Outside Festival – Loving Arts
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
For 27 years, the Umbria Film Festival Association has set the following objectives for UFF and its side events:
- To present quality works that have received international recognition.
- To discover new talents through research and development of what is new and different in the world of art (cinematic and otherwise) regarding expression, production, and communication.
- To create new generations of audience by involving students from schools of all levels in the jury for the short film competition and in training courses dedicated to them.
- To promote Montone, the Upper Tiber Valley, and Umbria as a unique opportunity for interaction between cinema and art enthusiasts, where artists can freely meet with local people and an international audience to discuss cinema and culture in general.
Outside the Festival – Loving Arts has set the following specific objectives:
- To support the restart and revitalization of the cultural sector in the Umbria Region, affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, through live performances organized to celebrate the 27th and 28th years of the Umbria Film Festival, involving internationally renowned artists for the production and a diverse, intergenerational audience;
- To support and promote the production and hosting of live performances in all their forms, from music to cinema to street art, also in interaction with each other, giving life to multidisciplinary shows;
- To accompany the launch of new regional policies in the audiovisual and creative sectors applied to the cultural industry, in line with the PNRR Umbria 2021-2026, through the enhancement of Umbrian cultural and economic attractors (cinemas, places of historical-artistic interest such as museums and theaters), making available the international visibility of the Umbria Film Festival at an organizational level and in terms of cultural impact;
- To promote synergies and relationships between cultural and artistic realities of the national and regional territory, systematizing the tangible and intangible infrastructures of excellent realities such as those of the Umbria Film Festival;
- To offer citizens cultural tools definable as edutainment by promoting forms of art and culture that use universal languages and the organization of free live events capable of stimulating the regional social and cultural fabric through highly innovative performances;
- To ensure the presence of sector operators (organization, skilled workers, etc.) with specialized skills, capable of organizing, managing, and producing multidisciplinary live performances;
- To promote cinema and its languages, which have intersected with multiple disciplines, as tools to bring out interests and aspirations among the very young;
- To promote the Umbrian territory and its beautiful villages through cinema and live events
REALIZED PROGRAM
- March 23, 2024 9 p.m. Teatro degli Illuminati – Città di Castello. Invisible rainbow – Roberto Cacciapaglia in concert – video art and light show by Fabio Galeotti / contemporary classical music and video art
- May 12, 2024 9 p.m. San Fedele Theater – Montone. Caravaggio, of light and dark with Luigi d’Elia / Drama Theater
- May 25, 2024 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Cospaia – San Giustino. Palacinga circus of the duo Chien Barbù mal Rasèe / street art
- July 12, 2024 9 p.m. Piazza San Francesco – Montone. Committee B anda / Folk and ballroom dancing.
- July 13, 2024 6 p.m. Fortebraccio Square – Montone. Damn poet – Musical talk with Alessandro de Simone, Mattia Labadessa and Francesco Caricati / comics, pop music
- July 14, 2024 9 p.m. Piazza San Francesco – Montone. Love. Sarah’s Theorem with Milena Mancini and directed by Vinicio Marchioni / drama theater
- July 26, 2024 9:00 pm Platform – Umbertide. Screening of the documentary “Thunder” and live performances by F4 and Oak / Punk rock and indie music
- September 28, 2024 7:00 pm Church of St. Francis – Montone Everything T’orna. Exhibition performance by Luca Morganti-Angelo benedetti and Valentina Moar / painting – electronic music and dance.
ACHIEVEMENTS
The Off Festival – Loving Arts project proposed events in line with the history and international quality of the main event, integrating works from all over the world (such as animated short films for children) with excellence in live performances. The project presented multidisciplinary events that touched on various aspects of “art: screenings, concerts, street artists, contemporary dance. For the 27th edition of the Festival, it was decided to take some performances around” Umbria, creating innovative collaborations and new connections both with the artists involved and with the municipalities of the territory and the managers of the requested spaces. Local theatre company workers, technicians, and actors were involved.
The shows included videos and images subtitled for the hearing impaired, making the events inclusive. In addition, direct involvement of boys and girls present at the screenings was provided through short animated films. The performances were filmed, and the technicians involved produced a commercial/short film to promote the project and the area involved. On one particular occasion, enraptured by the beauty and prestige of the place, a little magic happened. Maestro Cacciapaglia decided to shoot inside the Teatro degli Illuminati, during the rehearsal of the out-of-festival show the promotional video of his tour.
