Paola Casella
Film Critic, Italy
Paola Casella is an Arts and Entertainment journalist for the Rizzoli Corriere della Sera Group as well as a film critic for MYmovies.it. She sits on the editorial board of Cinecritica and on the selection committee of the Italian Association of Film Critics. She is Vice President and Italian National Delegate of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics, as well as Artistic director of the Italian Cultural Association Rete degli Spettatori and of the Movie to Music Award.
She is a member of the scientific committee for the Fiesole Cinema Award and on the selection committee of the Solinas Screenplay Award. She was a member of the selection committee of the European Discovery Awards and of Venice Film Festivals’ Critics’ Week. She participated in 12 FIPRESCI juries, the most recent ones as President, including Cannes, Venice and Torino film festivals.
Paola Casella teaches Narratives at the International Master Program in Cultural and Digital Diplomacy and Film Industry at the International Economics program of Milan’s Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. She is a Professor and a Trainer of Educational programs in Film Literacy for the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education and has taught Film Criticism at Naples’ Suor Orsola Benincasa University.
She has published several books on cinema, including Hollywood Italian (Baldini & Castoldi, 1989), winner of the Donna Città di Roma Award, and Cinema: femminile, plurale (Le Mani, 2020), winner of the Domenico Meccoli Award. She contributes regularly to cinema publications such as Bianco e Nero and Cineforum, as well as to all companion books for Pesaro Film Festival.