Vladimir Blazevski is a film director and screenwriter. He was born in Skopje in 1955 and studied Film Directing at Belgrade’s Academy for Film, Theater, Radio and Television. Since 1978, he has been professionally involved in filmmaking, having made 6 short documentaries, many commercials and over 200 television broadcasts. He also teaches Film Theory and Film History at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje. Since 2006, he has been teaching Film Directing at Megatrend University, Belgrade. Best Film Award East of the West Competition - Karlovy Vary IFF 2011;
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Born in Bucharest, 1961. Graduate of the University of Bucharest (Romanian and Bulgarian Philology) Ph.D. on Balkan cinema at UNATC (Romanian Academy of Theatre and Cinema) in 2007. Filmologist (since 1993) and curator of the Romanian Cinematheque (since 1995). Professor of history of cinema at Hyperion University in Bucharest. Visiting professor at the University of Vienna (2008- 2010). Member of FIPRESCI (2008) and of juries for film festivals. Artistic director of Divan International Film Festival (2010 till present). Author of 4 scripts for television documentary films broadcasted in Romania, Greece, R.Macedonia, Albania. Author of four books on cinema “A Short History of Romanian Cinema” (2005, 2011, in Romanian and English), “Manakia Bros or the Moving Balkans” (2005, in Romanian and English), “Orient Express. Romanian and Balkan Cinema” (2008, 2011 in Romanian and English, Award of the Romanian Film Critics Association) and “Manakia Brothers or the Image of the Balkans” (2009) as well as articles included in volumes (Refugees and Film, Skopje, 1994; Cinematographies of Small Nations, Skopje, 1997; Cinema of the Mountains, Turin, 2003, Cinema of the Balkans, London, 2006). Since 1995 collaborator to magazines with film criticism in Romania, USA, Moldova, Macedonia, Hungary, Russia and Bulgaria
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Massimo Forleo, programmer-RAI director since 1981, has organized and conducted numerous programs dedicated to the musical culture, cinema and various relevant activities. At the same time he turned his interests to the cinema by organizing and promoting numerous specialized events, Festivals dedicated to films from emerging countries, collaborating with magazines of this sector and working actively, from the foundation, to the management and training of the programs of the Film Club "The Labyrinth" of Rome. He created and directed the Cinematografic Festival Sulmonacinema and nine editions of the Festival of Latin American Cinema of Trieste. He edited, for five editions, as artistic director the event of the "Music of the Shadows: International Festival of silent cinema with live music." In the same year, for the Department of Culture of Rome, at the Palais of Expositions, he created monographic exhibitions of filmmakers such as Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, Luis Buñuel, John Ford, Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Losey, Ken Loach , Peter Greenaway, Robert Mitchum and took care of the Roman editions of the Berlin Film Festival and especially Venice. He is one of the artistic directors of "Archipelago. International Festival of Short Films and New Images ". Curator for Radiorai and for the "International Film Festival of Rome" initiative entitled “The Radio in Technicolor”. Voices, memories, suggestions from the big screen.
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