WTFF7 – Industry Programme
📍 November 11, 2024, 6.00 PM, Cinema Odeon
Recent decades in Italy have witnessed a growing polycentrism of production in the audiovisual sector, with a consolidation of Film Commissions and Regional Funds. At the same time, the development of new technologies and the spread of digital platforms have radically changed audiences’ watching habits.
This has favoured the emergence of independent production companies and professionals based in ‘peripheral’ territories and facilitated new models of financing, production and distribution, also ‘from below’ or in cooperative forms.
Working Title Film Festival promotes an open meeting between different professionals of the sector, to stimulate discussion on the development opportunities of the film industry and the labour market in the audiovisual sector.
We talk about this with Ilaria Fantin, Councillor for Culture Vicenza City Council, Jacopo Chessa, CEO Veneto Film Commission, Marta Melina, Producer SMK Factory and OpenDDB, Damiano Monaco, Director and producer Flash Future Film, and Marco Caberlotto, President CNA Cinema e Audiovisivo Veneto.
In collaboration with Doc Servizi and Casa di Cultura Popolare.
Speaker
Ilaria Fantin
Graduated in lute and ancient instruments with top marks at the Conservatorio Dall’Abaco in Verona, she carried out an intense concert activity until June 2023, before devoting herself to the new and exciting role of Councillor for Culture, Tourism and Attractiveness of the City of Vicenza. Fifteen years of concert career, more than 500 concerts that have taken her to perform in most of Italy and major European cities. An eclectic and dynamic career that weaves between continuous bass playing with orchestras, devising duo or trio projects with original arrangements, musical consultancy for theatre companies, composing music for films and organising festivals and events, including the Musica delle Tradizioni festival which she directed. She holds workshops aimed at guiding young music professionals and has worked as booking manager for the Padua-based agency Gershwin Spettacoli.
Jacopo Chessa
Jacopo Chessa (Torino, 1973), majored in film history and worked largely on the 1950s and 1960s in French cinema. He has published two books and a number of articles; cooperated with the Archivio Nazionale Cinematografico della Resistenza, the University of Torino and the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3. In 2010, he founded the production company called Prime Bande, which specializes in the history of manufacturing and the workers’ movement. Since the beginning of 2014, he has been the director of Aiace Nazionale, the first Italian association of art theatres, and of the Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio, (Italian Short Film Center), a film archive and agency which promotes Italian short films. In 2016 he founded the Torino Short Film Market which he directed until 2020. He worked as contract professor at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 from 2017 to 2019. Since 2020 he’s CEO at the Veneto Film Commission.
Marta Melina
Since 2015, she has collaborated with the independent documentary production SMK Factory and the distribution OpenDDB – Distribuzioni dal basso, which are characterised by experimentation with innovative production and distribution models. Since 2018, she has overseen the creation of impact and crowdfunding campaigns, which led to the production of five feature-length documentaries. In 2023, she produced, with SMK Factory, the documentary Kissing Gorbaciov (Mariani, D’Alife, 2023, 96′), distributed by OpenDDB and in the five-award at the Nastri D’Argento (Nastri DOC) 2024 in the Cinema, Spettacolo, Cultura category.
Damiano Monaco
Damiano Monaco is a director, producer and editor. In 2007 he founded the film production company H12 FILM with which he has directed and produced more than 10 works, distributed on Sky, Rai and selected at the Torino Film Festival. In 2020, he directed the short film Dead Times, which was nominated for the Globo d’oro. In the same year he was selected among 15 emerging producers at the WCSFP organised by Hot Docs. Since November 2021 he has held the role of producer in Flash Future. In 2023 he produced Karma Clima, special mention at the Trento Film Festival and in 2024 Booliron, special event at the Bellaria Film Festival.
Marco Caberlotto
Venetian by birth, he is a partner and producer of Kublai Film. Among the various titles produced are Alida (2020) by Mimmo Verdesca, selected at Cannes and Rome and co-produced by Istituto Luce – Cinecittà in collaboration with Rai Cinema, Tintoretto. L’artista che uccise la pittura (2019), by Erminio Perocco, co-produced by ARTE, Titian. The Empire of Colour, co-produced by Sky and ARTE. Selected for the Visitors Programme of the 19th Berlinale Co-Production Market (2022) and the 6th Biennale College Cinema – VR (2022). Since July 2021 he has chaired CNA Cinema e Audiovisivo in Veneto. In December 2021, he was appointed Member of Ateneo Veneto, a prestigious Venetian cultural institution.
