Paola Malanga is the new Artistic Director of the Rome Film Fest

Paola Malanga is the new Artistic Director of the Rome Film Fest. She has been appointed today, Tuesday, March 29 2022, by the Board of Directors of Fondazione Cinema per Roma, chaired by Gian Luca Farinelli (representing the Municipality of Rome) and composed of Valerio Toniolo (Chamber of Commerce of Rome), Laura Delli Colli (Lazio Region), Daniele Pitteri (Fondazione Musica per Roma) and Nicola Maccanico (Cinecittà S.p.A., representing the Ministry of Culture).

Journalist and film critic, one of the founders of the magazine Duel and one of the main contributors to Paolo Mereghetti’s Dizionario dei Film (The Films’ Dictionary), author of famous essays on some of the great authors of world cinema and deputy director of Rai Cinema, Paola Malanga will be the Artistic Director of the Rome Film Fest for the three-year period 2022-2024.

“It is a great honour for me to receive this prestigious and unexpected appointment from Gian Luca Farinelli, the new President of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, whom I wish to thank, along with the members of the Board of Directors, for his confidence in me and the courage of an unconventional choice – stated Paola Malanga. I accept this great challenge with the enthusiasm and love for cinema which have sustained my work over the past thirty years, fully aware of what this moment in time means for the film industry and the city of Rome, to build a future in step with the times. We now have months of intense and indisputably exciting work ahead of us, the heart of which will be cinema in its many nuances, in one of the few cities in the world protagonist of the history of cinema”.