19° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Italian Spottings 2001

BELLA CIAO - GENOA SOCIAL FORUM. UN ALTRO MONDO È POSSIBILE

BELLA CIAO - GENOA SOCIAL FORUM - ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 120'


Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre. January 2001. This was the place and time of the first Forum Social Mundial. This is the land of sem telas - the people without movie screens of the cinema novo. This is Roberto Rossellini's other side, the half-Italian state of Rio Grande - that of Anita and Giuseppe and of the revolution of people in rags. The Forum was what transformed the protest of the Seattle people into a constructive proposal and an alternative line of thinking. Porto Alegre is also where the counter-summit at Genoa was organized. Bella ciao is the second act of Porto Alegre Social Forum. This film was shot by Roberto Torelli under the supervision of Paulo César Saraceni. The GSF was an attempt to re-propose the constructive experience of Porto Alegre in Europe. This attempt did not succeed because the conferences and meetings organized for Genoa did not have as many participants from the general public as Porto Alegre had with its 15,000 delegates and 1200 organizations. For the record, the Migrantes demonstration on July 19-20 brought out 50,000 people and the July 21 demonstration had a turnout of 250,000. In Genoa the July 20-21 clashes sank the proposals of the international movement and changed the political question into a question of policing. Bella ciao reconstructs the evolution of the clashes in Genoa using material shot by the many RAI and independent media camera people there. The footage is presented without any voice over and with only a musical accompaniment. In this way we can understand the dynamics of the incidents starting with the Black Block, which was allowed free reign for two hours. We see the tactical errors of the police and the Carabinieri, the reaction of the thousands of demonstrators in the march of the disobedient. Bella ciao has not yet been broadcast.

Biography

film director

Marco Giusti (I)

Marco Giusti (Grosseto, 1953) is a critic, film scholar, and television director whose work includes Blob, Blobcartoon, La situazione comica, Scirocco, Orgoglio coatto, Fenomeni, and Stracult. His books and essays have treated Carosello, Italian film of the 1970s and 1980s, Roberto Benigni, Massimo Troisi, Carlo Verdone and Totò. He has contributed to "Il Manifesto" and "L'Espresso" for more than twenty years.

FILMOGRAFIA

Pascali (tv, 1995), Almanacco delle profezie (tv, 1997/1998), Coatto come Mario Brega (tv, 1999, con Paolo Luciani), Il caso Piotta (tv, 2000), Il mambo del Giubileo (video, 2000), Totò 2001 (cm, video, 2000), Il maresciallo Spacca (cm, video, 2000, co-regia Manetti Bros), Stracult - In difesa del cinema italiano che spacca (tv, 2001), Antonelli Ennio? Campa… (tv, 2001), Bella ciao - Genoa Social Forum - Un altro mondo è possibile (tv, 2001, con Sal Mineo, Roberto Torelli), Garrincha (tv, 2001, con Paulo Cesar Saraceni, Roberto Torelli).

Sal Mineo

Sal Mineo is the pseudonym of 53-year-old Carlo Freccero, now director of Rai 2.

Roberto Torelli

Roberto Torelli worked on the conception and making of various television programs, includine Callas Day, Stracult (Rai 2), Paesaggi rubati, Tribuni, Per Luchino Visconti, Fuori orario, and Schegge (Rai 3). He also made several documentary films. He has been committed in the forefront of the fight for human rights. He has been artistic director of the Human Rights Festival, a cultural event supported by the UN, Caritas, ARCI, ANAC and by the CGIL, CISL and UIL trade unions. As president of the association Cinema senza confini, he produced Intolerance, the collective film featuring Citto Maselli, Claudio Camarca, Cinzia Th. Torrini, Paolo Virzì, and Gabriele Muccino. He was one of the founding members of the Officina Filmclub, the revered long-time institution for Roman film lovers.

FILMOGRAFIA

Guatemala (1999), Riccardo Freda (2000), Porto Alegre Social Forum (2001), Bella Ciao - Genova Social Forum - Un altro mondo è possibile (2001, con Marco Giusti, Sal Mineo), Senza terra (2001).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Marco Giusti, Sal Mineo, Roberto Torelli.
Riprese: Ivo Bonato e gli operatori della Rai, sede regionale della Liguria, Enrico Aonzo, Guido Benvenuto, Marco Bartolini, Riccardo Pizzocchero, Roberto Moranduzzo; gli operatori di Tg1, Tg2, Tg3 e gli operatori di Indymedia, Radio Sherwood, Makaya.
Music: selezione a cura di Elena Giusti.
Editor: Andrea Mastronicola, Marco Lombardo, Stefano Chiricozzi, Eduardo Lutzenkirken.
Production company: Marco Giusti e Monica Flores per Stracult/Raidue, viale Mazzini 14, 00195 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-38781.
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