FAI FOUNDATION COLLATERAL AWARD: PERSONA, LAVORO, AMBIENTE (5TH EDITION)

FONDAZIONE FAI, PERSONA, LAVORO, AMBIENTE is a collateral award of the Venice Film Festival (5th edition in 2024) promoted by Fai Cisl Studi e Ricerche Foundation. The award will recognize three or more films for their treatments of Work and/or Environment issues. The event is divided in tow part. During the first hour will take place the ceremony of the award. During the second part, there will be the screening of the Fai Foundation, Agrilavoro Edizioni and Fai Cisl new production: L’intervista in mare (The Interview at Sea) (director: Ludovico Ferro) with English subtitles. L’intervista in mare at the same time a documentary and a fictional film and it is about fishing work.

MODERATOR

Ludovico Ferro (Sociologist and Director, Creator of the Award and President of the Jury)

SPEAKERS

Onofrio Rota (General Secretary, Fai Cisl Nazionale)

Vincenzo Conso (President, Fondazione Fai Cisl Studi e Ricerche)

SCREENING

L’intervista in mare (The Interview at Sea) by Ludovico Ferro (71’)

Ludovico Ferro. Ph.D. in sociology, he teaches Cultural and Communication Processes at the University of Padua. Author of over 40 publications, more than half are books. He has been studying film and film festivals from a sociological perspective since 2002. He designed and has been the director (since 2020) of the collateral award of Venice International Film Festival “Persona, Lavoro, Ambiente”. Since 2017, he has been experimenting the use of artistic languages (cinema and theater) to disseminate the results of his research. In the cinematographic field, he is both producer and author (writing and directing). The Interview at Sea (documentary feature, 2023), for which he is also screenwriter, composer and producer, is his directorial debut.

Language: Italian

HOSTED BY FAI

Fai Cisl Studi e Ricerche Foundation’s mission is to promote, both in Italy and abroad, research and cultural initiatives on matters related to agriculture, environment and health, agricultural system and agroindustry, and work activities. The foundation promotes and produces documentaries as well. Recently, it has also increased its role within the cultural field by producing some plays and films.