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Gian Vittorio Baldi
IFA Founder, President and IFA Master Teacher was an Italian film director and producer who won over 100 prestigious awards, including two Golden Lions at the Venice Film Festival, the Silver Ribbon and the Golden Grolla Award. At the San Paulo International Film Festival he received the Humanidade Award (2009).
“One of the most daring and tireless protagonists of Italian cinema”
La Repubblica
As author he directed eight features including the heralded FOUCO! cited by german critics at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival as one of the five best film in the history of Italian cinema in the 1960s and 1970s.
IFA Board of Directors is continuing Gian Vittorio’s last dream to help the future generation of film auteurs.
Production
He produced more than 200 shorts and twenty-eight movies included the Pier Paolo Pasolini Notes Towards an African Orestes and Pigsty, Jean-Marie Straub The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Jean-Luc Godard Wind From The East, Robert Bresson Four Nights of a Dreamer. He has also worked on projects with Bernardo Berolucci, Glauber Rocha, Gabriel Garcìa Marquez, Marguerite Duras, Jorge Luis Borges and Carl Theodor Dreyer.
Manifesto
In 1953 Baldi wrote his Manifesto, which he entitled Theme and Dictation, and to which he has remained fundamentally faithful to this day: live sound mixing, hand-held camera, natural lightning, no manipulative editing, actors to be seen as models, no musical soundtrack, filming to follow the time sequence of the plot.
Baldi had many passions: writing, painting and wine making. Gian Vittorio was one of the first to produce wine of superior quality in Emilia-Romagna working with renowned French wine makers and university researchers from Alma Mater of Bologna. He created the prestigious Ronchi of Castelluccio, that in over 30 years has inspired more than 200 wineries in the area. His last film as a director was The Sky Above Me (2012) shot in Brazil.
His short films constitute a transition from the documentary to filmed drama. He was the first in Italy yo shoot a feature film in 16mm, revolutionizing all previous production schedule by completing shooting in just fourteen days.
