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At the beginning of June the festival of short films “C’è tempo per…..L’integrazione” will celebrate its tenth anniversary with public screenings in Sarnico and Bergamo. All the films chosen deal with aspects of integration, showing individuals, families or whole populations from every culture and nationality. The films will be divided into two categories: one for …
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The Official Bulletin of the Emilia-Romagna Region has confirmed in its February edition the grants available this year for the film and television industry. As the Region announced at the Berlin Festival, €1.2 million will go to national and international productions which are filmed either partly or completely in the region. The deadline for applications …
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The 19th CinemAmbiente Festival will be held in Turin from May 31st to June 5th during the United Nation’s World Environment Day. Films about environmental problems, produced after January 1st 2015, are eligible. The deadline to submit the films is April 10th. The registration procedure can be done directly on-line so as to minimise the …
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The Board of Directors of Rai, meeting on February 18th, agreed the appointment of new Directors to head the group’s various channels. Andrea Fabiano, 39, takes the reins of Rai 1, becoming the main channel’s youngest director. Having been head of marketing for the Rai Group, he became Rai’s Deputy Director on January 1st 2015. …
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On December 1st Italian director Michele Placido (“Romanzo criminale”, “Angel of Evil”) began shooting his twelfth film, “7 minuti”. The story is about 11 textile workers who have the difficult task of representing 200 colleagues at a crucial union meeting. They are only allowed to talk for 7 minutes to defend all the workers, threatened …
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Andrea Occhipinti, managing director of Lucky Red, an Italian production and distribution company, is this year’s winner of the European Co-production Award – the Eurimages Award. It will be presented to him on December 12th at the European Film Awards ceremony in Berlin. Founded in 1987, Lucky Red this year produced “Il Nome del Figlio”, …
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Produced by Taodue and Mediaset Premium, “Chiamatemi Francesco” (Call me Francis) looks at the path followed by Jorge Mario Bergoglio, particularly his life as a young Jesuit in Argentina during the dictatorship and Dirty War there before he became the Pope of the Catholic Church, called Francis, in 2013. The Argentinian actor Rodrigo de la …
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