TorinoFilmLab (TFL) is a

Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...

-based laboratory that primarily supports persons working on their first and second fiction feature films. Its four main fields of involvement are training, development, funding and distribution. TorinoFilmLab runs several projects in each of these fields every year. They end at the TFL Meeting Event in November during the

Torino Film Festival The Torino Film Festival (also called the Turin Film Festival, TFF) is an international film festival held annually in Turin, Italy. Held every November, it is the second largest film festival in Italy, following the Venice Film Festival. It was f ...

, when participants of the different programmes present their work to a selected group of producers, sales agents, distributors and other professionals in independent filmmaking.

History

This lab was created in 2008 with the aim of complementing

with a laboratory dedicated to emerging filmmakers. TFL offers various residential workshops and on-line sessions to its participants. The programmes run parallel during the year and reach their conclusion in November at the TFL Meeting Event during the Torino Film Festival. At this occasion, TFL also hand over various awards in order to financially support the production and distribution of the selected films. TFL is financed by Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali, Regione Piemonte and Città di Torino, and is promoted by the main film institutions established in Turin and Piedmont –

Museo Nazionale del Cinema The National Museum of Cinema () located in Turin, Italy, is a motion picture museum fitted out inside the Mole Antonelliana tower. It is operated by the ''Maria Adriana Prolo Foundation'', and the core of its collection is the result of the work ...

and Film Commission Torino Piemonte. It is also partially funded by the

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programme

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and by partners from several countries. In 2015, about 57% of the funding came from outside Italy.

Courses

TFL offers courses in various areas in filmmaking, with a particular emphasis on scriptwriting (both original and adaptation, as well as story editing), pre-production and distribution. About 40 projects are selected each year.

The supported films

Since its inception in 2008 more than 50 films have had TFL support. Seven films supported by TFL were selected at Cannes Film Festival 2016, and 5 of them received major awards.

Selection of Supported Films

Alumni

From 2008 to 2015, TFL has trained 480 participants from 70 countries.

Notable alumni

Jonas Carpignano Jonas Carpignano (; born January 16, 1984) is an American-Italian filmmaker. He is known for the films '' Mediterranea'', '' A Ciambra'', and '' A Chiara''. Early life and career Carpignano was born in The Bronx, New York City on January 16, 1984 ...

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Aida Begić Aida Begić (born 9 May 1976) is a Bosnian film director and screenwriter. Education and career She graduated in Film and Theater Directing from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo in 2000. Her graduation film "The First Death Experience ...

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Álvaro Brechner Álvaro Brechner (born April 9, 1976 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Spanish-Uruguayan film director, screenwriter and producer that lives in Madrid. He is best known for writing and directing the feature films, ''Bad Day to Go Fishing'' (''Mal D ...

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György Pálfi György Pálfi (born 11 April 1974 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian filmmaker. His film ''Taxidermia'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Pálfi's films have received numerous awards and nominatio ...

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Jan-Ole Gerster Jan-Ole Gerster (born 1978 in Hagen) is a German film director and screenwriter. Life Gerster works as a film director and screenwriter in Germany. He was a TorinoFilmLab AdaptLab participant in 2016. Filmography * 2004: ''Der Schmerz geh ...

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Juho Kuosmanen Juho Kuosmanen (born September 30, 1979) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He graduated from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in 2014. Kuosmanen's graduation film called The Painting Sellers was nominated for fiv ...

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Julia Ducournau Julia Ducournau (; born 18 November 1983) is a French film director and screenwriter. She made her feature film debut in 2016 with '' Raw''. At the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, she won the Palme d'Or for her film '' Titane'', which made her the sec ...

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László Nemes László Nemes (born Nemes Jeles László; ; 18 February 1977) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His 2015 debut feature film, ''Son of Saul,'' was screened in the main competition at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the ...

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Michelangelo Frammartino Michelangelo Frammartino (born 1968) is an Italian filmmaker. Biography Michelangelo Frammartino was born in Milan to Calabrian parents in 1968. In 1991 he enrolled in the Architecture Faculty of the Politecnico di Milano. Between 1994 and 19 ...

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Oliver Laxe Óliver Laxe Coro (; born 11 April 1982) is a French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor of Galicians, Galician ancestry. His feature directorial debut, ''You All Are Captains'', premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where i ...

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Ritesh Batra Ritesh Batra (born 12 June 1979) is an Indian film director and screenwriter. Batra's Hindi-language debut feature film '' The Lunchbox'' premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and won the Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail). Batra also won the ...

References

External links

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