N.I.C.E. is a non-for-profit cultural organization that was founded in 1991 by a group of film professionals and which has consequently grown into one of the most important expressions of Italian cinematography abroad. The goal of the organization is to promote New Italian Cinema abroad, through a series of film festivals and cultural exchanges. Every year, Nice organizes festivals in the United States (New York, San Francesco and soon Portland and Charleston CS), Russia (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kursk, Tambov, Vologda, Lipstek, Serghiev Posad, Kazan, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarks, Soči, Novi Urengoy, Kaliningrad, Perm, Salehkard, Samara, Togliatti), England (Durham) and in China (Pechino).
Every year, the international selection committee of N.I.C.E. including Deborah Young (film critic of “The Hollywood Reporter” and director of the Taormina Film Fest), Rod Armstrong and Rachel Rosen (in charge of the San Francisco Film Society programming), Barbara Corsi (journalist of “Il Giornale dello Spettacolo”), Stefano Albertini (director of the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at the New York University), Naum Kleiman (director of the Museum of Cinema of Moscow) and Lella Scalia (entertainment journalist of “Vogue Italia”), selects seven/eight titles (first or second work) among over 80 films produced in Italy throughout the year. Those films, together with a series of special events and retrospectives dedicated to selected masterpieces of the Italian film history, are screened in public theaters, in the presence of their directors and actors.
The festival in the USA, taking place every November, is the first one to be organized every year and the oldest for Nice. (the first event took place in New York in 1991), followed by the festivals in Russia, held between March and April. During the weeks of each festival, Nice facilitates meetings between the Italian directors in attendance and local international producers and distributors, serving as an crucial trait d’union for the showcase and the access of the best up-and-coming film projects made in Italy and in Tuscany to the international film markets.
This year N.I.C.E. in NYC presents:
17 november 2015 @6:00 p.m.
ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA DI NEW YORK
686 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
tel: +1 212-879-4242
Press Conference of the 25th edition of the NICE FESTIVAL USA2015 with the Director of the Italian Cultural Insitute Giorgio Van Straten, the Attache for Cultural Affairs of the IIC, Fabio Troisi and the Director of N.I.C.E, Viviana Del Bianco.
SPECIAL GUESTS: the directors Matteo Bini ( I, Harlequin), Alessia Scarso ( Italo) and Marco Pontecorvo ( Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells)
Free Entrance
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CASA ITALIANA ZERILLI-MARIMO'
24 West 12th Street (between 5th and 6th Ave.)
New York, NY 10011
http://www.casaitaliananyu.org
info: [email protected]
Free Entrance
November 18, 2015 @6:00 p.m.
PARTLY CLOUDY (WITH SUNNY SPELLS)
Marco Pontecorvo
Q&A with Marco Pontecorvo
SVA THEATRE
333 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011
info: [email protected]
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November 20, 2015 @6:30 p.m.
PARTLY CLOUDY (WITH SUNNY SPELLS) Marco Pontecorvo
Q&A with Marco Pontecorvo and Jhon Turturro
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November 20, 2015 @09:30 p.m.
GOD WILLING
Edoardo Falcone
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ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
32 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003
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November 21 2015 @2:00 p.m.
ITALO
Alessia Scarso
Q&A con Alessia Scarso
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November 21, 2015 @4:00 p.m.
I, HARLEQUIN
Giorgio Pasotti and Matteo Bini
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November 22, 2015 @ 2:00 p.m.
MY NAME IS MAYA
Tommaso Agnese
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November 22, 2015 @4:00
WONDROUS BOCCACCIO
Vittorio and Paolo Taviani
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