Flavia Mazzarino obtained her Master’s degree in Visual Arts at the Università Iuav di Venezia and HfG in Karlsruhe with a thesis on Harun Farocki’s observational films. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano under the supervision of Kevin B. Lee, with whom she has also taught courses on video essays, cinema and audiovisual futures, and film festival studies. Flavia organized the Future of Reality Conference at the Locarno Film Festival in 2025. She is involved in curatorial projects focused on experimental and avant-garde cinema, having curated programs featuring filmmakers such as Robert Beavers, Morgan Fisher, and Helga Fanderl. Since 2021, she has been collaborating with Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari, producing his last four films, including A Fidai Film, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Visions du Réel 2024, and With Hasan in Gaza, which has been nominated at the European Film Awards.