Baita Film Group and Circolo Culturale Thìasos present Camaiore Film Festival 2014 that takes place 6, 7 and 8 June in the spectacular Villa Borbone delle Pianore in Capezzano Pianore.
This edition includes, in addition to the usual independent short film contest, a celebration of the work by Mario Monicelli. The three days of the festival include some very important shows, and projections and conferences about 1930s cinema in Versilia, and especially on the great director who passed away in 2010.
There are around 20 works by young authors that will be scrutinised and judged by a panel of experts, led by philosopher and university professor Salvatore Veca. These will be grouped into four categories: film, documentary, videoclip, animation&graphics.
Details:
FRIDAY 6 JUNE
l 7.00-24.00
In collaboration with Riccardo Mazzoni (researcher who found the fragments of Pioggia d’estate (1937), first film by the young Monicelli): screenings of frames of the film, exhibition on certain aspects of cinefilìa in Viareggio and 1930s Versilia, screenings of previously unseen films from the early 20th in Versilia.
ln collaboration with the author-artist Massimo Bonfatti (cartoonist who worked on the never-made film by Monicelli Volevamo i capelli lunghi) and Franco Giubilei (journalist and author of the book on the drawings) – exhibited on panels of the entire strip cartoon storyboard of the film.
Celebration of career of the Camaiore-born Claudio Duccini, actor, documentarist and Rai Tv director in Rome – screenings of a selection of films from the 1960s.
Fashion show on Auteur Cinema and exhibition of sketches of costumes.
First evening of screenings of the short films in competition.
SATURDAY 7 JUNE
I 7:00-24:00
Conference, debate and meetings on Mario Monicelli and his work
Moderator: Steve Della Casa, film critic and director of the Turin Film Festival and author of the biography of Mario Monicelli and Salvatore Veca, philosopher and vice-director of the Scuola Superiore IUSS lstituto Universitario di Studi Superiori in Pavia.
Attended by:
Riccardo Mazzoni, expert researcher of local history and contributor of EuropaCinema
Massimo Bonfatti, cartoonist and author of “Capelli Lunghi”
Steve della Casa, film critic
Saverio Guarna, director of photography
Second evening of screenings of the short films in competition.
SUNDAY 8 JUNE
I 7:00-24:00
Awards and acknowledgments
Closing dinner in the Sala dell’arazzo.
By car: from Lucca SS 439 Sarzanese-Val d’Era, turn right little after Capezzano Pianore towards the villa. Parking available.