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About silvia

CONTACT: si.storchi@gmail.com

An independent filmmaker exploring humans through their innermost connection: the one with their environment. For millennia nature shaped cultures around the world, today societies and modernization (and monetization) are affecting the Earth and traditions to a degree we have never experienced before.

Born in the Italian countryside, Silvia studied environment and media. Through work and life she developed a great interest in ethno-anthropology. After many years living in the biggest concrete jungle in Europe, she moved out to other continents to experience life like old men.

She has been working for environmental, cultural, art, science and youth organisations, making documentaries, reportage, promo video. She worked in crew and independently, in film development, direction, camera operation and editing.

Her videos have been screened at festivals, events, TVs and online with an award for Best Documentary Film on Civil Rights at Valle d’Itria Film Festival 2014.

PUBLIC SCREENINGS AND AWARDS

  • Lismore Regional Gallery (Australia)- Mnemonic vegetables exhibition, 2020
  • Aboriginal Broadcasting Australia TV (AU) 2020
  • Tauranga Art Gallery (New Zealand) 2019
  • National Remote Indigenous Media Festival 2017 (Wingellina, Australia)
  • Laura Indigenous Dance Festival 2017 (Laura, Australia) 
  • ICTV Indigenous Community Television (Australia) 
  • Something Somewhere Film Festival 2017 (Alice Springs, Australia) 
  • Unbroken Land Festival 2016 (Alice Springs, Australia)
  • Alice Springs Cinema 2017 ads (Australia)
  •  Valle d’Itria Film Festival 2014 (Italy)
  • Zam Film Festival 2014 (Milano, Italy) 

     TRAININGS AND STUDIES                      

  • Environmental Journalism – 2020 – A Sud Onlus (IT)
  • Camera operator and post-production management for cinema and broadcasting – 2019/20 – Demetra Formazione, Bologna (IT)
  • Budget for cinema enterprise – 2019 – ECIPAR, Bologna
  • Documentary Photography and Basics of Photo Retouching – 2015 – London City Lit, London (UK)
  • Portrait Photography and Studio Lighting – 2015 – DSLR Photography London, London (UK)
  • Professional Camera Operation – 2011 – Associazione Alta Definizione, Bologna (IT)
  • Digital Photography and Photoshop – 2010 – Spazio Labò Fotografia, Bologna (IT)
  • Master’s degree in Environmental Communication – 2010 – University of Siena (IT) and University of Reading (UK)
  • Bachelor’s degree in Media and Communications -2006 – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (IT)

COMMENTS AND FEEDBACKS

“Silvia has an amazing understanding of people. She is very creative, enthusiastic, flexible and a self-motivated team worker with great ambitions and unafraid of hard work. Able to produce high qualities documentary videos, she enjoys mixing footage and creating original works that has been of a great contribution to NICOLA”

Michela Ferrara Creative Director at NICOLAarts (New International Company of Live Arts)

” Silvia is a trustworthy, dedicated, original and stimulating director who is confident about what she needs. “

Francesca Assorto, Music Composer for Magnitude 5.9

“Working with Silvia has been stimulating and inspiring to say the least. I was struck by her determination and meticulous attention to every detail. I feel grateful and proud to have been a part of Magnitude 5.9 and of the message Silvia is sending out with her testimony. A work of such strength, a work of heart .”

Simone Casella, Music Post-Producer for Magnitude 5.9

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