Cristian Scardigno is a director, as well as a screenwriter and a distributor. In 2013 he directed his first feature, „Amoreodio (Lovehate)“, selected at the „Montreal World Film Festival“ (Canada) and winner of the award for best actress at „Annecy Cinema Italien“ (France). Since 2015, Scardigno is the artistic director of Cisterna Film Festival. In 2017 he founded Esen Studios, a production and distribution company, with which he produced and directed the short-film “Her world” (2017) and the documentary “Slowly” (2018). Both films have been selected at numerous international film festivals, including Tirana International Film Festival (Albania) and American Documentary and Animation Film Festival (Usa), Oscars qualifying film festivals for the categories of short-film and short-documentary.