Boards

The Locarno International Film Festival was founded in 1946 as a non-profit Association under Art. 60 ff. of the Swiss Civil Code, with the declared intent of “organizing in Locarno a national and international cinema and audiovisual Festival and of fostering the dissemination of cinema and audiovisual culture at cantonal, national and international level, including outside the period of the Festival” (Articles of Association of the “Festival Internazionale del Film Locarno”, Art. 1).

The Organs of the Association are:

• the General Assembly of Members
  made up of all members of the Association

• the Board of Governors
  made up of 28 persons appointed for a term of three years by the Assembly of Members

• the Executive Board
  made up of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and three members appointed by the Board of Governors

• the independent Audit Department (trust company)
  designated by the General Assembly of Members

BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Marco Solari, President
Carla Speziali, Vice-President
Franco Ambrosetti
Daniel Beier
Marco Blaser
Marco Cameroni
Alberto Chollet
Karin Dietrich Wartmann
Felix Ehrat
Valerie Fischer
Tiziano Gagliardi
Andrea Ghiringhelli
Felix Hächler
Josefa Haas
Jean-Pierre Hoby
Federico Jolli
Pius Knüsel
Brenno Martignoni
Giovanni Merlini
Tiziana Mona
Fabio Pedrazzini
Luigi Pedrazzini
Gian Franco Perazzi
Aldo Rampazzi
Giò Rezzonico
Saverio Snider
Alexander Tschäppät
Anita Wasser


THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
Marco Solari, President
Carla Speziali, Vice-President
Marco Cameroni
Felix Ehrat
Federico Jolli