biography

BEHIND THE SCENES

Maria Assunta Karini

Maria Assunta Karini starts as a sculptor. She graduated at the Ecole National Superieure des Beaux Arts
in Paris in the sculpture section. In Carrara she studied marble technologies, and attended courses concerning sculptural technologies on granite for four months in Montreal, Canada.
Karini attended a sculpture workshop SGF in Carrara, Italy.
She has participated in numerous exhibitions and competitions of monumental sculpture (Israel, Brazil, Mexico, France, Czech Republic, Korea). Some of most prominent Karini public works can be found in numerous international public and private collections.
Subsequently, she undertook a path of visual experimentation in photography and video installation. She realizes numerous projects through the mixture of these two means of expression, thanks to an individual course of scientific research and its applications in art, and to international collaborations with multidisciplinary artistic groups.
At the same time Karini develops a work of director and writer, producing several short and medium length films that have participated in national and international festivals (Cannes, Seattle, Seoul, Tehran, Clermont Ferrand, Barcelona, Athens, Warsaw, Amsterdam etc.), and won several prizes and awards .
Karini took part at numerous expositions in museums,  foundations and galleries, among  others Contemporary Art Museum BAC in Barcelona (Spain) and Mart Contemporary Art Museum of Trento and Rovereto (Italy).
She collaborated in making of music videos such as the docu-movie Break blues, in which big names of American music and literature took part, for example Joe Lansdale, Watermelon Slim, Super Chikan, Anthony Neal Smith, Tim Willocks, Frank Lisciandro and Lance Leadbetter.




Alena Juriša      

Born in  Fiume  (Croazia). Attends  the  Academy of  Fine  Arts of Venice, studying  Painting.
Subsequently she graduates in Communication Sciences, obtaining a degree in Intercultural Communication at the Milano – Bicocca University. From 1998. she carries out several courses of painting and creativeness for children and continues her activity of translator/interpreter from Croatian, English and German. Jurisa collaborates with RAI ( Italian Radio Television) as Advisor for the events during Prix Italia 2005, international contest for Radio,Television and Web.   
She achieves the qualification of Intercultural mediator and works in various schools in Piacenza and province, planning and coordinating educational projects.  
From 2010. Jurisa collaborates with KMA Production in the creation and organization of artistic projects in Italy and abroad. She is working actually also on a series of children's stories.






Luka Moncaleano

Luca  Moncaleano  was  born in  Piacenza  1990. He  is graduating  at the  faculty of  Artistic and
Performing domain in Parma (Italy); in  2004 he wins the  prize Italian Factory for the young   Italian painting. In 2005 his first personnel to the "Factory  of  the Vapour"of Milan  attended  by the  critic Alessandro  Riva. In 2006  the  second  solo show  "The  digital  imprint  of  the  thumb  of  Astrid” attended  by Gianluca Marziani and Chiara Canali at the  LEAP Laboratory Energy Environment Piacenza.  He has   participated  in different collective shows: 2007  To  Be  Continued.. Fabbrica  Borroni  Milan,  2008  Contemporary art festival  Future  Present  Faenza  Museum Carlo  Zauli , 2008   Rumors  ex  Arsenal Borgo Dora  Turin, 2010 Arte  Laguna Prize,  2011 Museum   Correr  Venise, 2011 Fornace of  Asolo, 2012  “I Ritratti dell’Io”  ex  Ansaldo  Milan, and  is among ten  artists selected  by  the  IBC Cultural and Environmental Artistic Heritage  of  the region Emilia Romagna, Italy. He is also a  photographer: his photos have participated in  international  contests. He  has  taken  part  as  performer  to different video,  “Abraham’s Greenhouse, Trigeminal, Youngsters”, that  have participated in prestigious short film festivals, ( Cannes short  Film Corner, Seattle  Film  festival, Seoul  Film Festival ). He  has  participated  as assistant operator  to  video in  international,  co-productions,  “Breack  Blues”  with  participation of  (Joe  Lansdale ,  Tony  Washington, Watermelon  Slim, Super  Chikan,  Anthony  NealSmith, Tim Willoks,  Frank  Lisciandro ,  Lance  Leadbetter), Performance  Video  “Blossom on the  Tree” Song  by  Max  Marchini ,Paola Tagliaferro e Peter Sinfield.

Premanand Bhageerathan

Premanand Bhageerathan, Director Of Photography

Cinematographer with experience in movies and documentaries. He has worked with different movie directors, among  others M.Night  Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, The Village etc), Anand Kumar (Delhi Heights etc), Hriday Shankar Mishra, and has worked as assitant to Madhu Ambat from 1990 to 1995.
Latest works include a hindi movie "Valentines Night" released in feb, 2012., film  "Jugaad" and "Private No" Directed by Mr. Anand Kumar and produced by Mr. Sandip Kapoor.     
Bhagheerathan has woked on different documentaries for National Geographic / NFDC / DOORDARSHAN / UNESCO / UNICEF..
Film For UNESCO Film For Children for Satish Pandey.

Jacopo Chiari

After  his  studies  in sound design, Chiari works  in  the  musical  production, arrangement and  sound  
design, besides he takes part in variuos live shows in Italy and Europe. Among his works there are record publications for ODGProd, Italian Dub Community, 4Weed Records; sound editing for WEA Records, Incasa Records; collaborations with festivals and events as a recording engineer and sound designer (miking, recodring, mixing, post-production for orchestra of 20 elements - Camerata of  Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Torrechiara Festival Renata Tebaldi; production of music and sound material for video projection, Visibilia Festival ,Monza - in collaboration with Brujos Team; sound design for Salone del Mobile, Milano).