Io, Isabella International Film Week is the first
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upo ...
in the south of Italy, and the second in Italy, devoted to women and
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
making. Its Golden Waves award is presented for best female film, best creative documentary, and best firstling (emerging talent).
The festival takes its name from
Isabella Morra
Isabella di Morra (c. 1520 – 1545/1546) was an Italian poet of the Renaissance. An unknown figure in her lifetime, she was forced by her brothers to live in isolation, which estranged her from courts and literary salons. While living in sol ...
, a
Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ide ...
poet of 16th-century Italy. It was first held in Isabella's home, the
Castle of Valsinni, from 25 to 31 August 2005.
The festival features about 70 films, in two competitions:
* Films by and about women
* Documentary films
It also sponsors satellite programmes including a "Country in Focus", talk shows, and various events.
The 2008 the festival was held in
Maratea
Maratea (; nap, Marathia, label= Marateota ) is an Italian town and ''comune'' of Basilicata, in the province of Potenza. It is the only ''comune'' of the region on the Tyrrhenian coast, and is known as "the Pearl of the Tyrrhenian". Owing to t ...
from 29 July to 3 August; and in 2010 in
Maratea
Maratea (; nap, Marathia, label= Marateota ) is an Italian town and ''comune'' of Basilicata, in the province of Potenza. It is the only ''comune'' of the region on the Tyrrhenian coast, and is known as "the Pearl of the Tyrrhenian". Owing to t ...
from 3 to 8 August.
See also
*
List of women's film festivals
Women's film festivals are film events geared to promote women in the film industry. Women’s film festivals began due to the lack of female voice within the film industry. To combat this hindrance, their own film festival was designed. Most women ...
References
External links
Official websiteIsabella Morra
Women's film festivals
Documentary film festivals in Italy
Women in Italy
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