Renata Santoro

Renata Santoro has been a film researcher and programmer for Giornate degli Autori, the independent section of Venice Film Festival, since 2010, specialising in Central/Eastern European and Asian cinema. Santoro has served as a jury member in many festivals and has been lecturer in Berlin and Cannes for the ScripTeast Program. Besides this, she is a translator of screenplays and films' promotional materials for several Italian production and distribution companies. Before that, for ten years, she was a programme manager in a company specialising in education and training in the audiovisual field for young graduates and professionals and coordinator of eight editions of a European Master for Audiovisual Management.