BERGAMO FILM MEETING

Bergamo Film Meeting International Film Festival 36th edition 10 — 18 March 2018 2018

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The Festival The Association BFM in figures — 2017 BFM in figures — in 35 years Becoming a partner

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Main sections Venues Side events — 35 The audience

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About BFM

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In the 2017, Bergamo Film Meeting International Film Festival celebrated his 35th edition (11-19 March), an important achievement confirmed by an incredibly rich and varied programme.

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he programme of BFM35 featured over 160 films of national and international production. A full-length film competition section, along with documentaries, retrospectives, previews, masterpieces and tributes to legends of the past, recent productions, art exhibitions and installations, special events for schools, animation films, labs and workshops, lectures, Q&As with filmmakers, and much more.

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precious opportunity to meet people, to network with film professionals, to research cinema, and - last but not least - to have fun, Bergamo Film Meeting is among the most awaited cultural initiatives in town and a crucial event in the Italian Festival calendar.

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ergamo Film Meeting was the recipient of two prizes at Festival of Festivals, organised by the national cultural event association, which once again proves the Festival’s commitment to innovation and cultural change: BFM won the Best Sponsorship/ Partnership Award, awarded to a project in collaboration with Elav Independent Brewery, and the Best Book/Catalogue Award.

About BFM

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Association

Bergamo Film Meeting Association, the Festival’s organisational structure, was born As of Bergamo Film Meeting is registered as an Onlus association (i.e. a non-profit organisation with social aims).

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he Association supports and promotes the distribution of films and documentaries of national and international production in the theatre and cineclub cultural circuit. It participates in the re-edition and promotion of film classics; all-yearround it organises film festivals, retrospectives, cultural events, labs and workshops, book publications, etc. The Association is linked to many cultural institutions, with which it shares prestigious collaboration projects. Among them are cinematheques and contemporary art museums, such as National Museum of Cinema (Turin), British Film Institute (London), GAMeC (Contemporary Art Gallery, Bergamo), Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale (Rome), Griffith Cinematheque (Genoa), Cineteca di Bologna, Fondazione Cineteca Italiana (Milan), University of Bergamo, AGIS National Film Association, Cinemateca Portuguesa (Lisbon), Filmoteca Española (Madrid), Neederland Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), Magyar Filmunió (Budapest), Finnish Film Foundation, Swedish Film Institute.

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BFM in figures — 2017

ACCREDITATIONS given to industry professionals and operators, directors, actors, film delegation members, distributors, producers, journalists, authorities and representatives of associations and institutions

Days of screenings from 9.30 AM to midnight

NATIONAL PREMIERES

ATTENDERS REGISTERED in the various Festival venues and side events: Press Office, Guest Office, Meeting Point, Bookshop, Q&As, lectures, affiliated shops, opening and closing parties

ACCREDITATIONS + SEASON TICKETS from Italian and international Universities and Film schools

TALENTS mainly filmmakers, actors, producers and artists, met the press and the public in Q&A sessions

SCHOOL STUDENTS attended special screening events during school hours

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PEOPLE attended other BFM events during the year, either organised by BFM Association or in cooperation with different partners

EXHIBITIONS - featuring Czech costume designer Theodor Pištěk’s costumes, Franco Vaccari’s video installation and Davide Toffolo’s and Francesco Guarnaccia’s original comics

MASTERCLASS COURSES IN DIRECTION

Q&AS with authors, directors, actors, producers...

FILMS SCREENED

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COUNTRIES REPRESENTED

VENUES spread in the whole city

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BFM in figures — in 35 years

FILMS FOUND NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION thanks to participation to the Festival

FILMS DISTRIBUTED thanks to Bergamo Film Meeting Association’s SUPPORT

BOOKS including catalogues and monographs, were published in the Bergamo Film Meeting Series

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ergamo Film Meeting was among the recipients of the 2012 Bergamo Municipality Merit Awards.

