Giovanni Spagnoletti

600 years before the birth of Christ, the first philosopher of Western thought, Thales of Miletus, stated that “water is the origin of everything”. Thus, it is also the origin of cinema, which is continuous images in movement, beautiful, liquid, elusive or stirring like a vast expanse of the ocean water. I have always dreamt of a Festival held with a huge screen on the water and with the spectators on the beach, in the silence of a starry night and accompanied by the undercurrent of the backwash. Pure and primordial emotions.

Giovanni Spagnoletti

Professor of “History and critique of Cinema” at the “Tor Vergata University” of Rome, he has written and/or edited almost one hundred publications regarding cinematographic themes, especially German and Italian cinema, as well as collaborating with various Italian and foreign magazines and newspapers. He is the editor of the four-monthly journal on cinema studies and the web-magazine «Close-up»; from 2000 to 2014, he was Art Director of the “Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro/Pesaro International Film Festival” and President of Afic (Italian Association of Film Festivals) for six years.

He has been awarded the Filippo Sacchi prize twice (in 1993 and 1996) for his work as a university lecturer; his cultural work and activities saw him awarded the President of the Senate’s Medal in 2012 and the Mario Gallo Prize, while in 2013 he won the Domenico Meccoli Prize.