Brasov International Film Festival & Market 14 - 24 September 2017
Brasov Int’l Film Festival & Market was founded in 2012. It is the most important and renown nonviolent film festival in the world; it was created by film director Bruno Pischiutta, who serves as its Artistic Consultant, and film producer Daria Trifu, who continues to organize the annual event and is the Festival Director. Film producer Elio Dell’Unto is the President of the Jury and an editor for Daria! magazine. “If you visit a film market place (e.g.: the Cannes Film Market and/or the American Film Market) and you look at the posters of the films that can be purchased you will be surprised by the amount of violence and graphic sexuality that is portrait on most of the posters. This happens because many producers wrongly believe that sex and violence are commercial elements that are necessary in successful films. This belief generates a negative competition, i.e., films try to be the Elio Dell’Unto, Bruno Pischiutta and Daria Trifu most violent and the most sexual. Family films (e.g.: Disney’s films) have always been the most successful at the box-office. If it is true that a share of the market in the USA and in the Western world love to see sequences of violence and graphic sexuality, it is also true that many adults in North-America and in Europe are tired of these elements being present in most of the films and they desire an approach based on different and deeper themes. A big share of the viewers in the Western world no longer go to the cinema because they always see the same things. If this is true in the Western world, it is more actual in China, India and many other Asian, Middle Eastern and African countries. In most of those countries, violent and graphically explicit sexual content will not be screened because it is against the local law and/or religion. Daria! 2017 / 2018