Our experts

Aleksandra Świerk - writer and script consultant, co-founder of Polish script development workshop ATELIER, she has been working as an mentor for international development labs such as TorinoFilmLab, Cinekid, Full Circle Lab. Her scripts received awards at both national and international script competitions, and the shorts she has directed gained recognition at festivals around Europe. Her writer's experience covers a wide range of genres, including one of her favourite - animation.

RACCONTI #12 | SCRIPT TUTOR

Eilon Ratzkovsky has been producing feature films and TV series as CEO and chief producer of July August Productions for the past 25 years. He has produced over 20 feature films and 12 TV series in Israel. He works as a tutor for TorinoFilmLab and Biennale College Cinema, and as the Head of Studies at TFL Extended. He heads the content company QUIDDITY.

RACCONTI #9 - #10 | PRODUCTION TUTOR

Angelica Cantisani has been Creative Advisor for RACCONTI since 2018. She joined the Film Commission Torino Piemonte as an International Events and Projects Coordinator in 2008. She has been the Office Manager for EUFCN – European Film Commission Network since 2011 and the Project Manager for TorinoFilmLab since 2016.

RACCONTI #8 - 10 | CREATIVE ADVISOR

Eszter Angyalosy is a Hungarian writer, screenwriter, story editor and TV drama writing tutor. After working in the publishing industry for seven years, she joined HBO Hungary as a development editor in 2015. Among her projects are the third season of In Treatment (Hungarian version) and the second and third seasons of Golden Life.

RACCONTI #9 - #10 | SCRIPT TUTOR

Nicolò Gallio is an Italian consultant who supports film and entertainment marketing agencies and film development programs as a research and insight analyst, digital PR, strategist and copywriter. He holds a PhD in Film Studies and gives lectures on topics related to cinema, audiences and digital media.

RACCONTI #7 - #10 | AUDIENCE DESIGN TUTOR

Gino Ventriglia is based in Rome and works as a story editor and tutor for various international development programs, including Interchange, POWR Baltic Stories Exchange, TorinoFilmLab and the Jerusalem Film Lab.

RACCONTI #8 - #9 | PITCHING TRAINER

Riema Reybrouck currently manages her PR firm Post Bills, which promotes and releases films, series and documentaries for production companies, and works as a press office for various film festivals and broadcasters.

RACCONTI #8 - #9 | AUDIENCE DESIGN TUTOR

Nicola Lusuardi is an Italian dramaturge, screenwriter and story editor. Since 1990, he has been working for the Italian networks Rai, Mediaset and Sky as a supervisor for TV series such as In Treatment (Italian version) and 1992. He has been Head of Development at the production company The apartment since 2020.

RACCONTI #8 | CREATIVE ADVISOR & RACCONTI #3 - #7 | GUEST LECTURER

Cyril Tysz is a French screenwriter and head writer. He has been involved in numerous live action and animation series, such as Playmobil’s Super 4, Marvel’s Iron Man and the hit series SKAM, which he successfully adapted for France Télévisions.

RACCONTI #8 | MAIN TUTOR

Ludovica Ferrario is an Italian art director and production designer. She has worked with major directors such as Wim Wenders and Abbas Kiarostami as well as with Paolo Sorrentino, first as an art director in The Great Beauty, then as a production designer in Youth and The Young Pope.

RACCONTI #8 | PRODUCTION DESIGN TUTOR

Dario Bonamin is an Italian screenwriter. He works for the most important Italian TV producers and broadcasters. He is also involved in the production of mood reels for those who participate in development programs such as Series Lab Italia, Series Lab Europe and RACCONTI.

RACCONTI #8 | MOOD BOARD EXPERT

Jana Burbach is a German freelance scriptwriter known for Bad Banks, the ZDF web series Just Push Abuba and the first season of the prime-time RBB/ARD legal show Die Heiland.

RACCONTI #7 | HEAD WRITER

Kristian Costa-Zahn works as a Creative Director at Banijay LAB. In 2015, he won an International Emmy for the interactive crime project Dina Foxx – Deadly Contact.

