On July 28, 2009, the MATTADOR Cultural Association was founded in Trieste.
The object of the Association is to institute the MATTADOR International Screenwriting Award to support young talents who choose movie screenwriting as their professional and artistic path and helping them to emerge and show their true value.
A further object is fostering and promoting cinema, music, arts, literature, and theater works with a strictly contemporary orientation, in harmony with Matteo Caenazzo’s life philosophy as a sharp observer of today’s reality, his ironic, synthetic, dry and cutting poetics expressed though a free spirit both in his way of life and his artistic trajectory.
In addition, an Advisory Committee was created that includes professionals operating in cinema, culture and journalism to cooperate with the Board of Directors in instituting, promoting and popularizing the MATTADOR International Screenwriting Award.
All the various professionals in the Committee contribute their experience and competence to the Association; each of them was also granted the status of honorary member of the Association by the Board of Directors. The same status will also be granted to all those who, through their specific professional skills and activities, will cooperate actively in achieving the goals of the Association.

President
Pietro Caenazzo

Art director
Laura Modolo

Panel coordination & tutoring
Andrea Magnani

Advice
Giulio Kirchmayr, Mariastella Malafronte, Pietro Valentincic

Organizing Secretary
Francesco Baldassarre, Rosaria Caenazzo, Paolo Modolo

Communication and promotion
Pierluigi Sabatti, Lucia Da Re, Maela Roma

Collaborators
Emanuela Cazzaro, Elena Cozzi, Francesca Cristin, Sara Matijacic, Francesco Sacchi, Laura Zarrelli

To become a member of the MATTADOR Association, please fill in the application
and fax it to +39 040 4701043