15° Environmental Film Festival

Turin
Dal 31 May al 05 June 2012

CinemAmbiente has grown apace with the green film genre and ranks among major international environmental festivals.
The six-day Festival program features preview presentations of the best in recent environmental films. Films running in competition will be judged and awarded by nine juries in each of their related category, plus two new ones: Eating City, an international project on foodservice sustainability; and La casa di domani on good green practices.
Among the over 100 films on the program are Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s A Thirsty World, and Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzand’s Oceans, the latter of which will close the Festival on 5 June, World Environment Day, and will be shown simultaneously in 34 cities around Italy. Mr. Arthus-Bertrand is this year’s International Documentary Jury president, following last year’s jury president Michael Cimino. Other jury members are Neri Marcorè, who voiced the narrator’s role in the Italian version of Kingdom of the Oceans, and Luca Argentero, producer of We Want a Future, which will be presented at the Festival.
Among the films running in competition are Gianfranco Pannone’s latest documentary, Scorie in libertà, on the renewed interest in atomic energy in Italy, and Jeff Orlowski’s thought-provoking documentary, Chasing Ice, winner of the Sundance Festival Audience Award, which will be presented by renowned photographer James Balog.
The Ecokids section will open with the Italian preview showing of Chris Renoud and Kyle Balda’s 3D animated film, Dr Seuss’ The Lorax, already a box office hit in America. The economic crisis figures in several films and many observers see among its causes the overexploitation of resources. This theme is taken up by Jennifer Baichwal’s Payback, based on Margaret Atwood’s bestseller, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth; a teleconference discussion with Ms. Baichwal is scheduled during the Festival.
This year’s side events will include Ecoletture to be held every day at 6 p.m. at Caffè Blah Blah: round table debates on the range of lifestyles from the innovative to the sustainable.
The streets around the Festival venue will be turned into street markets on 2 and 3 June, when Fierambiente opens its stalls offering sustainable products. Returning by popular request is Parking Day on Sunday, 3 June, when a parking place will be transformed into a field.
This year CinemAmbiente proudly joins the City of Turin sustainability initiative Le città invisibili.
The economic crisis has not spared CinemAmbiente, forcing a change in the Festival’s admission policy. The morning showings for children are free of charge by previous reservation. The admission charge for the afternoon showings is a fair and sustainable €3.
In this era of budget cuts for cultural initiatives, it is even more important that CinemAmbiente audiences generously contribute to the Festival’s growth as one of the world’s leading environmental film festivals.

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DIRECTOR
Gaetano Capizzi

SECRETARY
Erica Girotto

FESTIVAL PROGRAMMER
Francesco Giai Via

ECOEVENTS, COMMUNICATION AND MARKETING
Silvana Brunero

COMMUNICATION AND MARKETING COORDINATOR
Maria Grazia Girotto

FILM MATERIAL
Giulio Pedretti
with the collaboration of Lea Stjepovic

ECOREADINGS
Paola Della Valle

URBAN GREEN INITIATIVES
Michela Pasquali

PRESS OFFICE
Studio Sottocorno
Valentina Tua
Delia Parodo
with the collaboration of Marta Franceschetti

GUEST OFFICE
Mara Cereda
with the collaboration of
Elisabetta Tumiati, Nadia Zanellato, Fabio D’Errico, Thomas De Forti , Alberto Martin

ADMINISTRATION
Sandra Giaracuni

JURY COORDINATOR
Marisa Sobrato

ECOKIDS COORDINATOR
Arianna Borlo

CATALOGUE
Guglielmo Maggioni
Roberto Manassero

DESIGN AND FESTIVAL TRAILER
Dunter & Housedada

WEB
Creatiweb

TRANSLATIONS
Kenneth A. Britsch

SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATIONS
Giliola Viglietti
Anna Ribotta
Marina Mocetti Spagnuolo

SUBTITLES
Sub-Ti Limited, Londra

PHOTOGRAPHERS
Laura Larmo
Allievi Itis Bodoni

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
Elena Borla, Roberto Carini, Stefania Bona per Shantimedia

TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT AND PROCESSES
Acuson


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PRESIDENT
Ugo Nespolo

DIRECTOR
Alberto Barbera

DIRECTOR’S PA AND FESTIVAL COORDINATOR
Angela Savoldi

GENERAL COORDINATOR
Daniele Tinti

CURATOR
Donata Pesenti Campagnoni

COMMUNICATION & PR
Maria Grazia Girotto

PRESS OFFICE
Veronica Geraci

ADMINISTRATION
Erika Pichler

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