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WORLD / We Are One, a Global Festival

We Are One: A Global Film Festival is an online event designed to counteract the many festival cancellations which have happened since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. The idea for the event originated from a dialogue between the Tribeca Festival and YouTube, then several other festivals responded, with around twenty now joining the event, …

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ITALY / Map to the Stars, a guide to the festivals

At the end of April, the Associazioni Festival Italiani di Cinema (AFIC) launched Map to the Stars. This free application is to help people find their way through the myriad of film festivals in Italy. It was created with the help of the Ministry of Heritage, Cultural Activities and Tourism, and the General Directorate of …

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ITALY / From the Sidelines, a sports documentary

From the Sidelines is a 2019 documentary directed by Simona Cocozza and made during the 30th World University Games in Naples, a multi-sport event organized every two years in a different city to celebrate international university sport and culture. For two weeks the Neapolitan director captured the relationship between coaches and athletes, the tensions, the …

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ITALY / Italian Screenings on the internet

Italian Screenings is an annual market entirely for Italian productions. Organised by the Luce-Cinecittà Institute, the 17th edition has been confirmed from July 21st to 24th, with screenings taking place online thanks to the Festival Scope platform. Recent Italian productions will be presented to an audience of buyers from all over the world. The organisers …

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ITALY / Netflix and the Italian Film Commissions in partnership

Netflix and the Italian Film Commissions (IFC) have joined forces to create a fund to support the film and television industry faced with the coronavirus lockdown. In early April, the two entities announced they had created an emergency fund for workers and crews in the Italian audiovisual industry affected by the nationwide shutdown of production. …

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ITALY / Funding for films by IDM

IDM (Innovation, Development and Marketing) is a funding organisation for the development, pre-production and production of cinema and television films. Each year it distributes €5 million to different projects to encourage production in the Italian province of South Tyrol. Several times a year IDM gives financial support to films. Seven projects were selected during the …

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ITALY / A docu-drama about Pompeii

2018/2019 saw the most important excavations in Pompeii for the past 70 years, part of an Italian initiative, Great Pompeii Project. The dig uncovered a street, several houses and about fifteen victims. The information pieced together with DNA analysis of the bodies enabled the archaeologists not only to understand more about the people they had …

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