Alessandro Avellis (born 30 September 1975) is an Italian film director.
Alessandro Avellis studied film direction in Rome. Since 2000 he lives in Paris. He directed some short films selected and awarded in several international film festivals, of which Lovstori, selected in 1996 at the Sacher festival of Nanni Moretti, and More of Paul, released on DVD by Antiprod. He wrote and directed in 2005 his first feature film, My Super 8 Season, freely inspired by historical events (DVD Antiprod). Then, he made two documentaries: The Revolution of Desire (DVD Hystérie Prod), about the FHAR, the French feminist and gay liberation movement in the 70s, and The Vatican Rules, about the reactionary influence of the Roman Church. In 2008 he directed "Transseizième", a documentary about Pascale Ourbih, a transsexual actress, first-time candidate for the French Green Party in the wealthiest and conservative Parisian district.
«Festival de films g&l» Paris 2005 (France), «Festival du film g&l» Brussels 2006 (Belgium), «Turin G&L film festival Da Sodoma a Hollywood» Torino 2006 (Italy), «Vues d’en Face» Grenoble 2006 (France), «Journées du cinéma g&l» Rouen 2006 (France), «Image+Nation» Montreal 2006 (Canada), «NewFest» New York 2007 (USA), «Austin g&l Int’l Film Festival» Austin 2007 (USA) «Reel Affirmations» Washington 2007 (USA), Corona Cork Film Festival (Ireland), «Reeling In’l G&L Film Festival» Chicago (USA), «Mix Brasil» São Paulo, Brasília, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), «Festival de films g&l» Paris 2006 (France), «Festival Reflets» Marseille 2007 (France), «Université d’été homosexuelle» Marseille 2007, «Get Bent» Manchester 2007 (England), «Festival du film militant» Aubagne 2007 (France), «Pink Screens» Brussels 2007 (Belgium), «Turin G&L film festival Da Sodoma a Hollywood» Turin 2008 (Italy), «Festival Reflets» Marseille 2008 (France), «Image+Nation» Montreal 2007 (Canada), «Festival Désirs Désirs» Tours 2008 (France), «Festival Confrontation – The 70s cinema» Perpignan 2008 (France), «D’un genre à l’autre» Nice 2008 (France), «Mardi Gras Film Festival» Sydney 2008 (Australia), «London L&G Film Festival» London 2008 (UK), «Melbourne Queer Film Festival» Melbourne 2008 (Australia), «Outfest» Los Angeles 2008 (Etats-Unis), «Q! Film Festival» Jakarta, Bali, Surabaya 2008 (Indonesia).
Ugo Eugenio Prat, better known as Hugo Pratt was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2005.
Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-KonchalovskyOZO is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, theatre director, and screenwriter. He is a laureate of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", a National Order of the Legion of Honour, a Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters, a Cavalier of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and a People's Artist of the RSFSR. His father was the writer Sergey Mikhalkov.
Tiziano Fratus is an Italian poet and publisher.
Frédéric Mitterrand is a French politician who served as Minister of Culture and Communication of France from 2009 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. Throughout his career, he has been an actor, screenwriter, television presenter, writer, producer and director.
Léa Pool C.M. is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who also teaches film at UQAM. She has directed several feature films, including Anne Trister (1986) and Set Me Free (Emporte-moi) (1999), both of which screened at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival, where the latter won the Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.
Phil Comeau, CM is a Canadian film and television director, born in Saulnierville, Nova Scotia. He lives in Moncton, New Brunswick and Montreal, Quebec.
The front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire (FHAR) was a loose Parisian movement founded in 1971, resulting from a union between lesbian feminists and gay activists. If the movement could be considered to have leaders, they were Guy Hocquenghem and Françoise d'Eaubonne, while other members included Christine Delphy, Daniel Guérin, and Laurent Dispot. It had disappeared by 1976. Surviving early activists also include painter and surrealistic photographer Yves Hernot, now living in Sydney, Australia.
DamianPettigrew is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, author, and multimedia artist, best known for his cinematic portraits of Balthus, Federico Fellini and Jean Giraud.
My Super 8 Season is a 2005 French film by Alessandro Avellis that deals with gay and lesbian issues.
Asiemut is a Canadian documentary film depicting the 8,000 kilometres (5,000 mi) cycling and philosophical journey of a young French Canadian couple from Mongolia to India. It was entirely filmed, directed and produced by Olivier Higgins and Mélanie Carrier. Asiemut has won 35 prizes in festivals around the world.
Polaroid Song is a French short film directed by Alphonse Giorgi and Yann Tivrier in 2011. Completed in 2012, Polaroid Song was broadcast on French public national television channel France 2 in April and September 2012 and was competitively selected for several film festivals throughout the world.
