Umbria Film Festival
17/05/2012
International film festival of young talents and Europeans vying for the ultimate prize of the jury.
UMBRIA FILM FESTIVAL is an event that aims to provide an overview of Italian cinema, and "European" preference for young talent and research, planning short films, feature films and documentaries. The films presented provide a choice among the best worldwide production with an eye for the Italian and European cinema. Italian premieres new films and generally outside the circuits of screening in cinemas. A part of the programming of the festival is reserved for public presentation of a new director of the international scene. The program also provides for a single competitive section: the International Competition for Short Films for Children. This section provides for a jury of children aged 6 to 12 years, schools from the Upper Tiber Valley, which in addition to judge and rate the films in competition are included with the support of their teachers in a process of training the art of cinema . The selection encompasses the best worldwide production of animated shorts for children. At the screening of films should be added to the fifth edition of Umbriametraggi. Panorama short and documentary production by young Umbrian. Section that allows the comparison and the knowledge of all the young directors of regione. One of the main features of our event, and that makes it unique in the festivals of this caliber, every year is to invite an author, director or actor international cinema and offer him the keys of the city. During the past editions have been awarded this honor the likes of Terry Gilliam, Peter Mullan, Edgar Reitz, Hanif Kureishi, Michael Winterbottom, Ferzan Ozpetek, Vittorio Storaro, Colin Firth, Mike Leigh, Peter Lord, Mike Figgis, Lone Scherfig , Bahman Ghobadi, Ken Loach, Nicholas Giuliano, David Ferrario.Il Festival makes possible the entire period of his holding the meeting and sharing moments with entertainment personalities to talk calmly with them. For the duration of the event so well that the square is transformed into an outdoor cinema in a place where people can freely interact with directors, actors and personalities from the world of cinema. The Umbria Film Festival has come to the fifteenth edition, recording a steady increase in public and especially the international press coverage. The festival has consolidated over the years, the link with the international events. A patron of the festival from Terry Gilliam, who from Lost in La Mancha in Tideland has always chosen for the premiere of its Ram independent films, the Danish Lone Scherfig who tread the red carpet before the Oscar-nominated 2010 as the best Foreign Film for his An Education, chose Ram for the European premiere of the film written by Nick Hornby. Over the years many have been struck on the "moonlit square". Colin Firth, Mike Leigh, Peter Mullan, Edgar Reitz, Michael Winterbottom, Ferzan Ozpetek, Vittorio Storaro, Mike Figgis, Silvio Soldini, Bahman Ghobadi, Peter Lord, Ken Loach, Davide Ferrario, Nicola Giuliano, Giulio Manfredonia, Paola Cortellesi, Giuseppe Piccioni , Lone Scherfig are just some of the names illustri.Il festival is among the founding members dell'AFIC (Italian Festival Association) and works with the Melbourne International Film Festival.