Locarno Film Festival artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro is gearing up for the lakeside event’s 75th-anniversary edition from August 3 to 13. In his second year in the job, he has pulled together a…
is gearing up for the lakeside event’s 75th-anniversary edition from August 3 to 13. In his second year in the job, he has pulled together an eclectic programme spanning mainstream Hollywood and experimental filmmaking., makes its international festival premiere as the opening film on Locarno’s famed Piazza Grande square.
Nazzaro talked to Deadline about his distinct programming style, mixing mainstream and arthouse fare, the challenge of attracting big studio films, and his desire to push Locarno into the awards season conversation.This is your second year as artistic director and your first festival ‘proper’ after Covid. How have you found pulling together the eventLast year was a rush because we decided to open up the Piazza. Then the situation changed, which meant we could add more cinemas.
We’re a real audience festival meaning that we don’t rely only on the professional press or extreme cinephiles. If a studio wants to know if a film works or not, then the Piazza is the place where they can truly verify that because it’s an audience that pays the ticket, that wants to be there. So I think that this, especially for certain kinds of films, would be extremely interesting.There’s a lot of chatter about competition between festivals in Europe and North America.
, which is a Spielberg-era Amblin film with an unusual LGBTQ plus twist, or a film like the Australian filmthat recalls some of the best ideas of the Aussie wave from the early eighties. Those films I would certainly not miss.
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