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Noir Workshop Brings New Light
to Italian Cinema |
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| 09/12/2011 |
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The panel promoted by the Courmayeur Noir in Festival with Cinecittà Luce – entitled Italian Cinema Responds – sparked numerous ideas and commitments on the part of the participants. At the end of the fast-paced discussion on how to revive social and political cinema and the use of the noir genre as an immediate source of stories, characters and languages best suited to representing today’s Italian society, the proposal was put forth to establish a permanent workshop, a living “databank” of writers, screenwriters, directors, journalists and producers.
In response to the provocations put forth by Giorgio Gosetti and Gaetano Savatteri in the name of the Courmayeur fest, the group of participants at the event comprised a “Council of Ten,” the preliminary nucleus of a larger movement that could create new, diverse opportunities with respect to the current film system: Giorgio Arlorio (screenwriter); Franco Bernini, Mimmo Calopresti, Wilma Labate (directors); producer Nicola Giuliano; Carlo Bonini, Sergio Rizzo, Gaetano Savatteri (journalists and writers); and historian-essayist Aldo Giannuli.
Says Gosetti: “We hope the seed planted here quickly finds fertile ground and a wider network of writers, directors and producers. We must verify together whether the narrative tools of the genre can respond to the expectations of international audiences, offering a snapshot of an Italy in movement that can face up to its past and portray the present as it did in the best periods of Italian cinema, drawing on diverse skills and parallel languages to give voice to a demand for renewed ethical and social values.”
The “Council of Ten” ended the event at Courmayeur by scheduling a second meeting, to be held in Rome on March 21, 2012 – a date chosen symbolically to emphasize the “Italian film spring” during the current crisis – which the Courmayeur Noir in Festival and its traditional partners will support completely.
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