Maria Bonsanti

Maria Bonsanti has been at the service of creative documentary film for over twenty years. She joined the Festival dei Popoli in Florence as a programmer in 2000, was appointed its co-director in 2012 and is still associated with this long-established institution as a member of the board of directors.

She has repeatedly worked for the Locarno Film Festival, including as a coordinator of the Play Forward section in 2006 and 2007. From 2013 to 2017, Bonsanti served as Artistic Director of Cinéma du réel, festival of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. After that, and until 2022, she has been Head of programme of Eurodoc, leading international network for documentary film producers, and Deputy Director of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, until 2024. She now works as an independent programmer for festivals, and as consultant for film development.