Alessandro Stellino (1973), film critic and film programmer, has been the artistic director of the Festival dei Popoli in Florence since 2020 and of IsReal – Festival di Cinema del Reale since 2015. He teaches at the Civica Scuola di Cinema in Milan, NABA and CISA in Locarno. He founded the online quarterly filmidee, has written for Ciak, Segnocinema and Nocturno and collaborates on Paolo Mereghetti’s Film Dictionary. He has published the novels Incendi. An end-of-summer tale (Il Maestrale, 2011) and Ogni animale muore nella tana (Il Maestrale, 2013).
