Guido Pellegrini

articles by Guido Pellegrini

The Double Life of Cinephilia

Berlinale Talent Press, February 11, 2012

The Double Life of Cinephilia I can hardly mend the schism between my double identities as global, English-language Internet critic and twenty-something film lover who walks down dark hallways to watch movies with fellow porteños. I began writing film reviews because of an adolescent imp ...

Fiction by Design

Berlinale Talent Press, February 11, 2012

Fiction by Design Berlinale Forum entry NORMAL SCHOOL documents reality with such neat precision that it feels scripted. The result is stimulating. Celina Murga's Berlinale Forum film NORMAL SCHOOL (ESCUELA NORMAL, Argentina) tries to capture the restless, tumultuous, and abrasive politi ...

Love and Monoliths

Berlinale Talent Press, February 12, 2012

Love and Monoliths The young Greek director Spiros Stathoulopoulos is in Competition at the Berlinale with his second feature film, punctuated by forbidden attractions, opposing peaks and a peculiar style of animation. Berlinale Competition entry METÉORA, by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, is a ...

Three Minutes of Innovation

Berlinale Talent Press, February 14, 2012

Three Minutes of Innovation How do you convey innovation and revolutionary ideas in such a short window of time? Filmmakers from the Focus Forward panel share their stories. How to tell a story in three minutes? How to shine a spotlight on the human, technological and social dimensions o ...

Helping a Dream

Berlinale Talent Press, February 15, 2012

Helping a Dream An interview with actress and producer Sarah Wanjiku Muhoho, winner of the VFF Highlight Pitch Award and a participant in the Talent Project Market. Sarah Wanjiku Muhoho is the latest recipient of the coveted €10,000 VFF Highlight Pitch Award. The prize is bestowed every ...

Young Superheroes

Berlinale Talent Press, February 15, 2012

Young Superheroes With his short film BATMAN AT THE CHECKPOINT, Rafael Balulu is the winner of the 2012 Berlin Today Award. BATMAN AT THE CHECKPOINT, by Rafael Balulu, won the Berlin Today Award last Sunday. The BTA is a program for former and current Berlinale Talent Campus participants ...

Talent Press, a hands-on training of the Berlinale Talent Campus in collaboration with FIPRESCI and the Goethe-Institut, is a platform for young film critics and journalists from around the world to acquaint themselves with current trends in world cinema. Selected by an international jury, they are invited to Berlin to review films of the festival and report on events of the Berlinale Talent Campus. Under the tutelage of prominent film critics they share their impressions and insights through their daily articles for the Berlinale Talent Campus website and those of its partners – FIPRESCI and the Goethe-Institut.