Tilda Swinton and Ann Hui Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement
at the 77th Venice International Film Festival
Venice, 20 July 2020 -- Critically acclaimed filmmaker Ann Hui and iconic actress Tilda Swinton have each been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 77th Venice International Film Festival (2 September – 12 September, 2020).
The decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia upon recommendatio...
Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2019 Berlinale for Synonyms, Navad Lapid will guide as president of the jury the young 27 Times Cinema jurors as they select the 2020 GdA Director’s Award.
45-year-old Nadav Lapid has three feature films and numerous shorts and documentaries under his belt, and his Synonyms won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. He first studied philosophy and then pursued a film studies degree at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem....
This year, we saw the COVID-19 pandemic devastate communities all over the world, and bring life as we knew it to a halt. As supporters of global cinema, we watched as the work of film artists stopped in its tracks, and the culture of film itself was challenged. Films come alive with audiences, who could no longer gather in the ways we had for over a century.
The art form we love is in crisis. Our own organizations have seen unprecedented challenges to our work and our financial security. The p...
La Biennale di Venezia /
77th Venice International Film Festival
2 > 12 September 2020
Actress Anna Foglietta will host the opening and closing events of the 77th Venice International Film Festival 2020, directed by Alberto Barbera and organized by La Biennale di Venezia.
Anna Foglietta will open the 77th Venice Film Festival on the evening of Wednesday September 2nd 2020, on the stage of the Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido) for the inaugurati...
Venezia 77, Orizzonti and Out of Competition
are the sections presented on the Lido of the 77th Venice Film Festival /
The Virtual Reality Competition will be entirely online /
Venice Classics will be hosted at the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna
This edition of the Venice Film Festival will present certain changes, which have become necessary as a result of the sanitary protocols imposed by the Covid-19 emergency. So as to comply with the mandatory measures required to ...
Gerardo Panichi, Sébastien Delloye, Robin and Vera Monotti Graziadei
and Rai Cinema
PRESENT
a Citrullo International Production, Entre Chien et Loup, Luminous Arts Productions
with Rai Cinema
A film by Carlo S. Hintermann
Carlo S. Hintermann’s film produced by Terrence Malick opens the 35th Venice International Film Critic’s Week
First Images:
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La Biennale di Venezia /
77th Venice International Film Festival
Venice Production Bridge /
Venice Gap-Financing Market Projects Selected
The 7th edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market (September 4 - September 6, 2020), organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, will take place during the forthcoming 77th Venice International Film Festival and will offer selected European and international projects the opportunity to close their...
Photo Gaia Furrer Courtesy Venice Days
The President of the Associazione Giornate degli Autori, Andrea Purgatori, and its General Delegate, Giorgio Gosetti, are delighted to announce that starting this year, as decided by the Board of Directors, the role of Artistic Director of the showcase (set to run September 2-12, during the Venice Film Festival) will be assumed by Gaia Furrer, who will be working closely with the General Delegate, the selection committee, and Giornate&rsq...
La Biennale di Venezia / 77th Venice International Film Festival
The deadline for submissions to the Virtual Reality 2020 section is extended to May 31st
The deadline to register Virtual Reality projects for submission to the Venice Virtual Reality section of the 77th Venice International Film Festival 2020 (Lido di Venezia, 2 – 12 September) has been extended to May 31st 2020, from the initial date of May 15th.
The Virtual Reality section will ...
La Biennale di Venezia /
Biennale College – Cinema International
for the production of micro-budget feature films /
The Call for the 9th edition is open on the website www.labiennale.org
The feature-length film The Fits (2015) by Anna Rose Holmer (3rd edition)
to be shown on the Criterion Channel /
Since 2012 Biennale College Cinema has produced 26 feature-length films
The new Call of the Biennale College – Cinema International for the production of micro-...
La Biennale di Venezia /
77th Venice International Film Festival /
Venice Production Bridge
Final Cut in Venice: call for projects now open for the 8th edition /
Announcing the workshop to support films
from Africa and the Middle East
a hotbed for talents and awards at international festivals
The call for projects opens today for the eighth edition of the Final Cut in Venice workshop, which will take place from September 5th to 7th 2020 as part of the Venice Production Bridge o...
VENICE PRODUCTION BRIDGE
Venice Gap - Financing Market
Above all we hope that this email finds you well and safe in these difficult and challenging times.
We like to remind you that the Call for Projects has been launched for the 7th edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market, which will take place from the 4th - 6th of September, 2020, during the 77th Venice International Film Festival (September 2nd-12th, 2020).
