The 7th edition of TFI Torino Film Industry: the Production Days of Film Commission Torino Piemonte
11 Novembre 2024
Film Commission Torino Piemonte – which coordinates TFI since its first edition – also curates and proposes for this 7th edition the Production Days, a co-production meeting that welcomes decision makers and professionals of the international audiovisual sector with the aim of putting Piedmontese talents and companies at the center of the production chain and, at the same time, involving – through targeted workshops – beginners in the sector who have just approached the world of cinema and its industry.
A program of 7 panels, 7 workshops, 4 pitch sessions – each with 7 titles – in addition to 4 structured moments of one-to-one meetings that aim to strengthen and consolidate a recognized ecosystem of independent cinema made in Piedmont with an international opening, capable of highlighting the richness and vitality of the local sector, of the entities that compose it, of the professionals who represent it.
A proposal of events that will give voice to producers, directors, authors, commissioning editors, creatives and all those who represent and enhance the audiovisual workshop, with the aim of putting the news, protagonists and debates that animate the current national and international panorama at the center of the stage.
A succession of meetings, concrete opportunities for discussion and debate capable of intercepting and involving players and partners of national and international caliber, a determining element that over the years has increasingly qualified the event: among these, we note the participation of 01 Distribution, Amazon Studios, Cinecittà Luce, Discovery, Eagle Pictures, I Wonder Pictures, MIA Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo, Netflix, Paramount +, Rai Cinema, Rai Documentari, Sky Studios as entities that have chosen to actively participate in the Production Days - on stage or in one-to-one sessions - confirming the more than positive positioning that the initiative knows how to carve out among the business events of the Italian film and television industry.
The 3 PITCHING SESSIONS and the “Spotlight On Sardinia!”: between consolidation and absolute novelties. The centrality of the movie theater to which the new opening pitch session “7 Made in Piemonte per i cinema” is dedicated, the search for originality and talent in the presentation of the 7 projects of the Bando Sviluppo supported by Compagnia di San Paolo, the stories to come with the 7 finalist novels of the fourth edition of “Guarda che Storia! Racconti per lo Schermo”, together with the new special “Spotlight On Sardinia”, organized with the Sardegna Film Commission first “special guest” region at TFI.
The opening of TFI Torino Film Industry – the first of the Production Days events, Thursday 21st at 10:00 am – will propose a great novelty: the first presentation - pitching session dedicated to the exhibitors and programmers of the most attentive and innovative theaters in the national territory. On this occasion, a selection of 7 titles for the theater will be presented (3 fiction films and 4 documentaries) made with the support of FCTP, which will see the presence of authors, cast and producers, with the aim of facilitating the dialogue between production, distribution and exhibition and promoting the programming or screening-event of the 7 selected titles.
The unmissable appointment to present and promote the Piemonte Film Tv Development Fund returns, a development fund dedicated to the growth of talents, new cinema, independent productions that for the two-year period 2023-2024 is entirely supported with € 700,000 by the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation as part of an agreement with the Regione Piemonte.
After the presentations of the call for proposals in various contexts during the year (from Berlin to Venice, passing through Milan and Rome), 6 feature films (supported by the Piemonte Film Tv Development Fund – which a few weeks ago found at the MIA | Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo a further important opportunity for growth and international comparison – will have the opportunity to present themselves for the first time to the TFI Torino Film Industry network, in a pitch session that will be held on Friday 22nd at 2:00 pm and will involve 3 Piedmontese companies and 3 based in Rome. The session will close with the presentation of an unpublished project supported by Film Commission Torino Piemonte that goes beyond genres and definitions.
There will also be 7 novels that will be on stage in the pitching session dedicated to the 4th edition of “Guarda che Storia! Racconti per lo Schermo” – an initiative born from the collaboration between FCTP and the Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino – which since its launch to date has seen the participation of 153 publishers and the proposal of 339 titles, proving to be a a valid tool for film producers looking for captivating and original narratives.
