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Peter Greenaway awarded at Venice Critics Week

Peter Greenaway  receiving his award at Critics Week ...

Collateral Award to Romanian Film To the north

PREMIO BISATO D’ORO 2022 Best Movie THE NORTH BY MIHAI MINCAN Inspired by real events, Mihai Mincan's To the North transcends its own specific story to become a painful metaphor for the human condition. Following the thread of a tense and rigorous narrative, the director invites us to explore both the confined space of a cargo ship on the high seas and the abyss of the human soul. With an extremely precise and accurate screenplay, Mihai Mincan succeeds ...

Better World Fund Mastermind during the Venice Film Festival: a time to share

Live coverage by Alice Kanterian of the keynotes discussing the relationship between food, health, and sustainability  "Sustainibility should not be done because of a marketing trend. We share the same values for health,  food and sustainability with the  Better World Fund. I want to leave a better world for the next generation to come." Maud Truchi - Maslina resort We should leave the world better off as we found it! The amount of impact of every single you ...

VIDEO Venice 79 Day by Day : Day 8

The super cast of THE SON by Florian Zeller – Hugh Jackman, Vanessa Kirby, Laura Dern and Zen McGrath – the Ukrainian delegation of FREEDOM ON FIRE: UKRAINE'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, the stars of DREAMIN’ WILD Casey Affleck, Zooey Deschanel, Noah Jupe and Jack Dylan Grazer: here is #Venezia79 Day 8 in two minutes! Check out the programme https://bit.ly/Programme_Venezia79  Buy your tickets  https://bit.ly/Tickets_Venezia79 #BiennaleCinema...

VIDEO Venice 79 Day by Day : Day 7

Tilda Swinton, Elio Germano, Luigi Lo Cascio, Sara Serraiocco, Willem Dafoe, Christoph Waltz and Rachel Brosnahan arrive at the Festival and meet journalists, photographers and fans in a new special day of #Venezia79.   Check out the programme → https://bit.ly/Programme_Venezia79 Buy your tickets → https://bit.ly/Tickets_Venezia79 #BiennaleCinema2022 #Venezia79 Video: Roberto Cortazzo, Pasquale Sbarra ...

Better World Fund Gala during the Venice Film Festival: very successfull reception at Scuola Grande della Misericordia Venezia

By Alice Kanterian for filmfestivals.com Koembu, a young Indigenous activist from National Geographic’s multiple-award-winning documentary, “The Territory”   received the Better World Fund Prize for the Best Achievement in Filmmaking with a strong message to raise awareness for the  environment in Rondonia/Brazil. "I hope  that by making the film this film you  know more about the dangers we face."   The trailer of the ...

Filmfestivals.com correspondant in Venise awarded with The Premio Giovanna Arrighi

Congrats to our colleague and friend Alice Kanterian who has an impressive experience on the festival circuit covering the key events worldwide. "Alice is a cosmopolitan journalist who has always paid great attention to the evolution of cinema and the cultural and social sides of both small and large-scale Festivals; her continuous and impassioned research always succeeds in grasping the essence of these events. She is never superficial and always independent: a perfect example of...

Nesta Sketching Venice for you

  Edouard Waintrop, Thelios, with Alberto Barbera :The Thelios brand sponsorship, Most effective it seems The Audience is not here, the future of film festivals in a hugely expensive  conversation ! Nesta   Monica The dream A bowl of dog treats and magic cigarette box are the dream prop takeaways! Andrea dreams of the set, And the dog is Patricia’s own treat.   Trace Lysette dreams of Safety and enacts the Code Switch in a different shell, and Italian ...

Jafar Panahi's "No Bears" Poster Unveiled in Venice International Film Festival

Prior to its world premiere in the official competition category of the 79th Venice Film Festival, "No Bears", the motion picture directed by Jafar Panahi, had its poster unveiled in this cinematic event.   "No Bears" is a motion picture written, produced, and directed by Jafar Panahi, with its first global screening in the official competition category of the 79th Venice Film Festival. The premiere includes four screenings on Friday 9 September, 2022, at 9 am and 4:...

VIDEO Venice 79 Day by Day : Day 6

79th Venice International Film Festival In #Venezia79 Day 6, a festive crowd welcomes Harry Styles and DON’T WORRY DARLING's actors, the Pope's "inverted pilgrimage" told by Gianfranco Rosi, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson at the Lido for the Irish tale by Martin McDonagh and LOVE LIFE's cast on the Red Carpet. Another great day of film and glamour captured and summarized in 2 minutes! #BiennaleCinema2022 #Venezia79   Video: Roberto Cortazzo,...

Venice Production Bridge (VPB) - the market for selected projects has successfully wrapped

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La Biennale di Venezia is pleased to announce that the Venice Production Bridge (VPB) - the market for selected projects - held from September 1 to 6, 2022, during the 79. Venice International Film Festival, has successfully wrapped. Above all we wish to express our thanks to all of the 2.477 Industry delegates who made the trip to Venice and made this edition of the Venice Production Bridge such a vibrant and productive event. This figure pres...

AWARDS 10th edition of the FINAL CUT IN VENICE 2022 (3 - 5 Sept)

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  79 th Venice International Film Festival Workshop to support films in post-production from Africa and Arab countries (Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria).   For the sixth year, La Biennale di Venezia gives a cash award of € 5,000 to support the Best Film in post-production. La Biennale di Venezia Prize Jury, composed of Claire Diao (Sudu Connexion), Rasha Salti (ARTE France) and Gaetano Maiorino (True Colours) has awarded the film: INSHALLAH A BOY / INSHALLAH WALLAD,...

