3rd New York Documentary Film Festival – Festival dei Popoli

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Published on Monday, 24 May 2010 17:31

Written by Brad Balfour

The third edition of the New York Documentary Film Festival – Festival dei Popoli (May 26-30, 2010) at Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Ave.) is part of an ongoing project of the Festival dei Popoli.

Based in Florence, Italy, it is the oldest International Documentary Film Festival in Europe. It aims to broaden the audience for its rich collection of archival footage, as well as Italian documentaries in general. Founded in 1959, the Festival dei Popoli is devoted to promoting and studying social documentary cinema. In 50 years, the collection has grown into an unparalleled treasure of documentary films covering the history of non-fiction filmmaking.
 
The festival will open on May 26 with a tribute to the award-winning Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi with the U.S. Premiere of Below Sea Level. The film is an intimate portrait of a commune of outcasts living in the middle of the desert about 200 miles southeast of Los Angeles. This award-winning documentary received, among others, the Venice Horizons Documentary Prize. The director will be present for the screening.
 
The five-day event will feature four programs of auteur documentaries, with a total of eighteen films depicting reality and history as filtered through the deeply personal aesthetics of very different directors.

 THE FEELING OF BEING THERE (1958 - 1965): SEVEN YEARS OF DOCUMENTARY CINEMA
A journey through the creative forces that have left their mark on the face of modern documentary cinema, with 11 short documentaries by legendary filmmakers such as Robert Frank, D. A. Pennebacker, John Schlesinger, Ivars Kraulîtis, Joyce Chopra, Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens, Agnès Varda, Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx, Cecilia Mangini and Sandro Franchina.

They have changed documentary film history in a period of great creative fervor corresponding with the birth of the Festival dei Popoli. The program is part of the retrospective presented in Florence at the last edition of the Festival dei Popoli.

The program on Friday, May 28 is presented by PGA, the Producers Guild of America.

TRIBUTE TO GIANFRANCO ROSI –
Opening night film May 26, 6.30 pm Below Sea Level by Gianfranco Rosi, 110', Italy 2008, with the director in-person.

ITALIAN CHRONICLES - FOCUS on ALESSANDRO ROSSETTO
Alessandro Rossetto is one of the filmmakers who best captured a panorama of everyday life in Italy through the last fifteen years. The screening on Friday, May 28th will be presented and introduced by PGA, the Producers Guild of America, with the filmmaker in attendance.

SPECIAL PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM AND TELEVISION – ENRICA COLUSSO
In collaboration with New York Women in Film & Television, the festival will present two works of the award-winning Italian filmmaker Enrica Colusso: Life After Life (1995) and ABC Colombia (2006). Erica Colusso will be in attendance at the festival.

FULL FESTIVAL PROGRAM, LISTINGS, TIMES, FILM DESCRIPTIONS : http://www.nydff.org

3rd New York Documentary Film Festival – Festival dei Popoli
May 26-30, 2010
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10003
 

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