Manlio Castagna is Vice Artistic Director, Marketing Director and “soul” of the Giffoni Film Festival, the most important Italian film festival for children. He is also a screenwriter, director and film critic for Virgin Radio. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Creative Committee in charge of the Doha Film Institute (Qatar) which works in close partnership with the Giffoni Experience. Petrademone (Mondadori, 2018) is his first book.