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Jury's special program: the jurors talk about themselves to the public

Venice, March 21st, 2025. Yesterday, at the Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival, the Jury’s Special Program was held and the three jurors of the international competition talked about their experience in the cinematographic field.

The event was opened with a conversation between Maria Roberta Novielli, artistic and organizational director of the festival, and Alessandra Riccardi Infascelli, an Italian producer known for producing movies belonging to the spaghetti western genre, including Un dollaro tra i denti (1967) by Luigi Vanzi and Blindman (1971) by Ferdinando Baldi. She was also involved in Italian police sagas, such as La donna della domenica (1975) by Luigi Comencini and Doppio delitto (1977) by Steno. Riccardi Infascelli retraced her long career - she said she has almost turned “sixty years of cinema” - by remembering anecdotes from the productions that she has supervised and focusing on the representation of the Italian society of the 70s in the movies of any genre of that particular period.

The meeting proceeded with the introduction of La vérité, the most recent short film by the young French director and screenwriter Malou Lévêque, who was interviewed by Gabrielle Gamberini. The director explained how her work was born thanks to the encounter with the protagonists of a documentary where Lévêque had worked, and that revolves around the friendly yet conflictual relationship between two teenagers, Dounia and Keny, from Marseille’s suburbs. The central themes are duality (present in the chosen linguistic registers, in the different backgrounds of the characters and in the movement of their bodies in space) and the possibility of finding an in-between space to break free from their predefined roles.

The last to speak was Barbara Biddulph, a stop-motion animation designer and art director of many successful movies, such as Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) by Wes Anderson and Frankenweenie (2012) by Tim Burton. Biddulph, interviewed by Davide Giurlando, professor of Filmmaking at Ca’ Foscari’s Master of Fine Arts, introduced the audience to the world of animated series such as Scream Street and Norman Picklestripes, showing the various stages of her artistic process, from initial sketches and mood boards to the creation of the final sets. 

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