Salerno Film Festival (in
Italian language
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, Festival del cinema di Salerno) has operated since 1946 in the
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city of
Salerno
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History
"Cine Club Salerno", a non-profit association of cinematographic culture, was born in 1945 from a group of friends which had an ambitious program: promoting culture through cinema. Thus, in 1946, the 1st National Exhibition of Cinema a Passo Ridotto was born.
The Film Festival of
Salerno
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had its first event in 1946, when it happened to be the first festival of the so-called movement of "reduced step", that lowered all 35 mm movies to 16 mm ones, for a more comfortable spreading.
That historical edition was attended, among others, by
Vittorio De Sica
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Rossano Brazzi
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Adriana Benetti,
Maria Mercader and
Mariella Lotti. On that occasion, the projections were held not only in
Salerno
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but also in
Cava de' Tirreni,
Positano
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History
The first evidence of a settle ...
and
Amalfi
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Since its first edition, the festival has been held annually (with the exception of the editions of 1953, 1957, 1959 and 1960). The location is at the cinema/theater ''Augusteo'', located at the ground floor of the northern ''Palazzo di Città'' ("The Salerno Town Hall") and even sometimes at the Salerno's
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The festival was won by the movie "Governance" in 2021.
Innovations for film standards
The Festival gave useful innovations to the cinema industry:
The 2021 edition saw the participation of 350 films in competition from 50 countries and was internationally famous.
The 76th event of the Salerno Film Festival was held from 28 November to 3 December 2022, at the CineTeatro Augusteo and in various locations in Salerno. The Sections of the competitions were: Feature and short films, Fiction, Film Dossier, Cartoons, Commercials, Video clips and Smartphone films, Videscuola, Discovery Campania, Environment, Soundtracks, Cinema for a book – a book for Cinema and Documentaries with various Sections of specialized Cinematographies.
Bibliography
* Kathryn Bowser, ''AIVF Guide to International Film and Video Festivals A Fully Indexed Guide to Over 370 Festivals Worldwide, Featuring Reprints of the Festival Column of The Independent from March 1986 to April 1988'', Foundation for Independent Video and Film, Incorporated (1988).
* ''Annuario del Cinema Italiano & Audiovisivi 2022''. Centro Studi di Cultura, Promozione e Diffusione del Cinema (2022).
List Categories and Listings by F: Festivals e Manifestazioni del Cinema in Italia e all'estero
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See also
* Giffoni Film Festival
The Giffoni International Film Festival is an Italian children's film festival which takes place annually in Giffoni Valle Piana, Campania. It began in 1971. The Giffoni International Film Festival typically has around 100,000 guests and has ...
* List of film festivals in Italy
References
External links
Official website
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Salerno Notizie
– article, ''The International Film Festival of Salerno in America''
1946 establishments in Italy
Festival
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Film festivals established in 1946
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