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NEW YORK DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL – FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI
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MAY 26-30, 2010 ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
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ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
New York Documentary Film Festival – Festival dei Popoli
The third edition of the Festival dei Popoli - New York Documentary Film Festival is part of an ongoing movement by the Festival dei Popoli to acquire international exposure through the circulation of its rich collection of archival footage abroad. In over fifty years, the collection has grown into an unparalleled treasury of documentary films and the history of documentary filmmaking.
Founded in 1959 by a group of humanities scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, ethnologists and experts in mass-media, the Festival dei Popoli has been working to promote and study social documentary cinema. Chiefly, the association organizes one of the most important international documentary festivals in Italy. At the same time, the Festival dei Popoli is busy restoring and conserving its archives (including about 10,000 titles, from video to film reels) as well as organizing courses and workshops for aspiring directors and documentary filmmakers. The Festival dei Popoli - New York Documentary Film Festival is developed together with the FitzGerald Foundation of Florence. It is also made possible by the support of the Regione Toscana and of Mediateca Regionale Toscana Film Commission.
The third edition of New York Documentary Film Festival – Festival dei Popoli features four programs of auteur documentaries, with a total of eighteen films depicting reality and history as filtered through the deeply personal aesthetics of very different directors.
The NYDFF is part of an ongoing activity of the Festival dei Popoli - Italian Institute for Social Documentary Film – aimed to promote the knowledge of international documentary cinema through the circulation of its rich collection of archival footage, as well to enlarge the circulation abroad of Italian Documentary cinema.
TRIBUTE TO GIANFRANCO ROSI The American Premiere of the Italian director's latest work: Below Sea Level, the intimate portrait of a commune of outcasts living in the middle of the desert about 200 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The multi-awarded film received among the others the Venice Horizons Documentary Prize. The film is presented in the director's presence.
ITALIAN CHRONICLES - FOCUS on ALESSANDRO ROSSETTO The Festival dei Popoli continues its series of Italian portraits showing the works of significant contemporary filmmakers. Alessandro Rossetto, with his precious and original cinematic eye, is one of the authors that best offered a panorama of everyday life in Italy of the last fifteen years. Films presented in the director's presence. Friday screenings introduced by PGA – Producers Guild of America.
SPECIAL EVENT NYWIFT - ENRICA COLUSSO In collaboration with New York Women in Film & Television, a special event dedicated to the Italian filmmaker Enrica Colusso, author of several award-winning documentaries, including three feature-lenghts. Since 2003, she teaches Film at Roehampton University in London. The festival presents two award winners documentary films: Life After Life (1995) and ABC Colombia (2006). Films presented in the director's presence.
THE FEELING OF BEING THERE (1958 - 1965): SEVEN YEARS OF DOCUMENTARY CINEMA A journey through the creative forces that have crossed (and continue to cross) modern cinema with eleven short films that have changed documentary film history in a period of great creative fervor corresponding to the birth of the Festival dei Popoli. The program is part of the retrospective presented in 2009 on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Festival dei Popoli - the oldest International Documentary Film Festival in Europe. Friday screenings introduced by PGA – Producers Guild of America.
Screenings at Anthology Film Archives will run May 26-30.
For more information please visit: www.nydff.org or email at info@nydff.org |