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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”
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