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Message from Joseph Caristena

Rethink they way you think

Press Release

21 February 2023
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The Edition 2023 has many updates and improvements in all the stages of the festival.
A festival with no limits !
Back to engage a worldwide audience.
Be part of it !

Best Regards
Art Director
Joseph Caristena

Movies of the last edition 2022

Edition 2022 - L'ultimo fiore

The last flower Melina and Carmela are two young girls living hard life in Calabria, South Italy, during the end of the Second World War. Carmela lives at home with her aunt that treats her like a property forcing her into prostitution with a fascist soldier that will become her nightmare. Director Biography - Felice Diego Licopoli Felice Diego Licopoli was born in Gioia Tauro (Italy)...

Edition 2022 - 2020

2020 The video project "2020" is an attempt to understand and feel what is happening in 2020 through the art forms of dance and video. The film is the result of a collaboration between prima ballerina Diana Vishneva, choreographer Pavel Glukhov and director Katya Telegina. Director Biography - Katya Telegina Katya Telegina is from Omsk, Siberia, Russia and she graduated from...

Edition 2022 - And suddenly it's evening

And suddenly it's evening This short film is a metaphor of life. It takes place in a single day that symbolizes the span of time of an entire human life with its trials, its joys, its pains. Until almost without warning, the evening arrives, the sun sets and life ends. Director Biography - Giulia Brazzale Giulia Brazzale is a producer, director, screenwriter and editor. She debuted, in...

Edition 2022 - La Preda

#lasciamiandare - La Preda #lasciamiandare (#letmego) è il nuovo progetto di Monica Marioni, che l'artista, in un approccio immersivo e totalizzante, ha scandagliato ciò che quotidianamente deve affrontare chi vive un rapporto tossico e disfunzionale prima di tutto con se stesso e di conseguenza con l'ambiente e gli altri. Il titolo assume la forma dell'invocazione della vittima al suo...

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	Aug & Ohr Medien Aug & Ohr supports film students and up-and-coming directors by promoting their works in the international film festival industry. Aug & Ohr Medien has a portofolio of around 1000 high quality films, which have been screened at festivals like Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Locarno, Toronto, Sundance, Moscow, Shanghai, Palm Springs, Clermont-Ferrand, and many others ! Aug & Ohr Medien is one of the leading film festival agencies worldwide.
	Film Festivals Days FFD – is the first time in Europe as a unique international gala of film festival art directors and all enthusiastic teams. In the exciting Pula (Croatia) FFD brings together the traditions of those film festivals which marked the past half-century with insights from the many film festivals now generating new audiences.

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Aug & Ohr Medien is a dynamic film festival agency located in Berlin, Germany.

Aug & Ohr Medien
Aug & Ohr supports film students and up-and-coming directors by promoting their works in the international film festival industry. Aug & Ohr Medien has a portofolio of around 1000 high quality films, which have been screened at festivals like Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Locarno, Toronto, Sundance, Moscow, Shanghai, Palm Springs, Clermont-Ferrand, and many others !
Aug & Ohr Medien is one of the leading film festival agencies worldwide.

First time in Europe as a unique international summit of film festival operatives and enthusiasts.

Film Festivals Days
FFD – is the first time in Europe as a unique international gala of film festival art directors and all enthusiastic teams. In the exciting Pula (Croatia) FFD brings together the traditions of those film festivals which marked the past half-century with insights from the many film festivals now generating new audiences.

	Date: August 20 2021 Dear Filmmakers, Our team spent 3 weeks in Toronto from the 16 of July 2021 to the 7 of August 2021 to understand how to setup again all the screenings and events of the Final Award Event of the Edition 2020 of the Social Machinery Film Festival. But unfortunately Canada was still only at the beginning of the opening of Covid-19 Emergency, in this time no tourist were allowed to enter Canada, but only Canadian citizens. I was able to travel to Toronto, because I am a Canadian citizen. It was not possible to organize any kind of public screening in cinemas or theatres, because not allowed by Canadian Government Law. Also the TIFF building in the Entertainment District was closed in this period. Then our team came back to Italy in August 2021, to check any possibilities for public screenings in cinema or theaters or other outiside public places, but the situation in Italy was worst and much more less controlled. For this reason our team had to make the hard decision to switch the Final Award Event into an online event. Online video streaming and LIVE broadcasting will now be used in every edition of Social Machinery Film Festival. Also the new Edition 2022 will be as well all digital using both online video streaming and interactive LIVE broadcasting channels and platforms. We skipped the Edition 2021, because there was no reason to spend time and money. We are trying our best to get out of this bad stressful situation. The world changed at once and we still have to realise this;( Art Director Joseph Caristena

Date: August 20 2021

Dear Filmmakers,
Our team spent 3 weeks in Toronto from the 16 of July 2021 to the 7 of August 2021 to understand how to setup again all the screenings and events of the Final Award Event of the Edition 2020 of the Social Machinery Film Festival.
But unfortunately Canada was still only at the beginning of the opening of Covid-19 Emergency, in this time no tourist were allowed to enter Canada, but only Canadian citizens. I was able to travel to Toronto, because I am a Canadian citizen.
It was not possible to organize any kind of public screening in cinemas or theatres, because not allowed by Canadian Government Law. Also the TIFF building in the Entertainment District was closed in this period.
Then our team came back to Italy in August 2021, to check any possibilities for public screenings in cinema or theaters or other outiside public places, but the situation in Italy was worst and much more less controlled.
For this reason our team had to make the hard decision to switch the Final Award Event into an online event.
Online video streaming and LIVE broadcasting will now be used in every edition of Social Machinery Film Festival.

Also the new Edition 2022 will be as well all digital using both online video streaming and interactive LIVE broadcasting channels and platforms.
We skipped the Edition 2021, because there was no reason to spend time and money.
We are trying our best to get out of this bad stressful situation.
The world changed at once and we still have to realise this;(

Art Director
Joseph Caristena