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The Locarno Academy seizes the special opportunity of the Festival’s 2020 edition to launch a new initiative, aiming to digitally recreate the spirit of creation and sharing that has made this training program famous on an international level.
The three strands of the Locarno Academy (Industry, Critics, Filmmakers), the Locarno Film Festival’s training program, are offering online masterclasses, open to the public, featuring some of the participants from the section The Films After Tomorrow (5-15 August). It is an opportunity to discover the world of these filmmakers through a special lens, that of the Locarno Academy community. The young talents themselves will be in charge of the content of the encounters. Through an online creative process, which will precede the masterclasses and be available to the users of the Festival’s website, there will also be a chance to discovers some of these promising figures, all active in various sectors of the international film scene. It is an additional opportunity offered by the Locarno Film Festival to get acquainted with the tendencies and faces of the cinema of tomorrow.
Via this initiative, conceived for the web, the Locarno Academy is aiming to set the stage for new initiatives, with the goal of involving its community in a year-round creative and training activity.
In this year’s Locarno Industry Academy, Brazilian director Juliana Rojas and producer Sara Silveira take part in a discussion on the theme of work with alumni of the Locarno Industry Academy and the Industry Academy International.
This summer, a selection of former Critics Academy participants will write articles and essays on films by directors participating in The Films After Tomorrow.
An exceptional guest, four brilliant emerging filmmakers. We will explore Miguel Gomes’ cinematic world in the company the talents of the Filmmakers Academy, whose talent is blossoming in different corners of the globe.
