12/10/2009

Fifteen films (see complete list) backed by the MEDIA Programme will screen in various sections of the Rome International Film Festival (RIFF).

The Italian films include Giorgio Diritti’s competition title The Man Who Will Come [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Giorgio Diritti
film profile]; in Out of Competition/Anteprima, the co-productions The Concert [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Radu Mihaileanu
film profile] by Radu Mihaileanu (France/Romania/Belgium/Italy) and I, Don Giovanni [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Carlos Saura (Italy/Spain); and in the Extra section, Edoardo Winspeare’s Sotto il Celio Azzurro.

MEDIA Desk Italy and MEDIA Antenna Turin, in collaboration with The Business Street market, have organized an INFO DAY (October 17 at 10:30 at the Hotel Majestic) to present the new programme MEDIA MUNDUS, a broad international cooperation programme for the audiovisual industry to strengthen cultural and commercial relations between Europe's film industry and filmmakers of third countries (see news).

The programme will be presented by Aviva Silver, Head of Unit of the MEDIA Programme and MEDIA Literacy, Information Society DG of the European Commission. To sign up for the event or for more information, contact info@mediadeskitalia.eu (tel: +39.06 32 64 77 28).

The MEDIA programme will furthermore have a stand at the Casa del Cinema during the Project Factory (October 16-18), where it will be possible to meet MEDIA’s Italian representatives. Another MEDIA information point will be set up at the Green House of the Roma Lazio Film Commission, at the Auditorium, throughout the duration of RIFF.