Vocation : Entertain/Business : Director

Henning Carlsen (4 June 1927 – 30 May 2014) was a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer most noted for his documentaries and his contributions to the style of cinéma vérité. Carlsen's 1966 social-realistic drama Hunger (Sult) was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. Carlsen also won the Bodil Award the following year for the comedy People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart. Acting as his own producer since 1960, Carlsen has directed more than 25 films, 19 for which he wrote the screenplay. In 2006, he received the Golden Swan Lifetime Achievement Award at the Copenhagen International Film Festival.

Gianni Riotta (born 12 January 1954 in Palermo, Italy) is an Italian journalist, a regular contributor for the daily newspaper La Stampa and a former editor-in-chief of the financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Rai 3 and the news bulletin TG1. He has contributed to the Washington Post, Le Monde, Foreign Policy, and the New York Times. Riotta also has U.S. citizenship.
Riotta sits on the Advisory Council of the Department of French and Italian at Princeton University. He also collaborates with IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca.
He received the America Award of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2013. Riotta is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Leonardo Pieraccioni (born 17 February 1965) is an Italian film director, actor, comedian and screenwriter.Born in Florence, he made his directorial debut with The Graduates (1995). In 1996 he directed his breakthrough film The Cyclone, which grossed 78 billion lire at the box office.In 1998, he starred with Harvey Keitel and David Bowie in the western comedy Gunslinger's Revenge, directed by Giovanni Veronesi.Also a writer of short stories, his books include Trent'anni, alta, mora (1998), Tre mucche in cucina (2002) and A un passo dal cielo (2003).
Pieraccioni has starred with Suzie Kennedy, the impersonator of Marilyn Monroe, in Me and Marilyn.

François Chalais (French: [ʃalɛ]; December 15, 1919 – May 1, 1996) was a prominent French reporter, journalist, writer and film historian. The François Chalais Prize at the annual Cannes Film Festival is named after him.