Born in 1973, Cosimo Santoro is an Italian distributor, former festival programmer, and film critic. Member of the EFA and consultant for First Cut Lab, during the years, he has served several juries (Berlinale Teddy Awards, San Francisco Frameline, Lisbon Queer Lisboa, Prague Mezipatra and lately Tarragona REC and Madrid Margenes, among others) and gave industry masterclasses at several events including Bogota BAM, Tel Aviv TLV Fest, Ficci Cartagena, Barcelona Fire!! and Buenos Aires ABC Bafici. In 2012, he founded the World Sales Agency The Open Reel. Several are the talents scouted in these years: among them French Damien Manivel, Spanish Jaione Camborda and Diana Toucedo, Brazilian Juliana Rojas and Daniel Nolasco, Colombian Joan Gomez Endara, Romanian Stefan Constantinescu and Italian Simone Bozzelli.
