Festival de Roma 2012: la programación (Parte 1)

Los dejo acá con el anuncio oficial de buena parte de la programación del Festival de Cine de Roma. Están 13 de los títulos de la competencia oficial (dos serán «sorpresa») y una parte de los que integrarán la sección CinemaXXI, dedicada a películas de «mayor riesgo» (el resto de los filmes se anunciará en unos días), además de los jurados, secciones paralelas y películas de apertura y cierre.

Entre los cineastas de los que se verán nuevos trabajos están (en competencia) Roman Coppola, Takashi Miike, el mexicano Enrique Rivero (único latinoamericano), Valérie Donzelli, Alexey Fedorchenko, Larry Clark, Kira Muratova, Jacques Doillon, Jozef y Michal Skolimovski (los hijos de Jerzy) y Paolo Franchi. Fuera de competencia se verán filmes de Cesc Gay (con Ricardo Darín, será el cierre del festival), Walter Hill, Marjane Satrapi, Michele Placido, P.J. Hogan y el final de la saga CREPUSCULO, de Bill Condon.

De lo que se adelantó de CinemaXXI están -con largos, medios o cortos- nombres reconocidos como Aki Kaurismäki, Pedro Costa, Victor Erice, Manoel de Oliveira, Avi Mograbi, Peter Greenaway, Xu Haofeng, Wim Wenders, Theo Angelopoulos, Atom  Egoyan, Manoel De Oliveira, Guy Maddin, Marco Bechis, Maria de Medeiros, Jerzy  Stuhr, Michael Almereyda, Marina Abramovic, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Paul Verhoeven, Mike Figgis y James Franco.

Entre los que tienen proyectos seleccionados para el New Cinema Network están Alexis Dos Santos, CAI Shangjun, Alejandro Fernandez Almendras, JIA Zhangke, Jessica Krummaker, Marco Bellocchio, Amit Dutta, Lluis Galter y Lisandro Alonso. Aquí la lista completa de lo anunciado hasta ahora. Roma (festival para el que trabajo, dicho sea de paso) comienza el 9 de noviembre.

• A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III by Roman Coppola,United States, 2012,90’

Cast: Charlie Sheen, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Katheryn Winnick, Patricia Arquette

Second Film

• AKU NO KYÔTEN / LESSON OF EVIL by Takashi Miike,Japan, 2012,129’

Cast: Hideaki Ito, Fumi Nikaido, Shota Sometani, Kento Hayashi, Kodai Asaka, Erina Mizuno

• ALÌ HA GLI OCCHI AZZURRI by Claudio Giovannesi, Italy, 2012,100’

Cast: Nader Sarhan, Stefano Rabatti, Brigitte Apruzzesi, Marian Valenti Adrian

Second Film

• ELA CHIAMANO ESTATE by Paolo Franchi, Italy, 2012,97’

Cast: Isabella Ferrari, Jean-Marc Barr, Luca Argentero, Filippo Nigro, Eva Riccobono, Anita Kravos

• IXJANA by Józef Skolimowski, Michał Skolimowski, Poland, 2012,98’

Cast: Sambor Czarnota, Borys Szyc, Magdalena Boczarska, Ewa Hornich, Łukasz Simlat

Second Film

• MAI MORIRE by Enrique Rivero, Mexico, 2012,84’

Cast: Margarita Saldaña, Amalia Salas, Juan Chirinos

Second Film

• MAIN DANSLA MAIN/ HAND IN HAND byValérie Donzelli,France, 2012,90’

Cast: Valérie Lemercier, Jérémie Elkaïm, Valérie Donzelli, Béatrice De Staël

• MARFA GIRL by Larry Clark,United States, 2012,106’

Cast: Adam Mediano, Drake Burnette, Jeremy St. James, Mary Farley, Mercedes Maxwell, Indigo Rael

• THE MOTEL LIFE by Gabriel Polsky, Alan Polsky,United States, 2012,95’

Cast: Stephen Dorff, Emile Hirsch, Dakota Fanning, Kris Kristofferson

Debut Film

• NEBESNYE ŽENY LUGOVYKH MARI / CELESTIAL WIVES OF MEADOW MARI byAlexey Fedorchenko,Russia, 2012,106’

Cast: Julia Aug, Yana Esipovich, Vasiliy Domrachev, Daria Ekamasova, Olga Dobrina, Yana Troyanova, Olga Degtyarova, Alexandr Ivashkevich, Yana Sexte

• UN ENFANT DE TOI / YOU, ME AND US by Jacques Doillon,France, 2012,140’