Marc-Henri Wajnberg is a Belgian film director born in 1953. He is also a screenwriter, an actor and the co-founder and CEO of Wajnbrosse Productions.
Stéphane Neville is a French singer, composer, actor and director.
Serafino Murri is an Italian film critic, screenwriter and film director.
Isabelle Boni-Claverie(/ˈɪzəˌbɛl ˈboʊni-Claverie/) is an author, screenwriter, and film director born in the Ivory Coast. She moved to Switzerland when she was a few months old, then to France, but mostly grew up in Paris.
Henri Lepage was a French film director, screenwriter, and assistant director
Paolo Ventura is an Italian photographer, artist and set designer based in Milan.
People and Religions – Terni Film Festival is an international film festival, which takes place annually in November at the CityPlex Politeama Lucioli in Terni and at many other venues around the town. It deals with interfaith dialogue, spirituality in cinema, immigrant integration, visual education and activities for prisoners. For two consecutive years, the festival was awarded the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic. It has been organized by ISTESS, Institute of Theological and Historical-Social Studies, directed by Stefania Parisi. Honorary president of the festival is Krzysztof Zanussi, Polish film director; the artistic director is Arnaldo Casali. Promoted by the diocese of Terni Narni Amelia and by the Episcopal Conference of Umbria, the festival enjoys the patronage of the Municipality of Terni and the Pontifical Council for Culture, with the support of the Umbria Region, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, as well as the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni. The festival oversees screenings for inmates of the Terni prison and matinee performances for students of elementary schools, middle and high schools, as well as universities; national and international premiers, meetings with authors, concerts, theatre performances, exhibitions and an international competition for feature films, short films and documentaries. One of the objectives of the festival is the integration of immigrants. Hence, every year the festival focuses on a selected region of the world, actively involving foreign communities in screenings, dance, musical performances, meetings and food tastings of typical regional products. Since 2006 the Godmother of the festival is Maria Grazia Cucinotta. Among the many personalities who attended the first twelve events are Enzo Enzo Decaro, Ellen Stewart, Enrico Brizzi, Vincenzo Cerami, Lina Wertmuller, Roberto Citran, Renzo Rossellini, Guido Chiesa, Liliana De Curtis, Emanuela Aureli, Silvano Agosti, Arnaldo Colasanti, Angelo Longoni, Adelmo Togliani, the sand artist Gabriella Compagnone, Luis Bacalov, Philomena Lee as well as Dario Edoardo Viganò, prefect for the Vatican's Communications, who was president of the jury in 2008 and in 2011 and one of the authors of the book Tra cielo e terra [Between Heaven and Earth] and who received the career award in 2014. The festival is twinned with the Religion Today Film Festival in Trento and constitutes a network of European interfaith film festivals, including the Days of Cinema and Reconciliation of Notre-Dame de la Salette in France and the Sacrofilm Festival of Zamosc in Poland. It also constitutes a part of the network of film festivals of Umbria including the Perugia Social Film Festival, the Narni Cinema, the Montone Umbria Film Festival and the Spello Cinema Festival. In addition to the Best Film Award, Best Short Film and Best Documentary, the festival also awards the Jury Grand Prize, the Award for Best Film of Umbria and the awards for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Soundtrack, Best Photography, Best Effects, and the Angelo alla Carriera, work of art by the sculptor Fernando Dominioni. Every year one evening of the festival is dedicated to St Francis of Assisi, the first Christian to peacefully convey a dialogue with another religion. All of this takes form of premiers, meetings, retrospectives and shows. The festival, now for the thirteenth consecutive year, has been gathering about 1000 spectators a day for over 9 days every year. Among the award-winning artists there are Alessandro D’Alatri, Krzysztof Zanussi, Paolo Consorti, Franco Battiato, Giuliano Montaldo, Lech Majewski, Jerzy Stuhr, Eugenio Barba, Amos Gitai, Ascanio Celestini, David Rondino, Nino Frassica, Elio Germano and the PFM Band. The festival has also produced two documentaries: Lo Spirito di Assisi in 2006 [The Spirit of Assisi] and Sarajevo Adesso in 2012 [Sarajevo Now], and a book: Tra Cielo e Terra [Between Heaven and Earth]. There is also another book related to the festival: Cinema, artisti e religione [Cinema, artists and religion] by Arnaldo Casali that constitutes a collection of interviews and opinions of, among others, Angelo Branduardi, Giobbe Covatta, Corrado Guzzanti, Sabrina Impacciatore, Neri Marcorè, Davide Rondoni, Carlo Verdone, Nanni Moretti and Alice Rohrwacher.
Clément Cogitore is a French contemporary artist and filmmaker. Combining film, video, installations and photographs, Cogitore questions the modalities of cohabitation between humankind and its own images and representations.
La baie du désir is a 1964 French erotic drama film directed by Max Pécas and Radley Metzger (uncredited).
