Italy to launch a €24m National Plan bringing the cinema to schools
The cinema is going to school in Italy with the “Piano nazionale cinema per la scuola”, a National Plan to bring cinema into schools: the project will have a special seminar devoted to this issue and three calls to develop teaching programs. Italian schools have never...
Viacom launches ViacomLab for young audiences
Viacom launches ViacomLab, a long-term project that targets young audiences. In Italy, in 2017, the expenses for children aged 3 to 13 (about 6.2 million people) amounted to 3.3 billion euros, recording thus a growth of 1.3% compared to 2016. With an increasing birth...
Focus Diversity: homosexuality in cinema and TV
A rainbow flag both in the cinema and TV. The issue of LGBT has been approached in the small and the big screen much earlier than we might think. A slow but steady development that has given more and more space for sexual differences in all their many faces. It all...
Lovers Film Festival: all the LGBT cinema in Turin from April 20 to 24
The most important film festival dedicated to the LGBT world will be in Turin from the 20th to the 24th of April, 2018. Here are all the events of Lovers Film Festival. Since 1986 Lovers Film Festival has entered the Italian scene as the most important festival...
All the awarded short films at Corti d’Argento 2018
Claudio Santamaria received the first award yesterday at the 2018 edition of Corti d’Argento Awards, organized by the National Union of Italian Film Journalists (Sngci) in Casa del Cinema in Rome. The finish line was reached with The Millionairs, considered to be the...
Netflix is ramping up its presence in Europe
Netflix has unveiled its new programming at See What’s Next. Let’s find out what the streaming giant will bring: Yesterday, April 18th, Netflix landed in Rome for the See What’s Next event. Managers, actors, and directors gathered in the two-day...
Netflix See What’s Next comes to Rome
What should we expect from the new Netflix programming? The new contents will be unveiled at the two-day event in Rome. This year the Netflix executives have chosen Rome as a location for See What’s Next. The annual event in which the new contents of the...
The Directors’ Fortnight film selection
The Directors’ Fortnight has announced the official list of films that will be present at Cannes from May 9 to 19. Italy has won three positions in the director’s selection with two feature films and a short film. The first one is titled Troppa Grazia,...
Italian films at the Moscow International Film Festival
Everything is ready for the 40th edition of the Moscow International Festival, set to begin tomorrow. Let’s find out which Italian films will be competing. The Moscow International Film Festival will be held this year from April 19 to 26, 2018: the usual appointment...
Hot Docs Festival will show Italian documentaries in Toronto in its 2018 edition
The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, the most acclaimed documentary festival in the world, will take off this year from April 26th to the 6th of May in Toronto. For this year’s edition, the festival will also include some Italian projects. In this...
Getting ready for La Semaine de la Critique in Cannes
The 57th edition of La Semaine de la Critique in Cannes is just around the corner, set to begin next Wednesday 9 of May. Let’s have a look at what’s to come: The 57th edition of the Cannes Semaine de la Critique will take place this year from May 9th to the 17th,...
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