Moretti and Latin America at Locarno
The grand retrospective at the 61st Locarno International Film Festival (August 6-16) will be dedicated to Italian filmmaker, actor and producer Nanni Moretti.
As well as screening all the director’s features – from I Am Self-Sufficient (1976) to The Caiman [+see also:
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The Italian director – who will attend the Locarno Festival – will also be given carte blanche to choose around ten further titles. The retrospective forms the subject of a book co-published by the Cahiers du Cinéma.
Moreover, the Open Doors section will be devoted to Latin America, and more particularly to those countries with emerging film industries, such as Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, and Costa Rica. Twelve projects will be selected at the Open Doors Factory, a workshop organised during the festival to give their directors and producers the chance to find a partner.
Two grants from the Direction du développement et de la coopération (DDC – Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation) will be awarded by the Locarno Festival and the Swiss “visions sud est” production fund.
A prize awarded by the National Centre for Cinematography (France) will support a debut feature project in development.
The festival has also unveiled the poster for the 2008 edition, which displays its new emblem: a real leopard "which is both elegant and slightly threatening".
(Translated from French)
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