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Announcing the 7 films in the line-up, fiction and documentary

From the 1st to the 8th of July in Trieste the ShorTS International Film Festival will bring forth the best emerging Italian cinematic works.

‘We believe that unusual, different and anti-conformist works are still possible and that thanks to the courage of still not widely known writers and their determination to come onto the screen, a new era of good cinema is still conceivable,’ says journalist and critic Beatrice Fiorentino, who presides over the “Nuove Impronte section”. ‘For some years now, we have decided to award prizes to those who choose to stay outside the comfort zone of Italian Cinema, to sustain them in their fight, which is also ours, for above all, a free cinema. The 7 films in the Nuove Impronte section 2017 recount achieved and failed ideals, failures and bouncing back from failure; the characters observe an often unrecognisable reality, through radical transformations, looking to redefine boundaries; there is a lot of anger but at the same time love, there is desperation but also true solidarity, betrayal and reconciliation; there are above all, resistant men and women. And despite it all they still dare to dream.’

This year ShorTS will also support the talent of Italian cinema proposing a film, documentary and fiction selection of first and second works, unreleased or little seen, that will compete for the Herra Comm award for best film, the Bakel award for the film most voted for by the public, the Critics award as chosen by the SNCCI and the award for Best Production chosen by the AGICI. A novelty for this 18^th season of the festival is the ANAC award for the best screenplay.

These are the selected titles:

• Babylonia Mon Amour di Pierpaolo Verdecchi – docufilm (in anteprima internazionale)
• I Tempi Felici Verranno Presto di Alessandro Comodin – fiction
• Sagre Balere di Alessandro Stevanon – docufilm
• Il più grande sogno di Michele Vannucci – fiction
• Orecchie di Alessandro Aronadio – fiction
• Upwelling – La risalita delle acque profonde di Pietro Pasquetti e Silvia Jop – docufilm
• Cuori Puri di Roberto De Paolis – fiction

Again from Beatrice Fiorentino: ‘Nuove Impronte adheres to a spirit of radical research that investigates writers that can assert themselves for cinematic action. Examples of these films include I Cormorani by Fabio Bobbio, a Shorts International Film Festival production from 2016 and winner of the SNCCI Critics award and the AGPCI Award or Medeas by Andrea Pallaoro, Nuove Impronte award 2015, or (also in 2016) I Racconti dell’Orso by Samuele Sestieri and Olmo Amato, ‘del Pubblico’ award. Ambition is something that grows in this section until it becomes a point of reference for the discovery and the promotion of the best Italian cinema. This year in particular Nuove Impronte is embedded in a more amplified discourse of the revaluation of contemporary Italian cinema along with the all’Omaggio a D’Anolfi e Parenti, the Prospettiva award going to Daphne Scoccia and the Conferma award going to Claudio Giovannesi

Rules

Comic strip competition calls on artists 16 years +, professional or not.

Challenge: To design a 4 part comic strip bring to life a screenplay provided by the organization. The total number of participants will be divided into three groups. Each group will be assigned part of the screenplay, originally created for a short film, which has also been divided into three parts.  At the end of the process a specialized jury will declare the best works from each group.

The three best works will be published in Il Piccolo and will be mounted and animated using comic motion technology. It will then be projected onto the big screen at the final evenings of the ShorTS International Film Festival. Whats more, there will also be other great prizes thanks to our partner events Neopolis- lo spazio dell’immaginario and Elio tecno service.

Other than the screenplay, the organization aims to provide the artists with basic support throughout the creation process, providing pencils and trademarked paper as well as indications for the location and for the physical attributes of the characters, which can be used as technical indicators on which to base the character.

The event will be divided into two sections, each 12 hours in length:

30 June from 10.00 to 22pm

1 July from 9.00 am to 21.00pm

The location is the backdrop of the Castello San Giusto in Trieste.

To enter, send your candidacy via email to the address office@maremetraggio.com, indicating in the objective box ‘24HCC’ and your name. You have from Monday 26^th May 2017 until Monday 12^th June 2107. Please also include the following information:

NAME, LAST NAME

DATE/ PLACE OF BIRTH

HOME ADDRESS

PHONE NUMBERS

LIST OF COMICS OR WEBCOMICS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED

You are also asked to attach at least three works in a jpg. format for the awards commission.

The jury will be comprised of 4 professionals from the world of comics, including Stefano Disegni, Laura Scarpa e Roberto Peri..

Participation in the contest is overseen by a jury selected by the organization.

The owner of the original work will remain known only amongst the authors. The author of the original work will also will authorize the use of the submissions for publication in the daily paper, the creation of comic motion and the use of the works in the festivals’ paths of communication.

Sending the submission provides the captured vision and adherence to the current regulations.

