Future Film Festival - 12th edition

Posted on 15/01/2010 in Comunicati Stampa

The Future Film Festival 12th edition will take place in Bologna on January 2010 from 26th to 31st at Teatro Duse (Via Cartoleria 42) and at Palazzo Re Enzo (Piazza del Nettuno) that from this year, as well as to be the main office of the Future Village (press conferences, credits reclaim, workshops, cocktail room, kids area, appetizers and relax area) it will be also the main office for screenings together with the Teatro Duse.
Future Film Festival 2010’s program, directed by Giulietta Fara and Oscar Cosulich, present two focuses dedicated to stop-motion and to Motion Graphics, with a tribute to the father of this art, the great Saul Bass.
3dDAY, after the success of last January, come back to reveal the secrets of stereoscopic technology by the protagonists (distributors, shopkeepers, producers) and either by cinema or by tv and videogames products.
One of the most expected event of the Future Film Festival 12fth edition will be the “Keynote Speech” submitted to Joe Letteri, Visual Effects Supervisor of Avatar and Director of Weta Digital, who will introduce in world preview the amazing last film by James Cameron.
Other important Future Films Festival 2010 guests: Mischa Rozema, co-founder of the dutch studio production Post Panic, the english artist Rob Chiu (alias The Ronin), the designer Kai Christmann from Design Films, the artist Stefano Ricci, the co-founder of Aardman Animations, David Sproxton, the Aardman animator Merlin Crossingham, the english stop-motion artist Osbert Parker, the Producer Allison Abbate, the artist Ufo5.
In this year the exceptional contemporaneity of Future Films Festival with ArteFiera - ArtFirst Bologna (January 29 to 31th) has allowed a lot of initiatives of the Festival to take part in the Fiera program, from the section ArteFiera OFF throught the one man exhibition of Stefano Ricci and Ufo5, up to the meetings of the manifestation about contemporary art.
Waiting for the cine-trilogy in 3D about Tin Tin making ready by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, FFF will introduce Tintin e il granchio d’oro, full-lenght movie brought to new life by Cineteca di Milano.
As every year the SeriesMania section will show the most interesting tv animation series of the last year and besides the Future Film Festival will be also the occasion to watch in preview the best of animation or with special effects cinema production coming from the whole world.

PRIZES AND COMPETITION

Platinum Grand Prize is the full-lenght animated film or live action with special effects contest. For the third consecutive year a jury panel will reward the best full-lenght movies. The jury of this year comprise the illustrator Francesca Ghermandi, the musician and writer Emidio Clementi and the journalist Nick Vivarelli.

PLATINUM GRAND PRIZE FILM COMPETITION
Edison & Leo by Neil Burns (Canada)
Fine stop motion animated dark film for adults coming from Canada, based on one of the strangest family of the cinema History, the Edisons, so grotesque as to make to turn pale the Simpsons too.
Panique au village by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar (Belgium)
Based on the namesake Belgian animated cult series, one of the most original and surreal stop motion films ever, “played by” rag dolls similar to old toy soldiers and with “speedy” motions, perpetually prey to an exhilarating frenzy. Italian distribution by Nomad.
In the attic - Who has a Birthday Today? by Jirì Barta (Czech Republic)
From one of the greatest schoolmaster of the stop motion animation, the dean Jirì Barta, a poetic and surreal movie shot with mixed (live action and footstep one) technique talking about the fantastic world of a vintage toys group which take life in a dusty attic.
First Squad: The Moment of Truth by Yoshiharu Ashino, Misha Shprits, Aljosha Klimov (Japan-Russia)
First animated co-production between Russia and Japan, new 4°C Studio film (Mindgame, Tekkonkinkreet) is a war movie set in Russia during the Second World War.
Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror by Shinsuke Sato (Japan)
First fully realized computer graphics movie from the most rewarded Production I.G  Studio (Ghost in the Shell), that transpose in an unbelievable 3D world director Shinsuke Sato’s (The Princess Blade) visual imagination, for a different kind of Alice in japanese way.
Goemon by Kazuaki Kiriya (Japan)
A new costumed live action by Kazuaki Kiriya, the director of the visionary blockbuster Casshern, also appreciated in Italy and already a FFF 2006 preview. Goemon, hyper-kinetic and rich in visual effects “videogame-movie”, is based on the namesake character, really existed and known as the “Japanese Robin Hood”.
Mai Mai Miracle by Sunao Katabuchi (Japan)
MadHouse Studio, one of the most important japanese animation studios, come back again in FFF with the new full-lenght animated film Mai Mai Miracle, a fine introspective and bucolic story based on two children discovering the world and an ancient local legend, with a strong call to Heidi.
Under the Mountain by Jonathan King (New Zealand)
The comeback of one of the greatest FFF 2008 hit film’s director, the delirious horror Black Sheep, with a new fantastic film for boys, full of amazing special effects and innovative visual ideas.
King of Thorn by Kazuyoshi Katayama (Japan)
New Sunrise (Gundam) Animation Studio’s film, the science-fiction horror film King of Thorn is inspired to the namesake cult-manga by Yuji Iwahara and set in a dangerous virus threatened future time.
Les Lascars by Emmanuel Klotz, Albert Pereira-Lazaro (France)
From the French popular tv series, Les Lascars is a fine example of a serial project adaptation to the cinema times and style. Tony Merguez and Josè Frelate, two young inhabitants of the banlieue, are finally ready to go to vacation but they find again without neither tickets nor money, with unpredictable consequences and results.

