In the chair directors and insiders: also planned 2 screenings at the Concordia
Two masterclasses to get in touch with a series of professionals involved in the production of independent films and documentaries in Italy, understanding their efforts and mission without neglecting the aspects related to distribution and marketing. This is what is offered to forty students of the Communication and Digital Media degree course of the University of the Republic of San Marino, who on Wednesday 7 December will attend the second of the two appointments scheduled in the frame of the lessons of "Theories and techniques of the media". , with the support of the Cultural Institutes.
"We bring directors, distributors and other insiders related to cinema made far from mainstream into the classroom, to put members in contact with those who deal with issues often ignored by big industry such as social activism and gender issues", explains the teacher Elena D'Amelio, who coordinated the partnership between the San Marino University, the Cultural Institutes and the OpenDBB distribution house, from which the figures called to intervene come.
“In the first appointment – explains the academic – we talked about the challenges and qualities of those who make independent cinema in Italy, while in the second we will deal with distribution in a specific way and above all with marketing campaigns. Ours is a professionalizing course and this initiative is designed to put young people in contact with the world of work in a concrete way".
Not only meetings in the classroom are scheduled: at 21 pm on Tuesday 6 December, the Cinema Teatro Concordia in Borgo Maggiore will in fact have a screening of the documentary "L'Ultima Wheel" by Claudia Cipriani. During the event, open to the public, the story of the artists who in 2021 traveled 300 kilometers by bicycle to reach Sanremo during the Italian song festival will be told and protest against the crisis that has affected music, cinema and other entertainment sectors at the outside of major events.
There is an entrance fee. On Tuesday 22 November the documentary "Corpi libero" by Fabiomassimo Lozzi was screened. The screenings are part of a review entitled "Free visions: the possibilities of independent cinema in the digital age".
