Nice New Italian Cinema Events is a non-profit cultural association founded in 1991 that aims to promote the new Italian cinema abroad through cultural exchanges and festivals. Its founders and members have been working for more than a decade in the organization of such international film festivals. For each Festival the selection committee chooses seven feature films among the best made by up-and-coming film directors throughout the year. Nice USA, the most established one, shows a selection of seven shorts made recently. The films presented in the Nice USA Festival are eligible to receive the “Premio Città di Firenze” (City of Florence Award) which is decided by the American audience by voting cards handed out before each screening. The prestige of the Festival has increased with the passing of years thanks also to the relations established with the most important producers and distributors (Miramax, United Artists, Touchstone Pictures, MGM etc.) and the interest they have shown for the event.
 
Nice also collaborated in the organization of several festivals of Italian cinema in Scotland (1992), in Puerto Rico (1993), in New Zealand (1998/2000), and in Brazil (2001, 2002).
 
All Nice initiatives have been supported and sponsored by: the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per il Cinema, Ministero Affari Esteri, Italian Embassies, Italian Consulates, Italian Institutes of Culture of the hosting countries, Comune di Firenze and Assessorato alla Cultura of the Comune di Firenze. All events are made possible thanks to the collaboration of: Tribeca Film Festival, New York University - Tisch School of the Arts, New York Film Academy, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, San Francisco Film Society, San Francisco Film Commission, Museum of Cinema in Moscow and the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.
 
Nice acknowledges also the collaboration with Cinecittà Holding, Istituto Luce, Mediaset - Cinema Forever, AGIS (Italian Association of Entertainment), AGIS Toscana, Cineteca Nazionale - Bologna, International Festival of Young Cinema - Turin, the International Film Festival of Venice, Sundance Film Festival, Rai Radio Televisione Italiana, RAI Corporation and RAI SAT, SKY, and Italian producers and distributors.
 
 
Honorary Committee

Honorary President
Valeria Golino
 
Honorary Members
Francesca Archibugi, Director
Jennifer Beals, Actress
Bernardo Bertolucci, Director
Selvaggia Quattrini, Actress
Mira Sorvino, Actress
John Turturro, Actor
 
Members
Dario Argento, Director; Roberto Benigni, Director; Florinda Bolkan, Actress; Mimmo Calopresti, Director; Claudia Cardinale, Actress; Sesto Cifola, Sales Manager Rai Trade; Alessandro D’Alatri, Director; Ugo Di Tullio, President of Mediateca Regionale Toscana Film Commission; Leonardo Domenici, Mayor of the City of Florence; Vincent Gallo, Actor; Geoffrey Gilmore, Sundance Film Festival Director; Giovanni Gozzini, Councilor of Florence’s Culture Department; Jim Jarmush, Director; Naum Klejman, Kino Musej Moscow; Spike Lee, Director; Graham Leggat, Executive Director San Francisco Film Society; Claudio Martini, President of Tuscan Region; Bill Murray, Actor; Ornella Muti, Actress; Jeremiah Newton, Institute of Film and Television Tisch School of the Arts, New York; Stefano Passigli, President Istituto Luce; Clare Peploe, Director; Vanessa Redgrave, Actress; Marco Risi, Director; Francesco Rosi, Director; Renzo Rossellini, Producer; Maurizio Scaparro, Director; Peter Scarlet, Executive Director Tribeca Film Festival;Annabella Sciorra, Actress; Ettore Scola, Director; Vittorio Storaro, Director of Photography; Giuseppe Tornatore, Director; Giorgio Van Straten, PalaExpo Roma
 
 
Artistic Committee
 
President
Mario Mazzarotto, Producer “Intelfilm”
 
Members
Carlo Ducci, Journalist “Vogue Italy”
Nina V. Gourieva, Distributor “Most-Media”
Oscar Jarussi, Journalist “Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno”
Jeff Nuyts, Distributor “Intramovies”
Paola Poli, Producer “Sorpasso Film”
John Lawrence Ré, Northern Arts Entertainment-Managing Partner
Riccardo Ventrella, Journalist “Vivi il cinema”


  
  

 

 
  
 

 

 

Nice New Italian 
Cinema Events

Palazzo Rinuccini
Via Santo Spirito 41
50125 Florence, Italy
tel. +39 055 290393
fax +39 055 214576

Staff
 
Director
Viviana del Bianco
Executive Director
Grazia Santini
USA Representative 
Gaia Somasca
Press Office
Camilla Bernacchioni
Public Relation / Hospitality 
Elena Santini
Organization
Maya Breschi, Gabriella Fiore, Elena Giraffa, Carolina Mancini
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts 
Jeremiah Newton
San Francisco Film Society
Graham Leggat, Linda Blackaby, Hilary Hart, Miguel Pendas, Sarah Cathers, Rod Armstrong, Suzanne McCloskey, Alexandra Ruhmann, Steve Jenkins
Selection Members
Linda Blackaby, Barbara Corsi, Deborah Young, Peter Scarlet
Shorts Selection
Anna Di Martino
Film Traffic
Monica Venditto, Norman Bank
Graphic Design
Hans Schirmacher
Trailer Nice
EDI, Effetti Digitali Italiani
Director: Alessandro D’Alatri in collaboration with Anzellotti Sound Effects Company srl, Kodak spa and Technicolor spa