On the occasion of the fourth edition of Fare Cinema, an initiative dedicated to the promotion of Italian cinema in the world, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation presents a series of videos dedicated to the resilience of the Italian cinema industry and its protagonists. The clips are presented in collaboration with Fondazione Cinema per Roma.
Reboot. Il cinema italiano riparte (Italian Cinema Restarts) is a collection of 11 videos on the Italian cinema industry, featuring movie directors, actors and internationally acclaimed professionals such as Pierfrancesco Favino, Mirko Perri, Daniele Ciprì, Fabio Lovino, Pietro Valsecchi, Massimo Cantini Parrini, Anna Foglietta, Maricetta Lombardo, Daniele Luchetti e Nicola Guaglianone. The playlist is available to watch on our YouTube channel. All videos have English subtitles.
How to use time available when at home? How will the pandemic change cinema? What is the first thing you will do when this is all over? These are the questions addressed to some exponents of Italian cinema during the spring 2020 quarantine.
Pierfrancesco Favino, one of the most important actors of his generation, talks about his love for acting and cinema, revealing some of the secrets of his profession and of his career for which he won three David di Donatello, four Nastri d’Argento, two Globi d’oro, two Ciak d’Oro and a Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival.
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Mirko Perri creates, selects and assembles sounds within a film. Perri is a sound editor who has worked with some of the greatest Italian directors: from Paolo Sorrentino to Matteo Garrone up to Matteo Rovere. He won the David di Donatello for best sound with the film Veloce Come il Vento.
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Daniele Ciprì, director, screenwriter and director of photography, tells how he began is work and the cinema that changed his life. He won the Photography Award at the Chicago International Film Festival, three Ciak d’Oro, two David di Donatello, an Osella Award at the Venice Film Festival and three Nastri d’Argento.
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From advertising photographs to portraits of great artists, to stills: Fabio Lovino tells what he loves most, but also what makes him suffer most, about his profession and reveals the best way to learn the work of the set photographer.
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Pietro Valsecchi, with Camilla Nesbitt, has invented the “Zalone phenomenon”: Valsecchi is one of the major cinema and TV series producers in Italy. In this video he talks and explains about his profession and its lesser known aspects.
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Research, documentation and study are the cornerstones of his profession: Massimo Cantini Parrini is the creator of some of the most beautiful costumes seen on the big screen. He was nominated for an Oscar in 2021 and has received numerous awards for his creations: one European Film Award, five David di Donatello, three Nastri d’Argento, three Ciak d’Oro.
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Anna Foglietta highlights the journey of the profession of an actress from her formative years to the films that have had the greatest impact, the most interesting and the most anxiety-inducing. Foglietta is the winner of two Nastri d’Argento and the godmother of the 77th International Venice Film Festival.
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Let sounds take you by surprise, look for them and follow them: Maricetta Lombardo is a sound engineer and deals, especially with live-recorded audio on the set. Lombardo studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and worked on Dogman, Pinocchio and the series Gomorra. She has won two David di Donatello, four Nastri d’Argento and one Ciak d’Oro.
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Daniele Luchetti, one of the leading Italian directors of these recent years, has revealed to us what he would have liked to have been told before beginning to do his work, and tells us about his experience while making a film and when ending it. Luchetti has won four David di Donatello, three Globi d’Oro and a Ciak d’Oro, for his films as director and screenwriter.
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What’s the best way to learn how to be a screenwriter? Nicola Guaglianone, screenwriter of films such as Jeeg Robot, Indivisible, Freaks Out, tells about his work. Guaglianone has won a David di Donatello, a Nastro d’Argento, a Globo d’Oro, and a Ciak d’Oro.
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