ASOLOINTERNATIONALARTFILMFESTIVAL
September 30th – October 8th 2006

The 2006 edition of the AsoloArtFilmFestival will be held in Asolo (Treviso) from September 30th to October 8th 2006.
The festival upholds the cultural tradition established by the ‘Festival Internazionale del Film sull’Arte e di Biografie d’Artista’, embodying the same concept. Inaugurated in 1973, the former festival enjoyed great international success for over two decades, until it finally closed at the end of the 1990s. Thirty years later its inauguration and its following the progress happened in visual language, the festival has been relaunched as the “AsoloArtFilmFestival”: an international prized event centred upon a competition for cinema devoted to the arts in their myriad forms of expression.
The festival will be the scene for the Career Award “ Flavia Paulon”. The award will be given to the artist of international relevance who left a significant trace with his/her personality and art in the contemporary cultural scene of cinema and art.

The competition is distinct in six sections:
FILMS ON ART for works devoted to the visual arts and music;

ARTISTS’ LIVES for projects depicting, throughout a historical reconstruction and critical interpretation, personalities from the world of visual arts and music;

FILMS ON THE ARCHITECTURE for films devoted to History, movements, protagonists, works and projects about architecture and town planning;

DESIGN for works devoted to History, movements and protagonists in the design field;

VIDEOART – COMPUTER ART for works utilizing electronic or computer technologies as a means of direct artistic expression

PRODUCTIONS related to the visual arts and music, made by recognized film schools, specialized higher education institutes and universities;

The festival was conceived and organized by the cultural association Asolo International Art Festival (A.I.A.F.), a non-profit private organization with legal status (Veneto Regional Council Decree (DGR)
N°. 59741.03 of 18.04.03).
The A.I.A.F. is chaired by Lionello Puppi.


A special Jury consisting of five members, chosen by the A.I.A.F. Chairman among leading international experts in the field, may be flanked by a representative of the A.I.A.F. as a member by right. The Jury will award the works eligible for the competition the following prizes:

GRAN PREMIO ASOLO FOR THE BEST COMPETING FILM

GRAN PREMIO ASOLO FOR THE BEST FILM ON ART

PREMIO ASOLO FOR THE BEST ARTIST’S LIFE

PREMIO ASOLO FOR THE BEST FILM ABOUT ARCHITECTURE

PREMIO ASOLO FOR THE BEST FILM ABOUT DESIGN

PREMIO ASOLO FOR THE BEST VIDEOART AND COMPUTER ART WORK

PREMIO ASOLO FOR THE BEST PRODUCTION MADE BY FILMS SCHOOLS, HIGHER EDUCATION COURSES, UNIVERSITIES

PREMIO GIAN FRANCESCO MALIPIERO FOR THE BEST SOUND TRACK