PREMIO ALP / CERVINO 2000 The Jury
PREMIO ALP / CERVINO 2000 The Jury
Mario Brenta
Mario Brenta was born in Venice and studied engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan. After a short experience in the advertising field, he began a film career as an assistant director and screenwriter. He soon became a legitimate feature film director. He has worked with RAI UNO, Antenne 2, la Sept, Svenska Film Institutet and was one of the promoters of the school project "Ipotesi Cinema", created by Ermanno Olmi and Paolo Valmarana, in which he took part for ten years. He presently lives in Rome.
His feature films include: "Vermisat" (Official Selection, Venice 1974 - Grolla d'Oro award, St. Vincent 1975 - Jury Special Award, jointly with "The Front Page" by B. Wilder, Valladolid 1975).
"Maicol" (Film et Jeunesse prize, Cannes 1988 - Award for Best Foreign Film, jointly with "Sweetie" by J. Campion, Paris 1989) "Barnabo delle Montagne" (Official Selection in Competition, Cannes 1994). Also awarded prizes at other festivals such as Trento, Les Diablerets, Montpellier and Gramado between 1994 and 1996.
Born in Marseille where she studied law, she moved to Autrans, in Vercors, and began working for the city in the northern ski centre, taking part in organising important ski competitions such as the European Junior Championship and the World Military Championship. She helped promote the most popular cross-country skiing competition in France, "La FoulČe Blanche". She has managed cinema festivals, summer sports activities and lately the direction of the tourist office. In 1984, the mayor asked her to organise a cinema festival called "Festival du Film Neige et Glace d'Autrans". She has been the director of this festival, now called "Festival du Film de Montagne et Aventure d"Autrans", for seventeen years. She is preparing a musical festival for September and is the technical adviser of the "Festival du Film de Glisse" in Grenoble.
Kurt Diemberger was born in Salzburg. He is the only living alpinist who has made two first ascents of peaks higher than 8,000 metres. In 1957, he climbed the Broad Peak with Hermann Buhl; in 1960 the Dhaulagiri. He brought a film crew to the highest point ever along with his fellow climber Julie Tullis who died on K2. He is known as the "8,000 metres cinema expert" thanks to several films shot in the Himalayas. He has taken part in more than twenty expeditions in different countries. He lives between Italy and Austria but spends most of his time travelling, making films about mountains, jungles and deserts. He has written three books: "Tra zero e ottomila", "Cime e segreti" and "K2, Il Nodo Infinito - sogno e destino". He has made several films such as "Monte Bianco, la Grande Cresta di Peuterey" that won the prize at the Festival of Trento in 1962, "Tashing - un villaggio tibetano tra il mondo degli uomini e degli dei" in 1987 and "K2 - sogno e destino" in 1989. He is also a renowned photographer.
Michael Dillon was born in Australia and graduated from the University of Sidney where he now lives, two Km away from the centre of the Olympics Games. He has travelled around the world over the last 25 years of his double career as a photographer and documentary film director. He is Australia's most prize-winning photographer. He has produced more than 100 films such as: "Ballooning over Everest", "Hang Gliding from Mount Kilimanjaro" and the multiple prize-winning "A Glorious Way to Die". As a director, he won eight Grand Prix for "Everest, Sea to Summit" and also in Trento for his films "From the Ocean to the Sky" and "Beyond Everest", both produced together with Edmund Hillary with whom he has produced six documentaries. Thanks to these films, we learn of the activities that Sir Hillary carries out in favour of the Himalayan inhabitants, building hospitals and schools for them. Michael Dillon has also produced "Return to Everest", a National Geographic special about Sir Hillary's expeditions to Nepal, India and Fiji.
He has been twice on the Jury of the Poprad Festival and is happy to visit Breuil-Cervinia for the first time.
Franco Prono was born in Turin and is a researcher in Cinema History and teacher of Italian Cinema History at DAMS University. He has written and published articles in different fields (cinema, television, theatre, video and new technologies), about silent cinema in Turin, films of the American New Deal, acting and the star system, television theatre and the electronic image. He is also interested in many specific directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Buster Keaton, Bernardo Bertolucci, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Liliana Cavani, Gianni Amelio, Marco Ferreri, Luis Trenker, Luca Ronconi and Carmelo Bene. Since 1997, he has been President of the National Cinema Museum Association. For more than twenty years, he has been a contributor and editor of the review "Cinema Nuovo", in co-operation with Sipario and now with Il Nuovo Spettatore and La Valle dell'Eden.
He is now co-ordinating the programme "Torino cittý del cinema - Turin Ciné" with Stefano Della Casa, which will take place in 2001 at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris.
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