Once again this year we return with the 8th edition of “Filming Italy Los Angeles 2023”, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, which will take place from 28 February to 6 March 2023. It will be possible to watch masterclasses throughout the duration of the festival. The initiative also aims to… Find out more
59ª International Exhibition of New Cinema The Sindacato Nazionale Critici Cinematografici Italiani – Gruppo Emilia-Romagna Marche and the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema promote the Lino Miccichè Award for Film Criticism, an initiative realised with the contribution and patronage of the General Direction for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Ministry of Culture. The aim… Find out more
The triumph of Malleus at the Film Fest International The film ‘MALLEUS’ – feature film by director and RUFA lecturer Andrés Rafael Zabala – won two coveted awards at the International Film Fest that just took place in the beautiful setting of the city of Edinburgh. Best Director for a Foreign Film to Andrés… Find out more
A further success for the documentary ‘Mammamare’ – written and directed by RUFA film students Francesca Marra, Giovanni Benedetto Matteucci and Lucrezia Mariotti – which won a Competent Audience Special Mention at the fifth edition of Extra Doc Festival, organised by the Festival del Cinema di Roma in collaboration with MAXXI. As part of the… Find out more
Cinema student Alessia Antognelli was named ‘Top student’ in the Student Review Programme (SRP), promoted by The NGO International Film Festival. Alessia was selected among students from four universities from Africa, Europe and North America. As part of the NGO International Film Festival’s educational initiative is the Student Review Programme (SRP) that is geared… Find out more
“Come una vera coppia” – the documentary made by director and RUFA lecturer Christian Angeli – wins a special mention at the RIFF – Rome Independent Film Festival , per “the delicacy with which the director stages intimacy and misunderstandings, enthusiasm for a possible future and thoughtful disillusionment, lightness and a sense of responsibility of… Find out more
On Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 6 p.m. RUFA lecturer Raffaele Simongini will present his book, “Cinema and the Illusion of a Moonlight” at the Casa del Cinema, Largo Marcello Mastroianni 1. Speakers: Emanuele Cappelli – Direttore Creativo Cappelli Identity Design Marianna Cappi – Sceneggiatrice Silvia De Felice – Producer arte Rai Cultura Tullio Morganti… Find out more
Last Wednesday, November 23, the President of the Calabria Film Commission Foundation Anton Giulio Grande was our guest at the Academy to attend the screening of some short films made by RUFA students and graduates, and consider developing them as part of a project funded by the Foundation. The short films screened, the result of… Find out more
Il trionfo al Festival Internazionale di Salerno “MALLEUS”, second feature film by director and RUFA lecturer Andrés Rafael Zabala, will have its world premiere as a competition film at the 76° Festival Internazionale di Salerno between 28 November and 3 December 2022. This is a significant and particularly heartfelt participation in an event that… Find out more
RUFA met over two weeks with the very young students of the Istituto I.I.S. “A.Frammartino” di Monterotondo and from the Liceo Scientifico Archimede Pacinotti of Rome within the PCTO programme – Pathways for Transversal Skills and Orientation (ex Alternanza Scuola Lavoro). A highly innovative teaching methodology introduced in 2003 that allows high school students to… Find out more
On Thursday 20 October, the lecturer Manfredi Lucibello will premiere at the Rome Film Festival the documentary: “Bice Lazzari – Il ritmo e l’ossessione”, starring the very young and talented Benedetta Porcarili. Synopsis Bice Lazzari’s life is a story of resistance, emancipation and freedom. Telling it is an opportunity to show the twentieth century… Find out more
Former RUFA students Gabriele Biasi and Francesco Giorgi were chosen to make AI ORACLE:Lithium, the experimental documentary that is an integral part of the art installation exhibited at the PhEst Festival – See Beyond The Sea. RUFA Cinema graduates Gabriele Biasi and Francesco Giorgio from the Threeab production company have been chosen by the… Find out more
RUFA Cinema students took part in the fifth edition of the Sardinian Festival “CinemArtist”: screenings, masterclasses, meetings with directors and an innovative contest to enhance the territory. Cinema students Sabrina La Macchia, Anatholij Costanzo, Mario Travaglio and Michele Martino were among the protagonists of the fifth edition of the CinemArtist Contest, which took place… Find out more
Minerva Pictures is among the first film companies in Italy and Europe to launch Minerva Pictures-Rarovideo officially enters the world of NFT in partnership with Public Pressure and RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts. The historic independent film production and distribution company and multimedia publisher, which has to its credit a film-library of… Find out more
New opportunity for RUFA students: Fidelio and Gruppo Hope launch a call for young videomakers to talk about the importance of a sustainable and green world Applicants are asked to make a short video about climate change and its impact on our daily lives and the renewable energies that are indispensable to face the… Find out more
A new opportunity for Film and Scenography students: RUFA and the production company WFDiF join forces to enhance the film and performing arts disciplines. RUFA and the production company WFDiF – Wytwórnia Filmów dokumentalnych i Fabularnych of Warsaw, through the Polish Institute in Rome, have signed an agreement to foster cooperation between Italy and… Find out more
“A is for Alice” is the first dystopian film by former Film student Sharon Grace Badia. Sharon Grace Badia, a young up-and-coming filmmaker and former RUFA student, makes her debut with a SciFi film almost two hours long, entirely shot in Abruzzo, more precisely in the impervious area of Castrovalva. The cast, almost entirely… Find out more
“Quanno chiove”, a zero work by director and former RUFA student Mino Capuano, will have its world premiere on 14 July in the “Bimbi belli” festival directed by Nanni Moretti at the Nuovo Cinema Sacher in Rome. “Quanno chiove”, a work by young director Mino Capuano, born in 1994, will be presented as the… Find out more
Saturday 16 July will see the special screening of the short film ‘It’s not over here’, directed by Cinema student Benedetta Fontana. The short “Non è finita qui”, made this year by RUFA student Benedetta Fontana under the supervision of lecturer Gianluca Sportelli, will be screened at the Sala Roma in Nocera Inferiore on… Find out more
The masterclass with Doriana Leondeff scheduled for July 12 was rescheduled for July 26. RUFA will host a series of free Masterclasses as part of the FILM SOCIETY film festival. From 28 June 2022 for the whole summer, the FILM SOCIETY film festival will transform the evocative open-air spaces of the Teatro India,… Find out more