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For the first time anywhere in the world a workshop was held entirely in virtual mode / Participating were the three projects selected for the 4th edition of the Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality
The workshop of the 4th Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality, which ended on Friday March 6th, was held entirely in virtual mode, on a specialized platform and consistent with the language of the projects involved.
This is the first time anywhere...
The call will be online on the website www.labiennale.org through April 30th 2020
La Biennale di Venezia announces the new call for the Venice Gap-Financing Market that opens today, Monday February 17th 2020, launched on the website www.labiennale.org (call open through April 30th 2020).
The seventh Venice Gap-Financing Market will be held from September 4th to 6th 2020, as part of the Venice Production Bridge at the 77th Venice International Film Festival (2-12 Se...
The new Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia took office today, chaired by Roberto Cicutto with members Luigi Brugnaro (Vice-President, Mayor of Venice and President of the Metropolitan City), Luca Zaia (President of the Regione Veneto), Claudia Ferrazzi (designated by the Minister for the Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism). The Board will remain in office for the four-year term 2020 – 2023.
After greeting the members of the Board – the meeting was also at...
La Biennale di Venezia /
77th Venice International Film Festival /
September 2 - 12, 2020
Actor/Producer Cate Blanchett will be the president of the International Jury of the Competition at the 77th Venice International Film Festival (September 2 - 12, 2020), which will assign the Golden Lion for Best Film, as well as other official awards.
In accepting the proposal, Cate Blanchett said: "Every year I look expectantly to the selection at Venice ...
By Alex Deleon
What -- Me worry?
Roman Polanski's latest film, "J'Accuse, (An Officer and a Spy)" is the work of a master filmmaker at the top of his game at age 85.
The film was unveiled at Venice 2019 and should easily have walked off with the Golden Lion top film prize except for some hostile behind the scenes political shuffling relating to a minor incident of sexual dalliance in the director's life back in 1977 -- forty two years ago!
The s...
Joaquin Phoenix inhabits the skin of The Joker
By Alex Deleon
The movie JOKER, which had its world premierę at Venice 2019 and won the Golden Lion best film award on the Lido, has been mistakenly termed a "comic book film".
True it is in a sense a spinoff from the comic book based Batman film series, however, this is a serious non-comic book psychological study of how a would be stand-up comedian with a pathological laughing syndrome goes wrong and becomes a ps...
Nesta Morgan sketcher artist is a filmfestivals.com contributor, sketching r.elentlessly the festival scene in Cannes, Venice and many more industry events. Photographers take picture critics, produce reviews, she sketches, with talent
Herewith some of her sketches from Venezia 76
The Joker
La Llorana
The Laundromat
J accuse / An Officer and A Spy
Transcript from russian
INTERVIEW with Nesta
Since you are here about art it's time to introduce...
By Alex Deleon
While Toronto prides itself on being the most important film festival in North America it might not rank so high in importance without the crop of films cloned from Venice across the seas.
No less than sixteen of 21 world premieres unspooled at Venice will have their second unveiling in Toronto which runs from September 5-15 right on the heels of the Italian Mostra Cinematografica which closed on the 7th of September.
The Venice films that will have North American premi...
Claes Bang and Elizabeth Debicki have strong chemistry in TBOH which will turn to poison when the picture spins out of control
By Alex Deleon
TBOH is an Art heist thriller Directed by Italian Giuseppe Capotondi, based on a 1971 neo-noir novel by American writer Charles Willeford (died 1988) starring Danish actor Claes Bang and Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki, and featuring British Rock legend Mick Jagger (76) plus Canadian veteran character actor Donald Sutherland...
OFFICIAL AWARDS - 76th Venice International Film Festival VENEZIA 76
The Venezia 76 Jury, chaired by Lucrecia Martel, and comprised of Stacy Martin, Mary Harron, Piers Handling, Rodrigo Prieto, Shinya Tsukamoto, Paolo Virzì, having viewed all 21 films in competition, has decided as follows:
GOLDEN LION for Best Film to: JOKER by Todd Phillips (USA)
SILVER LION - GRAND JURY PRIZE to: J’ACCUSE by Roman Polanski (France, Italy)
&...
Venice 76. Views by Stella Selvatico for filmfestivals.com
Articles by Anna Reeves
Venice Film Festival Venice Virtual Reality - An Overview
by Anna Reeves
Venice VR Section - Third Year - Running August 28th - September 3rd
It is only the third edition of the Venice VR section and yet already it is establishing itself as unmissable. What makes the selection so world class is that is all about great storytelling and not simply displaying the latest ...
Venice 76. Views by Stella Selvatico for filmfestivals.com
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