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mong the arts and crafts The pottery is also found in selected for Slow Movie Tavarnelle, with the workshop SERGIO TURINI AContest, there is the Il Tafano, and in Radda, with Chianti Sculpture Park Decori nel Tempo (specializing Pievasciata, in Castelnuovo in the production of lamps, Why is it called Chianti? Berardenga: 7 acres of land mirrors, fabrics and miniatures) where the sculptures by artists and withRampini ceramics , Rummaging among the many In Ligliano, S. Leonino in Conio from around the world blend whose work will bring us back publications, ancient or not, the and S. Agnese. The Plover, with the colors, sounds and in Renaissance , when more plausible etymology places of worship, were formed noises of the forest. the Medici celebrating the art of seems that derived from the verb by the people, the people of the There are three characteristics good food in their castles and CLANGO (almost a sound of a Chianti were 69 and for ease of that define the park, according to country villas presenting the SLOW MOVIE CONTEST hunting horn), which defined the administration were divided into their founders: the integration of dishes in beautiful decorated ancient state of the rural district three groups, and so there were nature and art, the diversity of dinner services. covered with forests, intended to the Terzi or Terzieri, each of cultures, and the vary of used The Japanese art of pottery is baronial hunting. which was named from the most materials, features that, we highly valued in Chianti: Lucia From ancient documents it is important among them: Radda, believe, make it similar to our Volentieri in Castellina in noted that the present territory named capital of the League of competition. We are preparing to Chianti, is an expert of the Raku was a large wooded forest and Chianti, Castellina and Gaiole. make in the coming months technique, her lively production the tenth and eleventh centuries Slow Movie Contest become a also includes some nice were replaced, little by little In 1774, the Grand Duke Pietro sort of Pievasciata traveling, modular cubes depicting the cultivation of olive trees, Leopoldo suppressed the going to 'animate' from week to rural surrounding her Progetto realizzato mulberry trees and "... an administrations of Terzi, week eight municipalities that laboratory , with the ubiquitous exquisite vines that produce replacing them with the are involved in it. olive tree. Just olive tree and nell’ambito di low-quality wine." Celebrated Community and leaving The directors that we have olive oil will focus Gina by Francesco Redi, doctor and unchanged the same boundaries. selected, Italian and foreign, are Napolitan, which will film in TOSCANAINCONTEMPORANEA 2012 literary man at the Medici court Subsequently under the French already at work, and are doing Castellina at the farm of in his Bacco in Toscana (1685). government were annexed to the research on the Internet about Marchesi Mazzei , historically There is also a memory of the department of the Ombrone and places and activities that have family linked to the political year 790, found in the Abbey of to the unification of the been proposed. We have and cultural life of the region, San Bartolomeo a Ripoli, where Kingdom were part of the unearthed for them, thanks to the from the beginning of the the Benedictine monks tell of a province of Siena, which still helpful suggestions we have eleventh century. Ser Lapo court in CLANTI CUM belong. received from the various Mazzei has even considered the In collaboration with: INTEGRO SALINGO and this countries and the municipalities, "father" of the Chianti could be another possible origin we have immediately appellation, which appeared for of the name Chianti. recognized this mixture of the first time in a commercial The word Chianti appears after cultures, nature and technology, contract with his signature, the middle of the thirteenth and a wide variety of materials dated 16 December 1398. century, until then the Chianti and ... animals. It is also because Franco Bozzi, in Greve, makes lands were indicated by the the animals are a point of contact sculptures from recycled wood. generic name of Castiglione, so Barberino Val d’Elsa with the Sculpture Park, before Also in Greve,Patrizio Catarzi , much so that the Ghibelline becoming such, housed, in