Cast: Lou Doillon, Samuel Benchetrit, Malik Zidi, Marilyne Fontaine

• VEČNOE VOZVRAŠČENIE / ETERNAL HOMECOMING byKira Muratova,Ukraine, 2012,114’

Cast: Oleg Tabakov, Alla Demidova, Renata Litvinova, Sergey Makovetsky, Georgy Deliev

• IL VOLTO DI UN’ALTRA by Pappi Corsicato, Italy, 2012,83’

Cast: Laura Chiatti, Alessandro Preziosi, Lino Guanciale, Iaia Forte

And two surprise-films

OUT OF COMPETITION

• LA BANDE DEJOTAS / THE GANG OF THE JOTAS byMarjane Satrapi,France, 2012,75’

Cast: Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa, Stéphane Roche, Ali Mafakheri, Maria de Medeiros

• BULLET TO THE HEAD by Walter Hill,United States, 2012,88’

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Momoa, Christian Slater, Sarah Shahi, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Sung Kang

• LE GUETTEUR / THE LOOKOUT by Michele Placido,France, 2012, 89′

Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivier Gourmet, Francis Renaud, Violante Placido, Luca Argentero

• MENTAL by P. J. Hogan,Australia, 2012,87’

Cast: Toni Collette, Liev Schreiber, Anthony Lapaglia, Rebecca Gibney

• POPULAIRE by Regis Roinsard,France, 2012,90’

Cast: Romain Duris , Déborah François , Bérénice Bejo , Shaun Benson, Mélanie Bernier, Miou-Miou

Debut Film

• RISE OF THE GUARDIANS by Peter Ramsey,United States, 2012,94’

Con le voci di: Chris Pine, Isla Fisher, Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law

Debut Film

• THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 by Bill Condon,United States, 2012,110’

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Dakota Fanning, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene, Taylor Lautner, Nikki Reed, Michael Sheen

• UNA PISTOLA EN CADA MANO / A GUN IN EACH HAND by Cesc Gay, Spain, 2012,100’

Cast: Ricardo Darín, Javier Cámara, Luis Tosar, Eduardo Noriega, Candela Peña, Jordi Mollà

• V OŽIDANII MORJA / WAITING FOR THE SEA byBakhtiar Khudojnazarov,Russia, 2012,109’

Cast: Egor Beroev, Anastasia Mikulchina, Detlev Buck, Dinmukhamet Akhimov

PREVIEW OF THE CINEMAXXI SELECTION

The titles in this list are a preview of the CineMAXXI programme. The complete selection will be announced at a dedicated press conference that will be held in the next few days at the MAXXI – NationalMuseumof the XXI Century Arts.

• BLOODY DAUGHTER by Stéphanie Argerich, France, 2012,94’

• CENTRO HISTÓRICO / HISTORIC CENTRE by Aki Kaurismäki, Pedro Costa, Victor Erice, Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal, 2012,90’

• NICHNASTI PA’AM LAGAN / DANS UN JARDIN JE SUIS ENTRE / ONCE I ENTERED A GARDEN by Avi Mograbi, Israel, 2012,97’

• GOLTZIUS AND THE PELICAN COMPANY by Peter Greenaway,Netherlands, 2012,120’

Cast: Ramsey Nasr, F. Murray Abraham, Giulio Berruti, Flavio Parenti, Anne Louise Hassing, Halina Reijn, Lars Eidinger, Pippo Delbono

• JIANSHI LIU BAIYUAN / JUDGE ARCHER byXu Haofeng,China, 2012,94’

Cast: Song Yang, Zhao Jing, Li Cheng’ai

• MUNDO INVISÍVEL / INVISIBLE WORLD by Wim Wenders, Theo Angelopoulos, Atom  Egoyan, Manoel De Oliveira, Guy Maddin, Marco Bechis, Laís Bodanzky, Maria de Medeiros, Jerzy  Stuhr, Gian Vittorio Baldi, Brazil, 2012,83’

• THE OGRE’S FEATHERS by Michael Almereyda,United States,20’

• PLETORA by Zapruder, Italy, 2012,15’

• RANDOM ACTS by Marina Abramovic, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Zineb Sedira, Johan Grimonprez, Shahryar Nashat, Lucy Harvey, Rachel Mayeri, Lewis Klahr, Mark Leckey, Semiconductor, Sarah Wood, Young-Hae Chang, Richard Billingham and others, Great Britain, 2012, 50’. A collection of artists’ short films produced by Jacqui Davies for Channel 4.

