The series of encounters entitled “The travelling Genius : Italians Art, humanities, science … in the world”, is a space for discussion and cultural dialogue that the Italian Cultural Institute has developed especially for young Italians in world. Italians who, beyond any orientation, are the bearers of knowledge accumulated in Italy and diffuse the following, even without their knowledge, a provision or a vocation of ancient origin: the generous exchange of culture, comforted by a keen sense of human comprehension.
March 3, 2017, 6:30pm Free Admission
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montreal
1200 Av. du Dr Penfield
Presentation will be in Italian
“The 35mm – unlike the 50mm, which is the vision of the human eye – is my vision of the world, more of a wide angle vision. In fact, when I’m shooting, my first choice always falls on 35mm, even for close-ups.” Roberto Zorfini
Roberto Zorfini is an Italian filmmaker, based in Montréal since 2010. He graduated in 1995 from the Istituto per la Cinematografia e Televisione Roberto Rossellini in Rome. Thanks to his very good sense of initiative, his dinamism and his efficiency, he gathered more than 20 years of experience in video projects and he worked for about 10 years in the Italian Broadcast Television RAI.
In 2013 his short movie “Imperfetto Equilibrio” won a Special Nomination at Italian Contemporary Film Festival (TIFF – Toronto). In Canada he realized video commercials for different kinds of companies and he worked as Creative Director for Panoramitalia. After being author for RAI World, he won the following awards in 2014 at the 48 Hour Film Project in Ottawa with the short-movie “Alice”: Best Directing, Best Writing, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Musical Score, Best Sound Design, Best Special Effects, Best Use of Genre, Best Use of Character, Best Use of Prop and Best Use of Line of dialogue.
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