fact, a wood turner, produces Emperor Arrigo IV (1056-1073) herd of wild boars! wonderful Pinocchio, Mr. and the Guelph Federico I Nora Kravis has left Long Island Fagioli is one of the few Barbarossa ( 1122-1190) "... in 1972 to Radda in Chianti: she craftsmen who still dedicate confirmed to the counts Guidi, had a degree in art, but was the themselves to the art of Vicars of the Holy See, the passion for quadrupeds that realization of the baskets. In innovations adopted, Luca Del In the countryside of Gaiole we lordship of the territory of before led her to make the trainer San Casciano find another Giudice realizes constantly find "Le Conce", the pottery Castiglione ...", a territory that of horses, and then put on a herd turner, Mr.Lapini , and then works of architects and workshop of Studio Fernandez, Castelnuovo included the present Castellina Berardenga of Cashmere goats at her stone Carlo Chiti, which produces the contemporary sculptors Italian whereMargherita and Olivier and Radda. cottage in the valleys of Volpaia. Terrecotte del Chianti at the and international. Fernandez produce porcelain, A certain date is 1384, when it The first in , and the first Fornace di Gabbiano, making At the Park in Pievasciata are the hard porcelain and bronze and established the League of 'brick' for the creation of a each piece by hand with the land works ofFabio Zacchei , smith they have created a special Chianti with the promulgation company that operates in the of Galestro. in Castelnuovo Berardenga, a 'blend' between the Tuscan of its Statute. League, which field of luxury goods with a line The craftsmen of metals country where for years this tradition and other cultures , probably already existed from of natural textile for the person produce for the activities more activity has been the main source especially the English and the first century, when the and for the house.At Barberino traditional (Giachini in of income of the population. Japanese. Republic of Florence divided Val d'Elsa, Riccardo Salvetti will Tavarnelle works for cellars and Fabio's father,Mario , still works We end the roundup as we had the territory into autonomous Gaiole in Chianti Radda in Chianti compete withIl Paretaio , an oil mills) and for those more asbullettaio , another trade in begun: with a woman, a foreign, jurisdictions, calling Leagues. international equestrian center advanced (Stefano Failli , in San endangered, or, as we hope, in but now completely Chianti: The Florentine Statute of 1415 specializing in classical riding, Casciano, works metal for search of 'new inspiration'. Stefanie Dux, who from gives us absolute certainty a way but also with the production of artists). At the Fonderia Del Besides iron and metals there are Germany has planted a hand- to determine exactly, the ceramics byAndrea Biagini , that Giudice in Greve there is at the activities and materials more weaving workshop in Gaiole in boundaries of Chianti of that in the lab built close to his house same time an ancient feminine: in Tavarnelle the Chianti, near the Castle of time. he is dedicated to pottery, to the Renaissance art workshop, Lucia’s embroideries (in Brolio, where transforms the The League was formed by paper clay (making pots that are where three generations have Tavarnelle the embroidery is an linen, cotton and hemp in Plover and those of Chianti a mixture of clay and paper), and handed down the art of the ancient art of local tradition to beautiful fabrics, using frames where :Panzano, S. Maria especially to the turning of technique of lost wax casting, which also the Museum of older than 300 years. Novella, S. Giusto in Salcio, S. San Casciano Val di Pesa Tavarnelle Val di Pesa porcelain, because his and a modern workshop where, Sacred Art devotes space) and Maria a Spaltenna, S. Polo in preference is the Japanese thanks to the technological the creations ofLea Bilanci : We stop here, even though this Rosso, S. Marcellino, S. Cristina ceramics. books, herbals, albums, cards, long list remains open, waiting to envelopes, boxes, made with be stretched or 'altered' by the Sponsor cards of various sizes, density look of our new and curious Technical Sponsor Media partner and texture, using spices, herbs, filmmakers. And while we wait plants, flowers, fibers and for them, let's find out something tissues. more about each of them in the following pages.

