PALERMO, 12-16 September 2016 Convent of Baida, Palazzo Steri, Cinema Red and Black
Al via a Palermo il più importante appuntamento di training e networking dedicato al documentario italiano IDS Academy – Italian DOC Screenings, created and produced by Doc / it – Italian Documentary Association
Back in Palermo from 12 al 16 September 2016, “IDS Academy – Italian DOC Screenings”, the most important training and networking event dedicated to Italian documentary: a unique opportunity for international professional meeting for projects and professionals who want access to the global audiovisual market. In anteprima assoluta l’atteso “Liberami”, vincitore del Premio per il Miglior Film alla Mostra del Cinema di Venezia nella sezione Orizzonti.
E’ iniziato il 12 e 13 settembre al Convento di Baida (via al Convento di Baida, 43) con i workshop di preparazione al Main Event IDS Academy e si prosegue a Palazzo Chiaramonte Steri (Piazza Marina 61) from now 14 al 16 settembre con le sessioni aperte di presentazione dei progetti ed i Talks sull’Expanded Documentary: dall’interactive al Virtual Reality 360°, dal gaming all’augmented reality, dal documentario animato al documentario transmediale.
Affermano Heidi Gronauer e Massimo Arvat, direttori dell’iniziativa: “The event, a cui prendono parte autori, producers and professionals from all over the world, is aimed at promoting the internationalization of Italian documentary and its professionals through professional updating, the training of young people in a pre-competitive context, the development of project presentation skills, the expansion of networking and the diffusion and promotion of the documentary genre with film screenings open to all. The path of 'Happy Winter' is testimony to this, project by a debut Sicilian director graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Palermo who went on to win the best pitch at Hot Docs from the Italian Doc Screenings 2016, one of the most important international markets in the sector.
Don't miss it film festival open to the public and free entry (from 13 al 15 September, al cinema Red and Black) created by Doc/it with the collaboration and support of the Special Office for Cinema and Audiovisual / Sicily Film Commission.
He opened the exhibition, the 13 September preview, in the presence of
director Irene Dionisio with the film Sponde. In the safe Northern sun, co-financed by the Sicilia Film Commission. Ibrahimović followed in national preview: Becoming Legend by Fredrik and Magnus Gertten, the story of a controversial talent like that of footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović. The film is nominated for the European Film Awards as best European film 2016. Today
14 September the director Alessandro Piva with his Two Sicilies presents an imaginative journey into the landscape, in the culture and historical identity of Sicily. Following, direttamente dalla 73a Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, dove ha vinto il Premio come Miglior Film nella sezione Orizzonti, in anteprima nazionale l’atteso Free me by Federica Di Giacomo, un film documentario sull’incredibile ritorno della
pratica dell’esorcismo nella società contemporanea. Entrambi i film sono stati realizzati con il sostegno della Sicilia Film Commission.
Tomorrow 15 settembre si prosegue con Corti Doc! – una selezione di cortometraggi curata dal Coordinamento dei Festival del Cinema in Sicilia – e si chiude con la presentazione in anteprima italiana del documentario internazionale di un Maestro del cinema come Werner Herzog, che con Lo and Behold – Internet il futuro è oggi, ci parla del ruolo di Internet nelle nostre vite e nel nostro futuro.
In dettaglio il programma di oggi 14 September:
ore 18.00 Due Sicilie di Alessandro Piva Prod. Seminal Film, in collaboration with Istituto Luce (Italy / 2016 / 62′/ documentary)
The film will be presented by director Alessandro Piva
A declaration of love for the landscape, the culture and historical identity of Sicily. An imaginative journey that retraces places already told by cinematographers of the past, in particular by the great masters such as De Seta, Saitta and Quilici to grasp the signs that man has traced in the recent history of the island. The tuna fisheries have become luxury hotels and resorts, the lava of Etna captured by the lenses of the pioneers of the last century and by the cell phones of today's hikers. The heroic work of the mines, the struggle of men and the progress of technology; the theatre, from the magic wood of the puppets to the microphones of the DJ of a shopping centre... The absolute protagonist is time and an island which in its continuous change and evolution claims its immutable identity.
Photography by Irma Vecchio, editing by Edoardo Morabito, music by the Catanian composer Giovanni Scuderi.
Two Sicilies won the award for “best documentary” at the Sciacca Film Fest 2016.
ore 20.30 Free me by Federica Di Giacomo, Prod. Mir Cinematographic,
Opera Film, in collaboration with Rai Cinema, France 3 Cinema (Italy, France / 2016 / 89′/ documentary)
The film will be presented by the director Federica di Giacomo and the producer Francesco Virga
Directed by the director and anthropologist Federica Di Giacomo Liberami is a documentary film on the state of disarray of contemporary society and the return of exorcism. Every year more and more people call their discomfort "possession"., in Italy, in Europe, in the world. The Church responds to the spiritual emergency by appointing a growing number of exorcist priests and organizing training courses. Father Cataldo is a veteran, among the most wanted exorcists in Sicily and beyond, famous for his combative and tireless character. Every Tuesday Gloria, Enrico, Anna and Giulia, along with many others, they follow Father Cataldo's mass of liberation and seek the cure for a discomfort that finds no answers or labels.
Liberami has just won the award for Best Film at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, in the “Horizons” section.