Announcement of the titles of the Maremetraggio Selections in the line-up for the ShorTS – International Film Festival, Trieste 1-8 July 2017

After years of stasis Italy is back as a big contender with 18 shorts in the line-up

ShorTS International Film Festival which will be taking place from the 1st to the 8th of July 2017, is celebrating its 18 year Birthday and in its old age brings with it a record number of submissions. For the first time submissions have reached the enormous total of 4318 shorts from 123 countries around the world. Among these were shorts from some extremely remote countries, as well as many prestigious participants, some of which include award winners at important international events. This increase in submissions, which, in the words of the festival’s president Chiara Valenti Omero, can be attributed to the increase of the festival’s visibility and acknowledgement in the public and private eye. This is as a result of new initiatives put forth by the festival, but also a due to the many years of constant renovation and research which have made us such a strong festival. At this important turning point the president of the festival Chiara Valenti Omero, has decided to forefront our new image giving more space and responsibility to the younger generation working with the organizational team. The lineup of works was selected by Francesco Ruzzier, who this year gave a new lease of life to the Italian production: ‘This year it feels like we have truly seen an infinity of short films, and in the passing hours of watching the submissions from every corner of the Earth, I realized that confronting and uniting different views and ways of looking at life, makes it possible to obtain an authentic and global view of the world. Infact, it is becoming harder and harder to reccount and represent in just a single story the fragmentation of the realities with which we are accustomed to living, but if we try to look at some of these framents in a sequence- whether they are experimental, funny, sad, lively or extremely realistic- it would be like travelling around the planet, attempting to get to know it a little better: this is what I would like to try and put across, through the selections of the ShorTS IFF’

Overall we have 91 short films in the line-up for the Maremetraggio section, 18 of which are Italian, a good 7 more than in 2016. Amongst the selected titles many are animated shorts, the type which are good for the re-interpretation of realities that can be difficult to express in other formats. If there is a global theme that can be best applied to the dosier of works which have come to Trieste this year, it would have to be that of borders. We see this manifested in works from Europe to Asia, across the border, and all the way back in the work of many directors.

Our final selections come from a total of 33 different countries: Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgio, Canada, Cina, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Malaysia, Holland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Great Britain, The United States and Venezuela.

We see many titles in the line-up that have already received recognition, from Time Code by Juanjo Gimenez (Spain) winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes and Oscar candidate for the best Short film, to The Bridge over the River by Jadwiga Kowalska (Switzerland) winner of the Pardino D’Oro for Best Swiss Short Film at Locaro, or Semele by Myrsini Aristidou (Cyprus) winner of the Generation Kylus Jury Prize for best Short Film at the Berlinae. Then there is also Samedi Cinema by Maradou Dia (Senegal) presented at Venice73 and Toronto, Metube 2- August Sings Carmina Burana by Daniel Moshel (Austria) presented at the Sundance Film Festival, Ascenao by pedro Peralta (Portugal) presented at the Semaine de la Critique of Cannes, Valparaiso by Carlo Siron (Italy) presented at Locarno and winner of ‘Pardi di Domani- The film und Video Untertitelung’, or Balcony by Toby Fell-Holden (UK) presented at the Berlinale and winner of Generation 14plus- Best Short Film.

All of the 91 selcted titles can be found on the following website https://www.maremetraggio.com

University students respond en masse to the project #stageinrete

AFIC elects a new Directive Council

With over 300 admissions, which is at least three weeks worth of Italian University students involved in #stageinrete (http://www.aficfestival.it/stage-in-rete/), the new project of the Italian Film Festival Association (AFIC) representing 53 Italian cinematic works. #Stageinrete proposes a different formula, to mark the coming together of the festivals and the students who are interested in participating in the organization of events in order to develop an important formative experience.

Financed with the contribution of the Ministery for Goods and Cultural Activity- General Direction for Cinema, the project #stageinrete was presented last Monday to the Cinema House in Rome at the general assembly of the AFIC that saw the election of the new directive council (2017-2019). The council, as always, was presided by Chiara Valenti Omero (ShorTs International Film Festival-Trieste) and put together by Pedro Armocida (Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema- Pesaro), Giorgio Gosetti (Noir in Festival- Milano e Como), Alberto Lastrucci (Festival dei Popoli- Firenze), Federico Pommier Vincelli (Molise Cinema- Casacalenda). Marking the re-launch of the Afic-Lab section which will be opened at the event with the relevant cultural depth that it deserves. Despite not being classed as a proper festival Afic-Lab still presents awards and sought after reviews.

Along with many current students, the round table of the Cinema House in Rome, coordinated by Giovanni Spagnoletti (Universita degli studi di Roma- Tor Vergata), opened by Bruno Zambardino (Universita degli Studi di Roma- Sapienza) and consulted by the General Cinema Direction added plateau to the state of the decrees during the course of the approval of new cinematic laws. It saw the interventions of teachers from the various universities teamed up with Gianni Canova (Libera Universita di Lingue e Comunicazione/IULM- Milano), Elena Di Giovanni (Universita di Macerata), Damiano Garofalo (Universita degli Studi di Roma- Sapienza), Vito Zagarrio (Università degli Studi di Roma – Roma Tre). The other universities are in collaboration with #stageinrete are Bari, Calabria, Florence and Udine, which is demonstrative of the interest of the many traditional institutions from all Italian territories when it comes to the development of the students. The Festivals, as productive machines are both cultural and organizational. They are therefore the best places for increasing the competency of youngsters who are gradually being introduced and integrated into the world of work.