LOCARNO CRITICS ACADEMY 2017

Tuesday, 1st August, 7:00 pm MEET & GREET: Welcome! with Stefano Knuchel, Denise Fernandes, Daniela Persico, Christopher Small and Ruedi Widmer Youth Hostel 9:00 pm DINNER Ristorante Casa del popolo Wednesday, 2nd August 10:00 am CRITICS IN CONTEXT Mark Peranson (Director of Programming at Locarno, co-founder of CinemaScope) 11:00 pm FRED Radio (daily radio link): plan of work with Chiara Nicoletti and Matt Micucci 12:00 pm PARDOLIVE: plan of work with Massimo Benvegnù Thursday, 3rd August 10:00 a.m. ORIENTATION SESSION FOR FULL LOCARNO ACADEMY with Nadia Dresti 11:30 am FILM COMMENT: Nicolas Rapold, editor Followed by personal pitches with international attendees 7:00 pm LOCARNO ACADEMY: WELCOMING COCKTAIL Locarno Garden La Mobiliare 11:30 pm INDUSTRY OPENING PARTY Lido di Ascona Friday, 4th August

10:00 a.m. Masterclass by Olivier Assayas Moderated by Stefano Knuchel with Filmmaker Academy 12:00 am VARIETY: John Hopewell Saturday, 5th August 4:30 pm CRITICS WORK: Neil Young (Hollywood Reporter) Moderated by Florian Keller Sunday, 6th August 3pm – 6pm Round table FILM CRITICISM IN MOTION: Audiovisual Explorations on Film With Catherine Grant, Chiara Grizzaffi, Oswald Item and Kevin B. Lee Moderated by Till Brockmann Followed by screening PalaCinema 10:30pm PARTY TICINO FILM COMMISSION Lido di Locarno, Blu Monday, 7th August 11:00 am Making VIDEOESSAY: Catherine Grant and Kevin B. Lee Moderation by Chiara Grizzaffi 4:30 pm FILM CRITICISM IN MOTION: screening 10:30 pm INDUSTRY CLOSING PARTY Lido di Locarno Blu Tuesday, 8th August 10:30am CONVERSATION WITH Todd Haynes Forum Spazio Cinema 1:30pm CINEPHILIA AND THE FILM FESTIVAL Daniel Kasman (MUBI), Matías Piñeiro and Richard Porton (Cineaste) 3:00 pm MEET THE FESTIVALS 75-minute session with film festival programmers from around the world with Industry Academy 11:00 pm

PARTY PARDI DI DOMANI Via della Posta, Locarno Wednesday, 9th August 1:30pm INFLUENCES OF JEAN-MARIE STRAUB: ALBERT SERRA PalaVideo French – tr. English 6:00 pm CRITICS AND PUBLICISTS Richard Lormand and Frauke Greiner Thursday, 10th August 11:00 am Seven degrees of separation: or, the key terms defining Chinese cinema today Clarence Tsui 2:30 pm MASTERCLASS WANG BING Moderated by Maria Ruggieri with Filmmaker Academy 8:30pm @ Piazza Grande RED CARPET PHOTOS Friday, 11th August 7:00 pm GOODBYE DINNER Ristorante Valle Maggia

With few exceptions (noted below), sessions will take place at the Summer Academy MAGISTRALE- SUPSI, Piazza San Francesco 19, 6600 Locarno CLASSROOM N° 123. Please arrive around five minutes early so we can start on time. NOTE: Each day’s schedule is subject to change. You will receive daily e-mails confirming each upcoming day’s schedule. On days when we have only one set of guests scheduled, we will most likely spend some of the allotted time speaking amongst ourselves.