The 7 projects were selected from 65 proposals received from 40 different publishing houses and will be included in the Book Database on the website www.fctp.it, an archive of stories, ideas and characters to transform into feature films or TV series that can be consulted by anyone. The dedicated pitch session will be held on Saturday, November 23 at 2:00 p.m., with an introductory keynote linked to the adaptation of one of the most successful titles of recent years, “My Brilliant Friend”, with the presence and a testimony of one of the protagonists of the fourth season currently on air, made in significant part in Turin, namely the actress Irene Maiorino.
On Sunday, November 24, at 3:00 p.m., thanks to the collaboration between Sardegna Film Commission and Film Commission Torino Piemonte, the pitching session “Spotlight on Sardinia!” will be held for the first time, curated by an Italian region “Special Guest”: a selection of 7 projects ranging from feature films to documentaries to animated films and series, with seven new talents looking for partners and producers.
7 PANELS AND DEBATES
From the economic and cultural importance of archives and film heritage in the conference with the Cineteca Nazionale, to the “behind the scene” that will see Roberto Proia and Eagle Pictures as protagonists, passing through successful case studies of films for children - in a panel in collaboration with Sottodiciotto Film Festival & Campus - up to a new appointment of “Comunicare il cinema”, with a comparison between those who produce cinema, those who act in it, those who write about it, those who support it. A new important update on the Piedmont case, on the eve of the new multi-year investments by the institutions to support the sector, and an in-depth analysis at a national level in the “Italia 2025” panel in the presence of the main national associations of producers, to conclude with the world of immersive content between experimentation and training.
The growing importance of archives in the economy and in the evolution of the cinema system: this will be the central theme of the conference born from the collaboration between Cineteca Nazionale and Film Commission Torino Piemonte that will be held on the opening day of TFI, Thursday 21 November at 3:30 pm at the Circolo dei lettori. “Documentaries, reissues and found footage for new works: does the future of cinema pass through the archive?”: this will be the theme, the title and also the objective of the meeting that will open an original construction site in the presence of prestigious European entities that operate in the field of cinematographic and audiovisual heritage.
The “behind the scene” of this edition – Friday 22 at 11:30 am - will see the undisputed protagonist Roberto Proia, Head of Distribution and Production of Eagle Pictures, as well as screenwriter and author of a phenomenon also in this case “made in Piedmont and international” such as the trilogy for the cinema and then TV series “Sul più bello”. A masterclass to tell the strategies and the present of the production and distribution company, also through the great artistic and civil commitment linked to the very recent case of “Il ragazzo dai pantaloni rosa”.
After the crowded panels of the previous years, on Friday 22nd at 3:45 pm, the 4th appointment with "Communicating cinema" returns, a comparison but also a constructive provocation that will involve those who produce cinema, those who act in it, those who write about it, those who support it and that will see prominent names of the Italian scene on stage, from the producer of Indigo Film Nicola Giuliano, to the actor and producer Pier Giorgio Bellocchio.
The major local and national institutions will be protagonists - Saturday 23 November, starting at 10:30 am - together with the entire audiovisual supply chain, for a comparison that thanks to constant teamwork and dialogue between institutions, associations, universities and companies looks to 2025. An in-depth analysis of the "Piedmont case" - with an auspicious title such as "There's still tomorrow and the day after tomorrow" - on the eve of the new multi-year investments by local institutions to support the sector, which will lead, at 11:30 am, to a broadening of perspective at a national level, giving voice to the main production players, also starting from the Report on National Audiovisual Production by APA, the Social Balance Sheets and the studies in progress.
Thanks to the renewed collaboration with Sottodiciotto Film Festival & Campus, the Production Days once again host the ever-expanding terrain of production for children: a constantly expanding production and distribution district with strong international potential. On Saturday 23 November at 11:45, Swedish producer Niklas Larssonn and producer Marina Marzotto will discuss the topic, through the analysis of successful national and international case studies.
On Wednesday 27 November at 16:00, the baton will pass in the final stretch to the world of immersive content, with a panel created thanks to the collaboration between Film Commission Torino Piemonte and the Politecnico di Torino that will bring together university professors specialized in the subject and national decision makers on the field of hybridizations and experiments that draw a geography of continuous transgressions: a dialogue to trace the possible connections between experimentation, training and new audiovisual creation factories.