“I think that when, in a hundred, two hundred years, they want to understand what we were like, it will be through film music that they will find out.” – Ennio Morricone
The concerts chosen for this project had a high artistic level and included renowned artists. Attention was given to different aspects and types of music (from folk to alternative rock, from “electronic to contemporary classical music) to engage the international and multi-generational audience that follows UFF. Particular attention was given to a young audience (20-40 years old), often regular ‘users’ of talent shows, social media, and streaming music. The” intent was to have them experience a live concert, especially after two years of restrictions due to the pandemic, in villages and spaces normally unfamiliar to this type of audience. A significant example was the involvement of the “independent label To Lose La Track.”
MULTIDISCIPLINARITY OF THE PROJECT
The Fuori Festival – Loving Arts Project has promoted various genres of live performances associating them with film screenings. The types of shows chosen were:
Street Theater
The street artists Chien Barbu Mal Rasè (Daniele Spadaro and Emanuele Avallone) were invited with their itinerant show through the historic center of Montone, El Trio Churro – a CirConference. After the show, short films for children were screened at the theater, with circus and jugglers as the theme.
Punk Rock Emo Music
In the “underground” location of the Umbertide Platform, groups Oak and F4 belonging to the To Lose La Track label performed. These emo-core bands, much loved by the 20-40 age group, offered an event in full Italian rock style.
Traditional/Folk Music
The Committee Band brought their folk and manouche sounds to the stage, also crossing over into Italian pop music. With their “liscio d’autore,” they made the audience dance and delighted them with ironic and poetic atmospheres.
Electronic Music + Contemporary Dance + Artistic Performance
Everything Returns was an electronic music concert performed by Maestro Angelo Benedetti, based on the theme of experience. The event included choreographic interventions by contemporary dancer Valentina Moar and stage setups created for the occasion by Luca Morganti.
POP Music
Cursed Poet A musical talk between Alessandro De Simone, cartoonist and singer Mattia Labadessa, and guitarist Francesco Caricati.
Prose Theater
The play Caravaggio – of Light and Dark, performed by Luigi d’Elia, was presented. The performance Love – Sarah’s Theorem with Milena Mancini, directed by Vinicio Marchioni, was also added.
Classical/contemporary music
Maestro Roberto Cacciapaglia’s Invisible Rainbows explored the fusion of classical and
avant-garde, traditional and contemporary. With his music, he accompanied the audience in
an intimate and shared perceptual experience, culminating in deep listening. The sounds that
make up his melodies created an invisible bridge between people and with their own
inner world, made up of a thousand perceptive and emotional nuances.
THE ASSOCIATION.
EXPERIENCE OF THE PROPOSING ENTITY
The Umbria Film Festival APS Association has been organizing the Umbria Film Festival in Montone for 27 years. UFF has become an annual summer event, consistently held in the second week of July, for all cinema enthusiasts. Since its inception, it has been possible to present the best of international film culture to the public, guided by a constant search for new and original content. What allowed UFF to quickly emerge as an event of international importance was its ability to weave relationships not only with international film distribution institutes but also with notable guests, making the human factor its strength. Over the 27 editions, some constants have alternated, such as the feature and short film sections, with other sections, like Umbriametraggi (a competition for short films by Umbrian filmmakers), various training courses (from film courses to photography courses, including acting and screenwriting), round tables and debates on various topics, etc. In addition to the Festival, the association has experience in organizing and managing projects related to collateral events to be held throughout the year linked to live performances (Off-festival – 25 Years of UFF and Off-Festival – Mon Amour), such as concerts and theatrical performances, and children’s education with projects carried out in schools in the Upper Tiber area (Action Movies and Abit. Art – the art of inhabiting the territory).
Composition of organizational staff (77% of the staff dedicated to the project are women)
- Organizational Direction: Chiara Montagnini
- production director: Aurora Marconi
- projections and events manager: Fabrizio Toth
- production and communication associate: Erika Alunni
- organizational secretariat: Cristiana Rosini
- Subtitles and content accessibility manager:Roberta Arrigo
- Site communication manager:Michela Negro
- Live Performance Events Manager: Caterina Guarna
- technical collaborator: Lorenzo d’Anna
- technical collaborator – videomaker: Jacopo Tonelli
- Production Collaborator: Federica Borzone
- responsible for children’s section: Livia Bianchini
Number of Umbrian Municipalities involved in the annual project
4 municipalities involved in the project implementation:
- Municipality of Montone
- Municipality of Umbertide
- Municipality of Città di Castello
- Municipality of San Giustino
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