Simona is a screenwriter, creative producer and international script consultant. Director of animation short film Château La Belle (with Gianmarco Serra, 2025). She combines screenwriting with development and production consulting. She has extensive experience in selecting for European development and co-production funds such as MEDIA/Creative Europe and Italian national or regional funds. A tutor for international training bodies such as EWA Network, EAVE, Torino Film Lab, Groupe Ouest, European Genre Forum, Circle Women Doc Accelerator, she is also a lecturer at the Università La Sapienza of Rome and Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.

Simona is a screenwriter, creative producer and international script consultant. Director of animation short film Château La Belle (with Gianmarco Serra, 2025). She combines screenwriting with development and production consulting. She has extensive experience in selecting for European development and co-production funds such as MEDIA/Creative Europe and Italian national or regional funds. A tutor for international training bodies such as EWA Network, EAVE, Torino Film Lab, Groupe Ouest, European Genre Forum, Circle Women Doc Accelerator, she is also a lecturer at the Università La Sapienza of Rome and Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.

In his early youth, Florin-Ioan got animated by christian spirituality and the religious life perspective and has been inspired by motion picture and photography’s effectiveness in communication and storytelling. During his Jesuit formation in Philosophy and Theology, he kept alive the passion for the visual arts and communication completing his professional formation earning a MFA in Film Production and a PhD in Cinema. He produced a number of documentaries and developed communication projects, mass-media and cinema educational programs. A SIGNIS member for more than a decade, he served as a juror in several SIGNIS and Ecumenical Juries around Europe.