News about audiovisual in Italy
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“Zero”, an eight-part Italian series released on April 21st, rose straight to Netflix’s Top 10. Taken from the novel “Non ho mai avuto la mia età” (I have never been my age) by Antonio Dikele Distefano, an Italian writer of Angolan origin, the series goes beyond the themes of friendship, adolescence and love, managing to …
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The Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo of the Italian Ministry of Culture has announced that subsidies worth €5 million are available for feature films being co-produced with a minority Italian participation. The grants will be allocated between May 10th and June 4th 2021, then from September 6th to October 1st 2021. The conditions for eligibility are:– the Italian company must have …
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The Gianandrea Mutti Award, the national competition for migrant or foreign-born directors, is calling for applications for its 13th edition. Created in 2008, the award was the result of a collaboration between the Associazione Amici di Giana, the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, the Archivio Memorie Migranti (AMM) and the Fondazione Pianoterra Onlus. The Gianandrea Mutti Award, the national competition for migrant …
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The Documentary Cinematheque of the Bpi (Bibliothèque publique d’information) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is celebrating the work of Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini. From April 1st to June 21st a season of documentaries will make 20 of his films available online, together with a selection of Italian films from the 1980’s to the present “all containing echoes, …
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The Associazione festival italiani di cinema (AFIC) has published the results of a survey conducted in 2020 showing how festivals across the country are changing. Of the 142 Italian film festivals participating in the study, “62% say they are considering a hybrid form for their next edition”. More than a third of festivals see this obligatory change …
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The 15th Bergamo film festival – the Integrazione Film Festival (IFF) – is being held from April 7th to 11th. Organized by Ruah, a social cooperative, in collaboration with Lab 80 Film, this year’s IFF will be streamed and, if the context permits, shown live at Bergamo’s Auditorium. It’s an international competition for short films and documentaries …
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In 2019 the Direzione Generale Cinema e audiovisivo, part of Italy’s Ministry of Culture, created this fund. The goal is to strengthen international collaboration by encouraging Italian film-makers to think globally – “promoting cross-border co-productions while also helping Italian and European films and audiovisual productions find distribution in Italy and abroad”. Among the winners of the …
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