Film-club host, journalist and film critic for specialist magazines
("Filmcritica", "Cineforum", "Duellanti") and
newspapers ("La Stampa", "Il Manifesto"), he founded the
magazine "Panoramiques", which he directs. He has written monographs
on Catherine Breillat, Robert Guédiguian, Clint Eastwood, Naomi Kawase, Nicolas
Philibert, Les Films d'Ici and Sydney Pollack. Since 1997, he has collaborated
at numerous international film festivals, including the Locarno International
Film Festival and the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica of Venice.
In 2002, he founded the Alba Infinity Festival, for which he has acted as
artistic director until 2007. Since 2008 he is artistic director at Festival
dei Popoli in Florence. In April 2010 he has been nominated director of Visions
du Réel in Nyon. He has acted as member of the jury at Cannes (Caméra d'or
1997), Marseille (Fid, 2000), Valladolid (Seminci, 2003), Buenos Aires (Bafici,
2004), Lisbon (DocLisboa2004), Pamplona (Punto de Vista, 2008), Tel Aviv
(DocAviv, 2008), Paris (Cinéma du Réel, 2009), Yerevan (Golden Apricot
International Film Festival, 2010), Toronto (Hot Docs).
