Turin: Italy’s co-production capital
From November 22-25, to coincide with the opening of the Turin Film Festival, the capital of the Piedmont region will host the fifth edition of the European Days of Cinema & Audiovisual. Italy’s main co-production forum continues in its founding objectives, ranging from creative production support to the development of European film, television and new media projects.
Opening the event on Thursday, November 22 at 2 pm will be the European public presentation of Media Literacy, the initiative of the European Commission’s DG INFSOC dedicated to the audiovisual education and training of European spectators and citizens.
The Days will feature 35 projects, presented by producers to potential partners in one-on-one meetings as well open pitching and matchmaking sessions. Besides private investors, there will also be numerous regional support bodies, including the Italian Friuli Venezia Giulia and Piemonte Doc film funds, which will present their guidelines.
New this year is the Borsa del Cinema – an initiative between Cinecittà Holding and ABI (Association of Italian Banks) that will bring six leading banks to Turin, to evaluate potential Italian projects that will receive financial support.
Other events include case studies – on the television programme Visages d'Europe, 64 30-minute episodes on European identity; the film project Babylon; and Rookie, the new Swedish public/private fund – a masterclass by Dutch documentary filmmaker Leonard Retel Heimlich, and the highly anticipated discussions with independent producers Pierre-Olivier Bardet (president of France’s Ideale Audience), Andrés Pfäffli (Ventura Film, Switzerland) and Nicola Giuliano (Indigo Film, Italy).
There is also great curiosity in the more than emerging film industries of Romania and Lithuania, this year’s guest of honour countries.
More information can be found at the Days’ site, in Italian, English and French.
(Translated from Italian)
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