Luma Foundation founder replaces long-serving president Marco Solari.
Maja Hoffmann has been officially confirmed as president of the Locarno Film Festival, following a vote of the festival’s general assembly and its board of directors.
Hoffmann, the founder of the Luma Foundation, becomes the first female president of the Locarno Film Festival. Her name was put forward in July at the head of a shortlist of candidates to replace long-serving president Marco Solari, who steps down after 23 years in the role.
Hoffmann said: “I look forward to working with the entire team, led by Giona A. Nazzaro, artistic director, and Raphaël Brunschwig,...
Maja Hoffmann has been officially confirmed as president of the Locarno Film Festival, following a vote of the festival’s general assembly and its board of directors.
Hoffmann, the founder of the Luma Foundation, becomes the first female president of the Locarno Film Festival. Her name was put forward in July at the head of a shortlist of candidates to replace long-serving president Marco Solari, who steps down after 23 years in the role.
Hoffmann said: “I look forward to working with the entire team, led by Giona A. Nazzaro, artistic director, and Raphaël Brunschwig,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Maja Hoffmann has been officially confirmed as President of the Locarno Film Festival following a vote at an Extraordinary General Assembly on Wednesday.
She replaces long-time festival President Marco Solari who held the position for 23 years.
Hoffmann’s appointment was announced over the summer but was not made official until being put to the vote.
A descendant of legendary Swiss entrepreneur Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche, Hoffmann is known internationally as an art collector and philanthropist.
She is the founder of the Zurich-based Luma Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting contemporary artists, and is also involved in a raft of art institutions worldwide including the Swiss Institute New York, the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, the Serpentine Galleries in London and the Kunsthalle Zürich.
Wednesday’s meeting also set in motion a revision of the festival’s governance structure and voted in first members of the board.
Key changes are the reduction in the size of the board,...
She replaces long-time festival President Marco Solari who held the position for 23 years.
Hoffmann’s appointment was announced over the summer but was not made official until being put to the vote.
A descendant of legendary Swiss entrepreneur Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche, Hoffmann is known internationally as an art collector and philanthropist.
She is the founder of the Zurich-based Luma Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting contemporary artists, and is also involved in a raft of art institutions worldwide including the Swiss Institute New York, the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, the Serpentine Galleries in London and the Kunsthalle Zürich.
Wednesday’s meeting also set in motion a revision of the festival’s governance structure and voted in first members of the board.
Key changes are the reduction in the size of the board,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Admissions to indoor screens are up, but Piazza Grande open-air screenings hit by rain.
Attendance at this year’s edition of Locarno Film Festival was 6% up on 2022 at the event’s halfway point, according to the festival’s managing director Raphael Brunschwig.
A 22% increase in admissions to the festival’s indoor screening venues up to Monday evening (Aug 7) compensated for the 12% drop in audience figures at the nightly open-air screenings on the town’s Piazza Grande due to heavy rain which dissuaded many from attending on the festival’s first two evenings.
Head of press Fiorenza Conforti confirmed that total...
Attendance at this year’s edition of Locarno Film Festival was 6% up on 2022 at the event’s halfway point, according to the festival’s managing director Raphael Brunschwig.
A 22% increase in admissions to the festival’s indoor screening venues up to Monday evening (Aug 7) compensated for the 12% drop in audience figures at the nightly open-air screenings on the town’s Piazza Grande due to heavy rain which dissuaded many from attending on the festival’s first two evenings.
Head of press Fiorenza Conforti confirmed that total...
- 8/10/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
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On Aug. 23, 1946, just a few months after the inaugural Cannes Film Festival, the very first Locarno International Film Festival opened with a screening of Giacomo Gentilomo’s Italian neorealist classic O sole mio.
From the start, the festival aimed to represent the full spectrum of cinema, showcasing what current festival managing director Raphaël Brunschwig calls “a culture with a thousand facets.”
The 75th Locarno Festival, which runs Aug. 3-13, is sticking to those first principles. Perhaps more than any other major A-list fest, Locarno continues to straddle the gap between mainstream Hollywood and experimental avant-garde movie making.
Locarno 2022 will kick off with the world premiere of Brad Pitt action-thriller Bullet Train directed by the Deadpool 2 helmer David Leitch, who returns to Locarno after the 2017 screening of Atomic Blonde. This year’s event also includes gala screenings of Medusa Deluxe, a British murder...
On Aug. 23, 1946, just a few months after the inaugural Cannes Film Festival, the very first Locarno International Film Festival opened with a screening of Giacomo Gentilomo’s Italian neorealist classic O sole mio.
From the start, the festival aimed to represent the full spectrum of cinema, showcasing what current festival managing director Raphaël Brunschwig calls “a culture with a thousand facets.”
The 75th Locarno Festival, which runs Aug. 3-13, is sticking to those first principles. Perhaps more than any other major A-list fest, Locarno continues to straddle the gap between mainstream Hollywood and experimental avant-garde movie making.
Locarno 2022 will kick off with the world premiere of Brad Pitt action-thriller Bullet Train directed by the Deadpool 2 helmer David Leitch, who returns to Locarno after the 2017 screening of Atomic Blonde. This year’s event also includes gala screenings of Medusa Deluxe, a British murder...
- 7/19/2022
- by Stjepan Hundic
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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