A Gold Medal was bestowed to Bergamo Film Meeting by the City of Bergamo, as civic recognition for

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he promotion, restoration and distribution, along thirty years of activity, of milestones in the history of cinema. 3,600 films were screened, over 400 of which found distribution thanks to Bergamo Film Meeting’s support. Thanks to its numerous partnerships in Europe, Bergamo Film Meeting is a reference initiative in the field

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O SHARE the artistic and cultural values of an international film Festival whose 35-yearlong history ranks it the top European events in the field: BFM is a place for premieres, special events, rediscovered masterpieces, and for the audience, the press and its many guests from around the world to meet and exchange ideas. With its art exhibitions, workshops and live performances, BFM is also a fruitful moment of dialogue between cinema and other artistic forms and events.

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O BE IN CONNECTION with a top cultural event, widely recognized not only at local but also at national and international level. Highly praised by film critics, BFM is yearly followed by a diversified, curious, intelligent and above all large audience, with its over 60.000 attendees in a 9-day schedule full of screenings and events.

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O BE PART of the development, preservation and diffusion of cinematic culture and to share the mission of the Festival, meant at giving visibility to new authors and to emerging cinematic cultures, and at rediscovering great cinema from the past.

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O DISENGAGE from the traditional promotion circuit in order to create new forms of communication that may benefit from the Festival’s media coverage, as well as to gather a new audience: numerous, young and culturally dynamic.

Customized forms of collaboration with institutions and business partners can be fine-tuned in close contact with the Festival organizers. Different forms of financial contributions are possible. The partner of a BFM event will benefit from all communication strategies, channels and means that will grant it maximum public visibility, in terms of both network and promotion.

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n opportunity to rediscover great artists from film history, and to experience great moments which are no longer available in the theatre or TV circuit.

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selection of creative and research documentaries, of both Italian and international independent production, in which filmmakers look at today’s “reality” with an extremely intense, innovative, thought-provoking approach, as concerns both contents and linguistic form. They compete for the CGIL Bergamo Award - Close Up Section, bestowed according to audience preferences and worth € 2,000.

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ither debut or second films, they have never been screened in Italy before, and are particularly significant as concerns their innovative style and linguistic approach. They compete for the First, Second and Third Bergamo Film Meeting Prizes, bestowed according to audience preferences. The First Prize film’s production is also awarded the Bergamo Film Meeting Prize, worth € 5,000.

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CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN CINEMA

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he Festival’s journey through Europe will continue through an exhibition featuring Europe’s most outstanding young directors from recent independent productions.

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ergamo Film Meeting has always supported the animation cinema, paying tribute to renowned animators and young emerging authors. Besides the retrospective, Bergamo Film Meeting always organizes an exhibition and a masterclass with the author.

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on-stop screenings from evening to late night: horror, mystery and sci-fi films will make even insatiable cinephiles happy.

PREVIEWS

CULT MOVIES

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ult movies and masterpieces in film history, coming from the world’s most prestigious cinematheques,are screened in their restored original version.

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deas for distributors: a national preview selection of auteur films, and culturally high-profile films.

Special events in collaboration with local institutions (Bergamo Jazz, GAMeC Cinema, The Blank, Teatro Donizetti).

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PORTA S. AGOSTINO EXHIBITION HALL

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rt exhibitions and installations, and other special events, are held at beautiful Porta S. Agostino, one of the gateways to uptown, medieval Città Alta.

Venues CAPITOL THEATRE via Tasso, 41

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his theatre hosts the Kino Club section, along with other side sections, Q&As with filmmakers and re-runs. Located a few steps from the Auditorium and the Accommodation/ Press Office, the Capitol theatre is equipped with DCP.

AUDITORIUM Piazza Libertà

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ocated in the city centre and offering 400 seats, the Auditorium is at the core of Bergamo’s cultural life. Films from the Festival’s major sections are screened here.

The theatre is equipped with advanced technology for the DCP projections.

SAN MARCO THEATRE Piazzale della Repubblica, 2

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he Close Up section, along with side sections and re-runs, is held at San Marco Theatre, located a few steps from the Auditorium and equipped with DCP.

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TICKETS POINT INFO POINT Piazza Libertà

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large, comfortable space is provided in the entrance hall of the Auditorium theatre, where attendees can purchase tickets and gather information (Info Point office hours: 9 AM - 23 PM).