• STEEKSPEL / TRICKED by Paul Verhoeven,Netherlands, 2012,52’

Cast: Peter Blok, Ricky Koole, Robert de Hoog, Gaite Jansen, Carolien Spoor, Sallie Harmsen, Jochum ten Haaf, Pieter Tiddens

• SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF by Mike Figgis,Great Britain, 2012,107’

Cast: Sebastian Koch, Lotte Verbeek, Emilia Fox, Rebecca Night, Eoin Macken, Lachlan Nieboer, Frances dela Tour, Julian Sands, Kenneth Cranham

• TAR by Edna Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Bruce Thierry Cheung, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gamb; supervision James Franco, United States, 2012,72’

Cast: James Franco, Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, Zach Braff, Henry Hopper, Bruce Campbell

• I TOPI LASCIANOLA NAVEby Zapruder, Italy, 2012,32’

• TUTTO PARLA DI TE by Alina Marazzi, Italy, 2012,84’

• L’ASSOLUTEZZA DEL CERCHIO – Il G.R.A. DI RENATO NICOLINI by Gianfranco Rosi, Italy, 2012,30’
• IL VIAGGIO DELLA SIGNORINA VILA by Elisabetta Sgarbi, Italy, 2012,60’

PROSPETTIVE ITALIA

FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION

• ACQUA FUORI DAL RING by Joel Stangle, Italy, 2012, 113’
  Cast: Enrico Toscano, Ahmed Faraone Ahassan, Maria Benkhalouk, Elisa Pennisi

Debut film

• COSIMO E NICOLE by Francesco Amato, Italy, 2012,100’

Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Clara Ponsot, Paolo Sassanelli

Second film

• L’ISOLA DELL’ANGELO CADUTO by Carlo Lucarelli, Italy, 2012,100’

Cast: Giampaolo Morelli, Giuseppe Cederna, Rolando Ravello, Gaetano Bruno

Debut film

• ITALIAN MOVIES by Matteo Pellegrini, Italy, 2012,103’

Cast: Aleksei Guscov, Eriq Ebouaney, Filippo Timi,  Anita Kravos, Melanie Guerren, Michele Venitucci

Debut film

• LA SCOPERTA DELL’ALBAby Susanna Nicchiarelli, Italy, 2012,89’

Cast: Margherita Buy, Sergio Rubini, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Lina Sastri, Gabriele Spinelli, Lucia Mascino

Second film

• RAZZA BASTARDA by Alessandro Gassman, Italy, 2012,95’

Cast: Alessandro Gassman, Giovanni Anzaldo, Manrico Gammarota, Sergio Meogrossi, Matteo Taranto, Michele Placido, Madalina Ghenea, Carolina Fachinetti

Debut film

• WAVES by Corrado Sassi, Italy, 2012,71’

Cast: Luca Marinelli, Francesco Di Leva, Andrea Vergoni, Kathrin Resetarits , Salvatore Sansone

Debut film

DOCUMENTARIES IN COMPETITION

• DELL’ARTE DELLA GUERRA by Luca Bellino, Silvia Luzi, Italy, 2012,84’

• IL LEONE D’ORVIETO – GIANCARLO PARRETTI ELA SCALATA ALLAMGM by Aureliano Amadei, Italy, 2012,70’

• MILLEUNANOTTE by Marco Santarelli, Italy, 2012,82’

• PEZZI by Luca Ferrari, Italy, 2012,70’

• PINUCCIO LOVERO YES I CAN by Pippo Mezzapesa, Italy, 2012,70’

• S.B. IO LO CONOSCEVO BENE by Giacomo Durzi, Giovanni Fasanella, Italy, 2012,75’

SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION

• IL CINEMA LO FACCIO IO by Alessandro Valori, Italy, 2012,13’

• CIRO by Sergio Panariello, Italy, 2012, 20′

• IL GATTO DEL MAINE by Antonello Schioppa, Italy, 2012,7’

• LA PRIMA LEGGEDI NEWTON by Piero Messina, Italy, 2012,19’

• IL TURNO DI NOTTE LO FANNO LE STELLE by Edoardo Ponti, Italy, 2012,23’

• LES YEUX DU RENARD by Chiara Malta, Sebastien Laudenbach, Italy, 2012,7’

DOCUMENTARIES OUT OF COMPETITION

• CARLO! by Gianfranco Giagni, Fabio Ferzetti, Italy, 2012,75’

• EBREI A ROMA by Gianfranco Pannone, Italy, 2012,57’

• IL GIOCO DEGLI SPECCHI by Carlo Di Carlo, Italy, 2012,120’

• GIULIANO MONTALDO – QUATTRO VOLTE VENT’ANNI by Marco Spagnoli, Italy, 2012,80’

• GIUSEPPE TORNATORE – OGNI FILM UN’OPERA PRIMA by Luciano Barcaroli, Gerardo Panichi, Italy, 2012,98’

