Date: February 23, 2010 12:58:37 PM CST
Subject: Study Italian & Film Production in Italy this Summer
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PLEASE CIRCULATE...
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, De Rada Institute is offering a unique
opportunity to all students
interested in Italian Studies and in Film and Film Production. During the 2010
Summer Program in
Calabria, Italy, students will be able to take all levels of Italian language
and culture and the Italian
Cinema course while working with an Italian director on an independent film.
Program participants will be involved in all aspects of pre-production and
production, including
screenwriting, filming, and editing. Those who are interested can also
participate as actors in the
movie. For this activity students will earn 3 additional credits of Topics in
Production (FLM 351) or of
Field Experience in Film Media (FLM 401).
Renato Guzzardi, independent filmmaker and Professor at the University of
Calabria, will be directing a
film based on the travelogue “Old Calabria” written by British writer and
journalist Norman Douglas.
Those who are interested in better knowing the story and the character of
Norman Douglas, can read
this book published in London on 1915 before they travel.
Moreover students can make their own videos and shorts and participate in the
Arberia Film Festival:
The Film Festival is open to those who make a video, short in the area and it
is divided into 3 categories
(fiction, short film and movies realized by December 12 1999).
All movies for this contest must be shot in Calabria, but if students want to
show other works they have
done in the past they can do that as well. These works will be included in the
Arberia Film Festival as
“fuori concorso” (not in the official competition).
Besides the awards offered by the Film Festival, the De Rada Italian Institute
will award to the winner a
Film Festival Grant of $2,000 to be used as a financial support to return to
Calabria and participate in
the 2011 Summer Program.
For more information about the program, including all of the course offerings
in Italian language and
For the 10th Anniversary Special Grants available for the Programs in Calabria
visit
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Prof. Michelangelo La Luna, at
Michelangelo La Luna
Associate Professor of Italian
Director of the URI & De Rada Summer Program in Italy
Office Hours: M-W 11:00-noon and by app.
159 Swan Hall,
University of Rhode Island,
60 Upper College Road,
Kingston, RI 02881 (USA)
tel. 401-874-5968
fax 401-874-4694
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