Giovanni Mongini

Was raised in Ferrara (Italy) and soon became interested in collecting 16/35mm prints. At the age of 30 he founded the Pleiadi Cineteca film library. He's one of Italy first and foremost experts and historians in the field of science fiction cinema and he's the author of "Storia del cinema di fantascienza", originally published as a two-volume book in 1976 and later expanded into a massive 11-volume opus covering the history of Sci-Fi films from 1898 to 1999.