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A novel picture of an unprecedented collection of individuals. There’s almost nobody missing from this group portrait of the directors of the world’s leading film festivals, who responded enthusiastically to the invitation extended by the representatives of the Rome FilmFest along with Filmitalia, the agency representing Italian cinema abroad, to get together during the Cannes Film Festival. And here are the names of the directors present for the shot. Standing, from the left:Serge Losique, Festival des films du Monde de Montreal, Michael Kutza, Chicago Int’l Film Festival, Frédéric Maire, Locarno, Wieland Speck, Panorama – Berlin Film Festival, Eva Zaoralova, Karlovy Vary,…
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Variety and RomeFilmFest have reached, at the Cannes Film Festival, an agreement for an International Media Partnership pertaining to the 1st edition of RomeFilmFest (October 13-21, 2006). “Variety was the first major international film publication to open an office in Rome”, states Rome Fest´s President, Goffredo Bettini. Its journalists have been on-the-spot eyewitnesses to extraordinary moments in Italian and international film history in Rome. For this reason, and thanks to Variety’s proverbial objectivity and authoritative reporting, we are truly overjoyed to have reached an agreement that will see “the bible of the entertainment industry” present at the Rome Film Festival as…
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In a quest for new Asian talents, RomeFilmFest joined the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) as International Partner, by granting one of the six awards presented to outstanding Asian film projects together with HAF, Hubert Bals Fund and Technicolor.Prestigious selection included new projects by, among others, Zhang Yang, Clara Law, Stanley Kwan, Fruit Chan, Liu Fen Dou.The Rome Film Festival award (USD 15,000), to a project that demonstrates the best of innovative talent by an Asian filmmaker, was granted to Utopia from Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, winner in 2004 of Cannes Jury Prize for Sud pralad / Tropical…
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Rome is a city endowed with boundless energy and a natural vocation for mingling different peoples and cultures – a city wide open to the world and to the world of art. A city that became one of the great capitals of the cinematic imagination, and a teeming set itself, between the end of World War II and the dolce vita, from Cinecittà to the Via Veneto, with its peplum movies and its comedies all’italiana, and its treasure of both stars and character actors who were born here and worked here.It’s this dynamism and this wealth of experience that naturally…