OUT OF COMPETITION FILM
Nat e il segreto di Eleonora by Dominique Monfèry (Italy, France)
An italian and french co-production in partnership with “Lanterna Magica”, one of the european most interesting animated film of the last years, enriched by a traditional sketch and proudly realized in 2D. Nat inherits a whole library from his aunt Eléonore. This is surely an eccentric gift, but Nat is really amazed when realizes that every night all the most famous books for children characters go out of the pages to explore the world.
McDull, Kung Fu Kindergarten by Brian Tse (Hong Kong)
From Hong Kong the animated film that complete the tetralogy about tender piglet McDull, started with My life as McDull and continued during eight years between funny and nostalgic way. Film Festival contributed to its success in Italy, intruducing all its previous episodes too.
Twentieth Century Boys: Chapter Two - The Last Hope by Yukihiko Tsutsumi (Japan) and Twentieth Century Boys 3: Redemption di Yukihiko Tsutsumi (Japan)
After 20th Century Boys Chapter One, a kolossal live action introduced with great success in the last Festival’s edition, the story from the namesake manga of Naoki Urasawa goes on with two new full-lenght film which complete trilogy. The story talks about a group of ex childooh friends grappling with the next fortune apocalypse, throught a science-fiction oriented plot that shuffle intrigues into conspiracies.
Yona Yona Penguin by Rintaro (Japan)
A fantasy setting film for children that mark MadHouse Studio’s debut in the Computer-Graphic production, throught a french and japanese co-production directed by the schoolmaster Rintaro (Metropolis, Capitan Harlock).
Otra película de huevos y un pollo by Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste, Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste (Mexico)
Four years went by from the well-beloved Una Pelicula de Huevos and now the unbelievable anthropomorphous eggs come back on the Future Film Festival’s scenes with a new chapter of their adventures, coming with a series of unpredictable characters.
Eureka Seven - Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers by Tomoki Kyoda (Japan)
From the most appreciated robotic series of the last years, here comes in the FFF new full-lenght animated film of Studio Bones, which previously rewarded at the last Festival edition for the fine animations of Sword of the Stranger.
Gamer by Marc Develdine, Brian Taylor (USA)
Here comes Gerald Butler, the star of 300, in a science fiction film similar to the classical Rollerball, and that show a pessimistic eye on the future of the videogames.

