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Daniele Ietri is a geographer and consultant; since 2018, he has been a full professor of geography at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

In 2013, he founded the La Fournaise Association, which brings together professionals from the audiovisual and research fields, and has worked on the production of films that have been screened and awarded at film festivals. He conceived and coordinates the Studi sul Qui. In addition to his research and creative work, he serves as an expert in the field of technical assistance for regional policy.

Paolo Martelli was born in La Spezia in 1978. A filmmaker based in Milan, he divides his time between marketing and communication projects, educational initiatives, participatory artistic creation, and documentary filmmaking. He curates the Video production and editing studio for research and regional communication at the University of Milan. He is a member of the La Fournaise association (documentary film) and the Mirmica association (participatory art projects). 

Eleonora Mastropietro She is a geographer and documentary filmmaker. An associate professor at the University of Milan, she teaches Urban Geography and Methods for the Representation and Communication of Territories. In her work, she combines territorial observation with the craft of documentary filmmaking. She is a founding member of the La Fournaise Cultural Association, for which she has produced and directed documentary films. In 2018, she made her first feature-length film Storia dal Qui, screened at the Festival dei Popoli in 2018 and 2023 Montanario, premiering in competition at the 2021 Trento Film Festival.

Daniela Salvucci è ricercatrice della Libera Università di Bolzano (unibz) dove si occupa di culture dei popoli di montagna. In questa università, Daniela ha lavorato per la Piattaforma Patrimonio culturale Produzione culturale e per il progetto MFEA-The Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology. Daniela ha svolto il Dottorato di ricerca in Antropologia, Etnologia e Studi culturali presso l’Università di Siena, ha condotto ricerche etnografiche in Argentina, Ecuador e Italia e ha visitato istituti come il CEMLA-Centro Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericano di Buenos Aires, lo IAI-Ibero Amerikanisches Institut di Berlino e il dipartimento di antropologia dell’Università di Yale. I suoi campi tematici sono gli studi di famiglia e parentela, i rituali e territori indigeni in area andina, la storia dell’antropologia e le pratiche di patrimonializzazione.

Tobias Boos is a researcher in social and cultural geography at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Mainz, Germany, with a dissertation on Arab diaspora communities in Argentina.
He has conducted fieldwork in Lebanon, Ecuador, Argentina, and Italy. His current research interests include critical cartography and its applications, studies of festive culture, studies of diaspora and migration, and the regional geographies of the Alps. His recent book, which he edited together with Daniela Salvucci, *Cultures in Mountain Areas. Comparative Studies/Culture in aree di montagna. Prospettive comparative,” was published in 2022.

Alessio Zemoz is a multidisciplinary and cross-media professional who excels in the fields of creativity, conceptualization, and the development of cultural projects. He has never abandoned his artistic practice, and as a photographer he has received national and international recognition. He founded and developed progettoSkia and framedivision, working groups active in the fields of independent photography publishing, documentary film, and the performing arts that explore the languages of the contemporary world.

Dorothy Louise Zinn is a Full Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, where she coordinates the doctoral program in “Educational and Social Sciences.” She is originally from the United States, where she earned her Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin). She has conducted fieldwork in Southern Italy and South Tyrol; her research focuses on immigration and multiculturalism, clientelism and corruption, and she also studies the anthropology of institutions and policyHer book La raccomandazione He has received the Pitré International Award. He is President of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (2024–26)