NOUVELLE BUG

Vol. 3 / Revine Lago, Aug 18-27th

In collaboration with Lago Film Fest

ITA / US

Il Varco and Lago Film Fest are proud to host the third edition of the international residency of cinema shot inside videogames and with Artificial Intelligence. An intensive week of webinars and live lessons in Revine Lago where participants will be able to understand and put into practise this experimental frontier of Cinema, accompanied by the most renowned filmmakers of the genre. Come with ideas, leave with a new avant-garde short film!

Nouvelle Bug is an international workshop of cinema shot inside videogames, sofwares, metaverse and artificial intelligence where 40 directors will be selected to attend seminars, theoretical and practical lessons tutored by Andrea Gatopoulos and with workshops from Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, Total Refusal Crew and Gala Hernández López. The participants will then write, shoot and edit a film inside the metaverse or videogames or using artificial intelligence.

Hosted by

 

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 55 DIRECTORS
 
 45 FILMS
 FROM 15 COUNTRIES
 
557′ OF CINEMA

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TUTORS

Andrea Gatopoulos is a film producer and director based in Rome, Italy. He graduated in Modern Literature at Sapienza in Rome with a thesis on Virtual Reality and Entertainment. His research in the virtual environment started in 2017 with the photographic project Bit-Reality and culminated in 2022 with the short film “Happy New Year, Jim”, presented at the 54. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes. His productions were featured in more than 100 festivals in the world including Cannes, Venice, Rotterdam, Rome, Camerimage and many others.

Ismaël is a filmmaker and artist who trained at Le Fresnoy and whose student films were screened in many festivals. With Maalbeek, selected for the 59th edition of La Semaine de la Critique, he went further in his investigation of how identity, technology and the virtual world interact, by piecing together the images and sounds of the fragmented, traumatic memory of a victim of the 2015 Brussels terrorist attacks. He won the César 2022 for best Short Documentary.

 

Total Refusal is a pseudo-marxist media guerilla focused on the artistic intervention and appropriation of mainstream video games. We upcycle video games in order to reveal the political apparatus beyond the glossy and hyperreal textures of this media. Their films have been selected in many festivals including Berlinale and Locarno and their artistic research has been featured worldwide in museums and art fairs.

Gala Hernández López is an artist filmmaker and researcher. From a feminist and critical lens, she examines discourses and imaginaries circulating in virtual communities as fictional symptoms of a state of the world. Her film La Mécanique des fluides won the César for Best Documentary Short film in 2024 and the Experimental Work Award 2023 of la Scam (France), among a dozen awards. She regularly gives workshops and lectured-performances, in places such as the Filmuniversität Konrad Wolf, Beaux-Arts de Marseille, The Photographers Gallery or the Locarno Film Festival.

1ST STEP_ mar 28th – jun 15th

International call for entries, open to everyone under 35 years old, though our submission form.

3rd STEP_ aug 18-27

Ten days of workshop in Revine Lago with live lessons, online meetings, writing and shooting of some scenes.

2nd STEP_ jun 28

Selection of the 40 participants of the workshop that will be invited in Rome to participate in the live lessons or online tutoring sessions.

4th STEP_ oct 1st

Announcement of the winning projects during the award ceremony. 

PREMIERE / BELLARIA FILM FESTIVAL

A Missed Call by Francesco Manzano

A Missed Call by Francesco Manzano, produced during Nouvelle Bug Vol. 2, will be presented in Bellaria Film Festival and Lago Film Fest as part of Principi Italiani, a shared competitive selection born to support and promote young Italian film talent.

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PREMIERE / HOT DOCS

Playground by Célia Caroubi
Playground by Célia Caroubi, made during Nouvelle Bug Vol.1, will have its World Premiere at Hot Docs in April 2024, among a selection of short films titled “The body is a battleground”.
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PREMIERE / HOT DOCS

J’adore Venise – On Disappearing Bodies by Stefano Dealessandri

J’adore Venise – On Disappearing Bodies by Stefano Dealessandri, made during Nouvelle Bug Vol.1, will have its World Premiere at Hot Docs in April 2024, among a selection of short films titled “History sometimes does not repeat itself”.

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PREMIERE / visions du réel

Time Sensitive Character by Coralie H. Gourdon

Time Sensitive Characters by Coralie H. Gourdon, made during Nouvelle Bug Vol.2 and winner of the Gargantua Distribution Award, will be presented at the Visions du Réel International Film Festival in April 2024.

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PREMIERE / LAGO FILM FEST

Night Song of a Wandering Cowboy by Andrea De Fusco

Night Song of a Wandering Cowboy by Andrea de Fusco, produced during the last Nouvelle Bug workshop, will have its World Premiere at 2023 Lago Film Festival in the section Veneto Competition. 

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PREMIERE / Drama International Short Film Festival

Hold On For Dear Life by Simone Fiorentino
Hold On For Dear Life by Simone Fiorentino, produced during the last Nouvelle Bug workshop, will have its World Premiere at 2023 Drama Film Festival in the section International Competition.
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PREMIERE / DOKLEIPZIG

Au Revoir, Pugs by Brett Allen Smith

Au Revoir Pugs by Brett Allen Smith, produced within the workshop last year, will have its World Premiere at 2023 Dokleipzig, to be held from 8 to 15 October.

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1ST – 2ND PRIZE

DISTRIBUTION
AWARD
Distribution award by Gargantua Film Distribution

3RD – 5TH PRIZE

CUSTOM
STRATEGIES
3 custom strategies for festival distribution handed out to the films

GIOIA AWARD

DISTRIBUTION
AWARD
Offers a distribution contract to one of the participating projects

SAYONARA AWARD

DISTRIBUTION
AWARD

Offers a distribution contract to one of the participating projects

WESHORT AWARD

SCOLARSHIP

Offers a full scholarship covering the workshop to one of the directors

LAGO AWARD

 FESTIVAL AWARD

One of the projects will be picked by the festival programming team for a screening at an edition of Lago Film Fest.

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