OUT OF COMPETITION FILM 3dDAY
Dragon Trainer 3D (56 min in preview) by Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders (Usa)
The Dreamworks (Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda) new work Dragon Training, which FFF will show an almost a hour preview, dips the public into a legendary world populated by dragons and fighting Viking. As usual, the film offers an amazing mix of action and humor, narrative complexity and an avanced level of technical realization. Italian distribution by Universal.
Toy Story 1 3D by John Lasseter; Toy Story 2 3D by John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich; Toy Story 3 3D (any minutes in preview) by Lee Unkrich (Usa)
On the occasion of the next release of Toy Story 3 3D, the Future Film Festival present again the first two chapters of the saga as you have never seen before, or updated with the new stereoscopic techniques and even more spectacular. Besides, in absolute preview for Italy, we could see the first minutes of Toy Story 3 3D. In partnership with Buena Vista International Italy.
The Hole 3D by Joe Dante (Usa)
Gremlins director Joe Dante comes back with a 3D thriller exploring fears and the secrets hidden in the human mind. Discovering a hole in the basement at their home, the brothers Dane and Lucas begin to match against the Evil and the deepest nightmares. Italian distribution by Medusa.

MIDNIGHT MADNESS
The section was made to host in the Festival some mad and extreme out of competition movies of any kind, which flow either into whacky or into horror way and which is reserved a night-time screening.
Vampire Girl VS Frankenstein Girl by Yoshihiro Nishimura, Naoyuki Tomomatsu (Japan)
After the success of the splatter movie Tokyo Gore Police, presented at the last FFF, the director Yoshihiro Nishimura comes back to FFF presenting the new amazing horror, Vampire Girl VS Frankenstein Girl, directed with Naoyuki Tomomatsu.
Bumba Atomika by Michele Senesi (Italy)
It’s Italian but it doesn’t seem it. The first  Michele Senesi’s full-lenght self-made film is a pastiche with narrative and stylistic rhythms quite some Asian cinema, differing from our cinema stereotypes.

FUTURE FILM SHORTS
Future Films Short is the Future Film Festival section dedicated to the short films coming from the whole world, made either by traditional and digital animation techniques or live action with special effects. As in the last editions, the public of the festival will choose the best short films and, introducing novelty a from the last edition, there will be a jury of experts, in partnership with the Provincia di Bologna. The jury of this year comprise the cartoonist Vittorio Giardino, the journalist Franco Giubilei and the cartoonist and director Matteo Stanzani. In partnership with Groupama Assicurazioni

PREMIO FRANCO LA POLLA
Future Films Festival is proud to introduce,  for its twelfth edition, the “Franco La Polla” Prize. He collaborated  with the Festival up to last January since he has been a Platinum Grand Prize juror. so after his early and sudden death the Festival has decided to found, in partnership with Bologna University, the “Franco La Polla” Prize for the best Science-Fiction Cinema’s degree thesis of the 2010-
The Jury:
Silvia Albertazzi, English Literature Full Teacher and modern, comparative and post-colonial Literatures Doctoral degree Coordinator.
Michele Fadda, Confirmed Teaching Fellow at Bologna University.
Leonardo Gandini, Cinema History Associate Teacher at Modena and Reggio-Emilia University.
Giacomo Manzoli, President of the  Degree Course DAMS and Cinema History Teacher at Bologna University.
Roy Menarini, Cinematographic Critic and Cinema History Teacher at Udine University/ Dams Gorizia.
Massimiliano Spanu, Confirmed Teaching Fellow at Trieste University’s Formation Sciences Faculty and Cinema and Audiovisual Semiology Associated Teacher.
Enrico Terrone, Cinema History and Critic Teacher at Piedmont Orientale University and editor of Segnocinema.
Giulietta Fara and Oscar Cusulich, FFF managers

Future Film Festival in partnership with Assessorato della Regione Emilia-Romagna, Provincia di Bologna,  Comune di Bologna, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna e del patrocinio del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Cineteca di Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, MAMbo  - Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Istituto Giapponese di Cultura in Roma, Consolato Generale del Giappone a Milano, Ambasciata della Nuova Zelanda e Consolato Generale del Regno dei Paesi Bassi.
Golden Sponsor: Gruppo Hera.
Silver Sponsors: Panasonic, Groupama, Nvidia, PNY.
Digital Tecnologies sponsored by: Digima by Doremi, Christie, Sim2 e XpanD marks. Supporters: Alce Nero e Mielizia, Aperol Spritz, Cantina Bentivoglio, Biopoint, Passarini Arredamenti, Sofa Soft.

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