Bif&st 2011. Premières
The official Bif&st opening ceremony will take place on Saturday, January 22, 2011 at the Petruzzelli Theatre with the presentation of a spectacular and artistically appealing film première in Italy. The theatre will be hosting many other premières out of competition from January 23-28. The final night will be held on January 29 at the Petruzzelli Theater.
“Per il cinema italiano” – ItaliaFilmFest
1. ItaliaFilmFest/Feature Films – Competitive section for the best 17 Italian feature films in 2010, pre-selected by the Artistic Direction. The works admitted for selection are those released, distributed and screened at cinemas or other international festivals from January 1st to December 31st, 2010 with possible exceptions for films to be released in the first three weeks of January, 2011.
An International Italian-speaking Jury will assign the following prizes:
- “Mario Monicelli” Award for the Best Director
- “Tonino Guerra” Award for the Best Script
- “Suso Cecchi D’Amico” Award for the Best Screenplay
- “Anna Magnani” Award for the Best Leading Actress
- “Vittorio Gassman” Award for the Best Leading Actor
- “Ennio Morricone” Award for the Best Music Composer
- “Giuseppe Rotunno” Award for the Best Cinematographer
- “Dante Ferretti” Award for the Best Art Director
- “Roberto Perpignani” Award for the Best Editor
- “Piero Tosi” Award for the Best Costume Designer
An Audience Jury composed by 50 members and headed by an established cinematographer, will honour:
- “Franco Cristaldi” Award to the Best Film Producer for the Audience
- “Alberto Sordi” Award to the Best Breakthrough Male Performance
- “Alida Valli” Award to the Best Breakthrough Female Performance
2. ItaliaFilmFest/First Feature Films – An International Jury of Film Critics will assign the “Francesco Laudadio” Award for the Best First Feature to the best debuting Italian feature film, screened at cinemas or other national and international festivals from January 1st to December 31st, 2010 and pre-selected by the Artistic Direction. The “Francesco Laudadio” Award reaches its fourth edition. In the previous editions Andrea Molaioli received it from Ettore Scola for “The Girl By The Lake” (which received countless awards including 8 David Di Donatello Prizes). Ugo Gregoretti honoured Marco Pontecorvo for “PA-RA-DA” (13 awards winner). Francesco Rosi presented the Award won by Claudio Noce for “Good Morning Aman” and by Valerio Mieli for “Ten Winters” (which also received the David Di Donatello Prize for the Best Directorial Debut). The Award is hosted by the “Francesco Laudadio” Foundation, in memory of the film director from Bari prematurely departed on April, 2005.
3. ItaliaFilmFest/Short Films – Competitive section for the best 15 Italian short feature films in 2010, pre-selected by the Artistic Direction. The works admitted for selection are those released, distributed and screened at cinemas or other national and international festivals from January 1st to December 31st, 2010.
An Audience Jury composed by 30 members and headed by an established cinematographer, will assign the “Michelangelo Antonioni” Award for the Best Short Film Director.
4. ItaliaFilmFest/Documentaries – Competitive section for the best 10-15 Italian documentary films in 2010, pre-selected by the Artistic Direction. The works admitted for selection are those screened at cinemas or other festivals and/or distributed in DVD format from January 1st to December 31st, 2010. An Audience Jury composed by 30 members and headed by a documentarist, will assign the “Vittorio De Seta” Award for the Best Documentary Film Director.
Fellini 8½ Award for Excellence in Cinema
The prestigious prize which bears the name of Federico Fellini will be assigned to some of the best national and international movie stars and cinema celebrities.
Cinema sul Cinema
This section – which achieved an unexpected success in the past edition – includes documentaries that focus on authors, actors, film genres and so on: a consideration of the cinema through its images.
Cinema&Fiction
One or two wonderfully accomplished fiction films produced by Italian and foreign networks, directed, written and/or interpreted by film directors, screenwriters and/or actors will be scheduled in the Petruzzelli Theatre.
