Festival Data:

• Established: 1983
• Genre: General
• Attendance: 20000
• Media Attendance: 50
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 200
• Total Number of Films Screened: 65
• # of Features Screened: 65
• Accreditations: ECFF

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Festival Description:

Bergamo Film Meeting, now 25 years old, was founded in 1983 to promote and spread cinema culture in local as well as national circuits. One of the most important aims of Bergamo Film Meeting is the presentation of films that can then be bought for circulation in Italy, either on the cultural or commercial circuit. This is an important achievement for the Association, a constant commitment that makes Bergamo Film Meeting an avant-garde Festival both in the national and international field.

For this reason the activities of the Association follow the course of the year with initiatives that aim at supporting the distribution of the independent cinema, of films from little known cultures or restored classics. This is the reason why it cooperates with institutions, such as F.I.C.-Federazione Italiana Cineforum and Lab80 Film, that have been working in this direction for years. Sharing resources, professional skills and technical means, allows the Meeting to distribute films on the Italian circuit, constituted by film societies and clubs, cinema associations, public administration councils, schools, universities, foundations and cultural institutes. All this entails a widespread network, covering the whole national territory.

Film Submissions:

• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.bergamofilmmeeting.it/ 2007/ entry%20form.pdf