Manuela Cacciamani is the new CEO of Cinecittà, while the outgoing President Chiara Sbarigia has been reconfirmed, as announced by the Undersecretary of Culture, Lucia Borgonzoni, congratulating Cacciamani, “a competent professional whose skills over the years I have learned are not only proficient but also human, fundamental for the role she will be playing in an institution that is a symbol of the Italian and international audiovisual industry excellence. I thank the outgoing and reconfirmed President Chiara Sbarigia for the great job accomplished in her last mandate, and I wish her the best of luck for the considerable challenges she will be facing and that await us all”.

“I am certain they will carry out this exciting but at the same time complex task in the best manner,” Borgonzoni adds, extending “best wishes to the other professionals appointed to the board of directors – Isabella Ciolfi, Giuseppe De Mita, Enrico Cavallari.”

Manuela Cacciamani began working at Cinecittà at a young age on the biggest US productions, including Gangs of New York by Martin Scorsese, The Adventures of Steve Zissou by Wes Anderson, and Ocean’s Twelve by Stephen Soderbergh. Before becoming a producer, she was Production Manager on Abel Ferrara‘s Mary (2005). After an internship at Miramax in New York in 2006, she founded One More Pictures, a film and audiovisual production company, which she guided as President and shareholder until June 2024. In 2006, she joined VFX factory Direct2Brain in the role of partner until June 2024, realizing works that are an example of “Digital Disruption” applied to film production. Her producing career carried on with Sky and Rai Cinema. She was President of ANICA’s “Digital Publishers and Creators” Union,  from 2021 to June 2024, a reality which she contributed to expanding with 103 creators and a fan base of 227 million participants.

Chiara Sbarigia studied at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Music and graduated with honors from La Sapienza University. Since 2021, she has been President of Cinecittà and, since July 2023, President of Apa – Associazione Produttori Audiovisivi. She supervised the internationalization and training of the audiovisual sector, founding and directing pioneering events, such as the RomaFictionFest and the Mercato Internazionale dell’Audiovisivo (MIA). She managed the strategic planning and representation of Confindustria Cultura and is the creator and curator of Archivio Luce’s exhibitions, such as “La memoria delle stazioni” (at the Auditorium Parco della Musica), “I Mondi di Gina,” and “Architetture inabitabili” (at the Centrale Montemartini, with Dario Dalla Lana). She promoted the establishment of the museum heritage of Miac – the Museo Italiano dell’Audiovisivo e del Cinema and implemented the training activities of Cinecittà Luce financed by the PNRR, including the specialized courses of LuceLabCinecittà. She is a juror at the Strega Award and at the Montecarlo TV Series Festival, besides being on the Board of Founding Members of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma. She has recently been bestowed with the Women in Cinema Award at the Venice Film Festival.