GIULIA GIORGI (HHCF director)

Polyhedric figure active in the Italian independent movie industry. Member of Wild Up b-girl Crew, she has always been active into the hip hop community. She organized many international Hip Hop youth exchanges supported by the EU, and events as the b-boy event for 3 years, the funky afternoon and many hip hop parties and events in clubs and social centers. She directed two hip hop documentaries “1 world under a groove” and “Break the siege” and the video experimental “The antisexist manifesto in the Italian rap.She is one of the founder of Baburka Production, an independent production based in Rome.She is also one of the founder of the first Italian SFX makeup association “EffectUs” and the promoter of the independent cinema productions network “Il Cartello degli Indipendenti”. Moreover she is the art director of the HipHopCineFest.org.

APOLONIA (HHCF Latin America Responsible)

Born in Caracas Hip Hop chose her by the end of the 80’s in Germany. As an immigrant child she found in Rap a place that differentiated her from her relatives’ melomania. She studied audiovisual production. At 19 she joined one of Venezuela´s pioneering crews, La Corte, becoming the first female rapper woman in the country. In the last 25 years she become a cultural creative producer, weaving global connections under the flag of Hip Hop as a symbolic country. Her work spands from community work to corporate projects. Apolonia currently directs MELAH (Movement of Latin America Hip Hop Expressions), is a cultural consultant and co-curator / co executive producer of the Global Summit for Empowerment and Culture, among other things. 

FEDERICO PEIXOTO (HHCF Costa Rica director)

Costa Rican Filmmaker, he Hip Hop culture since 00’s. He started filmmaking in the 90’s and soon he founded iGafeto TV documenting different underground cultural expressions from Costa Rica; he documented too international artists like Ephniko, Rxnde Akozta, Myka 9, Asheru , DJ Lord, Sean Paul. He co-organized events like Griot Collective, the 1st Graffiti National Convention, Buscando la Raíz and the tour Manifiesto Urbano, starting his DJ career. As DJ he  staged with artists as: DJ Muggs, Mad Professor, Pato Machete, Lil Suppa, Akapellah, Portavoz, Myka 9. He Co- funded, host and DJ the Hip Hop radio show: La Ofensiva (2013-19). He directed the documentary “Tlacuilos” that narrates the Graffiti scene in Central America.  

RAQUEL DELGADO (HHCF Barcelona director)

She is a philologist, poet, and performance artist. She is also a cultural producer, and Deputy Executive Director of the global organization Hip Hop Works.

ANTONIO CUTI MORENO (HHCF Almeria Director)

Antonio Moreno, known as Cuti, has a degree in Psychology, specialized in social psychology and systemic family therapy. He has worked as an educator in centers for minors with judicial measures, an immediate shelter for women victims of gender violence, and in child protection centers. minors, where he was director of a center from 2007 to 2017, and currently a reception technician in an NGO that works with migrant populations and a member of the Hip Hop Works Spain Association. MC with solo work, video producer, radio host and responsible for the Rap workshop with immigrant and refugee populations.

KWANZA MUSI DOS SANTOS (HHCF host & promoter)

She grew up in Rome, daughter of art, for years she has been involved in the production and organization of cultural and artistic events. She has the double Italian and Brazilian citizenship and speaks 6 languages fluently. Recently she collaborated with Baburka as host and organizer to create a new live performance format and keep working with the company through her multiple production skills. Specialized in diversity management, she has worked as a fixer and mediator in major international productions, including NBC and VICE.

ELISA SAIKO CIPRIANETTI (HHCF host & promoter)

Professional dancer and choreographer of Street dance, stand up and break dance, member of the Wild Up Bgirl Crew. She took part in multiple national and international shows and contests and her experience spans from live performance, theater shows till the art education through the break dance. Socially engaged, she organizes international exchanges and participates in various social shows for world peace. Among her works we remember the participation in the Lions’ Gate Movie “Crew to Crew”, the theater show Hip HopOpera Dr J&H as female protagonist.

ALAIN BINDELE (HHCF web master)

Computer science doctor with more than ten year of experience in the field. In 2017 he founded the PC-go project and ventured into teaching computer science for everyone. His experience ranges from web development to animatronic products and industrial robots, from prototyping with Arduino to social media management, Linux systems and web streaming.

MONIQUE CHABUSIKU YUMA aka USIKU  (HHCF communication)

Born in 1994, Roman, approaches hip hop culture in her teens, joining the Termini Underground crew (Rome). She studies for two years the different dance styles – lockin ‘, poppin, breakin, new style – under the guidance of the teacher Brancy Osadare. She has been selected in the very first edition of the Officina delle Arti Pier Paolo Pasolini school as singer, she continues her musical project as a partner of the Fallout Studio.