Venice Movie Pageant Creative Director Alberto Barbera, whose present mandate is because of expire after the upcoming 81st version, has been renewed within the function for 2024 and 2025.
Father or mother physique La Biennale di Venezia mentioned its board of administrators, chaired by Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, had permitted the extension of his mandate on the premise of his achievements within the function to this point.
“I felt an instantaneous understanding with Alberto Barbera and I’ve nice respect for the experience, professionalism and fervour he has demonstrated within the years that he has directed the Venice Movie Pageant, which have enhanced the status of the oldest movie pageant on the planet. I’m extraordinarily happy that La Biennale will proceed down this path with him,” mentioned Pietrangelo Buttafuoco.
Alberto Barbera has been the Creative Director of the La Biennale di Venezia’s Cinema Division since 2012. He additionally beforehand held the place from 1998 to 2001.
Born in Biella in 1950, following his diploma in Trendy Literature from the Università di Torino with theses on Movie Historical past and Criticism, Barbera started his collaboration with A.I.A.C.E. (the Italian affiliation of pals of arthouse cinema) which he chaired from 1977 to 1989.
From 1980 to 1983 he was a critic for the day by day newspaper La Gazzetta del Popolo, and since 1982 he has been a member of the Journalists’ Union.
He has written for a lot of day by day newspapers and periodicals (Città, La Stampa, Essai, Altro Cinema, Bianco & Nero, Cineforum), and collaborated with tv and radio programmes similar to Cinemascoop (RAI 3), La lampada di Aladino (RAI – DSE), Hollywood Get together (Radio3 RAI).
In 1982 he started to collaborate with the Pageant Internazionale Cinema Giovani (now the Torino Movie Pageant), serving as its Director from 1989 to 1998. From 2002 to 2006 he was the co-director of RING! Pageant della Critica in Alessandria. In 2002 he turned a advisor for the Nationwide Museum of Cinema in Turin and from June 2004 to December 2016 served as its Director.