With only two films behind him, Giorgio Diritti is one of the most important Italian “authors”. His is a personal and rigorous cinematographic path, in which the film becomes a tool for reflection and intervention on reality. It is known that a film does not change society, but sometimes it is able to adjust it even just a little. The attention to the anthropological element and to the realism of situations is one of the most evident characteristics of Diritti’s artistic path, aligned in favor of a cinema that avoids banal stereotypes and indigestible didacticism, takes the side of the humble and lets places and faces speak (those of his films are among the most sincere of all contemporary Italian cinema). It is, again, a cinema of stories, developed with a profound moral sense and a shared attention to poetic elements. In Diritti’s case, telling stories does not mean grasping the fictional elements; rather, it means going straight to the events, reconstructing the environments, working on the nuances, attacking factual reality. What emerges is an authentically “popular” cinema, built in the name of realism and the warmest emotional involvement. Not everyone can take on the identity of small communities, gather their pain and rework it in the form of cinema. Diritti does it, and it is no small feat.
Giorgio Diritti trained by collaborating with several highly regarded Italian authors, such as Pupi Avati and Federico Fellini, and by participating in the activities of Ipotesi Cinema, an institute for the training of young authors coordinated by Ermanno Olmi. In the film sector, more than 15 years have passed since his first short film, Cappello da Marinaio, selected in competition at numerous European festivals. In this time, as an author and director, he has made numerous films, documentaries, editorial and television productions, to arrive at the presentation of his first work Il vento fa il suo giro, which has revealed itself as a singular production and distribution phenomenon capable of winning numerous international awards. His latest film, L’uomo che verrà, was presented at the 2009 Rome Film Festival, where it received the Special Jury Prize.
Enrico Magrelli, journalist and film critic, is one of the authors and hosts of the daily radio program on Raitre Hollywood Party (his voice is the warmest and most calm). He was director of cinema news on Tele+, then author and host of Ciakpoint, a program on Raisat Cinema. From 1979 to 1982 he was part of Carlo Lizzani's creative and organizational staff at the Venice Film Festival. From 1988 to 1990 he was Director of the Critics' Week at the Venice Film Festival. In 1991 he was Guglielmo Biraghi's right-hand man at the Film Festival. His monographs dedicated to Robert Altman, Roman Polanski, Nanni Moretti. He edited a dozen volumes including: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marilyn Monroe, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Nagisa Oshima, Satyajt Ray. Since 2004, he has been part of the Selection Committee of the Venice International Film Festival, an event where he works side by side with the director Marco Müller. As a television author, he has signed numerous programs, including “Domenica in”, “Festival di Sanremo”, “Telegatti”, seven editions of the “Concerto di Natale in Vaticano” and various specials dedicated to cinema. Since 2009, he has been the Curator of the Cineteca Nazionale.