Sunday, Sept 3
10:30 a.m. HOTEL EXCELSIOR ITALIAN PAVILION. Genre Trends in global film production. A panel organized by Cinecittà for the General Directorate of Cinema and Audiovisual of the Ministry of Culture in collaboration with C-stars Consulting. Moderated by Peggy Chiao, producer and film critic. Participants include Élise Girard, Shozo Ichiyama, Kris Phillips, Wuershan.
10:30 a.m. HOTEL EXCELSIOR TERRAZZA DEI LIMONI. Cappuccino with the Italians, an initiative organized by IFC Italian Film Commissions, in collaboration with VPB Venice Production Bridge, with the support of the Ministry of Tourism and ENIT, Agenzia Nazionale del Turismo, an opportunity for international audiovisual producers and representatives of Italian Film Commissions to meet. Guest, a delegation of producers from Quebec, in collaboration with QUEBECreates.
10:45 a.m. HOTEL EXCELSIOR SPAZIO REGIONE VENETO, Presentation 18th Padua River Film Festival 2024 by Researching Movie Association.
11 a.m. SHOW BUSINESS ENTITY HALL. Puglia: audiovisual sector support funds and services. Participants will include Annamaria Tosto, President of Apulia Film Commission, Antonio Parente, General Director of Apulia Film Commission, Cristina Piscitelli, RUP of the Apulia Film Fund Notice, Massimo Modugno, Production Office. It is planned, also the participation of Adrian Wootton, Director Film London.
11 a.m. HOTEL EXCELSIOR SPAZIO REGIONE VENETO. Italian Japanese Food And Culture by Emy Production Andrea Iervolino producer and distributor Daniele Gramiccia producer Francesco Maria Dominedò showrunner and director Marco Fabbro author and director Silvia Gorgi journalist, writer
11:15 a.m. PEARL ROOM. Screening of the short Women’s Tales #26 Stane by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović and the short #25 Eye Times Two Mouth by Lila Avilés.
11:15 a.m. CORINTO ROOM. Director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi introduces the screening of Ohikkoshi (Moving) (1993) by Shinji Sômai.
12:30 p.m. HOTEL EXCELSIOR ITALIAN PAVILION. Filming Italy best movie award. Tiziana Rocca, General and Artistic Director Filming Italy Award and Vito Sinopoli, Sole Director Duesse Communication and Honorary Chairman of the Award, will announce this year’s awardees. Godmothers, Martina Stella and Laura Chiatti.
1 p.m. HOTEL EXCELSIOR SPAZIO REGIONE VENETO. Segafredo Zanetti Award “Un libro un film,” Festival del Viaggiatore curated by Associazione Inarteventi cultura in movimento. Speakers Emanuela and Giulia Cananzi, Jacopo Chessa director Veneto Film Commission.
1:45 pm. SPAZIO COMING SOON (villa Il Nidiolo) Meeting on the film El paraiso, attended by director Enrico Maria Artale and performers Edoardo Pesce, Margarita Rosa De Francisco, Maria Del Rosario, Gabriel Montesi.
2 p.m. HOTEL EXCELSIOR SPACE OF THE FONDAZIONE ENTE DELLO SPETTACOLO. Screening of Grazie Lina short doc dedicated to Lina Wertmuller written and directed by Yari Gugliucci, produced by Daniele Urciuolo for Alfiere Productions.
2 p.m. HOTEL EXCELSIOR SPAZIO REGIONE VENETO. I papi veneti, tra cinema e tv Presentation of mapping, digitization and restoration of audiovisual sources on Pius X and John Paul I. Edited by the Presidency of the Veneto Region and the Audiovisual Memories of Catholicism Foundation. Dario Edoardo Viganò participates.
2 p.m. HOTEL EXCELSIOR ITALIAN PAVILION. Filmmakers’ Declaration Act II. Dialogue on the role of the auteur in a global production system increasingly dominated by algorithms and artificial intelligence. Speakers include Marine Francen, Radu Mihăileanu, Nawja Najjar, Giacomo Durzi. Francesco Ranieri Martinotti moderates. Meeting realized in agreement with Authors’ Days.
3 p.m. HOTEL EXCELSIOR ITALIAN PAVILION. Next Generation Movie Creatives: from schools to showbiz. A spotlight on animation. To follow (3:30 p.m.) a meeting on animation in Italy. A panel organized by Cinecittà for the Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo of the Ministry of Culture – DGCA-MiC in collaboration also with Motion Picture Association. With Lucia Borgonzoni, Undersecretary for Cinema, Emilie Anthonis, Nicola Borrelli, Nicola Maccanico, Roberto Stabile, Alfio Bastiancich.
3 p.m. HOTEL EXCELSIOR SPAZIO REGIONE VENETO. Women’s Tales #1 curated by Miu Miu and Venice Days. Conversation with Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, Danica Curcic, Penny Martin.
3:30 pm. PRESS CONFERENCE ROOM. Venice production bridge. Conversation with Edward Berger and Philippe Falardeau. Guy Lodge conducts.
4 p.m. SALA LAGUNA. “Artificial Intelligence, Opportunity or Threat?” as part of the 20th edition of the GdA. The conference aims to explore the role of artificial intelligence in the filmmaking process.
4:15 pm. HOTEL EXCELSIOR SPAZIO REGIONE VENETO. Ace Producers in Veneto, Jacobine van der Vloed director & head of studies Ace Producers Marica Stocchi board member, Jacopo Chessa director Veneto Film Commission.
5 p.m. SALA PERLA. Presentation of the SIAE creative talent award to director Alessandro Roia delivered by Francesco Ranieri Martinotti president of the GoA.
5 p.m.. HOTEL EXCELSIOR ITALIAN PAVILION. Can Italian audiovisuals become central again in the global market? Speakers Nicola Borrelli (General Director Cinema), Maria Pia Ammirati (Director Rai Fiction), Tinny Andreatta (Vice President Content, Netflix Italy), Marco Azzani (Country Managing Director Prime Video Italy), Paolo Del Brocco (Ad Rai Cinema), Nicola Maccanico (Ad Cinecittà, Andrea Scrosati (Group COO Fremantle – Ceo Continental Europe). Vito Sinopoli moderates.
5:15 pm. HOTEL EXCELSIOR SPAZIO REGIONE VENETO. Verona green movie land: cinema and ecological transition Edited by My Planet 2050 APS with Renato Cremonesi, Paolo Tosi, Carmelo Melotti.
6:10 p.m. HOTEL EXCELSIOR ITALIAN PAVILION. Focus on China.
6 pm. REEF. AFTERCINEMA COSMOPOLITAN. Music and meetings. Attended by Pierfrancesco Favino, Cecilia Dazzi, Nina Rima, Beatrice Vendramin, Rocìo Munos Morales, Pilar Fogliati.
9 p.m.. THE MISERICORDY VENICE. gala dinner organized by the amfAR foundation. Director Ava DuVernay will receive amfAR’s Award of Inspiration. Concert featuring Rita Ora and Leona Lewis.
