{"id":2443,"date":"2021-02-03T12:27:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:30:06","slug":"journeying-to-italy-through-film-dr-pacchioni-to-present-at-the-2021-italian-film-festival-of-minneapolis-st-paul-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/2021\/02\/03\/journeying-to-italy-through-film-dr-pacchioni-to-present-at-the-2021-italian-film-festival-of-minneapolis-st-paul-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Journeying to Italy through Film: Dr. Pacchioni to present at the 2021 Italian Film Festival of Minneapolis\/St. Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theitalianculturalcenter.org\">Italian Cultural Center<\/a>\u00a0of Minneapolis\/St. Paul, in partnership with the MSP Film Society, presents a series of outstanding contemporary films with the goal of broadening the view of Italy and offering a new perspective on the country and its people.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Dr. Federico Pacchioni was invited to serve as the film history consultant by the Italian Cultural Center of Minneapolis\/St. Paul and to deliver a series of virtual talks during the upcoming Italian Film Festival.\u00a0In his talk series, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theitalianculturalcenter.org\/event-4150720\">Viaggio nel Cinema<\/a>, Dr. Pacchioni will provide an overview of the national characteristics of Italian film production, including representative genres, filmmakers and actors, ranging from the silent period until today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mspfilm.org\/ITALIAN-FILM-FESTIVAL\/\">The 12th Italian Film Festival of Minneapolis \/ St. Paul (IFF)<\/a> presents eleven new films, including four U.S. premieres of the documentary work of three women (Valentina Pedicini,\u00a0Elisa Fuksas, and\u00a0Doriana Monaco).\u00a0The festival includes also\u00a0heartwarming stories of love, hope, family and friendship such as:\u00a0<i>Gli Anni Pi\u00f9 Belli<\/i> (<i>The Best Years<\/i>) by internationally acclaimed director Gabriele Muccino, <i>Cosa Sar\u00e0<\/i> by Francesco Bruni, <i>Lacci<\/i> by Daniele Luchetti, <i>Il Grande Passo<\/i> by Antonio Padovan, and <i>Una Promessa<\/i>, by Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio. Ten years after his death, the festival celebrates Italy\u2019s Maestro of<i> commedia all\u2019Italiana<\/i>: Mario Monicelli. Anna Magnani and Toto\u2019 star in his comedic gem <i>Risate di Gioia<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/IFF_2021_Logo_7_Square.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1786\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/IFF_2021_Logo_7_Square-300x131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/IFF_2021_Logo_7_Square-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/IFF_2021_Logo_7_Square-600x262.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/IFF_2021_Logo_7_Square-768x335.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/IFF_2021_Logo_7_Square-1024x447.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/IFF_2021_Logo_7_Square-1536x670.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/IFF_2021_Logo_7_Square.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.29.28-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1780\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-10.29.28-AM-300x74.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the Italian Cultural Center\u00a0of Minneapolis\/St. Paul, in partnership with the MSP Film Society, presents a series of outstanding contemporary films with the goal of broadening the view of Italy and offering a new perspective on the country and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/2021\/02\/03\/journeying-to-italy-through-film-dr-pacchioni-to-present-at-the-2021-italian-film-festival-of-minneapolis-st-paul-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-events","category-faculty","category-italy-today"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}