Bamboozled

Paolo Tarantini
was born in Brescia (italy) in 1993. He has grown up practicing his main passions as writing and drawing. In 2015 he graduated in Economics and Management for Art, Culture and Communication from Bocconi University in Milan. In 2016 he moved to Paris where he started working for Ecù – The European Independent Film Festival. Since 2017 Paolo has lived in Rome, where he is studying Film Production at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - the Italian National School. In Rome he has worked for many projects as line producer and first assistant director and in 2018 he has worked as Post Production Coordinator in the film industry for many production companies in Italy.

Lucia Balestrieri
was born in Rome in 1991. She was involved in ‘Bamboozled’ from its conception, collaborating with colleagues from Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia where she has been enrolled in Film Editing since 2017. In 2013, she graduated in ‘Lettere Moderne: Studi Italiani’ (Literature) from Sapienza University in Rome, while also working for a web TV channel. She continued her studies, achieving a master’s degree at the University of Edinburgh in 2015. She then lived and worked in Scotland for a number of years, and was also a staff member for the Edinburgh International Film Festival and she has been involved in several projects as film editor. In addition to her work in film, she has also worked with ANSA agency cultural department as a journalist (giornalista pubblicista).