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Massimo Schiavoni is a lecturer and visual artist. His academic studies range from sculpture and photography to digital audiovisual and performance disciplines (Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata, Università Cà Foscari di Venezia, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia ADAMS and Accademia Cromatica di Roma).She has represented the Marche region and Italy in various photographic and video (Animation/Videoart/Experimental) competitions since the 1990s. His photographic exhibitions include L'altra metà del lavoro - ANMIL/INAIL in Rome, Venti artisti residenti nelle Marche - Istituto Italiano di Cultura Stoccarda, Concorso Nazionale Città di Gela (2nd place), Concorso Museo Diocesano di Padova, 4th Nordic International Digital Circuit in Malmö (Sweden 2019), SubTerranea Festival delle Arti 2019 (Museo del sottosuolo di Napoli), ISOLATION. LIVING ONESELF_International Group Exhibition at Galleria Millepiani (Rome_2020), Trofeo Città di Follonica (Follonica_GR_2020), FOGGIA FOTOGRAFIA 2020 and Festival ImagOrbetello Special Edition (Orbetello_GR_2020) where he won the EOLO PERFIDO Award. His works have been published in PhotoVogue, Photosophia (n° 44), SANTARCANGELO 50 FESTIVAL (Corraini Edizioni, 2021) and received an Honourable Mention at the CHROMATIC PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, MONOVISIONS PHOTOGRAPHI AWARDS and VIII SALÓN INTERNACIONAL DE FOTOGRAFÍA - CIUTAT DE LA VILA JOIOSA.His video works have been screened at major international experimental festivals: Festival La File de Cortometrajes in Valladolid, ULFF in North Carolina, Filmets in Badalona, EUROSHORT in Warsaw, International Panorama of Independent Filmakers of Film and Video in Thessaloniki. Lucania Film Festival, Fano International Film Festival. In recent years he has participated in the 12 Months Film Festival (Romania), Kurzfilmwettbewerb Bilderbeben in Bielefeld (Germany), FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CORTOMETRAJES LA CRUZ Y EL MAR (Puerto La Cruz - Venezuela), THE GAU LABURRA SHORT FILMS FESTIVAL in Beasain (Basque Country - Spain), at the 23rd International Underwater Film Festival in Belgrade (Serbia), at the 3rd Lahore Eurasia Film Festival (Pakistan), at the Chennai International Short Film Festival (India), at FESTIMATGE - FESTIVAL DE LA IMATGE DE CALELLA (Spain), at the 8th International Changing Perspectives Film Festival (Istanbul, Berlin, Tehran, Yogyakarta), at the Vagrant Film Festival in Minsk (Belarus), at the III Muestra de Video Arte Faenza in Bogotá (Colombia), at the 6th Muestra de Antropología Audiovisual in Madrid, at the Lamezia International Film Fest, at the Tagore International Film Festival (TIFF - winner Documentary Film - India), at the 3rd ZERO DEGREE FILM CONTEST in Chandigarh (India), the Cefalù Film Festival (Palermo), the Santa Marinella Short Film Festival (winner Apollo d'Oro - July 2021), the BIDEODROMO INTERNACIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL 2021 in Bilbao (Spain), the ATENE DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL (ADAF) 2021 in Athens (Greece) and the SARDINIA FILM FESTIVAL in Sassari (Italy). His experimental documentary EDGARDO MANNUCCI. Una lezione Informale was selected for the 75th SALERNO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.