Venues DONIZETTI THEATRE

INCROCIO QUARENGHI BOOKSHOP

MEETING POINT

FORMER COUNCIL ROOM

Piazza Libertà

Via Tasso 4

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double tensile structure set up in Piazza della Libertà, facing the Auditorium, and hosting a relax and restaurant area, as well as activities such as press conferences, public meetings, parties, concerts and workshops.

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his historically evocative space, once used as a Council room for the Bergamo municipality, now hosts the Festival’s Press Office, Accreditation Office and Administrative Office; it also offers video rooms for the press and industry professionals, as well as internet points and a wi-fi area.

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n exhibition and workshops were held inside the bookshop.

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aboratories and workshops for kids and adults were held in the studio area of the important city museum.

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he historic city theatre hosted the BFM 35 opening event, while in the Foyer Gavazzeni, the entrance hall, the exhibition of the costume designer Theodor Pištěk was held.

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Along with the official schedule, Bergamo Film Meeting offers many side events to its public, including Q&As with authors, press conferences, concerts, parties, aperitifs and other initiatives.

THEODOR PIŠTĚK’S OSCAR-WINNING COSTUMES – REBELLION AND PAGEANTRY IN MILOŠ FORMAN’S MOVIES

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he exhibition is a journey through a priceless collection of original costumes created for the films Amadeus and Valmont by Academy Award-winning designer Theodor Pištěk.

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ESPOSIZIONE IN TEMPO REALE N. 45: LA STUFA DI CARTESIO

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ranco Vaccari paid homage to the city of Bergamo staging an unreleased environmental video installation at the hall of Porta Sant’Agostino and placing outside of the space the installation Il Mendicante Elettronico (The Electronic Beggar).

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THE 90S IN COLOUR. THE FIRST COMIC STORIES BY DAVIDE TOFFOLO, TODAY.

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sort of diary of the years that kicked off the fascinating journey of the Italian indie publishing in comics and music.

FRANCESCO GUARNACCIA: WORKS.

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xhibition of the works of Francesco Guarnaccia, from the sketches to the storyboards of his upcoming books.

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nside the tensile structure (open 10AM-2AM every Festival day), attendees will find a perfect place where to meet, mingle, relax, and get to know everything about the Festival. The Festival’s atmosphere is in the air, with side events such as concerts, DJ-sets, workshops, press conferences.

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tensile structure set up in Piazza della Libertà, next to the Meeting Point, hosting meetings with the authors, round-tables, book presentations and a corner with books and gadgets.

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Side events — 35th edition BFM IN MILANO

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asterclass, open to the public, at the Civica Scuola di Cinema in Milan Auditorium (Ex Manifattura Tabacchi) with Icelandic director Dagur Kári.

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review screening of The Firemen’s Ball (Hoří, má panenko!) by Miloš Forman, presented by the critic Andrea Chimento.

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t Cinema Eden, screening of the latest films of the three BFM35 european section directors: Dominique Cabrera, Dagur Kari and Thanos Anastopoulos.

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BFM IN BRESCIA — EUROPE, NOW!

Masterclass open to the public, with Greek director Thanos Anastopoulos in LABA, Libera Accademia di Belle Arti.

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or BFM subscribers a discount on rent a bike, thanks to the partnership with Pedalopolis and Bergamo Sostenibile.

For a festival of environmentally friendly transportation.

n our tradition, the end of Bergamo Film Meeting 2017 coincides with the opening of Bergamo Jazz 2017, with a live performance and a livepainting.

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BFM DAILY STRIP

THE CINE-VAN

The Festival in Comics

Amateur cinema on the move

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FM 35 hosted five protagonists of Italian comics: Cristina Portolano, Francesco Guarnaccia, Martoz, Leo Ortolani and Davide Toffolo. Their illustrations build up a visual tale of #bfm35.

BFM strips is a daily report of what happens at Bergamo Film Meeting – in theatres, behind the curtains, in the smallest details – through the authors’ perception.

