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ABOUT US.
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.
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