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In the last few years,
art and culture in general have attracted an ever-widening audience,
shedding the common perception that confined them to niche topics, and
being acknowledged as popular subjects of broad interest and consensus.
In Italy, this important social evolution has not been followed by a
like development in cultural information in the audiovisual media.
Films and documentaries about art – and other cultural topics in
general – are still not thought of as having spectacular appeal:
not only do they have “no audience appeal”, but they are automatically
relegated to the sectors of didactic communications.
DOC FEST is a not for profit cultural association
founded on a project: to build a network of spectacular
events on an international level in the sector of culture and information,
with the goal of involving a wide audience and at the same time getting
these initiatives across through the media.
This “square of the circle” is made possible through the active
participation in DOC FEST by personalities who have worked for decades
in the communications sector, like Carlo Fuscagni,
former director of RAI ONE; Claudio Strinati,
Superintendent of Rome’s Museum Coalition; Rubino
Rubini, one of the first writers and producers of documentaries
in Europe; Antonella Greco, instructor
of Architecture History at the Sapienza University in Rome; and Anna
Maria Cerrato, former curator of Great Exhibitions, a regular
feature for RAI ONE.
Other DOC FEST aims are:
> To build a large video library of films, documentaries, events,
exhibitions, biographies, etc., around the themes of culture, performance
and information. This archive will be immediately accessible by both
institutional and private users.
> International not-for-profit diffusion of audiovisual materials,
ours and those of other organisations, so that collected materials have
maximum visibility and maximum impact on the public.
> Collaboration with television broadcasters, other festivals, museums,
universities, academies and cinema distribution companies, to build
a circuit of diffusion and exchange of products and initiatives, and
to increase film and documentary production in Italy.
DocFest
Via Tarvisio, 2 - 00198 Roma (Italy)
tel. 068840341 - 068840262 - fax 068840345
mail: info@docfest.it
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