Two Arab films won the Arab Cinema Center partners awards at Final Cut in Venice Workshop

5000 USD and in-kind awards presented by MAD Solutions and El Gouna     At the 79th edition of the Venice International Film Festival, two partners of the Arab Cinema Center announced their awards for Arab film projects at Final Cut in Venice Workshop. Feature film project INSHALLAH A BOY by  Jordanian director Amjad Al-Rasheed won financial support from El Gouna Film Festival worth 5000 USD. MAD Solutions announced the feature film project BLACKLIGHT by Algerian director Kar...

VIDEO Venice 79 Day by Day : Day 5

Cinema makes us fly thanks to Elodie, Virginie Efira, Sadie Sink, Brendan Fraser, Penélope Cruz and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Paul Schrader. And, in Day 5, a jump into #VeniceImmersive’s virtual worlds! #BiennaleCinema2022 #Venezia79 Video: Roberto Cortazzo, Pasquale Sbarra ...

VIDEO Venice 79 Day by Day : Day 4 "I don’t want to leave this world without saying I love you" Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader awarded for Lifetime achievement at the 79th Venice International Film Festival "I don’t want to leave this world without saying I love you": such were the words of the Golden Lion winner Paul Schrader, who presented his film MASTER GARDENER, starring Sigourney Weaver and Joel Edgerton, the Argentinian wave on the Red Carpet and MONICA’s actresses who enlighten the runway with bright colours: this is Day 4 at #Venezia79!     &n...

VIDEO Venice 79 Day by Day : Day 3

79th Venice International Film Festival The superglamourous cast of BONES AND ALL, starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell, the stars of the Greek tragedy set in a French banlieue directed by Romain Gavras, Isabelle Huppert, Frederick Wiseman, the history of the Festival written by Gian Piero Brunetta, the enthusiasm of the fans: all the emotions of Day 3 at #Venezia79!         #BiennaleCinema2022 #Venezia79    Video: Roberto Cortaz...

VIDEO Venice 79 Day by Day : Day 2

79th Venice International Film Festival Spotlights on Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Lars von Trier, Bill Nighy, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Aimee Lou Wood, Griselda Siciliani, Bobi Wine and Laure Calamy, who, in the Day 2 of #Venezia79, meet the press, photographers and fans and show intimate, epic, political and biographical stories from all around the world at the Festival. #BiennaleCinema2022 #Venezia79    Video: Roberto Cortazzo, Pasquale Sbarra   ...

VIDEO Venice 79 Day by Day : Day 1

79th Venice International Film Festival Words and looks of the stars of #Venezia79 Day 1: President Julianne Moore and her fellow Jury members, the divine actress Catherine Deneuve, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, the actors of PRINCESS and the cast of WHITE NOISE attending the press conference, the Photocall, the Red Carpet and the Opening Ceremony.   #BiennaleCinema2022 #Venezia79 Video: Roberto Cortazzo, Pasquale Sbarra ...

Venice Immersive back to the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio (Lido) with 43 projects from 19 countries

The selection of projects for Venice Immersive, the XR - Extended Reality section of the 79th Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia, is now complete. The official selection will return to  the Venice Immersive Island (island of Lazzaretto Vecchio), a short distance from the Lido di Venezia, for the first time since 2019, on the following dates: 30th August (afternoon): press preview 31st A...

Paul Schrader received today the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

The honour to the director and screenwriter will be awarded on 3 September at 9:30 pm, followed by the screening of Master Gardener (Out of Competition). The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 79th Venice International Film Festival (August 31 – September 10, 2022) has been awarded to the American director (The Card Counter, First Reformed, Cat People, American Gigolo) and screenwriter (Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Obsession, The Yakuza...

Venezia'22: Alberto Barbera in Conversation with Edouard Waintrop about the Future of Film Festivals

THE FUTURE OF FILM FESTIVALS – THROUGH THE EYES OF ALBERTO BARBERA & EDOUARD WAINTROP A visionary panel discussion between the Director of Venice International Film Festival and the French cinema critic & jury member of ‘Orizzonti’ Thélios, the LVMH eyewear expert and eyewear sponsor of Venice International Film Festival, is pleased to host an inspiring discussion at their institutional Suite in the Hotel Excelsior on September 3rd. Alberto Barbera, Directo...

Filmmakers under Attack: Taking Stock, Taking Action panel and flashmob to raise attention at the 79th Venice Film Festival

Filmmakers under Attack: Taking Stock, Taking Action: two initiatives in solidarity with the filmmakers who have been arrested or jailed around the world this past year an international panel (Saturday 3 September, 3:30 pm, Casinò) a flash-mob on the red carpet (Friday 9 September, 4:30 pm) / In collaboration with ICFR – International Coalition Filmmakers at Risk Watch the round table with: Alberto Barbera, Vanja Kalurdjercic, Sinem Sakaoglu, Orwa Ny...

Announcing the completion of Eric Orr's new film CHAAW

China, Hector, Africa, Ardnas, Wesley "CHAAW". These are the stories of victims of Injustice in America. The effect of injustice not only impacts the individuals but also their families and community. The stories are narrated by the legendary "Biz Markie" through rhymes and his special beatboxing talent. The film wrapped and is ready to enter the festival circuit in 2023. Clip of Biz Markie in CHAAW Pictured: (Top Left to Right): Biz Markie, Richard Laws...

Films in Venice Currently Without Sales Agent

Venice Production Bridge will be happy to send you the list of titles in the official line up and the collateral sections of the 79th Venice International Film Festival that do not yet have international sales representation. Current rights holders may be contacted for details. Synposis's and trailers (when available) have been supplied by the producers.    Venice Production Bridge : vpboffice@labiennale.org ...

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