Awards
The most important recognitions awarded by the Lessinia Film Festival are the Golden Lessinia and Silver Lessinia. The imagery of each prize symbolizes a fairy (or fada) casting aloft a handful of stars from a pasture of the Lessinia. Other prizes are dedicated to life in the mountains, to minority cultures and languages, to the protection of the enviroment, and to the Lessinia.
Grand Prizes
“Gran Prix Lessinia“ - Lessinia Gold - € 3.000.
For the best overall film, based on content and artistic merit.
Lessinia Silver - € 2.000.
For the work that best documents and values man’s life in the mountains.
Curatorium Cimbricum Veronense Award - € 1.000.
For the work that best documents and values the language and culture of ethnic minorities in the mountains.
Veneto Region Award - € 1.000.
For the best work about the “cultural landscape” of the mountains.
Verona Province Award - € 1.000.
For the best work about “history in the mountains”.
Lessinia Award - € 500.
For the best work about the Lessinia Mountains.
Lessinia Regional Natural Park Award - € 500.
For the best nature film or documentary.
Special Prizes
Special Prize in memory of Mario Pigozzi and Piero Piazzola.
For the best work by a young director.
Special Prize of the Cassa Rurale Bassa Vallagarina.
For the best work about the mountains of the Triveneto (Tre Venezie).
Special Prize by the Youth Jury.
NEWS
Award ceremony
The awards ceremony of the 15th Film Festival della Lessinia, with the conferral of the Lessinia d'Oro, will take place on Saturday, August 29, 2009, at 6:30 pm in the main theatre of the Teatro Vittoria.
Tribute to Marcello Baldi
Il Film Festival della Lessinia rende omaggio a Marcello Baldi con la proiezione del suo ultimo film Narciso. Dietro i cannoni, davanti ai muli. Ospite dell'evento, nel Teatro Vittoria di Bosco Chiesanuova, giovedì 27 agosto 2009 alle ore 21.00, Dario Baldi, co-regista del film insieme con il padre.
Interview to Franco Piavoli
Vittorio Zambaldo interviews Franco Piavoli, guest of the Film Festival della Lessinia. Piavoli is the author of "L'orto di Flora" within Ermanno Olmi's film "Terra Madre", which will be shown again on Thursday, August 27 at 5:00 pm in the Teatro Vittoria. READ THE INTERVIEW
Heidi in Lessinia
The retrospective devoted to Heidi continues at the Film Festival della Lessinia. Three afternoon screenings will bring to Bosco Chiesanuova three masterpieces featuring the infamous shepherd-girl invented by Johanna Spyri. Monday, August 24, 4:00 pm: Heidi. Zoccoletti olandesi (Heidi. Dutch Clogs), by Allan Dwan (featuring Shirley Temple); Tuesday, August 25, 4:00 pm: Heidi. Sono tornata per te (Heidi. I've Come back for You), by Luigi Comencini; Wednesday, August 26, 4:00 pm: Heidi torna tra i monti (Heidi Returns to the Mountains), the celebrated animated cartoons by Isao Takahata.