On April 27th Doc / It, the association of Italian documentary directors and producers, announced the winners of the 7th Doc / It Professional Awards, which since 2010 has rewarded the best of Italy’s documentary production. The award for Best Documentary of the Year went to Federica di Giacomo, whose “Liberami” explores exorcism in …
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The Short Film Festival “C’è un tempo per…l’integrazione” will take place in May, split between the towns of Sarnico and Bergamo (northern Italy). As well as the usual short film programme, the festival is also organizing various events (screenings, exhibitions) to mark the 25th anniversary of the start of the war in former Yugoslavia. As …
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HBO and Rai have announced they are co-producing an eight-episode series adapted from Elena Ferrante’s four-volume “My Brilliant Friend”. These four books, about two young women born in post-war Naples, were originally published between 2011 and 2014 and are still being translated into a dozen languages. They have already been a huge success in France, …
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The eighth Middle East Now Festival will take place between April 4th and 9th in Florence, Italy. This festival is dedicated to Middle Eastern and North African cinema, art and culture. Middle East Now is the only event in Italy committed to these regions. It hopes to erase common stereotypes by making the Italian public …
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The Biennale College – Cinema is a laboratory for young film-makers created six years ago by the Biennale di Venezia. Now it has just created a sub-section for young Italian film-makers, with the same aim of helping them work on very low-budgets. The new Italian section (Biennale College – Cinema Italia) is for Italian director-producer …
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The Italian Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, has appointed the members of the new Higher Council for Cinema and Broadcasting. It will be chaired by Stefano Rulli, scriptwriter, who previously ran the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome’s principal film school. The Council will be an advisory body reporting to the Ministry. It will be consulted …
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Italy’s national union of film journalists, the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (SNGCI) has just announced the winners of the Nastri d’argento for the best documentaries of 2017. In the non-fiction category, the winner was Carmine Amoroso’s Porno e libertà. It looks back at the Italy of the 1970’s, the beginning of soft porn films …
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