玛丽亚基亚·佩尔尼萨，1981 Lugo, Italy. She graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti (Academy of Fine Arts) in Bologna and earned a master's degree in film editing and photography at the Accademia di Cinema e Televisione Griffith (Academy of Cinema and Television) in Rome. Photographer and movie editor, since 2001 she has been making movies, documentaries, photographic projects, films and experimental videos. Her works, created in collaboration with Morgan Menegazzo, were released among others at the Cineteca Nazionale (National Film Archive) in Rome, at the MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, at MART in Rovereto, at the CICA Museum in Ginpo - South Korea; they were also broadcast by national broadcasting companies and satellite networks such as Rai, Al Jazeera and Russia Today and selected by national and international film festivals, such as Torino Film Festival, Mostra del Nuovo Cinema in Pesaro, Avvistamenti, FIDMarseille, Haverhill Experimental Film festival and Experiments in Cinema.