Tuesday, September 5
10 a.m.. ITALIAN PAVILION HOTEL EXCELSIOR. Presentation of the Gregorio Napoli award.VI edition as part of the Bulli ed Eroi festival. His wife Eliana Lo Castro Napoli will be there.
10 a.m. VENETO REGION SPACE HOTEL EXCELSIOR. Opera Ciak. Curated by the symphony orchestra of the Veneto region. Speakers: Cristian Ricci, Federica Morello, Marco Titotto, Paolo Tamai, Teodoro Russo.
10:30 a.m. SALA LAGUNA. MeToo2023, Women in the conquest of a free cinema.
11.00 am. HOTEL EXCELSIOR MEETING SPACE (floor III). Italian research, development and centrality. Speakers: Massimo Arvat, Graziella Bildesheim, Enrica Capra, Domizia De Rosa, Federica D’Urso, Massimo Scaglioni, Maria Giuseppina Troccoli, Francesco Virga.
11 a.m. ITALIAN PAVILION HOTEL EXCELSIOR. Presentation of the fall 2023 professional film events. Participants include Mario Lorini, Domenico Dinoia, Don Gianluca Bernardini, Luigi Lonigro, Sorrento Mayor Massimo Coppola, Mantua Mayor Mattia Palazzi, Simone Gialdini, Prof. Filippo Celata , Dr. Andrea Simone, Francesco Giraldo.
12 p.m. SPACE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS INSTITUTION FOUNDATION HOTEL EXCELSIOR. “The ways of the image” award to Iranian artist Shirin Neshat.
12:30 p.m. ITALIAN PAVILION HOTEL EXCELSIOR. Cinema and the third sector. Teaser preview of a short film directed by Adelmo Togliani. and debate in the presence of Juri Morico, Hon. Maria Teresa Bellucci, Alessandro Benvenuti, Bianca Guaccero, Adelmo Togliani, Massimiliano Atelli, Emanuele Merlino, Lodovico Mazzolin, Claudia Conte and Emanuele Blandamura. Gaia Serena Simionati will moderate.
12:30 p.m. VENETO REGION SPACE HOTEL EXCELSIOR. Magnifica Award and promotion of the film Una commedia pericolosa. Speakers: Alessandro Pondi, Enrico Brignano, Monica Vallerini, Paola Minaccioni, Fortunato Cerlino.
1:20 pm. ITALIAN PAVILION HOTEL EXCELSIOR. Presentation of the short film A voce nuda. Speakers: Lucia Borgonzoni, producers Manuela Cacciamani and Gennaro Coppola, performers Andrea Delogu, Luigi Fedele, Ginevra Francesconi, Julia Magrone and MR Rain, director and screenwriter Mattia Lobosco and Niccolò Bottero.
1:30 pm. SALA LAGUNA. My poems will not change the world. Meeting with Annalena Benini, Francesco Piccolo. Repeated at 9 p.m.
2:30 pm. VENETO REGION SPACE HOTEL EXCELSIOR: Venetian Glass Lion Cinema Award 2023 with Fabio Testi president of the jury and presenter Beatrice Schiaffino.
2:30 pm. VENETO REGION SPACE HOTEL EXCELSIOR. Veneto Glass Lion Cinema Award 2023. With Fabio Testi, president of the jury, Claudio De Donatis of the Veneto Film Commission foundation.
3 p.m. ITALIAN PAVILION HOTEL EXCELSIOR. Tuscany region presents the first call for proposals to support audiovisual production companies financed by funds. Speakers: Cristina Manetti, Elena Pianea, Stefania Ippoliti.
4 p.m. SALA LAGUNA. For the meeting series 2023 Jetsun Pema The Mother of Tibet. Speakers will include Kasia Smutniak. By invitation only. 6:30 p.m. screening of the documentary ” Amala, the life and struggle of the Dalai Lama’s sister ” at Multisala Astra (Corfu Street).
4 p.m. ITALIAN PAVILION HOTEL EXCELSIOR. Funds and tools of the Piedmont region and the Turin Film Commission to support the audiovisual industry. Presentation of the “Piemonte Film Tv Fund,” film theaters and digital transition.
4 p.m.. HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES SPACE. Giulia Di Quilio presents the second season of the “It’s Sex Beauty!” podcast/vodcast. A live episode of the podcast will be held during the meeting.
4:30 p.m. VENETO REGION SPACE HOTEL EXCELSIOR. Presentation of the docufilm Le Pasque Veronesi. Speakers: Cristiano Corazzari, Tommaso Giusto, Nicola Cavedini, Stefano Paiusco, Maurizio Ruggiero.
4:30 pm. VENETO REGION SPACE HOTEL EXCELSIOR. Film festivals and universities. New perspectives of collaboration. With Giorgio Gosetti, Giacomo Manzoli, Federico Pommier Vincelli, Maria Francesca Piredda, Marco Bertozzi,Marco Dalla Gassa, Federico Zecca.
5:30 p.m. CASA DEGLI AUTORI. For Meetings 2023, Women Know How to Laugh: writing female comedies. Women’s writing workshop and pitching contest.
5:30 pm. ITALIAN PAVILION HOTEL EXCELSIOR. Presentation of the Women Cinema Award to researcher and virologist Ilaria Capua. In award chosen by an all-female Academy composed of film journalists Fulvia Caprara, Paola Casella, Alessandra De Luca, Titta Fiore, Alessandra Magliaro, Antonella Nesi, Chiara Nicoletti, Cristiana Paternò, Angela Prudenzi, Barbara Righini, Marina Sanna, Stefania Ulivi.
5:45 p.m. VENETO REGION SPACE HOTEL EXCELSIOR. Dolce Cinema Curated by APEI – Ambassadors Pastry Chefs of Italian Excellence with Igino Massari, Debora Massari, Carlo Gentile and Fausto Morabito.
6 p.m. COSMOPOLITAN REEF THE AFTERPARTY. Manintown party Next Generation Award 2023 awards ceremony and meet & greet with actors.
7 p.m. VENETO REGION SPACE HOTEL EXCELSIOR. Documentary Marmolada 03.07.22 with Giorgia Lorenzato, Manuel Zarpellon, Marianna Tolio.
7 p.m. PROCURATIE VECCHIE VENEZIA. screening of the documentary Time to change directed by Emanuele Imbucci. Stefano Guindani and Rocío Muñoz Morales will be present at the screening.