Retrospectives
The following film shows will be arranged with the close collaboration of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Experimental Cinematography Centre) Foundation – the Cineteca Nazionale (National Film Archive), one of the most important movie archives in the world, and of Cinecittà Luce.
a) Giuseppe Tornatore, screenwriter and film director, curated by Ninni Panzera. The most detailed exhibition ever dedicated to the Sicilian screenwriter and film director who, on September 1988, presented in Bari the world première of the film “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso”.
b) La Fandango per il cinema italiano – Tribute to Domenico Procacci, film producer and distributor.
c) Suso Cecchi D’Amico. A retrospective dedicated to the great screenwriter, recently departed, on whom the University of Bari bestowed a degree honoris causa, on Felice Laudadio’s proposal, within the ambit of the EuropaCinema festival.
d) Cinema and Racism – A retrospective
Especially addressed to middle and high school students, this section includes 8 films that focus on the theme of racism as seen by the cinema.
e) Additional tributes will be honoured to the winners of the Fellini 8½ Award and to some member of the International Jury.
CINEMA LESSONS, WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS, MEETINGS
Cinema lessons – 8 cinema lessons in the form of a conversation scheduled from January 22-29, between 8 established cinematographers who achieved the Fellini 8½ Award and illustrious names of the cultural scene, after their film screenings.
Percorsi di Cinema (Paths of Cinema) – The joint effort between ANAC, the historic National Association of Cinematographers, and Casa del Cinema of Rome headed by Felice Laudadio, has promoted a long series of meetings and interviews between the most important Italian cinematographers of all generations and their colleagues or film critics. 31 of those videotapes will be screened during the Bif&st.
Scrivere il Cinema – Scrivere la Fiction (Writing Cinema – Writing Fiction) – Two well-known film and fiction screenwriters will conduct a seminar based on films, fictions or video clips about the origin and the narrative structures of the films for cinema and TV, with experimental writing tests. ( From January 24-28, every afternoon from 15:00 to 18:00).
Essere Attori (Being an Actor) – Orazio Costa has been one of the most important acting class teacher who influenced generations of actors, besides of directing about 200 shows in more than 60 years of activity. He worked in the “Silvio D’Amico” National Academy of Dramatic Art and operated for some year even in Bari. Among his students, some of the most important Italian actors in the recent past, like Gian Maria Volonté, and in the present, like Fabrizio Gifuni, Luigi Locascio, Alessio Boni and Pierfrancesco Favino. The Orazio Costa’s mimic method will be illustrated by the dramatist and teacher Maricla Boggio and other members of the Academy in a long interactive seminar arranged with the collaboration of Consorzio Pubblico Teatrale Pugliese (the Public Apulian Theatre Consortium). (From January 24-28, every afternoon from 15:00 to 18:00).
Rising Stars – Meetings of young but accomplished Italian actors and film directors with students and young member of the audience, curated by Franco Montini. (From January 23-28).
Meeting on the 2010-2011 Intervention Strategies of the Apulia Film Commission in support of the Italian cinema (January 27).
Apulia Film Commission Promotion – Open space for directors and screenwriters of feature films, short films and documentaries, organized by the AFC (January 26-27).
Riccardo Ghilardi’s photography exhibition entitled “Lo sguardo non mente … mai” (The eyes never lie)
During the Bif&st 2011 will be mounted a photography exhibition on Riccardo Ghilardi’s most revealing works subtitled “Tutte le verità del cinema italiano in uno scatto” (All the truth of the Italian cinema in one shot). “Lo sguardo non mente…mai” is a photography project, a sort of psychological game that attempts to capture the true instinct residing in our eyes. The field experiment starts from the Italian cinema questioning actresses and actors like Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Impacciatore, Claudia Pandolfi, Leonardo Pieraccioni, Anita Caprioli, Giorgio Pasotti, Ennio Fantastichini, Paola Cortellesi, Claudia Gerini, Valerio Mastandrea, Jasmine Trinca, Carolina Crescentini, Gianmarco Tognazzi, Enrico Lo Verso, Alessio Boni, Regina Orioli, Elio Germano, Rocco Papaleo, Beppe Fiorello, Ninetto Davoli, Valentina Lodovini, Donatella Finocchiaro, Cecilia Dazzi, Rolando Ravello, Fabio Troiano and many others.
(provisional programme updated on October 22nd, 2010)
THE BIF&ST 2011 DETAILED PROGRAMME WILL BE ANNOUNCED TO PRESS AND AUDIENCE IN THE MIDDLE OF DECEMBER 2010.
OTHER NEWS ESPECIALLY RELATED TO THE SELECTION FOR THE AUDIENCE JURIES WILL BE PUBLISHED ON THIS WEBSITE BY THE END OF OCTOBER 2010.
