Future Film Festival 2010: Bologna, 26 to 31 January
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The Future Film Festival returns to Bologna for the 12th year from 1999's first edition. The Bolognese festival dedicated to animation and special effects is the most important Italian event focusing on the changes of digital imaginary and the evolution of cinema and animation. The Future Film Festival has made known also in Italy important names of the International cinema, now well known by the audience and valued by International festivals, as Hayao Miyazaki, John Lasseter, Osamu Tezuka, Satoshi Kon, Bill Plympton, Tsui Hark, Phil Mulloy, Nobuo Nakagawa and Paul Driessen or animation companies at the top of box offices as Pixar Animation Studios, Aardman Animations, and Blue Sky. Moreover, in its history the FFF has explored almost unknown cinematographies like those from Iran and South America, and new generations of artists from all over the world.
All film screenings, meetings with filmmakers and special events are held in the theatres Duse (Via Cartoleria, 42) and Re Enzo (Piazza del Nettuno). The latter is - this year - the festival’s main venue and is also hosting the opening conference, the workshops, the tickets collection, cocktail and aperitif parties and other entertaining activities. Giulietta Fara and Oscar Cosulich direct the Future Film Festival 2010 programme.
Since its first edition, Future Film Festival has created a strong link with visual arts: every year the Festival asks an artist of the last generation to create an original work that will become the image-icon of FFF, looking for links and synergies between cinema, visual arts, photography and street-art. The FFF2010 entrusted its image to the young writer UFO 5 who will realize a wall painting that will be the symbol of the new edition.
Following its constant analysis of animated images, the Future Film Festival 2010 dedicates a focus to the Motion Graphics and Saul Bass. The former is one of the most contemporary techniques used by young artists, in which the graphic applications give the illusion of movement. The work of some key figures of contemporary motion graphics as Mischa Rozema, co-founder of Post Panic and author of well-known commercials and videos, and the English artist Rob Chiu, (alias The Ronin) will be explored. Saul Bass (1920-1996) is one of the key figures of graphic headlines for cinema. He started his career as an assistant in the art department of Warner Bros. He boasted collaborations with Otto Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese.
After the great success of Henry Selick’s Coraline, Future Film Festival will pay a homage to Stop-Motion Animation, one of the oldest animation techniques, which is now being re-used by many artists and production companies. FFF will present the exhibition of Panique au Village, the stop-motion movie directed by Stephane Aubier and Vincent Patar, distributed in Italy by Nomad and premièred at the Festival.
The festival welcomes Canada, the guest country of the edition 2010, with sections focusing on contemporary animation, meetings with authors and a B2B area for companies working in the animation industry.
A very special event is that involving Joe Letteri, a Director of Weta Digital and Senior VFX Supervisor of Avatar: Letteri will give a Keynote Speech on 27th January and will present the making of Avatar, which has just obtained a Golden Globe nomination as Best Motion Picture and is already regarded as one of the most important movies of the last decade.
The preview of the last short by the painter, illustrator, comic-strip artist and animator Stefano Ricci is also much awaited. The artist will attend the FFF and meet the audience to present the making of the short, Febbre suina, Gallina evasa, based on a text by Marco Baliani and produced by the production centre L’Arboreto Teatro dimora in Mondaino.
CONTESTS
The Lancia Platinum Grand Prize is a contest for animated movies and films with special effects. For the third year in a row, a special jury will give a prize to the best feature film selected for the FFF programme.
The section Groupama Audience Prize is dedicated to short films coming from all over the world and made with both traditional and digital animation techniques, or live action with special effects.
FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL SHOWCASE
The section SeriesMania features new and innovative TV series from all over the world.
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