Gabriele Salvatores, born in Naples in 1950, is a film director and screenwriter. After his early career at the Teatro dell’Elfo, he made his cinematic debut with Dream of a Summer Night (1983).
Walter Siti, born in Modena in 1947, is a writer, literary critic, and academic. He has taught contemporary Italian literature at various Italian universities and edited the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini for Mondadori’s «I Meridiani» series.