BFF Industry is here!
BFF Industry is born, a new programming space in which all festival activities aimed at industry professionals will converge. BFF Industry will be an opportunity to reflect on the new “independent” cinema and dedicate to its protagonists and interlocutors a series of talks, round tables and moments of confrontation that have always been supported by interlocutors such as the Emilia Romagna Film Commission and CNA Emilia Romagna and since the last edition the fundamental collaboration of Cinecittà.
“[…] Working on an Industry program in a context like Bellaria is an extraordinary opportunity to gather around the festival today those who in various capacities work in our industry to create opportunities within which new talents can emerge and develop. The goal is to make BFF Industry a plural and horizontal space, where we can build together not one but multiple compasses, as many as may be necessary to orient ourselves in the different paths to take between creativity, industry and the public.” — Francesco Giai Via, Head of BFF Industry
BFF Industry continues its collaboration with Cinecittà, thanks to which it structured (in)emergenza, a support program for Italian independent cinema in its second edition: a professional path accompanied by exceptional tutors dedicated to young directors and producers who will receive support to close their first films (thanks to cash prizes and post-production).
Eight selected projects, which will be offered tutoring by three mentors Francesco Giai Via, Dario Zonta, Aline Hervé, a pitch session in front of a group of industry professionals (producers, commissioners and sales agents) during the Bellaria Film Festival, and concrete help with finalization, thanks to cash prizes and post-production support.
The program is enriched by the development workshop Itineranze DOC, now in its third edition, is the first project in Italy to network six national festivals to train and support creatively and productively first-time feature film directors. A six-stage journey, from May to November 2024, to be experienced in the heart of the festivals, accompanying participants along the main stages of approaching the making of their work: from writing to preparing the pitch, from clarifying artistic choices to finding producers and sources of financing.
The Bellaria Film Festival is the first stage of this journey, within which the six selected projects will be presented in a public meeting with participants at the festival’s Industry days. The other five festivals involved are: IsReal (Nuoro), Sole Luna Doc Festival (Palermo), PerSo – Perugia Film Festival, FrontDoc (Aosta), Festival dei Popoli (Firenze).
The days, which will include a series of talks whose program will be announced soon, will end with a party for the tenth anniversary of the Regional Fund linked to the Cinema Law, organized by the Emilia Romagna Film Commission, on the beach in front of the Apollo Cinema.
BFF Industry is a project of Bellaria Film Festival realized in collaboration with Cinecittà with the support of Cineporto dell’Emilia-Romagna, Camera di Commercio della Romagna, CNA cinema audiovisivo Rimini, CNA cinema audiovisivo Emilia Romagna, Futuristika Green, Flippermusic, Dimmer Academy, Itineranze Doc.
