The Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, in collaboration with the Italian Contemporary Film Festival and the Cinémathèque Québécoise, is pleased to present, within the 1st edition of the “Fare Cinema 2018” festival, the seminar “Le arti del Fare Cinema“, an occasion to share and promote the Italian tradition of contemporary cinema. The participants will be the musician Pasquale Catalano, the editor Carlotta Cristiani and the director and screenwriter Elisabetta Lodoli. The seminar will be animated by Giovanni Princigalli, a young Italian director who has been active in Montreal for several years.
Monday June 18, 4pm-6pm
Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal
1200 Av. Dr Penfield
Italy boasts a prestigious tradition of cinema, so much so that over the years it has won the highest number of Oscars in the “Best Foreign Language Film” category. The program of events of the 1st edition of the festival “Fare Cinema 2018” in Montreal is one of the promotional actions of the plan “Vivere ALL’Italiana” and specifically the seminar is dedicated to some of the “professions of cinema”. The actors, directors, scriptwriters, cinematographers, set designers, musical composers, costume designers, make-up artists, editors… are the members of the numerous family dedicated to the variegated Italian film production machine and all together those who contribute with the refinement of the individual arts – often workshop trades – to the success of our cinema in Italy, Europe and the world.
The attraction of the Italians for the moving image or the cinema was developed very early. It has been a curiosity that immediately became art. This art, in Gabriele d’Annunzio’s vision – during the year of his 80th birthday (March 1, 1938-2018) – finds a noble expression in the Vittoriale degli Italiani, an architectural complex that marks the sense of his inspiration with the stone and that includes, among other things, a very spacious Auditorium. Gabriele d’Annunzio used to offer his guests almost every day the screening of a film: it could be Scipione l’Africano, with the splendid Isa Miranda and the debutante Alberto Sordi, or the German and American avant-garde cinema, with the great productions of Cecil B. De Mille, Chaplin’s masterpieces, comedians such as Laurel and Hardy, or the westerns and animated drawings. In short, in the past and today, we could repeat with d’Annunzio: “we will have music and images“.
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