Dr. Paolo Cherchi Usai

Paolo is one of the world's most respected film historians and scholars. He is currently the director of the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, Australia. He is an author of many well-known books about digital culture and silent cinema. His film Passio has been hailed a "masterpiece" and with only 7 prints and the original negative destroyed by Paolo, it was his 'attempt making a cinematic experience deliberately rarified' .