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.

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.

Praxedis has had a career in newsreporting and investigative journalism. She switched career into the ecumenical movement, with a basis in the Lutheran World Federation. She studied Religious Studies (interreligious dialogue) with the aim to be able to connect human beings in their core. Several ecumenical board memberships (among those: the LWF based Communication Committee of Lutheran 'minority' churches in Europe (KALME), World Association for Christian Communication WACC, Interfilm). For her, cinema is a wonderful means of expressing themes in societies, of touching people, of starting conversations, of lament, of protest, of addressing injustice, according to Praxedis. She served at ecumenical and interreligious juries at film festivals Miskolc, Nyon and Cannes.

Praxedis has had a career in newsreporting and investigative journalism. She switched career into the ecumenical movement, with a basis in the Lutheran World Federation. She studied Religious Studies (interreligious dialogue) with the aim to be able to connect human beings in their core. Several ecumenical board memberships (among those: the LWF based Communication Committee of Lutheran 'minority' churches in Europe (KALME), World Association for Christian Communication WACC, Interfilm). For her, cinema is a wonderful means of expressing themes in societies, of touching people, of starting conversations, of lament, of protest, of addressing injustice, according to Praxedis. She served at ecumenical and interreligious juries at film festivals Miskolc, Nyon and Cannes.

After earning a degree in Management of Cultural Heritage, Piero worked in communication both in Italy and abroad (Spain, Australia, South Africa). In 2016, he entered the Jesuit religious order “Society of Jesus”. After studying Philosophy in Rome, he spent two years in Cluj-Napoca. Since June 2022, he has been studying theology in Paris, where he was ordained a deacon. He writes about cinema for the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica and he contributed to the Osservatore Romano, the Holy See's newspaper. He has served on several SIGNIS and ecumenical juries: CineFest Miskolc 2021 (Hungary), Cinélatino Festival 2023 (France), and the Trento Religion Today Film Festival 2023 (Italy).

After earning a degree in Management of Cultural Heritage, Piero worked in communication both in Italy and abroad (Spain, Australia, South Africa). In 2016, he entered the Jesuit religious order “Society of Jesus”. After studying Philosophy in Rome, he spent two years in Cluj-Napoca. Since June 2022, he has been studying theology in Paris, where he was ordained a deacon. He writes about cinema for the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica and he contributed to the Osservatore Romano, the Holy See's newspaper. He has served on several SIGNIS and ecumenical juries: CineFest Miskolc 2021 (Hungary), Cinélatino Festival 2023 (France), and the Trento Religion Today Film Festival 2023 (Italy).

Nicolae studied at Polytechnic University. From 1975 to 1985 he worked for the Romanian Television as an editor and filmmaker, from 1996 to 201 at TVRM and from 2013 to 2024 as a cinematographer and editor at aarc.ro. He currently works for UCIN-FILM. Over the years, he has filmed at 100 film festivals ((TIFF, Mediaş, Astra, Râşnov Historical Film Festival). He is particularly interested in Romanian films. He served at ecumenical juries at festivals such as Cottbus, Mannheim-Heidelberg and Karlovy Vary.