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he Cinefurgone, a small screening venue on wheels, is a space where you can enjoy unique visual mementos, where stories of ordinary life reveal undiscovered historical memories. In collaboration with Cinescatti, a project by Laboratorio 80.

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FILM IMPROVISATION CONTEST

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bout a month before the festival, in collaboration with Ardega Association, Bergamo Film Meeting presents a special improvisation contest, dedicated to the cinema. For the 35th edition: Zombies vs Vampires.

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Projects Labs & Workshops

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eld at the Capitol theatre, this is a retrospective exhibition devoted to children, especially designed for primary and secondary school pupils. In collaboration with KloosterKino Festival (The Netherlands).

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agur Kári and Thanos Anastopoulos’ lectures were attended by a group of young cinema students and professionals from all over Italy.

IMPASTANIMIAMOCI ANIMATION CINEMA WORKSHOP

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eld by AVISCO Association, a lab teaching how to use pasta as an animation tool: stop-motion short films were produced by the students.

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THE CREATIVE STORYBOARD, A WORKSHOP BY MARTOZ

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workshop to discover and analyze the fundamental role of the storyboard in the creative process of making a film or a comic book.

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A TELL ME A CHILDHOOD MEMORY, A WORKSHOP WITH CRISTINA PORTOLANO

roundup of short films introduced the surreal world and imagery that characterizes the Lundgren’s productions.

During the masterclass, the author described her work, sharing insights on her creativeprocess and on the various stages of production of a cartoon.

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workshop that aims to creatively elaborate a childhood memory into comic form, setting no limits to the imagination. All of the works were collected into a microfanzine.

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MASTERCLASS WITH CHINTIS LUNDGREN

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n collaboration with Corpoc, the local silk-screen printing agency, a course teaching the basics of screen printing through direct experience and aided printing techniques.

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A true protagonist of the event, Bergamo Film Meeting’s audience is an ever increasing one. Screenings are always sold out, at any time of the day (or night).

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he 2017 edition saw a 5,3% increase in registered attendees (39.290 tickets were sold), while side events outside of theatres (such as Q&As, art exhibitions, workshops, parties and concerts) were attended by more than 22.000 people.

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ccreditation requests from film associations and organisations are always increasing in number. Young attendees, largely high-school and college students from all over Italy, are becoming more and more numerous, too.

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he Festival is a long-awaited event by the general public, even more so by lovers of auteur cinema and innovative productions. A both nationally and internationally prestigious event, the Festival is an opportunity to meet film lovers and to exchange cultural ideas about film and visual culture in general.

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ergamo Film Meeting’s audience can access any screening, and is constantly involved in special social events, such as parties, aperitifs, art exhibitions, book presentations, celebrations, Q&As with filmmakers, producers and distributors.

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All year long, Bergamo Film Meeting collaborates with cultural institutions and associations to promote educational projects, including courses and labs, aiming at the diffusion of cinematic culture.

SUMMER SCHOOL & WINTER SCHOOL

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series of introductive courses in art, cinema and practical disciplines, meant for both adults and children, organised by Bergamo Film Meeting Onlus, in collaboration with institutions like Lab 80 Films or Associazione Avisco.

TRAINING COURSES for teachers and educators

All-year -round activities

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ourses in animation film in a social educational context, meant to provide the students with the organizational, technical and linguistic expertise that is necessary in order to produce animation films.

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ANIMATION CINEMA LABS for children

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chool and extra-school projects to learn the cinematographic language and how to make a cartoon with the stop motion technique.

INTRODUCTORY COURSES TO FILM LANGUAGE

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iming at providing spectators with critical tools concerning a film’s mise en scène, an “expertise kit” that will allow them to watch films with even more curiosity, pleasure and competence.

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FILM WITH LIVE MUSIC

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ergamo Film Meeting is often proud to present the screening of classical films with live music performances.

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project by Laboratorio 80 Association, meant to preserve and promote family film archives, with special attention to amateur films made between the 20s and the 80s in 9.5, 8, Super8 and 16mm.

CANNES E DINTORNI Cinema’s way 2017

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he 2017 First Prize film, Toril by Laurent Teyssier, was revived in a great exhibition in Milan. In collaboration with Provincia di Milano - Assessorato alla Cultura, Corriere della Sera and AGIS Lombardia.