• L’INSOLITO IGNOTO – VITA ACROBATICA DI TIBERIO MURGIA by Sergio Naitza, Italy, 2012,103’

• INTERDIZIONE PERPETUA by Gaetano Di Vaio, Italy, 2012, 57′

• L’UOMO CON IL MEGAFONO by Michelangelo Severgnini, Italy, 2012, 63′

MEDIUM-LENGTH FILMS OUT OF COMPETITION

• IL FIUME, A RITROSO by Mauro Santini, Italy, 2012,47’

• JET SET – QUANDO L’AEROPORTO SEMBRAVA VIA VENETO by Antonello Sarno, Italy, 2012,27’

SHORT FILMS OUT OF COMPETITION

• BEATO CHI RICEVELA GRAZIAby Margherita Giusti, Italy, 2012,8’

• ESCA VIVA by Susanna Nicchiarelli, Italy, 2012,6’

• HIMOROGI by Marina Pierro, Alessio Pierro, Italy, 2012,17’

• FRAMMENTI by Franco Piavoli, Italy,10’

JURIES

COMPETITION

PRESIDENT

JEFF NICHOLS

Jeff Nichols is a writer and director born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. His feature film debut, Shotgun Stories premiered at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival and was awarded the FIPRESCI International Jury Prize at the 2007 Viennale and the Grand Jury Prize at the Austin Film Festival.  His second feature, Take Shelter, premiered in Dramatic Competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and went on to have its international premiere as part of the Semaine De La Critique at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it was awarded the Grand Prix and FIPRESCI Awards. Mud, Jeff Nichols’ most-recent film premiered this past May in Official Competition at the 2012 Festival de Cannes.

CINEMAXXI

PRESIDENT

DOUGLAS GORDON

Born in Glasgowin 1966, Douglas Gordon  is a visual artist. In 1996 he received the Turner Prize, one of the major British awards for contemporary art and in 1997 he was award the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale. He first attracted attention for his large-scale video installations and his text works, printed on the walls of museums and exhibition spaces. The artist has exhibited in the world’s leading museums and art galleries, including the MOCA in Los Angeles, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, the MoMA, New Yorkand the Tate Britain in London. He made his directorial debut in 2005 with the film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (co-directed with Philippe Parreno), presented out of competition at the festival de Cannes. His more recent works include k.364 – A Journey by Train, which screened at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.

HANS HURCH

Born in 1952 inSchärding, Austria, he studied History of Art, Philosophy and Archaeology at the Universityof Vienna. He worked at the newspaper “Falter”, where he was head of cultural department. He was in charge of film programming, retrospectives and special programmes for institutions including the Viennale and Wiener Festwochen. He was assistant director at theatre and film works by Straub and Huillet Der Tod des Empedokles (1987), Schwarze Sünde (1989) and Antigone (1992). In 1993 he was curator of  the project “Hundertjahrekino” for the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Culture, for which he organized events on the occasion of the 100^th anniversary of cinema. Since 1997 he has been director of the VIENNALE Vienna Intl. Film Festival.

ED LACHMAN

Ed Lachman is one of the most renowned cinematographers in the world. He made his name working with the major figures of The New German Cinema of the 70s: Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Volker Schlondorff.  In the 90s he worked as director of cinematography on Steven Soderbergh’s The Limey (1999) and Erin Brockovich (2000). He has worked with American independent cinema’s most recognized auteurs: Shirley Clarke (Ornette: Made in America, 1985), Sofia Coppola (Virgin Suicides, 1999), Robert Altman (A Prairie Home Companion, 2006) and Todd Solandz (Life During Wartime, 2010). In 2002 he co-directed Ken Park, which was received with controversy and praise atVenice andToronto. As an artist in other mediums he has created video and photos in the permanent collection of theNew YorkWhitneyMuseum of Art.

ANDREA LISSONI

Andrea Lissoni, Ph.D., is an art historian and curator of the HangarBicocca inMilan. Co-founder of xing and co-director of the international festival Live Arts Week-Gianni Peng, he has taught at theBreraAcademysince 2001 and at the Università Bocconi since 2007. He is editor of the magazine “Cujo” (after “Primitive” by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, he followed up with an issue conceived by Jimmie Durham). He contributes regularly to Mousse Magazine. In 2011 and 2012 he curated solo shows and exhibitions for some artists: Susan Hiller, at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como; Céleste Boursier Mougenot, Angela Ricci Lucchi &Yervant Gianikian (a retrospective), Wilfredo Prieto and Tomàs Saraceno at the HangarBicocca in Milan.

