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  • Rome Fest explains pushing of dates move

    Rome Fest explains pushing of dates move

    MUMBAI: Brushing aside comments from Minister of Culture Lorenzo Ornaghi criticising the Rome festival authorities for pushing its dates within a week of that of the Turin Film Festival, the Rome Film Festival President Paolo Ferrari has sent the minister an explanation behind the festival‘s motives behind the move.

    The seven-year-old event, now scheduled to take place from 9 to 17 November has angered the organizers of the Turin Film Festival that will be held between 23 November and 1 December. The short break between the two events is expected to drain media and sponsor interest away from Turin, feel the Turin fest organizers.

    It may noted that on Monday last, Ornaghi had blasted Rome fest for acting “obstinately” saying that its decision to move its dates was “against the overall interests of Italian cinema.”A day later, Ferrari explained that Rome offered to give Turin space to promote its line-up during the Rome festival.
     
    FThe Rome fest president also scoffed at the idea that the short break between Rome‘s close and Turin‘s open was necessarily problematic for the second festival, pointing to the short three-day break between the Montreal Film Festival in Canada thay will conclude this year on 3 September and the Toronto Film Festival that starts just three days later.

  • New dates of Rome fest announced

    New dates of Rome fest announced

    MUMBAI: The International Rome Film Festival‘s board has officially approved a plan to shift the 7-year-old festival‘s dates to November. Accordingly, the festival that was to be held from 27 October to 4 November will now be held from 9 to 17 November.

    With the announcement of the new dates, the Rome festival has avoided a direct conflict with the 30-year-old Turin Film Festival that will take place from 23 November to 1 December.

    The organisers of the Rome festival believe that by changing its dates to November, the festival‘s The Business Street market event will gain stronger footing as a halfway point between the big markets at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and the Berlin International Film Festival in February. They are also in a hope that with a late-in-the-year date the festival might serve as a new springboard for winter releases either vying for Oscar eligibility or the Christmas time box office.

    The Rome festival board also approved the festival‘s budget that is expected to be $14.3 million, lower than in previous editions of the festival but in the same range as more established festivals including the rival Venice Film Festival.

  • Controversy in salary of Max Mueller at Rome fest

    Controversy in salary of Max Mueller at Rome fest

    MUMBAI: Amid a new controversy, Paolo Ferrari, appointed as the Rome festival‘s president on 5 March, has denied that the incumbent next artistic director of the festival, Max Mueller would be paid $1.95 million as salary for a three-year term.

    Reports circulated in the Italian press said that Mueller would be paid a sum equal to the festival‘s $1.76 million deficit from last year‘s event. That reportedly has angered shareholders. Monday‘s reports returned the twisting and turning ten-week story over the future of the seven-year-old Rome event to Italian media headlines after a week hiatus.

    Ferrari‘s appointment was supposed to clear the way for Mueller, who had a successful eight-year in Venice before being ousted in favour of National Film Museum president Alberto Barbera in December. Though Mueller will almost be appointed as Rome Fest‘s artistic director, the process has so far been full of bumps.

    Once appointed, Ferrari and Mueller will have to work quickly to hammer out the details for their inaugural edition of the festival likely to be held in October next.

    The stakeholders‘ meeting that will officially appoint Mueller to the job will take place either on Thursday or Friday.