Antonia Grimaldi

Born in Salerno in 1970, she studied Literature at the University of Florence. Part of her degree thesis is published in the literary review Studi Italiani, vol. II, 1998. She was a member of the Giffoni Film Festival Jury in 1983 and in 1984. From 1987 to 1997 she collaborated with GFF working on catalogues and as assistant to the short film selection. Since 1998 she has been a member of the Artistic Direction of the Giffoni Film Festival and from 2005 to 2019 she has been one of the two deputy directors. Her main activity at the festival is the selection of the short films for all the sections and of feature films dedicated to children from 3 to 12 years of age. Antonia also works on festival educational programs and lectures. From 2013 to 2015 she also worked as a consultant for the Ajyal Film Festival in Doha. Carmela e Aisha, her play about two women who immigrated in Milan in two different periods, was published in the miscellaneous volume Confini and staged in 2008. Since 2014 she has also been a teacher of Italian, History and Geography in public middle school. In 2016, her novel IL CLUB DEL PIUMINO ROSSO was published by the neapolitan publisher L’Isola dei Ragazzi.