15 projects have been selected for Biennale College – Cinema  (out of the 433 projects arriving from 77 countries); each team - composed of a director and a producer - will take part in the first 10-day workshop held in Venice in January 2013.

 

Biennale College – Cinema is the brainchild of Biennale di Venezia, in partnership with Gucci, aimed at promoting new talents and offering them the opportunity to work closely with well-known professionals in order to make micro-budget films. Up to 3 of these 15 projects will receive support for 150,000.00 Euro in order to make 3 feature-length works (first or second work) which will be presented at the 70th Venice International Film Festival (28 August – 7 September 2013) directed by Alberto Barbera.

 

Biennale College - Cinema is supported by MIBAC Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities – General Direction for Cinema – and the Veneto Region, and is dealt with in collaboration with IFP, Dubai International Film Festival and TorinoFilmLab.

 

The activities of Biennale College develop in all the various art sectors of Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta.

 

 

The 15 projects selected for this first phase of Biennale College – Cinema are:

 

Abu Naim                               Mich’ael Zupraner (director)                      Israel

                                                Naama Pyritz (producer)

A Case of the Dismals         Kim Spurlock (director)                                USA

                                                Mai Spurlock (producer)

The Death of J.P. Cuenca   João Paolo Cuenca (director)                       Brazil

                                               Marina Meliande (producer)
 

I Dreamt of Empire             Kasem Kharsa (director)                              Egypt

                                               Moustafa Zakaria (producer)

 

Into the Light                       Rowland Jobson (director)                           Great Britain

                                               Alastair Clark (producer)

Memphis                               Tim Sutton (director)                                    USA

                                               John Baker (producer)         

Nervous Translation           Shireen Martinez Seno (director)                Philippines

                                               Jonathan Dalog Torres (producer)

 

The Prefect                           Daniel P.K. Smyth (director)                        Great Britain

                                               Marcie Dawn MacLellan (producer)

Room 0                                  Jenna Cato Bass (director)                           South Africa

                                               David Horler (producer)

Slim Land                             Yves Montand Niyongabo (director)            Ruanda

                                               Lee Isac Chung (producer)

Sorrow Demons,                  Tomer Bahat (director)                                 Israel

Joy Blizzards                        Rotem Faran (producer)

 

The Substance                      Lluis Galter Sanchez (director)                   Spain

(La substancia)                    Sergi Moreno Castillo (producer)             

Tramontane                         Vatche Boulghourjian (director)                 Lebanon

                                               Caroline Oliveira (producer)

Two Sad People Wanna      Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (director)     Thailand

Make a Happy Film             Aditya Assarat (producer)

Yuri Esposito                       Alessio Fava (director)                                   Italy

                                              Massimiliano Chicco (producer)

These 15 projects have been selected by Alberto Barbera, together with the Biennale College – Cinema team. A brief description of the projects will soon be available at www.labiennale.org.

 

Up to 3 teams, after the first workshop, will be invited to participate in a second 15-day workshop in Venice – to be held between February and March 2013. Afterwards the micro-budget production will start; each of the 3 feature-length audio-visual works (first or second work) will receive a support amounting to 150,000.00 Euro. They will be presented at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in 2013.