Screenwriter and Director, Professor Antonio Monda has directed documentaries, commercials, and a feature film entitled “Dicembre” which was presented at the Venice Film Festival and won several awards. He is the film critic for the “New York Review of Books/La Rivista dei Libri” as well as the cultural correspondent for “La Repubblica”. He has curated shows for the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, the American Museum of Moving Image, and the Academy. He is the US representative of Italia Cinema. His book on American Cinema entitled “La Magnifica Illusione/The Magnificent Illusion” won the Efebo d’Oro as the best cine book of 2003. He also wrote “Do you believe?” (Vintage 2007).