RACCONTI #7 | MENTOR

Manda Levin is an executive producer with a long-standing experience in the production of international TV series. She has developed and produced, among others, The Tunnel, All the Small Things and A Thing Called Love for the BBC and Kudos Film and TV.

RACCONTI #5 - #7 | WRITERS’ ROOM SUPERVISOR, STORY CONSULTANT

Wiktor Piątkowski is a showrunner, screenwriter and producer (Bahama Films). He created and co-wrote HBO’s first original series produced in Poland, The Border, and the ZDF web series Just Push Abuba. He also co-wrote the first Polish romantic comedy produced by Netflix, Squared Love.

RACCONTI #7 | MENTOR

Mathieu Van de Velde is a French producer. He was the Head of Business Development for StudioCanal Australia and New Zealand for four years before founding the production company Black Sheep Films in 2016. His TV series Patricia Moore was released on Blackpills in 2018.

RACCONTI #7 | MENTOR

Christian Jeltsch has more than 50 writing credits, including several episodes of Tatort and two TV series. He has received several nominations and awards for his work. Together with Olaf Kraemer, he wrote the three-part novel Abaton.

RACCONTI #6 | HEAD WRITER

David Varela is a UK-based writer and producer of interactive projects that bring together games, theatre and video. He recently developed a Scandinavian TV drama, a VR series and a new Sherlock project.

RACCONTI #6 | TRANSMEDIA EXPERT

Harold Valentin is a producer known for feature films like Lou! and TV series such as the award-winning Call My Agent! for France 2. He is also developing several different new shows with partners like ARTE.

RACCONTI #6 | MENTOR

Maria Feldman is an Israeli producer and co-creator of award-winning series and feature films such as False Flag, Fauda, Intimate Grammar and Gay Days.

RACCONTI #6 | MENTOR

John Yorke is a British drama producer, consultant and lecturer on all forms of storytelling. He has worked on big popular shows such as The Missing, EastEnders and Hustle for Channel Four Drama and BBC Drama Production.

RACCONTI #6 | MENTOR, STORY CONSULTANT

J.V. Hart is an American screenwriter and producer known for Hook, Epic and Crossbones.

RACCONTI #5 | SHOWRUNNER, MASTERCLASS

Emma Frost is a British TV showrunner, executive producer and movie screenwriter known, for example, for the Emmy Award-winning TV show The White Queen.

RACCONTI #4 | MASTERCLASS

Daniel Speck is a German screenwriter, author and dramaturge known for projects such as Kiss Me Kismet and Maria, He Doesn’t Like it.

RACCONTI #1 - #3 | LECTURER, TUTOR, HEAD WRITER

Giacomo Durzi is an Italian screenwriter, producer and director known, for instance, for the Italian TV series In Treatment (Sky Italia).

RACCONTI #1 - #3 | LECTURER, TUTOR, HEAD WRITER

Thomas Schlesinger is an American screenwriter, dramaturge and screenwriting consultant. He was the story consultant on the HBO documentaries Prom Night in Mississippi and A Small Act, both of which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, as well as on Nowhere in Africa, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

RACCONTI #1 - #3 | LECTURER, TUTOR, HEAD WRITER

Jeppe Gjervig Gram is a Danish showrunner and screenwriter known for his work on Borgen, winner of the BAFTA for Best International Series in 2012.

RACCONTI #3 | GUEST LECTURER

Roberto Amoroso is an Italian creative producer who has worked for Sundance Channel in the US and for Universal Networks in Rome. Under his creative supervision, Sky has produced several TV movies and TV series such as Romanzo criminale and Gomorra.

RACCONTI #3 | GUEST LECTURER

David Schalko is an Austrian writer, producer and director and one of Austria’s most successful film and television concept developers. He is known for Braunschlag, Sendung ohne Namen and Dorfers Donnerstalk.

RACCONTI #2 - #3 | GUEST LECTURER

Sibylle Kurz is a pitching expert specialized in intensive pitching training, project presentations, proposal development, dramaturgical doctoring and consultancy work for professional and personal issues.

RACCONTI #1 - #2 | PITCHING TRAINER