JURY
Emilio Lopez International Award
International Competition

Mimmo Calopresti (President)

Mimmo Calopresti was born 1955 in Polistena, Calabria. He is an Italian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He lived in Torino for many years and here is where he started his career as a documentary director. He has done many documentaries . In fact he has always been interested in social topics. He makes his first documentary A proposito di sbavature in 1985, followed by Alla Fiat era cosi’ (1990), a series of interviews to some ex blue-collar working in Fiat during 1969 when the social and political revolutionary movement wrapped Italy. Then, his first fiction interpreted by Nanni Moretti, La Seconda Volta– The Second Time in 1995. Set up in the tidy Torino, Mimmo Calopresti tells us with a great courage of words the terrorism of those times. It is a success recognized inside and outside the country. His film The Second Time was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. With La Parola Amore Esiste– The Word Love Exists (1998) he goes to Rome to set up the story of a cello teacher (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) and a weird beautiful girl (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi). The confirmation of his original style makes this work remarkable in several international festivals. In Preferisco il rumore del mare – I prefer the noise of the sea (2000) he is also actor, next to main character interpreted by Silvio Orlando. La felicita’ non costa niente- Happyness doesn’t cost anything, is from 2002. Mimmo Calopresti, tells about people who attempt to live with their personal contradictions, conscious of the urgency of making a choice and of its probable consequent mistakes.

He has directed 16 films since 1987. In 2006 he realized I Only Wanted to Live a documentary showcasing interviews with Italian holocaust survivors that were deported to Auschwitz. Drawing on the extensive archives of Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation, he has crafted a straightforward, yet deeply affecting portrait of what happened to Italy's Jews.

Filmography

1987 Fratelli minori (doc.)

1987 Ripresi (doc.)

1990 Alla Fiat era così (doc.)

1995 La seconda volta
1998 La parola amore esiste

1999 Tutto era Fiat (doc)
2000 Preferisco il rumore del mare
2002 La felicità non costa niente
2006 Volevo solo vivere (doc)
2009 Maglietta rossa

 

Helene Trigueros

Hélène Trigueros, a french director who's working in film for years. She was assistant director and camerawoman for several short films and documentaries. After five years of shooting she has made a trilogy about the prison, a topic in which she specializes : Les résidentes, Dernier retour en détention and Surveillante en prison, le contre-champ des barreaux. These  documentary films  are a co-production France 3 Bourgogne Franche-Comté and France 3 national "la case de l'oncle doc"  and "Planète justice"  for the last part.
She has made a lot of interviews on various aspects of detention, the way women relate to the prison nvironment and the dynamics between prisoners and between prisoners and guards. In her latest film, a documentary series about female prison environment "Surveillante en prison", "le contre-champ des barreaux", 2008,  the camera
comes out of the cells to go to discover the professional routine of prison warders. We are in the Jail of Dijon: the stories of four women, Corinne, Veronica, Patricia and Emmanuelle, who arrived by chance to this unusual profession. "Mois national du film documentaire » Paris 2009, International Women's Film Festival in Florence (Italy) 200., Selected at the festival « Prisons : portes ouvertes », Paris 2009.

Actually she is shooting a documentary about homosexuality for France 3 called  "Un désir ordinaire"  and at the same time she continues  her  observatory on the justice with the documentary "Une liberté sous contrôle" about the Correctional Service SPIP.

 

Mario Balsamo

He has a degree in philosophy with a thesis on the history of cinema. He is a documentary films director and teaches documentary director. He is also a writer.

Among the titles of his documentaries: Sognavo le nuvole colorate (2008,selected at Locarno film festival, at Casa Rossa Award in Bellaria and at others eleven Italian and International festivals: director, subject, screenplay, photography; Storie Arbëreshe, on the magical realism of the Italo-Albanian community in Piana degli Albanesi (2007): director, subject, screenplay (in competition at the Alpe Adria Festival 2008; Mãe Baratinha, una story of Candomblé (2006) on the life of a priestess of the Afro-Brazilian religion( in competition

at the Bellaria Festival 2006, at Rio de Janeiro Ethnographic Film Festival 2006 and at Biarritz Fipatel 2007 Il Villaggio dei Disobbedienti (2004) about the 'people of Seattle' seen through the protagonists in moments of protest and in the formulation of proposals (Annecy Festival , 2004); Sotto il cielo di Baghdad (2003), a documentary on the daily lives of Iraqis on the eve of the Second Gulf War (selected at Italian Film Festival -Annecy 2003, at others 18 Italian and International festivals). Un Mondo Migliore è Possibile (collective documentary, 2001); Le Isole dipinte – Viaggio nelle Marchesi di Paul Gauguin (2000); In restauro – L’Opificio delle Pietre Dure di Firenze (1999); Alvaro Siza, Architetto (1998).

He teaches at Cinecittà “Act Multimedia - Accademia di Cinema e Televisione”, is a professor in the master at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and at “Suor Orsola Benincasa” of Naples.
He wrote with Gianfranco Pannone L’officina del reale (published by CDG in 2009): it is a book with the soul of a manual on making documentaries, combined with a reflection on the ethics of the story of reality; he wrote the historical novel Que viva Marcos! (manifestolibri, 1995), about the uprising in Chiapas neozapatista and wrote a travel book Cannella e garofano – Istantanee dallo stato di Bahia e altre storie.

