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| 21/11/2012 |
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FROM HITCHCOCK TO HALLSTRÖM AND WINSLOW, AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN
Running Monday, December 10 through Sunday, December 16, the 22nd Courmayeur Noir in Festival is directed by Giorgio Gosetti and Marina Fabbri; promoted by the Italian Ministry for Culture, the Aosta Valley Region Tourism Council and the City of Courmayeur, and supported by public and private partners.
“We’ve returned to our roots,” say Gosetti and Fabbri, “in the films and writers we want our audiences to discover, and the choice to bookend this year’s edition with none other than Alfred Hitchcock and an unforgettable radio play, written by Massimo Carlotto and directed by Sergio Ferrentino. In between we will present a host of renowned writers, including Don Winslow, winner of the Raymond Chandler Award; the newest Italian noir; TV series that are breaking all molds of storytelling; and the spooky thrills of Mini Noir. Moreover, taking pride of place is this year’s theme – mafias – whose unwavering and dramatic topicality touches the very roots of Italian culture and society.”
The 2012 Black Lion winner will be chosen from among the ten competition titles by the international jury comprising Santiago Amigorena, Pippo Delbono, Jennifer Lynch, Francesca Neri and Franziska Petri.
Out-of-competition films include the year’s most surprising horror comedy, Juan of the Dead (from Cuba); Luca Argentero’s producing debut, Evil Things by Simone Gandolfo; and the animated Spanish film Snowflake, the White Gorilla for our youngest viewers. We will open with Sir Anthony Hopkins in Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock, and wrap things up with a day of American cinema that includes the premiere of Robert Redford’s latest film, The Company You Keep and Emile De Antonio’s remarkable documentary, Underground, which explains the real history behind Redford’s movie.
This year’s most highly anticipated film guests include: Luca Argentero, Dario Argento, Lucas Belvaux, Guido Caprino, Chiara Conti, Carl Colby, Jerôme Courneau, Carolina Crescentini, Marta Gastini, Claudia Gerini, Sacha Gervasi, Alice Lowe, Alberto Rodriguez, Chloe Saint-Laurent, Gabriele Salvatores, Maya Sansa, gli autori italiani Toni D’Angelo, Simone Gandolfo, Davide Marengo and the new king of Italian horror, Federico Zampaglione. TV Noir section will bring to Courmayeur the leading actress and the creator of Profiling series, Odile Vuillemin and Emmy Award winner René Balcer.
The writers joining us this year are: Lisa Ballantyne (The Guilty One), Antonella Bolelli Ferrera (Siamo noi, siamo in tanti), Massimo Carlotto (Respiro corto), Roberto Costantini (Alle radici del male), Franco Di Mare (Il paradiso dei diavoli), Andrea Gennari Daneri (Mangart), Lotte and Søren Hammer (Alting har sin pris), John Katzenbach (The Wrong Man), Massimo Lugli (Gioco perverso), Elmer Mendoza (El Cartel del Pacifico), Marco Polillo (Villa Tre Pini), David Vann (Caribou Island), Nick Vivarelli (Slalom), Kate Williams (The Pleasure of Men), Evan Wright (American Desperado) and the “Magnificent Five” of the Giorgio Scerbanenco Prize shortlist.
The guest of honor and recipient of the 2012 Raymond Chandler Award is Don Winslow, the American author of adrenaline-charged best sellers, including Savages, which Oliver Stone adapted for the big screen this year, and its prequel The Kings of Cool, just published in Italy. Winslow will talk to audiences in Courmayeur about both projects, his passions, his past as a private investigator, and his fruitful relationship with cinema.
The closing night radio play, Il giardino di Gaia, was written for the stage by novelist Massimo Carlotto and is directed by Sergio Ferrentino.