EMILY JACIR

Emily Jacir, one of the Arab world’s leading contemporary artists, works in a variety of media, including installation, performance, social intervention, photography, film and video.  Jacir has shown extensively throughout Europe, theAmericasand theMiddle Eastsince 1994. Solo exhibitions include theBeirutArtCenter(2010),Guggenheim Museum,New York(2009), and Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen (2008). Jacir participated in dOCUMENTA (13) (2012); the 51st (2005), 52nd (2007), and 53rd (2009) Biennale di Venezia; 15th Biennale of Sydney (2006); Sharjah Biennial 7 (2005); and the 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003). Awards include a Golden Lion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007); a Prince Claus Award (2007); the Hugo Boss Prize (2008); and an Alpert Award (2011). Recently Jacir served on the 2012 Berlinale Shorts International Jury.

BEST DEBUT AND SECOND FILM JURY

PRESIDENT
MATTHEW MODINE

Director, actor, and producer Matthew Modine directed the feature film, If… Dog… Rabbit (1999), and several distinguished short films. The latest, Jesus Was a Commie (2011), won five film festival awards. Modine has worked with many of the film industry’s most respected directors, including Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises), Oliver Stone (Any Given Sunday), Stanley Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket), Robert Altman (Short Cuts), Curtis Hanson (Too Big to Fail), Abel Ferrara (The Blackout, Mary) and Jonathan Demme (Married to the Mob) to name a few. Modine has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and received a Best Ensemble Golden Globe for Robert Altman’s Short Cuts. He played the title character in Alan Parker’s Birdy which won the Cannes Film Festival’s Gran Prix Award. He won a Venice Film Festival Coppa Volpi (Short Cuts) and the Best Actor Golden Lion Award (Streamers by Robert Altman). In addition to cinema, television, and to theatrical work, he wrote the award winning book, Full Metal Jacket Diary (2005, Rugged Land), and has developed and released several new media projects.

LAURA AMELIA GUZMÁN       

Scriptwriter, producer and director Laura Amelia Guzmán was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republicin 1980 and attended the InternationalFilmSchoolin Cuba. Since 2004 she lives between Dominican Republicand Mexicowhere she runs the company Aurora Dominicana together with her husband Israel Cárdenas (Mexico, 1980). They share script, photography, production and direction credits on their first and second feature films Cochochi and Jean Gentil, both of which premiered at Venice Film Festival and have won multiple awards. Their third feature Carmita is in postproduction.

STEFANIA ROCCA

Stefania Rocca attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. She rose to stardom thanks to Naima, the cyberpunk icon in Nirvana (1997) by Oscar®-winning director Gabriele Salvatores and with Viol@ (1998) by Donatella Maiorca. She studied at the Actors Studio and worked with Anthony Minghella in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), with Kenneth Branagh in Love’s Labours Lost (2000), and with Tom Tykwer in Heaven (2002). In 2002, she won a nomination for the David di Donatello Award and the Silver Ribbon for Best Actress for If by Chance (Casomai) by Alessandro D’Alatri, as well as for La vita come viene (2004) by Stefano Incerti. She worked for Abel Ferrara in Mary (2005) and Go Go Tales (2007). For Don’t Tell (La bestia nel cuore, 2006) by Cristina Comencini, nominated for the Oscars®, she won another nomination for the Silver Ribbons and the David as Best Supporting Actress. She later worked in France in The Candidate (Le Candidat) by Niels Arestrup, and The Invader (L’Envahisseur) by Nicolas Provost, presented at the Venice International Film Festival in 2011.

ALICE ROHRWACHER

Born in Tuscanyin 1981, she earned a degree in Humanities at the Universityof Turin. She studied narrative techniques at the Holden School in Turin and documentary filmmaking at the Videoteca Municipal in Lisbon. In 2003 she made her first documentary, Un piccolo spettacolo, with Pier Paolo Giarolo. She has collaborated with Italian theatre directors such as Moro, Malosti, Vacis and Micheli, alternating her work in dramaturgy with her performance onstage as a musician.
She edited documentary films by Pier Paolo Giarolo (Tradurre, Boyggo), Luciana Fina (Le Réseau), Giuseppe Baresi (In tempo ma rubato), Mirta Morrone (Residuo Fisso). In 2006 she participated in the collective film Checosamanca, thanks to which she met Carlo Cresto-Dina and Tempesta Films, with whom she made the feature-length film Corpo Celeste, presented at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs inCannes in 2011. She is currently working on her second feature-length fiction film and on a documentary.

