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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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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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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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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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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The Italian production and distribution company Minerva Pictures has decided to make some films available free of charge. In the context of the confinement imposed in several European countries, around a hundred feature films of all kinds are now available on the internet. Ginluca Curti, Minerva’s CEO, said, “Primarily as citizens, not just as digital …
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From July 6th to 12th this year the fifteenth Sole Luna Doc Film Festival will take place in Palermo, Italy. Created in 2006, the event is to encourage independent films and bring together the people working in them. Behind the festival’s organization is the association Sole Luna – A bridge between cultures whose name testifies …
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