Cinéma Vérité to host Italian documentarian Gianfranco Pannone

Italian documentarian Gianfranco Pannone has been scheduled to hold workshops during the 12th edition of the Cinéma Vérité in Iran.

To be held in Tehran next week, Pannone will hold the classes on dramaturgy in documentary films, the organizers announced on Monday.

Pannone is a graduate of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, the Italian national film school in Rome.

Most notable among his titles are ‘Red Sunrise’, ‘Waste in Freedom’, ‘The Incredible Adventure of Nuclear in Italy’, ‘Oil, Miracles and Stones’, ‘On the Volcano’, ‘The World’s Smallest Army’ and ‘Leave the Saints Alone’.

He has won accolades at a number of Italian and international festivals, including the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland and the London International Documentary Film Festival in the UK.

The 12th Cinéma Vérité will also screen ‘Mondo Za’, the latest documentary by Pannone.

The film depicts the life of Cesare Zavattini, an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists of Italian neorealist cinema.

Soureh in Isfahan, Shahid Avini in Bushehr, Setareh Baran in Tabriz, Howzeh Honari in Sari, and Golestan in Shiraz as well as Charsou in Tehran are the cinema halls to host the event.

Organized by the Documentary and Experimental Film Center, the first edition of Cinema Verite was held in 2007.

Over the past decade it has emerged as one of the important events on Iran's documentary film calendar.

The Cinema Verite aims at protecting the nation's identity, promoting creative documentary, reinforcing the link between documentary cinema and social facts and events, introducing new global developments in documentary cinema, providing financial support for documentarians by distributing and screening their works in other festivals and removing hurdles to film production.

The 12th edition of the Cinema Verite is slated for December 9-16, 2018.

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