TANYA SEGHATCHIAN

Tanya Seghatchian is a film producer. The first to spot the cinematic potential of the “Harry Potter” books, she developed and produced the first four films in the Potter Franchise with David Heyman, J.K Rowling, Steve Kloves Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuaron and Mike Newell. In 2005 she won a BAFTA for producing Pawel Pawlikowski’s, My Summer of Love. She was Head of the Development and Film Funds at the UKFC/BFI where she managed development and production investments of British public money in scores of award-winning films including Bright Star,The King’s Speech, The Arbor, Submarine, Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights, We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Iron Lady, Shame, Sightseers and Angel’s Share.

PROSPETTIVE ITALIA

PRESIDENT

FRANCESCO BRUNI

The multiple award-winning Italian director and screenwriter, was born in Romeand grew up in Livorno. He began his career in 1991, writing the script for the film Condominio by Felice Farina, an early indication of his knack for recounting with ease the cynicism and solitude of contemporary Italy’s new social groups. In 1994 he began a profilic artistic collaboration with filmmaker Paolo Virzì, co-writing all the latter’s films: La Bella Vita, Ferie d’agosto, Ovosodo, Baci e abbracci, My Name Is Tanino, Caterina in the Big City, Napoleon and Me, Her Whole Life Ahead and The First Beautiful Thing. Bruni also worked closely with Mimmo Calopresti, who entrusted him with the scripts for La seconda volta, La parola amore esiste, Preferisco il rumore del mare and Happiness Costs Nothing. He went on to collaborate with, among others, Francesca Comencini (The Words of My Father) and the comedians Ficarra and Picone (Nati stanchi, Il 7 e l’8, La Matassa), as well as Spike Lee, on the script for Miracle at St. Anna. Bruni also taught screenwriting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia from 2000 to 2010. He debuted as a filmmaker in 2011 with Easy!, which premiered at the 68th Venice Film Festival in the Controcampo italiano programme, winning the prize for best narrative feature. He was also honoured with the prize for best new director at the 2012 David di Donatello awards and the 2012 Silver Ribbons. In the meantime, he renewed his partnership with Virzì on the latter’s new project entitled Tutti i santi giorni, scheduled for release in October 2012.

BABAK KARIMI

Iranian-born actor and film editor, the son of the actor and filmmaker Nosrat Karimi and the actress Alam Danai, is active in Italy, Iranand France. He made his acting debut at the age of ten, in what is considered to be the first neorealist Iranian film, Doroshkechi (The Carriage Driver, 1971). In the same year, his family moved to Italy, where Karimi would study film, specializing in camerawork and editing. He worked on documentary films as a cameraman and editor for fifteen years. In 1991, he collaborated with the painter Mahshid Mussavi to bring to Italy the first Iranian film to be officially distributed in cinemas, Bashu, the Little Stranger by Bahram Beizai. In the years that followed, Karimi served as a promoter and intermediary between the Italian and Iranian film industries, writing the Italian dialogues for films by Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Jafar Panahi, Abolfazi Jalili, and Asghar Farhadi, and working as a consultant for a variety of film festivals and other events. As an editor, he has worked with Abbas Kiarostami, Babak Payami, Vera Belmont, Pasquale Scimeca, Maurizio Zaccaro and Gianfranco Pannone, among others. He has also taught editing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and the Accademia dell’Immagine in L’Aquila. In 2011 he appeared in the film A Separation by Asghar Farhadi (winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin and the Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film), for which he was awarded a Silver Bear for Best Actor.

ANNA NEGRI

Filmmaker Anna Negri was born in Veniceand moved to Parisshortly after she turned 18 to work in film, learning the ropes as an assistant director to Nagisha Oshima, among others. Later she moved to Holland, where she studied at the Academyof Fine Artsin Groningen, after which she continued her education in the UK, obtaining a film degree at the London College of Printing, and a master’s at the Royal College of Arts. In Englandshe also made her first short films, which won numerous awards on the international festival circuit. In 1998 she returned to Italyto make her first feature-length film, In principio erano le mutande, a 1999 Berlin Film Festival premiere in the prestigious Forum selection. She continued working in Rome, mainly as a writer for film and television. 2008 saw Negri’s return to directing with Riprendimi, a mockumentary produced by Francesca Neri and acclaimed at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2009 Feltrinelli published her book “Con un piede impigliato nella Storia”, Negri’s backward glance at the history of her political activist family from 1968 to 1983, seen through the eyes of a young girl.