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he Cineteca di Bologna and the National Cinema Museum of Torino, in collaboration with Bergamo Film Meeting and the Czech Centre of Milan, presented two tributes to Miloš Forman.

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Lab 80 film project meant to promote and distribute independent Italian cinema, presenting over 50 films by new filmmakers in Brescia, Bologna, Novara, Pescara, Turin, Vicenza, Trento, Rovereto, Reggio Calabria.

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BIG WEDNESDAYS

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9-classic retrospective within the Esterno Notte open-air summer screening series (June to September), organized by Lab 80 film.

GEORGES SIMENONGIANNI DA CAMPO COLLECTION

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his is the first Simenon collection in Italy, a reference point for research and study in the works of the great Belgian writer.

Run in cooperation with Alasca Foundation, the collection gathers most of Simenon’s production, including over 1000 books in French, Italian, English, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, along with critical books and magazines.

The collection was established thanks to a generous donation from Gianni Da Campo’s large book collection.

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ART DATE BFM@ARTDATE 2017

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ive-scoring screening of Frankenstein on the occasion of the major contemporary art event in Bergamo. In collaboration with The Blank.

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t the sea or in the mountains; on vacation or on a business trip: BFM merchandise is all over the world! Bergamo Film Meeting Onlus collects pictures sent by BFM fans with Festival merchandise from all over the world. This is an amusing collection, getting richer and larger every year.

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ach book is printed in 1.800 copies and given to season ticket subscribers and accredited guests (press representatives, film professionals and authorities); presentation copies are sent to distributors and producers, and to cinematheque, festival, institutions and press representatives that were not able to attend the Festival in person.

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ffering information (both in Italian and in English) on the Competition-Exhibition, the Close Up and other sections of the Festival (premieres, special exhibitions, cult movies, restored classics). Available in .pdf, .epub and .mobi format

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NEW BOOKS ARE ISSUED EVERY YEAR ON THE FESTIVAL’S OCCASION

MONOGRAPHIC VOLUME

Advertising space is available for sponsors and business partners in both BFM publications.

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ollecting original critical essays, interviews, complete filmographies and large photographic repertoires. Available in .pdf, .epub and .mobi format

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5.000 copies of Bergamo Film Meeting News - a brochure including the Festival’s programme and side events calendar - are distributed at the Festival venues, and in schools, universities, hotels and restaurants, bars and clubs in Bergamo. BFM News also gives information about all side events at BFM Meeting Point or in the After BFM Network. Advertising space is also available for sponsors and business partners.

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otems are displayed in strategic spots in central Bergamo; 200 posters (1,40x2,00 mt and 3x5mt) are also put up; and 10.000 promotional postcards and 500 bills are distributed in the larger Bergamo area. All materials bear the Partners’ logos.

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etween June and November, each year 20.000 postcards are distributed at major national and European film Festivals such as Venice Film Festival, Turin Film Festival, Festival dei Popoli of Florence, Sarajevo Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, San Sebastian Film Festival, Cottbus Film Festival, Festival International du Film de La Rochelle, Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival.

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Promotional materials BFM WEBSITE

BFM NEWSLETTER

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ergamo Film Meeting’s number of contacts in all major social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr and Linkedin) is growing bigger and bigger. Promotional videos and trailers are uploaded on YouTube and Vimeo. At the present moment, the Festival has 2.600 followers on Twitter and Facebook fans are now 9.100. Facebook registers over 6.000 daily visualizations (which become 30.000 during the Festival).

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newsletter, offering news and updates about the Festival, is regularly sent to over 10.000 e-mail contacts nationwide and abroad. During the Festival it is sent on a daily basis.

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smartphone and tablet App (Android and iOS) allows the audience to browse the Festival’s programme, to browse photo and video archives, to find maps with affiliated

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new web-based space, connected to the Festival’s official website, where to find video and photo galleries and updates of the current edition, along with film stills, kits and trailers, and where to follow livestreaming broadcasts of Q&As with filmmakers, artists and Festival guests.

