To The Wonder, Olga Kurylenko. Sketch by Nesta 2/09/12 Venice.
“It is now established that the main function of a festival is to choose what we can and must see from among the huge blind mass of production”. Far from wishing to refute this claim, which may well be true, I feel I must add a few comments. Not marginal comments, however, if it is true that one of the reasons that led me to return to serving the Venice Film Festival, turns its gaze - in cross-eyed fashion - in a different direction. Nor am I referring to what's left of the f...
Eighty years ago, on the 6th of August 1932 at the Lido di Venezia, on the terrace of the Hotel Excelsior, the first international film festival in the world – conceived and organized by the Biennale di Venezia – was inaugurated.
At 9:15 PM, on a screen set up outdoors for the occasion, under sporadic rain showers, it began with a showing of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde by Rouben Mamoulian. The screening was followed by a grand ball in the Excelsior ballroom.
“Stemming di...
10:00am
Congress Center Angelo Rizzoli – Lacco Ameno - Auditorium
Master-Class for Actors .- Director Bernard Hiller
Special attendabce by the director Paul Haggis (Usa)
11:00am
V Global Production Summit
Production at the Peaks of the World's Economic Crisis"
Opening: Luigi Abete presidente BNL - Gruppo BNP PARIBAS
Moderating: Valerio Caprara, president of Campania Film Commission
Introduction: Riccardo Monti, vice - president and European...
10:00am
Congress Center Angelo Rizzoli – Lacco Ameno - Auditorium
Master-Class for Actors - Director Bernard Hiller
Special attendance by the director Lina Wertmuller
11:00am
One to One. Virginia Madsen (Usa) Ischia Art Award
9:00pm
Baia dell’ Albergo della Regina Isabella – Lacco Ameno
“Lay The Favorite” di Stephen Frears - (Italian Premiere)
Special attendance the producer Paul Trijbits
11:30
Hotel Mezzatorre – Fo...
10:00am
Congress center Angelo Rizzoli – Lacco Ameno - Auditorium
Master-Class for Actors - Director Bernard Hiller
With Rula Jebreal (Ita) and Abel Ferrara (Usa)
4:00pm
One to One. Benjamin Walker e Dominc Cooper (U.K.)
9:00pm
Cinema Excelsior – Ischia Porto
Premiere "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” by Timur Bekmambetov
Special appaerance Benjamin Walker e Dominc Cooper (U.K.)
11:30
Hotel Miramare e Castel...
With gress Center Angelo Rizzoli – Lacco Ameno - Auditorium
Master-Class for Actors - Director Bernard Hiller
Special attendance by Terry Gilliam (U.K.)
11:00am
World Script Market -
Special attendance: Terry Gilliam (U.K.), Simon Curtis (U.K.), Carlo ed Enrico Vanzina
Moderator Andrea Purgatori, spoke-person for 100 Autori
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SOCIAL SHORT CUT CONTEST CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROJECT 'RESPECTING DIVERSITY" WITH SHORT FILMS AND VIDEO CLIPS
ISCHIA GLOBAL BRINGS THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW YOUR SHORTS TO THE GREAT MASTERS OF CINEMA AND TO THE LEADING PRODUCERS OF THE GLOBAL AUDIOVISUAL INDUSTRY
SOCIAL SHORT CUT CONTEST
1) The Ischia Global Fest launches a competition among young people around the world who want to make a contribution to the theme of diversity through their artis...
The Apulia Film Commission Foundation is proud to present its new international fund in Cannes in support of foreign film productions, the APULIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FUND.
On Sunday 20 May at 4:30pm at the Plage Goéland (opposite the Hotel Majestic Barriere), the Apulia Region has organised a cocktail reception where representatives of the APULIA FILM COMMISSION will present details of this fund and other services offered by the Foundation to producers and journalists.
Five years since i...
Hollywood icons Paula Wagner and Rick Nicita will chair the 2012 Ischia Global Film & Music Festival, which will take place July 8th through the 15th on the magical Isle of Ischia, located off the coast of Naples, it was announced today by the Board of the Ischia International Arts Academy and Festival founder and producer Pascal Vicedomini.
"We are extremely pleased to be chairing this year's exciting event," said Wagner and Nicita, both of whom received the...
Hollywood icons Paula Wagner and Rick Nicita will chair the 2012 Ischia Global Film & Music Festival, which will take place July 8th through the 15th on the magical Isle of Ischia, located off the coast of Naples, it was announced today by the Board of the Ischia International Arts Academy and Festival founder and producer Pascal Vicedomini. "We are extremely pleased to be chairing this year's exciting event," said Wagner and Nicita, both of whom received the Ischia Lifetime Achievement Award at...
Kyrah Julian from 'I'm Carolyn Parker' at Venice 68! photo by Vanessa McMahon
Kyrah Julian from 'I'm Carolyn Parker' at Venice 68! photo by Vanessa McMahon
'I'm Carolyn Parker' at Venice 68! Director Jonathan Demme. photos by Vanessa McMaho
'I'm Carolyn Parker' at Venice 68! Director Jonathan Demme. photos by Vanessa McMahon
Director Nicolas Provost of THE INVADER (2011) at 68th Venice Film Festival, 2011
At the 68th Venice Film Festival, Belgian director Nicolas Provost held his world premier for his first feature film THE INVADER (2011). He immediately after traveled to Toronto for TIFF 2011 where he held his North American premier and where we held our interview.Actor Isaka Sawadogo (Amadou) photo by Vanessa McMahon
Director Milcho Manchevski at Venice Film Festival 1994 winning the Golden Lion for his film BEFORE THE RAIN (1994)
Valsusa Filmfest it’s a festival of films evoking historical recollections and environmental
protection open to exchange and debate on the independent production.
Main themes are history, memorial heritage and environmental issues. Through
different approaches the Valsusa Filmfest aims to educate as many people as
possible on our past and present times and relies on the new generation as well
as the use of images and technology to show changes, improvements and
difficulties in nowadays cultural field.
The XV Filmfest edition will take place from april 25th to may 1 2011 in some places of
Valle di Susa, near Torino in the north of Italy.
This year, E-M ARTS celebrates ten years of the Independent Film Show: an adventure grown in Naples, that is unique in its genre, highly refined, and very labour-intensive. Above all, it is careful to balance projectual rigour with educational and informational aims. Today an event dedicated to Independent Cinema is more necessary than ever in Italy, in Naples. This program leaves nothing to chance, clarifies misunderstandings and draws up a map of its subject. The projects on show go over and a...
Me standing in the press lineup for photo opts
Venice 2010
Venice kicks off tomorrow, however, I’m hearing things that the big festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Toronto etc are being called the falling stars of the festival circuit and that the whole star-studdied red carpet routine is getting rather dull and boring. This is an interesting point, but not one that I fully agree with – based on my experience of last years Cannes. Although I didnt see many of the in-competition films as I was doing my research around the film market...
The Ischia Legend Award 2010 has been awarded to Jeremy Irons. The British actor (Oscar winner in 1990 for “Reversal of Fortune” by Barbet Schroeder) will receive the prestigious special award on Tuesday July 13th at Sant’Angelo of Ischia during the 8° Global Film & Music Festival. With this award the accomplished British actor joins in the Festival record beside prominent colleagues such as Sir Ben Kinglsey, Dennis Hopper, Vanessa Redgrave, Hilary Swank, Murray Abraham, Giancarlo Giann...
The program is about “Saracen Pirates,” from countries around the Mediterranean Sea, and their attacks on the coastal cities of southern Italy to capture men, women and children for the slave markets of North Africa.