STEFANO SAVONA

Stefano Savona was born in Palermo in 1969. He studied archaeology and anthropology in Romeand took part in various archaeological digs in Sudan, Egypt, Turkeyand Israel. In 1995 he started working as a freelance photographer, and since 1999 he has devoted himself mainly to directing and producing documentary films and video installations (D-Day, 2005). His first feature-length film, Primavera in Kurdistan (2006) won the S.C.A.M. International Prize at the Festival Cinéma du Réel in Paris, as well as a nomination for a David di Donatello for best documentary. His Piombo fuso (2009) won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno International Film Festival in the Filmmakers of the Present competition. In Paris in 2010, he co-founded, along with Penelope Bortoluzzi, the production company Picofilms. In 2011 he directed and produced Palazzo delle Aquile, which won the Grand Prix du Cinéma du Réel in Paris, and Tahrir: Liberation Square, winner of a David di Donatello and a Silver Ribbon for Best Documentary 2012; the latter film premiered at the Festival of Locarno, the New York Film Festival, the Viennale and Doclisboa.

ZHAO TAO

Zhao Tao, actress, columnist, producer, graduated from the Department of Chinese Folk Dance at the BeijingDanceAcademy. She obtained several awards in domestic dancing competitions and began to work with director Jia Zhang-ke in 2000. She is the leading actress in Jia Zhang-Ke’s six films: Platform (2000), Unknown Pleasures (2002), The World (2004), Still Life (2006), 24 City (2008) and I Wish I Knew (2010). Still Life won the Golden Lion Award at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival. Apart from being the leading actress in his films, she is also one of the producers of Jia Zhang-ke’s documentary Useless (2007), which won the Venice Horizons Documentary Award at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. In 2012, as lead actress in an Italian film I Am Li (Andrea Segre, 2011), she won the David di Donatello Best Actress Award, the 2012 Bimbi Belli Best Actress Award and the Best Actress Award at the Asti International Film Festival.

THE COLLABORATION WITH CSC – NATIONAL CINEMATHEQUE

FEATURE FILMS

• PROIBITO by Mario Monicelli, 1954 + audiences with Marcello Mastroianni and Lucia Bosè for La madre by Luciano Emmer
• IL LEONE A SETTE TESTE by Glauber Rocha, 1970
• L’INVASIONE by Yves Allegret, 1970
• E DI SHAUL E DEI SICARI SULLA VIA DI DAMASCO by Gianni Toti, 1973
• IDENTIKIT by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1974
• MOLTODIPIÙ by  Mario Lenzi, 1979
• CHIEDO ASILO by Marco Ferreri, 1979 + trailer e tagli

SHORT AND MEDIUM-LENGTH FILMS

• DANZA MACABRA by Gustavo Dahl, 1962
• NOVOREALISMO by Enzo Nasso, 1962
• TEMPO LIBERO and TEMPO LAVORATIVO by Tinto Brass, 1964
• SCRECK! by Franco Brocani, Luca Patella and Claudio Capotondi, 1966
• LA FIABA DITANCREDI by Velia Vergani, 1966
• SE L’INCONSCIO SI RIBELLE byAlfredo Leonardi, 1967
• GIOCO by Giosetta Fioroni, 1967
• SOLITUDINE FEMMINILE by Giosetta Fioroni, 1967
• GOFFREDO by Giosetta Fioroni, 1967-69
• COPPIA by Giosetta Fioroni, 1967-69
• HOMO HOMINIS LUPUS by Pino Zac, 1967
• IL DITO DELL’AUTORITÀ by Pino Zac, 1969
• ESPERIENZE IN UNO SPAZIO NON TEATRALE by Marcello Grottesi and Paolo Matteucci, 1968
• LIBRI DI SANTI DI ROMA ETERNA byAlfredo Leonardi, 1968
• VAMPIRO ROMANO byAlfredo Leonardi, 1970
• IL SEGRETO DI VIA SATERNA by Renato Mazzoli, 1970
• HOMO SAPIENS by Fiorella Mariani, 1971-74
• PERFOMANCE I by Mario Carbone, 1977
• NIENTE DA VEDERE NIENTE DA NASCONDERE by Emidio Greco, 1978
• LA PARTE BASSA by Claudio Caligari and Franco Barbero, 1978
• THE BOX OF LIFE by Federica Marangoni, 1979
• SCOMUNICAZIONE (MIMMO ROTELLA) by Pierluigi and Fiorella Albertoni, 1979
• COLLAGE by Sarenco, 1984
• ANARCHITALY by M. Deborah Farina, 2012
• FLASHBACK by Franco Brocani
• ERRORE DI GRUPPO N. 1 Karma Film (Patrizia Vicinelli, Mario Gianni and Elio Rumma)
• LA MASCHERA EL’ATTORE by Marcello Grottesi
• LA MASCHERA DELLAMORTE by Manfredo Manfredi
• LA SPACCATA by Manfredi and Guido Gomas
• K.O. by Manfredo Manfredi
• DEDALO by Manfredo Manfredi
• HOMO TELESAPIENS by Pino Zac
• RADICE QUADRATA by Pino Zac