The attention and interest in immersive content is also reflected, for this edition of TFI, in the unprecedented creation of an “Immersive Room” – coordinated by Film Commission Torino Piemonte and curated by the University of Turin, ETT, CSC, Politecnico di Torino and ShorTO Film Market – which will be set up on Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 November, at the Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento.
7 WORKSHOP: “CINEMA AND AUDIOVISUAL, INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE”
A new season of meetings on the professions of cinema and audiovisual, dedicated to absolute beginners, film dreamers and professionals: the alchemy between editor and director in the workshop dedicated to editing, the strategies (but also the stratagems) for selling a film abroad, the all-Italian art of dubbing. These are just some of the topics that will be covered during the 7 events that, among others, renew the partnership with Anica Academy and include a new collaboration with ANAD - Associazione Nazionale Attori Doppiatori.
The link between the Production Days and the training sector will also find ample space for the 2024 edition, through 7 workshops that, in continuity with the path undertaken in the past and which has become a distinctive feature of the programming, will offer new meetings dedicated to beginners and young talents who intend to approach the audiovisual industry.
The first of the events is scheduled for Thursday 21 at 11.45, with a discussion between the editor Luciana Pandolfelli and Alice Filippi, respectively film editor and director who have in common the recent collaboration for the successful TV series "Hanno ucciso l'Uomo Ragno - La leggendaria storia degli 883".
A renewed collaboration with Anica Academy ETS which, in continuity with the Intimacy Coordinator themed episode discussed in the last edition, returns to the fore at TFI – Thursday 21st at 2.30 pm - with a 360° workshop dedicated to ESG sustainability to continue the story of emerging professions and to explore other aspects of social sustainability.
The third appointment inside – scheduled for Friday 22nd November at 12.00 pm – is dedicated to the theme of international sales thanks to Giulia Casavecchia, Head of Sales of True Colours: “How to sell a film abroad” is the title of the meeting in which you will discover what it means to market a cinematographic work outside its territory of origin, based on the fashions and sensibilities of foreign audiences, highlighting dynamics and strategies for distributing a film globally.
From fight choreography to car sequences, the meeting on Friday 22nd at 2:30 pm reveals the challenges, risks and dedication that make the work of stuntmen and stuntwomen essential to create adrenaline on the big screen. Thanks to the collaboration with Stunt Milano and NF Stunt Action, some Italian professionals with great international experience will talk about it, with the actress and producer Stefania Rocca as an exceptional Host.
Thanks to the collaboration with ANAD - Associazione Nazionale Attori Doppiatori, the fifth appointment, scheduled for Saturday 23rd at 3:45 pm, is dedicated to the figure of the dubber, yesterday and today, to talk about a profession recognized abroad among the Italian excellences in the artistic field. New challenges, tradition, dangers and opportunities offered by Artificial Intelligence and ‘machine learning’ will be the themes at the center of the debate with some very well-known voices of Italian dubbing: a journey to tell how emotions are born in front of the big screen and what makes a character unforgettable in the eyes and ears of the spectators.
The sixth workshop, scheduled for Saturday 23rd at 5:15 p.m., is dedicated to the role of the script supervisor. Together with Fernanda Selvaggi, on set with Luca Guadagnino, Dario Argento and Riccardo Donna, and Sara Meloni, who worked with Matteo Rovere, Roberto Faenza and Alice Filippi, we will discover the importance of the role that this figure plays and its close relationship with the direction. Through anecdotes and mistakes from the set, we will see how the work of the script supervisor has evolved and what its future prospects are, in an unique dialogue with Andrea Zalone, actor, voice actor, director, television author and Maurizio Crozza's sidekick.
"From awareness and responsibility to actions and alliances" is the title of the last meeting of the "workshop" section that will be held on Monday 25th at 11:45 a.m., on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. An opportunity to analyze some available data on harassment in the workplace and to investigate the tools for a possible cultural change, with specific reference to the world of audiovisual.
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