Venice, 30th April 2008
The names of the members of the Selection Committee and the Correspondents who will assist the Director of the Film Section of the Biennale di Venezia Marco Müller are now final. Along with Enrico Magrelli, the Director’s right hand for cultural programming, sixteen people will participate in the selection and search process for the 65th Venice Film Festival, scheduled to be held August 27th through September 6th 2008.
The 2008 Selection Committee will include: Violetta Bellocchio (1977), Paolo Bertolin (1976), Marie-Pierre Duhamel (1952), Claudio Masenza (1945) and Alberto Pezzotta (1965).
The Consultants/Correspondents around the world will be: Maria Barbieri and Maria Ruggieri (China), Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan and Margherita Di Paola (USA), Luciano Barisone (South and Central America), Dora Bouchoucha (Africa and the Arab world), Cecilia Cossio (India), Fabio Fumagalli (Austria, Benelux, Portugal, Switzerland), Babak Karimi (Iran), Alëna Shumakova (Balkans, Eastern Europe and the territories of the former Soviet Union), and Mikiko Tomita (Japan).
Biographical notes:
Enrico Magrelli (cultural programming)
Enrico Magrelli (Cascia – Perugia, 1953), a journalist and film critic, is one of the authors and hosts of the daily radio show Hollywood Party on RAI Radiotre. As a television author he was responsible for several popular variety shows (including, among others, various editions of Domenica in, the Festival di Sanremo and seven editions of the Vatican Christmas Concert) and programs dedicated to film. From 1979 to 1982 he was a member of Carlo Lizzani’s staff at the Venice Film Festival. From 1988 to 1990 he was the director of the Settimana della Critica (International Critics’ Week) at the Venice Film Festival. In 1991 he was the chief aide to Guglielmo Biraghi in Venice. He has written monographs on Robert Altman, Roman Polanski, and Nanni Moretti. He has also edited a dozen books dedicated, among others, to Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marilyn Monroe, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Nagisa Oshima, and Satyajit Ray.
Violetta Bellocchio (selection committee)
Violetta Bellocchio (Milan, 1977), is one of the most authoritative voices among young Italian critics. She has worked for [duel], RAI Radio2, Grazia and Rolling Stone. The most recent critical publication she participated in is Pennebaker Associates. Cinema musica e utopie (edited by Luca Mosso for Agenzia X). For two editions (2001/2002 and 2003/2004) she was a writer for the film dictionary Il Mereghetti (Baldini&Castoldi).
She has published several short stories, the most recent of which were included in Ho visto cose… (BUR 24/7) and Ai Confini della Realtà (Mondadori Strade Blu).
Paolo Bertolin (selection committee)
Paolo Bertolin (Castelfranco Veneto – Treviso, 1976) was the first Italian to be admitted to the Young Film Critics Traineeship Project at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam. After spending an academic year at the University of California (Berkeley) and a summer semester at the Korea University of Seoul, he has worked as a film critic and reporter, focusing prevalently on film from eastern and southern Asia. He has published many articles in Italian (il manifesto, Cineforum, Panoramiche, Duellanti) and international newspapers (The Korea Times, The Jakarta Post, Senses of Cinema, Cinemaya, Positif). He has collaborated with the Semaine de la Critique of the Cannes Film Festival and the Far East Film Festival in Udine (Italy).
Marie-Pierre Duhamel (selection committee)
Marie-Pierre Duhamel (Paris, 1952), screenwriter, film critic, independent producer, professor of film and documentary. She has written essays and articles for the magazines Vertigo, Cahiers du cinema, Positif, Images documentaries. She has been a curator of retrospectives and tributes to Vittorio De Seta, Zhang Yuan, Marco Bellocchio, Amos Gitai, Elie Suleiman, Victor Erice, Omar Amiralay, Alexander Kluge, Lav Diaz, Jim McBride and Shirley Clarke. She has collaborated with many international film festivals, including the Venice Film Festival, the Locarno Festival, the Turin Film Festival and the Festival dei Popoli in Florence. Since 2004 she has directed the Festival International Cinéma du Réel in Paris.
