#WFF2019 Film Festival | Festival Jury

Luca Ferrara
​Festival Director

Luca is WFF 2019's Festival Director responsible for overseeing the entire programme, submissions, judging and overall technical delivery. After graduating with a degree in Classics from the Liceo Classico “Arnaldo” in his hometown of Palazzolo sull’Oglio, Italy; Luca moved to London and became a Film student at University of Westminster, where he soon joined the Film Society. Luca previously worked as the Society’s Head Projectionist and was greatly involved as both Technical Director & Lead Juror in 2017-18 at UOWFF 2018.

Patrik Krivanek
​Festival Director

Patrik is WFF 2019’s Festival Director ,and Vice President of Film Society, responsible for delivering the festival alongside Film Society President Luca Ferrara. He previously studied at Film & TV School Wales. During his studies he became a member of BAFTA Cymru, RTS and has worked on Britain’s Got Talent as a Production Assistant. His experience also includes work on many high-end commercials and TV programs, including Red Bull, Ferrari or Assistant Directing on the Czech feature film 'The Smiles of Sad Men' (Svatek, 2018) which has won Czech Lion. Additionally; Patrik is an award-winning filmmaker.

Louis Holder
​Marketing Director

Louis is Marketing Director for WFF 2019 and Film Society this year, responsible for the creation and curation of digital and print-based advertising targeting students and the general public for the festival. Last year, Louis re-envisioned the Society’s branding by creating Instagram & YouTube pages, plus a dedicated Society Website - all of which continue to act as a sustainable Digital Archive and information portal for upcoming screenings & events. Louis is also an award-winning film producer.

Rik Hulme
Technical Director

Rik Hulme is Junior Projectionist at Film Society and 2nd Year Film Student. Rik was previously Head Boy at his school and is also an active part of the University. His latest film, Scratch, was included in the Official Selection of this year’s London Short Film Festival.

Livan Garcia-Duquesne
​Screenings Producer

Livan is our Lead Screenings Producer at Film Society. He is responsible for working with the Committee to coordinate the programme for the Society and increasing attendance/presence throughout the academic year. ​

Angelica Bizzotto 
​Screenings Assistant

I love art in all its forms, and in the last few years, I'm getting more and more passionate about cinematography.
Back in Italy, I attended an Artistic High school focusing my studies on the Audiovisual and Multimedia field.
Art has always been part of my world. During the years I participated in many cinematographic and photographic events. One of these is the well-known Venice Film Festival. With the passing of time, I’m feeling that what I like more in the cinema industry is standing behind the camera, that is why I am studying Film BA at the University of Westminster.

Glenda Greco
​Jury Member

Glenda Greco moved to London a few years ago, from Italy. She studies Contemporary Media Practice (3rd year). Her passion for cinematography brought her to work as runner on short film sets and commercials, and developing a particular interests for analogue photography.
In the last year she has produced and directed a short film funded on Kickstarter. She is now focusing again on cinematography and working time to time as 1st AD.

Francesco Manera
Jury Member

Francesco Manera is a student of the "Liceo Classico Arnaldo" in Brescia, northern Italy. He has been an associate of "Miso" - APS, a production company and cinema network, since 2017. In 2018 he designed "La Grande Corsa - The Great Run", and served as an executive producer on Helium. He is one of the co-founder of "La Fabbrica | Cinema - APS".

Giulio Strata
​Jury Member

I'm Giulio, born in Florence I always moved between Milan, Rome and now London guided by passion, Cinema. During my studies I found in this art the best way to express ideas and share beauty (even in ugliness). My favourite directors are: P.T. Anderson, Coen Brothers, Woody Allen, Park Chan-wook and Ettore Scola. Even if they are so different, each of them teach me something about the art of film and with it, something about life. The hope it's to always leave a movie theatre with an unforgettable feeling: an image, a story or a music.

Laura Gorni
​Jury Member

Laura, 18 years old, from Brescia (North Italy). When I was 14 I casually watched some movies by Jean-Luc
Godard and François Truffaut and I’ve been immediately captured by the wonderful power of cinema. Since
then, I’ve never stopped being passionate about it. The aspect that I’m most interested in is the camera
department. That’s why I’ve started to study photography on my spare time and realizing analogue and
digital portraits. Even If I had attended the Giffoni Film Festival in 2014 and the LIIV edition of Venice Film
Festival, this is my first experience as a member of a jury.

Leonardo Loraschi
Jury Member

Leonardo Loraschi is a producer, composer and director. He attends the Orchestral Conducting course at the “Marenzio” Conservatory and He is a Cognitive Science student at the University of Trento in Italy. He’s also the founder and CEO of “Studio Miso” a cultural association based in Italy that produces short movies and stages plays.

Lou Clark
​Jury Member

Paride Scanferlato is a passionate screenwriter and director based in Scotland. His love for filming sparked as a kid when he first got acquainted with the world of theatrical plays thanks to his mother's work. Ever since then writing and directing have been his love and passion. He wrote his first script at 14 and he is currently active as a writer and working on a film-themed podcast. He often goes by his stage name "Lou Clark".

Vojta Stanek
​Jury Member

Vojta Stanek studied major film school in the Czech Republic, where he was chosen as a film talent by the most valued local producers Kevan Van Thompson and Vaclav Mottl. Vojta started on the BBC’s The Musketeers, from which he’s gone to assistant directing the Netflix’s 12 Monkeys series, up to the assisting to the Oscar winning director Ron Howard, on the Genius series of NatGeo and Century Fox. Vojta has directed over 6 short films and was a part of many high budget commercials, short films and music videos. Vojta currently lives in London, where he pursues his cinematography career.