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[email protected] Residenza perArtisti One Page June 24, 2013 Gina Marie Napolitan - USA Filming in Castellina in Chianti FoundationAward,and this past year she was awarded an artist residency at Echo Park Film Center in LosAngeles. Napolitan received her BFA in Film/Video from and her MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of theArts. A curiosity… Collage and assemblage of found objects are Gina’s primary means of creative expression and they have roots in her childhood. In the late 1970s, her parents purchased a small 180 year-old farmhouse LA MATERIA in Brockton, Massachusetts. They gradually remodeled the Born : January 16th 1981 house throughout the 1980s, She comes from: Brockton, and during this period of new identities created with each Massachusetts- USA renovation, mysterious objects re-arrangement and juxtaposition She lives in: South Pasadena- hidden in the walls were of the images on screen. California discovered: old children’s toys, Bio-Filmography: stacks of pulp magazines from She says… (about Slow Movie Gina Marie Napolitan is an the 1870s, corn cob pipes and Contest): experimental filmmaker and scraps of clothing. Her mother This is my first time in , media artist and she has worked dutifully saved everything they and in Italy. I love researching the Riccardo Salvetti - Italy as a puppeteer and video found, arranging them into history of specific places, so I've designer on several experimental strange tableaux on tables in our been preparing by doing that, as theater productions. Her living room. As a little girl, well as learning to speak basic animated films have screened at Gina spent hours staring at Italian. I've been very interested Filming in Barberino Val D’Elsa the Boston Underground Film these objects, drawing in using candles and small, Festival, Anthology Film associations between them, focused flashlights as the primary Archive in New York City, LA constructing narratives around light sources in my films recently, are the stories and traditions of FilmForum, Antimatter Film them, engaging in a peculiar so I'm hoping that I can apply this Born : May 19th 1986 and "The Plague Doctor my country: the Romagna, and Festival, Black Maria, kind of suburban archeology. technique to the area I've been He comes from: Forlì- ITALY "(videographer) this possibility to climb over the animateCologne, and numerous Gina believes that film offers assigned. My film will likely be a He lives in: Forlì He has a degree in film Apennines and try to tell the arts other venues in the United States the ideal showcase for this kind combination of live action Bio-Filmography: production at the school of and crafts of another region with and abroad. In 2011, she was a of art: discarded objects can be footage and animated footage. Riccardo is a freelance "Cinema, Television and New recipient of the Princess Grace given new life through motion, filmmaker, he work as a Media" in Milan. my eyes fills me with enthusiasm. production assistant, operator, Riccardo’s website: It 's the first time I go to director. www.riccardosalvetti.com Barberino, and I have the His film "Gabani – due volte pleasure to find out for this campione" won eight awards at He says… (about Slow Movie occasion, so I can study it and Cristian Benaglio - Italy international festivals enjoying Contest): know it from the start with success among critics and Telling the value of traditions watchful eyes to perform this audiences. Among the most and grasp the energy that they project. Filming in Tavarnelle Val di Pesa important productions in which contain is one of the main Now the first thing I will begin Movie Contest. he has worked: reasons that lead me to pick up studying the arts and crafts that I In recent months, he is working "Gabani – due volte campione" the camera, so as soon as I have been assigned, and then on various projects including the Docu-Fiction on the life of reported the call develop a narrative that can creation of a documentary about Arnaldo Pambianco (writer and "slowmoviecontest" I could not enclose the all in one short film. Franco Battiato and a new script director), "La banda dei Babbi pull back. Cristian has a diploma in Natale" by Aldo, Giovanni and I was hoping for this selection surveying and attended the Giacomo (production), "Bruciare because until now I have Faculty of Letters and violini per vendere la cenere " focused heavily on those who Philosophy of the Catholic University which he then left in favor of work commitments.

He says… (about Slow Movie Contest): Alina Gorlova - Ukraine My professional experience ranges from documentaries (with Filming in Radda in Chianti which I began) to TV programs through film projects consist mainly of three short films, but Born : September 16th 1991 very actual today. I'm trying to sense. This is very important, between all projects, the ones that She comes from: Zaporozhye - know more about this town, 'cause your thoughts go away gave me the most satisfaction UKRAINE about history of it. and your head became fresh. were those in which in some way, She lives in: Kyiv- UKRAINE I have an idea of what I will After this, you begin to as they say, was history to choose shoot in Radda: this will be the understand more things about me. Bio-Filmography: short movie-meditation. I want life, because you have "reload". In this case I think Tavarnelle is a Alina graduated from Kyiv to show, that the crafts can relax. I had the experience of "reload", new excellent opportunity to National University of Theatre, When you doing something by when I was with the wild nature dedicate myself to Tuscany which Cinematography and Television