Piero LOREDAN

Piero LOREDAN

International ecumenical jury 2021

Piero Loredan is an Italian Jesuit scholastic living in Cluj-Napoca (Romania). He joined the society of Jesus in 2016 at the age of 31. Before joining the order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, his passion for art, literature and cinema led him to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree in Management Of Arts, Culture And Entertainment in Milan. Among the subjects, he studied History And Criticism Of Cinema. After the Master’s Degree in Business Communication, he worked in the communication field in Italy and abroad (Spain, Australia, South Africa). He participated at several festivals including the Verona International Film Festival “Schermi d’Amore 2006” (Italy) as a member of the Youth Jury, and the Durban International Film Festival 2012 (South Africa), where he covered the Festival on behalf of the Communication Department of the City of Durban. Piero deepened his passion also as a Jesuit: he wrote about cinema
on Civiltà Cattolica – the oldest of Catholic Italian periodicals, published by the Jesuits in Rome – and the Osservatore Romano, the daily newspaper of Vatican City State.