ICI London is pleased to continue the initiative The Italian Library in collaboration with Ornella Tarantola and our library, The Montale Library. A series of evenings where we will talk about books, with and about Italian writers, from Sanremo to horoscopes, from Gadda to podcasts, from Virginia Woolf to Artificial Intelligence.
Eighteenth event:
12 November
6:30 PM
At The Montale Library
INCinema for an accessible cinema. FESTIVAL PRESENTATION
INCinema is the first fully accessible film festival, also available to the deaf and hard of hearing, as well as to blind and visually impaired people, who are often unable to participate in film festivals. Founded in 2023 in Italy, INCinema is an itinerant festival held in different Italian cities and online. The new edition includes two international events, one of which will take place in London in 2025. The goal of the festival is to allow everyone to experience the emotion and magic of the cinema in an inclusive way.
The presentation will include the screening of the short film Mercato Libero by Giuseppe Cacace (2024 / 13 minutes), in an accessible format, in the presence of the lead actor Pino Calabrese.
Event in Italian and in person.
Book your spot HERE
Angela Prudenzi is a journalist, film critic, and member of the selection committee of the Venice International Film Festival. She is the director of INCinema, a festival promoting a culture of accessibility and inclusion, and has written books and essays on Elvira Notari, Sergio Leone, Raffaello Matarazzo, and silent erotic cinema. She is one of the creators of WiCA – Women in Cinema Award, an international prize dedicated to the talent and creativity of women in cinema and the arts. With L’Age d’Or, she produced the documentary Corpo a corpo dedicated to Paralympic athlete Veronica Yoko Plebani and various short films, as well as collaborating with many Italian schools on projects about visual literacy.
Federico Spoletti is the co-founder and CEO of SUB-TI, an international company based in London that provides audiovisual translation services worldwide. He is also the co-founder of SUB-TI ACCESS, a company dedicated to cultural accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, blind and visually impaired people, specializing in subtitles for the deaf and audiodescriptions for the blind. In 2011, he launched FRED Film Radio – The Festival Insider, a radio network with 29 channels that broadcasts online from film festivals in 25 different languages, with some thematic channels dedicated to the film industry, film literacy, and audiovisual accessibility. In 2023, he launched INCinema, the first fully accessible film festival for people with sensory disabilities.