitalsquad is an audiovisual Production and Services company founded in November 2001. We produce documentaries, short films and advertisements. In the future Digitalsquad aims at becoming an innovative company regarding its approach to audiovisual methods and a pioneer in combining cinematographic and documentary productions with the needs of international cooperation, preservation and cultural, social and environmental development. Productions: The Animations carried by Guido Manuli for Bozzetto Film (2003 documentary) – The Tree of the Clouds (2003 Animation) - Italian Cuisine (documentary for Barilla 2004) - Black Out 02 (Short Film 2004) - The Rossi Family and Road Safety (docu-fiction 2005) - LANCIA Y LANCIA MUSA (advertising FIAT 2006) - Pixies, Witches and Magic, a long journey through the traditions of the Appenine Mountains (documentary 2007) - Nora's house (short film 2009). "Eyes closed." (documentary 2010) produced by Simonetta Rossi in Association with ARTE FRANCE, The original title is "Ad occhi chiusi" It is distributed in Home video by CINEHOLLYWOOD ITALIA.

OUR STAFF

GIUSEPPE CUGINI
Assistant Director for DIGITALSQUAD since 2008.
He is graduated in physics and is a Visual ARTIST.

MARIO FERRAGUTI
Writer and researcher. He is graduated in Modern Literature, and has collaborated since 2007 with digitalsquad.