This year’s two-day conference (December 13-14) – The Mafias and Us – will be moderated by journalist and author Gaetano Savatteri, with the participation of: Pietro Grasso, chief prosecutor of the Anti-Mafia Bureau; Ivanhoe Lo Bello, vice president of Confindustria; screenwriter Andrea Purgatori; writers Marcello Fois and Patrick Fogli; and journalist Maurizio Torrealta. The event is accompanied by six films closely tied to the history and themes being discussed.
On the 20th anniversary of two of the most tragic events in recent Italian history – the murders of legendary anti-Mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino – the two-day conference will analyze the Mafia and how it has changed over time (and space). The Mafia has grown in our country, both geographically and socially, and how it is represented in film, literature and even investigative journalism has also changed.
The festival poster is a reminder of the dark days of 1992. It is a portrait by renowned photographer Letizia Battaglia of Rosaria Schifani, widow of one of Falcone's bodyguards, who was killed along with the judge. Rosaria's heart-wrenching, unforgettable speech during the collective funeral for the seven victims of that fateful bombing made her an icon of the civil fight against the Sicilian Mafia.
The Festival is also dedicating a day to Italian cinema, in the second edition of the Genre Cinema Workshop (inaugurated last year). Thanks to Istituto Luce Cinecittà we will again look at the diverse noir film offerings of 2012, along the way rediscovering Italy's great tradition of political cinema. Over 70 films were produced this year, including Siberian Education, The Lookout, Diaz: Don’t Clean Up This Blood, Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy and the unique Caesar Must Die, the Italian entry to the Academy Awards. Is it simply a coincidence, an excess of optimism, a happy return to the past or a new path that reunites with the best of our popular literature?
Thanks to our partnership with FoxCrime we will once again offer the most loved and original TV series, including the auteur-driven Awake, France’s Jo, the hit shows Profiling and Criminal Minds and of course, Dexter, which returned after last year’s surprising finale for a seventh provocative season.
DocNoir will kick off with the premiere of Carl Colby’s documentary The Man Who Nobody Knew, about his father William Colby (former director of the CIA), and will also feature three Italian films on the anti-mafia (Secondo tempo), the other side of the “calciopoli” football scandal (Nel paese di Giralaruota) and justice and the end of terrorism (Ossigeno).
For the second consecutive year we will hold the competition Zucca - Spirito Noir (whose testimonial will be Carolina Crescentini following Michele Riondino in 2011) as well as present the first volume of winning stories, with a preface by Piero Colaprico and an original story by Marcello Fois.
The monster of this year’s Mini Noir, dedicated to the imaginations and funny bone-tingling thrills for the youngest viewers, is the dinosaur, which has been immortalized in the exhibit Dinosauri in carne e ossa, mounted in the Courmayeur Forum by the Paleontological Association A.P.P.I. This year’s Mini Noir guests include Enzo D’Alò, EriKa Centomo, Luca Raffaelli and the students of Milan’s School of Design IED, who will teach the creative workshops.
“Once again, the Aosta Valley is proud to host the Festival, which has become a tradition here at the foot of Mont Blanc,” says Regional Councilor Aurelio Marguerettaz. “However, our festival also likes to educate passionate film lovers. This year, it is contributing to sensitizing viewers to legality, by bringing to light the Mafia through the film lens and avoiding the banalities too often associated with the topic.”
There will also be a workshop entitled Casting e agente in Courmayeur on December 11-12. Open to aspiring and professional actors, and promoted by OffiCine Mattòli, casting directors Marita D’Elia and Daniele Orazi (of Officine Artistiche) will teach actors how to prepare for on-camera auditions.
A mysterious guerrilla marketing event has also been organized by Fox Crime, involving audiences, guests and noir lovers. The last days of the festival will feature a “manhunt” that will unfold in various stages in Courmayeur. The audience will be involved in a series of activities simulating various phases of an investigation into a mysterious kidnapping. Each phase will be delineated on a mini-site on the Fox TV site and on the Fox Crime Italia Facebook page, which will feature a tab that will connect users directly to the mini-site.
In the photogallery, you may download Festival poster and MiniNoir poster. |
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