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Teresa Saponangelo was born on 22 October 1973 in Taranto, Apulia, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Hand of God (2021), Il buco in testa (2020) and Te lo leggo negli occhi (2004).

Anna Ferruzzo was born on 17 February 1966 in Taranto, Apulia, Italy. She is an actress, known for Rainbow: A Private Affair (2017), There Is a Light: Il padre d'Italia (2017) and Made in Italy (2019).

Donato Carrisi was born on 25 March 1973 in Martina Franca, Taranto, Apulia, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for The Girl in the Fog (2017), Into the Labyrinth (2019) and I Am the Abyss (2022).

Born in Taranto, Southern Italy, he lives and works between France and Italy. Selected and awarded in many international festivals including Berlinale, MoMA's New Directors New Films, Hong Kong, Sarajevo, Guadalajara, Istanbul, Melbourne, Clermont-Ferrand, Viennale. His films were broadcasted on TV-channels like Canal+, Arte, France3, France2, Sky Art, SVT. Former artist in residence at the Cannes Cinéfondation, in 2022 he was nominated for the César Awards with his documentary America. His first feature film Disco Boy, a France-Italy-Belgium-Poland coproduction, starring Franz Rogowski, won a Silver Bear at the Berlinale. Nominated to David di Donatello and Césars Award, it has been released in more then 40 countries.

Giancarlo De Cataldo was born on 7 February 1956 in Taranto, Apulia, Italy. He is a writer and actor, known for We Believed (2010), Romanzo Criminale (2005) and The Father and the Foreigner (2010).

Emanuele Cannarsa was born on 1 August 1945 in Taranto, Apulia, Italy. He is an actor, known for Prima che il sole tramonti (1976), La città dell'ultima paura (1975) and Double Game (1977).

Massimo Cimaglia was born on 2 August 1963 in Taranto, Apulia, Italy. He is an actor, known for Crimes (2006), Circeo (2022) and One Step from Heaven (2011).

Alessandro Pavone is an Italian cinematographer specializing in nonfiction and commercials. He is known for his coverage of major international events and has worked on documentary programs for media outlets such as VICE, HBO, BBC, CNN, Showtime, Apple TV+, ABC, PBS, The New York Times, The History Channel, and ESPN. Additionally, Alessandro has filmed branded films and commercials for companies including Facebook, Disney+, Hyundai, and Coach.

Alessandro has documented wars and humanitarian issues in over 50 countries around the world, earning prestigious accolades such as two Emmy awards and various nominations, a Peabody, and an Edward R. Murrow award. His feature documentaries have been showcased at the Tribeca Film Festival and various other film festivals globally.

Having lived in the Middle East and Central Asia for over a dozen years, Alessandro now resides with his family in Dubai, UAE.

Mauro Serio was born on 29 November 1960 in Taranto, Apulia, Italy. He is an actor, known for I Am the Abyss (2022), One Step from Heaven (2011) and Out of Bounds (2007).

Aldo Semerari was an Italian criminologist, anthropologist and psychiatrist. He was also a neo-fascist, who was suspected of complicity in the terror attack that killed 85 people at Bologna railway station in 1980. Semerari was born in Martina Franca, Apulia. He studied medicine at the University of Padua, specializing in psychiatry. During the 1970s he was Professor of Criminal Anthropology at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, and a director of the university's Institute of Forensic Psychopathology. His academic interests primarily involved the study of sadomasochism and sexual crimes. He was also reportedly the first to translate the works of the German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers into Italian. In 1962, Semerari was asked to provide a psychiatric analysis of the writer and film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was then on trial. In his report, Semerari pronounced Pasolini to be a "sexual deviant" and "instinctive psychopath", whose voyeurism and criminal tendencies were stimulated by his communist affiliations. Semerari did not succeed in getting his evidence accepted by the court. The controversial nature of Semerari's evaluation of Pasolini did not dent his status as a leading consultant to the criminal courts in Rome, and throughout the following two decades his psychiatric evaluations continued to influence judicial rulings. In the 1970s, Semerari was also involved in making films himself, developing a partnership with the director and screenwriter Brunello Rondi. In his youth Semerari was a communist ideologue. In 1954, however, he suddenly pivoted to the extreme right, becoming a convert to national socialism. He was also a member of the Propaganda Due (P2) masonic lodge, reputedly maintaining links with SISMI, the Italian military intelligence agency. Semerari also hosted a number of seminars with various far-right militants at around this time. In exchange for financial support for his organization, Semerari helped the members of various criminal organizations evade imprisonment when they were arrested, devising strategies for coping with police interrogation and writing reports that sought to establish either innocence, which were usually supported by a fraudulent diagnosis of mental infirmity. Semerari made similar deals with both Raffaele Cutolo's New Organised Camorra and one of Cutulo's main rivals, the New Family. In August 1980 Semerari was arrested on suspicion of being involved in the bombing of Bologna Central railway. He was freed in April 1981 due to a lack of evidence. On 23 March 1982 Semerari traveled to Naples, ostensibly to meet a local Camorra leader, Umberto Ammaturo, who had requested a psychiatric certificate. Semerari was last seen leaving the Royal Hotel in Naples on 26 March. His decapitated body was discovered on 1 April in a stolen car in Ottaviano, Campania. Semerari was murdered on the orders of Ammaturo, who desired revenge after discovering that his enemy, Raffaele Cutolo, had also availed himself of Semerari's services. Semerari's assistant was Fiorella Carrara, who was found dead from gunshot wounds in her apartment in Rome soon after Semerari's body was discovered.

Ettore Toscano was born on 21 May 1941 in Taranto, Apulia, Italy. He was an actor, known for Gli amori di Angelica (1966), Ginepro Became a Man (1962) and Peter Strohm (1989). He died on 25 August 2020 in Taranto, Apulia, Italy.

Selenia Orzella was born on 3 December 1984 in Taranto, Apulia, Italy. She is an actress, known for Marpiccolo (2009), Them Who? (2015) and Affari di famiglia (2007).