RESTORED FILMS

• MONOLOGO DI EDUARDO DE FILIPPO on Marshall Plan
• PROIBITO by Mario Monicelli, 1954
• IL LEONE A SETTE TESTE by Glauber Rocha, 1970
• CHIEDO ASILO by Marco Ferreri, 1979
• LA PARTE BASSA by Claudio Caligari and Franco Barbero, 1978

ROME, CINEMA, ARCHIVES

Incunables from the RAI archives

• BELLA DI NOTTE (CRONACA IN DIRETTA) (Luciano Emmer), 11/5/1998,28’
• IL CINEMA DELLA REALTA’ (Gianni Amico), 22/3/1969
• MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI – STORIA DI UN AUTORE (Gianfranco Mingozzi), 19/5/1966,57’
• NASCITA DELLA REPUBBLICA – IL 2 GIUGNO (Vittorio De Sica), 2/6/1971,42’
• ROBERTO ROSSELLINI – APPUNTI BIOGRAFICI (Giulio Macchi),  6/10/1964,57’
• STORIA DI CINECITTÀ (Maurizio Ponzi), 1980,189’
• UN AUTARCHICO A PALAZZO (Nanni Moretti) , 6/2/1977,18’

THE BUSINESS STREET

NEW CINEMA NETWORK

November 14^th –18^th, 2012

The Business Street (TBS) is the first attempt to bring a Market event back toItaly that could attract international operators and become part of the virtuous circuit of events that from Berlin to Cannes punctuate the rhythm of film production and distribution. With its supple structure and informal atmosphere, TBS offers a valid alternative to traditional trade shows. It is no coincidence that TBS and New Cinema Network (NCN) are among the few Italian initiatives that are recognized by the Media Programme since 2008.

This year, the Market will take place during the second part of the Festival, from the 14^th to the 18^th of November 2012, staking out a strategic position in the Italian and international calendar of industry events. Far from the crowded end-of-summer conjuncture, the new scheduling makes this market an ideal commercial launching pad for new films, both in Italy and abroad.

NCN is proud to host, for the third year in a row, the Eurimages Co-production Development Award: a 30,000 Euro award for the development of the best project presented at NCN 2012. This is an important acknowledgment by the European Council, which has recognized NCN as one of the three most important and effective co-production markets.

NCN 2012 – SELECTED PROJECTS

ANOTHER WORLD by Alexis Dos Santos (Argentina)

Produced by Soledad Gatti-Pascual, Valentina Brazzini

CONFORMISTA by CAI Shangjun (China)

Produced by LI Xudong

IO by Clay Jeter (United States)

Produced by Jason Berman

IRON by Alejandro Fernandez Almendras (Chile)

Produced by Eduardo Villalobos

LAND by Babak Jalali (UK)

Produced by Ginevra Elkann

ALMOST ANONYMOUS by JIA Zhangke (China)

Produced by Eva Lam

MORDOGAN by Jessica Krummaker (Germany)

Produced by Philipp Budweg, Jessica Krummacher

PAGLIACCI by Marco Bellocchio (Italy)

Produced by Simone Gattoni

POISONOUS ROSES by Fawzi Saleh (Egypt)

Produced by Karim Aitouna

THE ROOM ON A TREE by Amit Dutta (India)

Produced by Kartikeya Narayan Singh

SCHOOLTOWNby LIU Jian (China)

Produced by Lynne Wang

SIN TITULO by Lisandro Alonso (Argentina)

Produced by Lisandro Alonso

SWORD OF HONOR by XU Haofeng (China)

Produced by XU Wen

THE VACATIONERS by Lluìs Galter (Spain)

Produced by Paco Poch

NCN ITALIAN PANORAMA 2012 – PROJECTS SELECTED FOR THE WORKSHOP

ASIAN EX by Alessio Jim Della Valle

Producer Martha Capello

I BARBARI by Carmine Amoroso

Producer Enzo Porcelli

IL SOGNO DEL PESCE ROSSO by Gianni Cardillo

Producer Enzo Giulioli

TITO IL PICCOLO by Paola Randi

Producer Angelo Barbagallo

IL VEGETARIANO by Roberto San Pietro

Producer Simone Bachini

QUELLO CHE NON SIAMO, QUELLO CHE NON VOGLIAMO by Felice D’Agostino

Producer Paolo Benzi

LA GATTA DELPORTO by Ivan Cappiello

Producer Luciano Stella

LA VITA TIARRIVA ADDOSSO by Paolo Sassanelli

Producer Tommaso Arrighi

L’ATTESA by Piero Messina

Producer Marianna De Liso

VERGINE GIURATA by Laura Bispuri

Producer Alessandro Usai