Q&A with director Lorena Luciano, producer Filippo Piscopo, editor Erin Caspar, and EP Trish Adlesic

Saturday, Nov. 14 2026, 2:00

• Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Lorena Luciano is a fellow of the Sundance Institute, the MacArthur Foundation, and IDA. Born and raised in Italy, she studied Law in Milan before moving to New York to pursue filmmaking, a bold leap that shaped her ethical approach and commitment to fair, balanced storytelling. Her HBO film It Will Be Chaos won the Emmy® for Best Current Affairs Documentary. An alum of the Jacob Burns Film Center, she continues to craft socially engaged films with her husband and collaborator, Filippo Piscopo. Her latest, Nuns vs. the Vatican, premiered at TIFF 2025 and won DOC NYC’s Subject Matter Award and Hamptons DocFest Human Rights Award.
• Filippo Piscopo (producer-cinematographer) is an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and cinematographer of the 2024 Academy Award–nominated short documentary The ABC’s of Book Banning. Filippo intersects his true passion as a film producer with impactful camera work. He has crafted engaging stories featured at film venues such as the Venice Film Festival, IDFA’s Central Pitch, and the IFP’s Spotlight on Documentaries. Filippo’s documentary work, often in collaboration with his wife and film director/partner Lorena Luciano, has been distributed globally.
• Erin Casper is an Emmy-nominated documentary editor whose award-winning films have screened at Sundance, New York Film Festival, Tribeca, True/False, Visions du Réel; distributed in movie theaters internationally, and broadcast on HBO, Showtime, PBS, The New York Times, Field of Vision, and Vanity Fair. Her selected editing credits include Risk, directed by Laura Poitras (Neon, Showtime); American Promise (Sundance Special Jury Award, Emmy nominee); Roll Red Roll (Netflix, POV), and The Last Season (Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction Award nominee). Outside of her work as an editor, Erin is a frequent panelist and mentor for Sundance, Tribeca, IFP, and True/False filmmaking labs, and is a 2011 Fellow and board member of the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• Trish Adlesic is a two-time Academy Award–nominated, Emmy-winning, and Producers Guild of America Awardwinning documentary filmmaker, and Head of Documentary for Mariska Hargitay's Mighty Entertainment, where she produced the two-time Emmy winning HBO film My Mom Jayne (Cannes; Tribeca), and serves as an Executive Producer on Nuns vs. the Vatican and The Gymnasts of the Fisherman Colony. She produced and co-directed the Oscar-nominated The ABC's of Book Banning with Sheila Nevins for Paramount+, directed and produced A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting for HBO, and co-directed I Am Evidence with Geeta Gandbhir and Mariska Hargitay — the duPont-Columbia and Primetime Emmy Honors–winning HBO film examining the alarming number of untested sexual assault kits in the United States, which helped spark national reform and the testing of decades-old backlogged rape kits. Her work with Josh Fox on HBO's Gasland and Gasland II earned an Academy Award nomination and an Emmy. With more than 25 years in narrative filmmaking and 14 years on Law & Order: SVU, she is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Producers Guild of America, and the Directors Guild of America.

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