 

JURY
Emilio Lopez International Award
"Abruzzese" Competition

Dino Viani (PRESIDENT)

Dino Viani , Chieti, Abruzzo began his activities as a director in the 80s. Hisfirst film was "Il Generale" in 1989.

Abruzzo, his country, was a great source of inspiration. His works are based on a nostalgic feeling towards the farming culture and speaks about displacement, migrationand wonder towards the cosmos. It 's also important his relationship with the culture and the people in Argentina.

He is stage manager, stage director, documentary filmmaker, photographer(exhibitions in Argentina, France, Japan).

In 2007 San Pietroburgo film festival dedicated to Dino Viani a film exhibition and his works are presented at the 52 Biennale of Venice and for the first time Abruzzo becomes material for artistic investigation. In 2009 he realized Canto 6409 about the earthquake in Abruzzo. The film was presented at 62° Cannes Festival (at

United States of America Papillon) and at Amsterdam Film Festival Re-Imagining the city.

In Berlino on July 29, 2009, he presented his new film "Un giorno e un altro ancora".

On Dicembre 2009 his works were presented during the "Vision in New York"exhibition at

ColumbiaUniversity.

 

Filmography

1986 Ari mon amour, doc.

1988 Italiani d’Argentina, doc

1089 Il Generale, lungometraggio

1990 Francavilla, doc.

1992 War, video

1998 Saluti Marxisti, corto

1999 Dalla terra, doc.

2000 Desarraigo, corto

2000 Sguardi, medio metraggio

2001 Il fiume racconta, doc. didattico

2001 Chieti – Pechino, doc.

2003 Il vino di nonno Rocco, doc

2003 Angeli nel deserto, doc.

2003 Feliz Navidad, corto

2003 Storie di terra the room, doc.

2005 Lu foche de sant’Antonie, corto

2005 Un Mondo migliore

2005 Dark Room

2005 Quando la neve era bianca

2009 Canto 6409

2009 Un giorno e un altro ancora

 

Simona Troilo

Simona Troilo is a researcher in the Department of Contemporary History. She was involved in urban history, cultural heritage and identity processes related mainly to Italy in the nineteenth and twentieth. Currently he performs a search on the archaeology of the European Mediterranean in the age of imperialism. His work examines the role of archaeological practice in several European countries (Britain, Germany, France, Italy).

Another field of research is the history of gender. in particular the question art / feminist investigated long-term related to the exclusion of women and their production from art history. She teaches at the l'Università of Padova and is a researcher in EuNaMus: European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen.

Bibliography

2007 La patria e la memoria. Tutela e patrimonio culturale nell’Italia unita, Milano, Electa Mondadori

2006 Memory of violence. Movement of works of art in postUnification Italy, in R.Panzanelli, M. PretiHamard

(eds), La circulation des ouvres d’art. The circulation of works of art in the Revolutionary Era, 17891848,

Rennes, PURINHAGetty Research Institute, 2007, pp. 139-152

2006 C. Sorba, S. Troilo, (a cura di), Le prospettive del visuale: storia e immagini.Con interventi di Christian Delporte, Claudio Pogliano, Antonio Gibelli, Marta Nezzo, Annie Duprat, Maria Luisa Catoni, in Contemporanea”, n.4, pp.701-146;

2003 Patrie. Il bene storico artistico e l'identità locale tra otto e novecento,“Memoria e Ricerca”, 14, pp.159176;

2002 Sul patrimonio storico artistico e la nazione nel XIX secolo, “Storica”, n.23, pp.147-177;

2001 L'archeologia tra municipalismo e regionalismo nell'Abruzzo postunitario, “Mélanges de l'École Française de Rome, Italie et Méditerranée”, tome 1132, pp.703-737;

1998 Come Chieti si isolò dal proprio territorio, in Annale 1995

1996. L'attività di ricerca scientifica del Dipartimento di discipline storiche dell'Università di Bologna,

Bologna, Clueb, pp. 155-171;

1998 La diffusione della stampa borghese: il caso della tipografia Ricci, "Abruzzo contemporaneo", n. 6, pp. 61-82;

1997 Chieti tra Otto e Novecento, "Storia urbana", n. 79, pp. 127-166

 

Daniele Baldacci

Daniele Baldacci, 35, Abruzzo, is among the most innovative directors of Italian cinema photography

He is always right in the artistic ferment. His last film collaboration by Franco Battiato Musikanten confirms his quality

From now three years working closely with Franco Battiato.

Filmography (since 2000)

2009 » doc Deserto Rosa. Luigi Ghirri: photography
2009 » doc L'Ultima Salita - La Via Crucis di Beniamino Simoni a Cerveno: photography
2008 » doc Non Chiederci la Parola: photography
2007 » medio Il Pianto della Statua: photography
2007 » Niente è Come Sembra: photography
2006 » La Notte del Mio Primo Amore: photography
2005 » Musikanten: photography