The best of Italian cinema, from Sorrentino to Bellocchio, Verdone, Checco Zalone and Paola Cortellesi and many others put together by Pietro Valsecchi in a new online course from Università telematica Pegaso.
Venice Film Festival was the best place to present I-Talent Factory, the new online program designed by Pietro Valsecchi and included in the bouquet of Università Pegaso, the online university founded by Danilo Iervolino. “Cinema taught by filmmakers” is the claim chose to sum up the project announced yesterday night in Venice by Valsecchi and the board of UniPegaso –Iervolino and the Scientific Director, Francesco Fimmanò – in front of great names of Italian cinema such as the film director Carlo Verdone, Riccardo Tozzi from Cattleya, Alessandro Salem and Giorgio Restelli from Mediaset and the President of Fondazione Cinema per Roma and Silver Ribbon Laura Delli Colli. I-Talent Factory is made for those who want to enter the film, theatre and television industry and study directing, screenwriting, production and acting. The teaching staff is made of experts from the academic world, film industry, tv-series and theatre that will drive the students to master the necessary tools to face with competence the expertise of an industry always evolving. Web technologies and e-learning are the fundamental tools of the new way of learning and be involved in a virtual community where it is possible to learn, work and develop the right skills. The teaching staff includes the best of Italian cinema. Paolo Sorrentino, Paolo Genovese, Marco Bellocchio, Alberto Barbera, Cristina Comencini, Francesca Archibugi, Carlo Verdone, Checco Zalone, Paola Cortellesi, Silvio Orlando, Valeria Golino, Marco Tullio Giordana, Gabriele Mainetti, Lorenzo Mieli e Mario Gianani, Domenico Procacci and Riccardo Tozzi. «Experiencing 18 months of lockdown – explained Valsecchi – pushed me to think about the future of the many young talents aiming to work in the world of cinema and tv series and that are unable to fulfil their dream. Remembering my personal experience in the Seventies, when I arrived in Rome to become an actor, struggling to support myself and finding courses that taught me how to make movies, I thought that after so many years is still not easy to find the opportunity to learn cinema directly from professionals. The idea of I-Talent Factory comes from here». «Web and cinema – said Danilo Iervolino – is the perfect marriage because the Internet is an explosive force in which new ideas about how to do business, communication, production and distribution can grow. Those able to think different will pick the opportunities of the digital revolution. This is the reason why we imagine with Valsecchi a cinema academy that prepares our students to future challenges». Courses will start in November and will be open for those over 18 with a high school degree. Teaching units are split into categories and disciplines with a range of 250 and 500 hours of lessons. The path of study (directing, screenwriting, production, management, acting, history of cinema and media, movie techniques) last one year and are interactive, there are recorded lessons but meeting with professionals. «Actors, directors, screenwriters, producers and other professionals explaining their ideas of cinema to young students are important – said Carlo Verdone – This is the reason why I decided to join the project of Pietro Valsecchi». «This is a new tool – glosses Mario Sesti, curator and Content Director I-Talent Factory – and give the chance to everyone to know, learn and dream cinema».
By Lisa Thiene
