Bergamo Film Meeting is a film festival held every March in Bergamo , Lombardy . The festival was founded by Sandro Zambetti and Angelo Signorelli in 1983. As of 2023, it has an annual attendance of 70000 and offers more than 150 screenings in its program.
6-410: Bergamo Film Meeting was founded in 1983 by Sandro Zambetti and Angelo Signorelli and managed by Associazione Bergamo Film Meeting ONLUS. Initially established as a non-competitive film exhibition, in 1987 the festival introduced a competitive section Mostra Concorso . The main prize Rosa Camuna in gold, silver and bronze was distributed by audience voting. Since the 2009 edition, the prize has taken
12-526: A European film festival is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sandro Zambetti Sandro Zambetti (September 4, 1927 – June 6, 2014) was an Italian journalist and cinema critic, for more than 25 years he served as a director of the Bergamo Film Meeting film festival. He studied in Milan . In 1948, right after graduation, he went to work at L'Eco di Bergamo and worked his way up to
18-434: A director of the Bergamo Film Meeting film festival. In 1996, Zambetti created Fondazione Alasca di Bergamo , a documentation centre and archive dedicated to audiovisuals. In 2009, he was removed from the editorship of Cineforum when he was only two years away from the 500-issue mark and the age of voluntary retirement. That event became a major blow for Zambetti and affected his health significantly. Zambetti had
24-422: The festival had screened more than 3,800 films, released 434 films, and published more than 101 books about cinema, including monographs and catalogs for every edition. The annual attendance raised up to 70000 visitors. At the 42th edition of the festival in 2024, Signorelli announced his retirement and entrusted the festival to his co-directors Fiammetta Girola and Annamaria Materazzini. This article about
30-463: The name Bergamo Film Meeting Prize and from 2013 a cash prize is also awarded to the winning film in the section. The international competition includes feature films by emerging authors that have not been released in Italy. Every year more than 150 films are selected for the festival's program. In 2012, the city government of Bergamo awarded the festival with a Gold Medal of Civic Recognition. By 2016,
36-454: The position of editor-in-chief. Soon he emerged as an influential cinema critic. In the 1960s, he also contributed to Politica and Sette giorni in Italia e nel Mondo magazines. In 1970–78, he headed F.I.C. [ it ] , an Italian Cinema Federation. Also in 1970, he became a director of Cineforum [ it ] , a cinema magazine. In 1978, Zambetti co-founded and became
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