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he Festival’s official website has been completely redesigned: optimized for mobile technology, it offers complete information about screenings, side events, publications, social events, the Association’s activities, the Partners, also offering downloadable materials (photo and video galleries, press releases and folders). During the Festival, the BFM website is visited over 2.500 times a day.

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his activity involves advertising campaigns on national newspapers and magazines, and on local TV channels and radio stations.

Media partnership agreements, including publishing initiatives and advertising strategies, have been developed with L’Eco di Bergamo, Corriere della Sera, Cineforum, Cinemaitaliano.info, Sentieri Selvaggi.

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nternationally renowned artists collaborate each year with Bergamo Film Meeting to create the Festival’s opening trailer. The trailer is screened before each film in the Competition section, and offers advertising space for sponsors’ and partners’ logos.

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,000 Bergamo Film Meeting posters are put up on ATB-TEB public transport vehicles, including the Bergamo-Albino tram connection.

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romotional gadgets (bags, hoodies, badge holders, T-shirts, caps) bear both the Festival’s and the Partners’ logos; different gadgets are produced for each edition. The gadgets are distributed or sold on-site during the Festival, and sold online.

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Run by national renowned professionals, the Press Office keeps and develops close contacts with all the major periodicals of the field, with all the most important local and national newspapers, with TV channels and radio stations and with the on-line press with a full and effective media presence.

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ergamo Film Meeting has three Press Office branches, one for the local, one for the national and one for the international press.

All the press releases, updates, promotional trailers, pictures and press kits are sent to a Press address list of more than 10,000 contacts. The Festival’s opening press conference is held both at the Anteo Spazio Cinema in Milan, and at Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo.

The 2017 Bergamo Film Meeting Press Review is a collection of over 600 items, including newspaper articles and excerpts from local and national magazines, and articles from specialized periodicals and online press. Information and stories about the Festival are also offered by press agencies such as Adn Kronos and 2018

Ansa, by major newspapers such as Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Giornale, La Stampa, and by periodicals such as Corriere Magazine, Io Donna, D-La Repubblica delle Donne, I Viaggi, Il Venerdì, Donna Moderna, Internazionale, Alias, film TV, Ciak, Cineforum, Best Movie, Box Office, Segnocinema.

The Festival’s media visibility is also increased by its presence on both local TV (Bergamo TV, Video Bergamo, Studio TV1) and national TV (Rai 1, Rai 3, Rai Sat, Rai News 24, Iris, Sky), and on national radio stations (Radio 3 – Hollywood Party, Radio 24, CNR Channel News Radio, Popolare Network, Radio Alta, RTSI Radio Televisione Svizzera Italiana).

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Davide Ferrario, Corriere della sera — ed. Bergamo

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This is great, entertaining cinema.

The Competition section filled the theatre more than a blockbuster.

There were long lines of spectators, even in the pouring rain. Night birds stayed up until 2 AM to watch The Man in the White Suit, starring Alec Guinness.

This is the chronicle of a recurring miracle in Piazza Libertà” Fabio Cuminetti Corriere della sera – ed. Bergamo

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As usual, Bergamo Film Meeting managed to find the secret formula of cinematic pleasure; the pleasure of a demanding audience, made up of both insatiable cinephiles and new-film hunters. From yet undiscovered gems to classical re-discoveries, the Festival takes the audience on a journey that makes one wish days were made of 36 hours - so one would not have to miss anything” Paolo Mereghetti — Corriere della sera

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Between those who wish to recover the cornerstones of the Seventh Art, and those who dream about seeing classic masterpieces on the silver screen again, comes Bergamo Film Meeting, a Festival that meets both legitimate, noble desires with a schedule that brings together the love for classics and the search for innovative, contemporary production“ Chiara Bruno — Film Tv 2018

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Over a quarter of a century old, and a probably the most long-running Festival in Lombardy, Bergamo Film Meeting is definitely one of our most refined, most loved cultural events” Alberto Pezzotta — Corriere della sera

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...the only international Festival in Italy that is still able to entertain people with cinema culture, exhuming masterpieces of the past and risking its life with presentday innovative filmmakers” Mario Serenellini — La Repubblica

