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Italy / The Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini promises €53 million for film and television

Ministero della Cultura

The Italian Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, has announced a subsidy for film and broadcasting production and marketing. €53 million have been allocated “to support one of the country’s main creative industries, with significant grants for young film-makers and for difficult films,” declared Mr Franceschini. Calls for tenders for these grants can be found on …

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Italy / Start of the 3rd “Classici Fuori Mostra”

affiche de "Classici Fuori Mostra"

The Venice Film Festival is organizing the 3rd “Classici fuori Mostra” (Permanent Festival of Restored Films). 14 international classic films, each carefully restored by the world’s finest film institutions, will be screened every Thursday from February 10th to May 26th 2022 at Venice’s Cinema Rossini. This year’s festival is organized in partnership with the City …

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ITALY / “Occhiali neri” Dario Argento’s first film in 10 years

Dario Argento

“Occhiali neri” (Dark Glasses) is the latest feature from Italian artist Dario Argento, a pioneer of giallo (lit. yellow) an Italian narrative and cinematographic genre blending sexuality, murder and fantasy. Argento hadn’t made a film since 2012 and the box-office failure of “Dracula 3D”. Salvatore Argento, pioneer of “giallo” Son of the famous Italian producer …

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ITALY / The 62nd Festival dei Popoli offers a retrospective on the work of French film-makers Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval

Festival dei Popoli

Europe’s oldest documentary event, the Festival dei Popoli, will run in Florence from November 20th to 28th. This year, in addition to the two competitions – international (18 documentaries not yet shown in Italy) and Italian (7 premiers) – the festival is hosting the first Italian retrospective of the films of French directors Nicolas Klotz …

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ITALY / Registration is open for the 2022 Integrazione Film Festival

IFF

The 16th Integrazione Film Festival is now open for registration. It aims to be “an international competition for short drama and documentary films which show how people from different cultural backgrounds have successfully integrated.” This year’s festival was online but next year it will take place face-to-face in Bergamo and Sarnico, from May 10th to …

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ITALY / “Mediterráneo : The Law of the Sea” winner of the 16th Rome Film Fest

Mediterráneo

Marcel Barrena’s “Mediterráneo – The Law of the Sea” won the “FS Audience Award” at the International Rome Film Fest, with the public using the festival’s official app or web-site to vote. The film shows how two Barcelona life-guards created the NGO “Open Arms”. “September 2015. The whole world was shocked by the photograph of …

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ITALY / The MIA presents two new sections for scripted and unscripted projects

MIA

For international producers, distributors, commissioning editors, directors of programming and production, private and public fund-raisers, Rome’s international audiovisual market –  MIA – is “the leading Italian market, bringing together every section of the audiovisual industry.” More than 2,000 professionals from 58 countries take part every year. “A hub where offers are made for transnational film …

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