your hands, your mind begin to for a long time. is the part I love most about my in 2012. In the same year she shot concentrated on this the feeling, Born : July 17th 1982 collaborated with the country! four short movies: “The first step He comes from: Rezzato- Cooperativa Tempo Libero for Frequently between a work and in the clouds” (with which she Brescia-IL TEMA ITALY the realization of short films another I voluntarily lost in the was selected for Slow Movie He lives in: Brescia with and for children of area, but specifically I have never Contest), “The Widow”, Bio-Filmography: Cristian is a elementary and middle school, been in Tavarnelle and do not “Babushka” and “Heart professional filmmaker since he worked for Videoproduzione know anything about his history, transplantant” (which won the September 2002, when he to production of video clips and now I think I have a good excuse Prize forHANNO the “Best movie, DETTO shot by participated in the making of animations for companies of the to fill the gap. the students” at the ethnic-social documentaries on Finmeccanica group , has made Among the first work I've done Kinokimmeria International RAI 3 in Valle d'Aosta. He then photos and videos for Marc there are many documentaries Film Festival.) worked for two years to the Paris for the marine industry and dedicated to arts and crafts, but I creation of two sets of international publications, and have never had to deal with the She says… (about Slow Movie "Playground" for Disney on RAI has worked on documentaries paper crafts or pottery Contest): 2 within the program and video clips including the workshops, which is why, It will be my first time in Italy. I "DisneyClub." In 2006 he institutional project of school although I have some ideas, I will know, that this region is one of the became part of "Tamavideo srl" records achieved for PA not take decisions until I have most beautiful in Italy. As I cine television production incentive andAssoform Rimini. done at least a small survey in the understand from books and web, company based in Milan, with His first short film, "Statistica" country. Radda has the unique whom he has made television is in 2009, followed by "Come Now, knowing this project, I am atmosphere. There are a lot of programs and multimedia di dice" (2010) and happy that I could get an idea of objects, that give you products for RAI, Mediaset, "Aquavitae." (2011), which he the local crafts during the days of inspiration: nature, people, arts, SKY, Allmusic, FOX, produced and directed, and the exhibition “Artigianato e crafts, architecture, style of live. I DISCOVERY. He has which has been selected by Slow Palazzo' in Florence. really suppose, that this idea is

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information at my disposal, in order to maximize my time and make a good short. I want to get a complete view of the area and its surroundings: in a nutshell, fully understand the lifestyle of Greve in Chianti. Internet allows us to access an enormous amount of information, not only on a technical level, but also of feelings: personal experiences, opinions of travelers and impressions of the people who went from there or living there. My work will focus in trying to reflect the character of the city Born : February 27th 1981 the Spanish festival Seminici, and and the influence of the crafts. She comes from: Madrid- SPAIN "La semana of Cortometraje de la With my short will film the spirit She lives in: Madrid-SPAIN comunidad de Madrid", will of the area, that is, the color and Bio-Filmography: arrive in Italy, MedFilmFestival the essence of a city portrayed Following her undergraduate of Rome (June 24 to 29) and the through its picturesque Studies in audiovisual Festival of Brescello (June 21 to landscape. The kind oscillate Communications in the 23), where it will be in between documentary and Universidad Pontificia de competition. fiction story, in search of the Salamanca, she studies tension that allows you to get Silvio D’Angelo - Italy cinematographic direction in She says… (about Slow Movie closer to the Italian popular ECAM. In 2010 she receives an Contest): culture through the Filming in San Casciano Val Di Pesa exchange scholarship with construction of a story. ENERC (Buenos Aires, I have not had the opportunity to I was lucky enough to graduate Argentina) where she completes come to Tuscany or Greve in in art, and for this I came into Born : August 7th 1987 Kings") The SlowMovieContest will be her training. This experience has Chianti, although I know a part of contact with many disciplines, He comes from: Pescara- He has a degree in Public and an excellent opportunity to go provided her with a more this region through film, and the such as sculpture or painting. ITALY Political Communication in search of these hidden talents complete vision as a film-maker. films that were shot emblematic, In addition, my family has He lives in: Pescara by the beautiful landscape of Currently she juggles her work as such as "Il paziente inglese", "Io always been very much in touch Bio-Filmography: Silvio is a He says… (about Slow Movie Tuscany, in the style of producer in the production ballo da sola". I find wonderful ... with the world of craft, so I am freelance filmmaker, makes Contest): reportage. company Zapruder Films with the landscape, the timeless very sensitive to the method of videos for events, advertising If I did not the videomaker I In my work I always try to the pre-production of her first full character of the villages, and the work of a sculptor, for example, and the Internet under the brand would probably be carpenter or capture the most interesting length film as director due to start