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Unlike other Festivals in the international cinematographic galaxy, Bergamo Film Meeting has a precise cultural identity, run as it is by a motivated, highly experienced staff, and followed by an audience that is deeply connected with the spirit of the event. It is surprising, and comforting, too, to see the Auditorium theatre packed with aware, curious spectators”

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...a Festival that is always trustful and precise in its retrospectives and publications, and is particularly keen on searching for new talents” Luca Mosso — La Repubblica

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More than 20 years old, this is a non-conformist Festival that makes culture alive through films, books and distribution”

Silvio Danese — Il Giorno

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Bergamo Film Meeting gathers approximately 25.000 spectators every year. Retrospectives alone would be worth the attention of the many attendees who come all the way to Bergamo” Maurizio Cabona — Il Giornale

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Devoted to the analysis of new research films and to the rediscovery of classic cinema, Bergamo Film Meeting proves every single year to be the most rigorous, most cultured Festival in Italy” Lietta Tornabuoni — La Stampa 2018

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Bergamo Film Meeting 35 BERGAMO FILM MEETING ONLUS IS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF — AFIC – Association of Italian Film Festivals — Lombary Coordination of Film Festivals

THE EVENT IS ORGANISED WITH THE CONTRIBUTION AND THE SUPPORT OF — Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities – General Secretary for Cinema — Creative Europe – Media Programme — Municipality of Bergamo — Chamber of Commerce and Industry

— Fondazione Cariplo — Fondazione della Comunità Bergamasca — UBI Banca Popolare di Bergamo — Fondazione Banca Popolare di Bergamo Onlus — SIAE — Fondazione ASM – Gruppo a2a — CGIL Bergamo

SPONSOR

— B-Consult — AdBlue by Azotal — Azotal — Birrificio Indipendente ELAV

PARTNERS

— The Blank — Centro Ceco – Milano — Bergamo Jazz 2018

Our Partners

— Pigmenti — GAMeC — Avisco — Cinescatti — Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti — LABA – Libera Accademia di Belle Arti di Brescia — Cilect - Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision — Cinema Nuovo Eden — Fondazione Cineteca Italiana — ATB — TEB — Visit Bergamo — Pedalopolis

MEDIA PARTNERS

— Corriere della Sera Bergamo — RadioPopolare

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Bergamo Film Meeting 35 — — — — — —

FilmTv Cineforum LongTake Cineuropa Cinemaitaliano-info Sentieri Selvaggi

THEODOR PIŠTĚK’S OSCAR-WINNING COSTUMES – REBELLION AND PAGEANTRY IN MILOŠ FORMAN’S MOVIES Promoted by — Comune di Bergamo

With the patronage of — Università degli Studi di Bergamo — CAV – Centro Arti Visive In collaboration with — Centro Ceco – Milano

— Tirelli costumi – Roma — Fondazione Tirelli Trappetti — GAMeC

BFM DAILY STRIP

In collaboration with — Corpoc — Libreria Incrocio Quarenghi — La Cornice di Lagetto di Giulio e Thandar Lagetto — GAMeC — Birrificio Indipendente ELAV

TECHNICAL PARTNERS — — — — — — —

Lab 80 Film Pedrali Suono 1981 Sūqrepubliq Vectorealism Cantina Bergamasca Lucaffè 2018

Our Partners — — — —

Hotel Mercure Petronilla E-vai Le Baccanti

IN COLLABORATION WITH — — — — — — — — — — — — —

Consolato Islanda ASIFA Italia Cineteca di Bologna Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino Greek Film Centre Mansarda Production Fantasia Audiovisual Fic – Federazione Italiana Cineforum P420 Laboratorio 80 Fondazione Alasca Doc/it ItalianDoc

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www.bergamofilmmeeting.it

Davide Ferrario President

BERGAMO FILM MEETING ONLUS

via Pignolo 123 24121 Bergamo (I)

Angelo Signorelli Artistic Director Fiammetta Girola e Chiara Boffelli General Coordination and Junior Co-Directors

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T. + 39 035 363087 F. + 39 035 341255 2018

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