quality of life that seems to that the bottom is not so "Oviedo". He worked as an blacksmith. I've always been aspects of what I'm filming in 2014. The third story, her final breathe in your country : for this I different from that of a operator of filming and editing fascinated by the craft trades, without building too pictures year project, and for which she really want to know these places. filmmaker. for TV Extracampus of Turin, particularly those who do not and dialogues. My week in San was selected to Slow Movie For this experience I'm Confindustria Pescara, ZOO produce parts in series. Casciano in Val di Pesa will be Contest, after being screened at documenting, trying to find all the ART Festival Olona, My first short film ("without art a real discovery of the territory Cinemambiente. He is the nor part"), not surprisingly, without filters and without author of two music videos concerns a boy who creates patterns, to try to grasp in the (Radioshakedown - "Cheaters works of art working pieces of most natural way the value of Romina Contepomi - UK never lose" and Josagun - "Smo iron abandoned. the area. Filming in Castelnuovo Berardenga

however I’m planning to start Darim Da Prato - Italy writing the script shortly. I am trying to get inspiration by Filming in Gaiole in Chianti reading Italian poetry, at the videographers of Versilia. He moment I’m reading Giosuè has directed the following short Carducci work. It is still a very films: "Il figlio del pastore - A early stage and I want to allow Videoportrait of Lorenzo myself space for exploration. Viani" (2013), "La As I mentioned before feel that Transumanza delle Api" research is crucial as I am a (2012), "Maestri d’ascia e firm believer that inspiration is calafati" (2011), "Il Tarlo only able to flourish by polverizza anche la quercia - A exposing yourself to different Documentary On Galileo Chini creative and intellectual "(2010) stimulus. It is only by doing this He has a degree in "Cinema, that I find I can crystalize my Music and Theatre" at the idea into a final work of art. University of Pisa and Filmmaking for me is pure specialized in "Cinema, space, waiting to be inhabited. Theatre and Multimedia Waiting for me to make it my Production “ own. A realty where I can truly understand what it is He says… (about Slow Movie Born : January 16th 1990 She says… (about Slow Movie important to me, a space where Contest): She comes from: Valencia- Contest): I can reflect. So until a certain Honestly, although I am SPAIN I have had the pleasure to have extent the images become an Tuscan, I've never been in She lives in: London-UK visited Tuscany three times in the extension of myself because I Gaiole in Chianti, but I had past years but I have never visited cohabit with them for such a already heard, especially in Bio-Filmography: Castelnuovo Berardenga before. long time. For me the mood of relation to the production of Romina Contepomi is a I am very excited to get to explore the film is the most important wine. During my experience I freelance filmmaker who lives the area and honored to have aspect, the cinematic space have already covered some arts and works in London, where she been chosen to capture the beauty that I create becomes the and crafts, some of which are moved in 2008, in order to of its people, art and nature. I emotion. For this reason I like very special and with a rich complete her higher education. also have a more profound to use nature and landscape as tradition, as the beekeeper, or She studied first at Chelsea connection with Italy as many of if it was a character of its own. shipwright. College ofArt and Design to then my ancestors where Italian I’ll rather leave my audience I wish the video would reflect specialize in filmmaking, themselves. My parents are with a simple feeling than with the work and sweat that it takes completing a Film and Argentinian and my great a satisfying story plot. In this in every profession, the passion Television BA at London grandparents from both families film I want to do precisely this, that joins the tradition, too College of Communication. Her where Italian. Therefore I have capture the atmosphere of the Born : July 11th 1982 in the documentary, contributing often supplanted by modern work deals with issues such as been brought up with many landscapes, nature, art and He comes from: Viareggio – to the realization of projects that machinery. I intend to speak, emigration, human displacement similar traditions and family people of Chianti. As the final Lucca- ITALY were broadcast nationally from for what I can, with the older of and the passing of time, which stories since I was young. I feel a outcome I hope that the He lives in: Viareggio the SKY platform. He also works the place to learn how to have draw on her own personal very close relation to Italy and for audience will be able to relate Bio-Filmography: on personal projects, especially changed over the years, the experience. Recent projects this reason when I visit I always and feel a part of this cinematic in the branch of the art and the techniques employed in includes directing her short Film feel at home. For the moment I’m space that I will be creating. Darim Alessandro Da Prato is a social documentary . production, ensuring the “Soledad”, that was selected at trying to do as much research as I freelance filmmaker. He has Since 2010 is part of the quality of the made in Italy. the Underwire Film Festival can as I think this is the only way worked with various production collective TRIPODPHOTO London 2012. to produce as good piece of work, companies of Tuscany operating combining photographers and

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