Locarno Academy
Designed to foster the skills of emerging talents in cinema, the Locarno Academy is a professional training project from the Locarno Film Festival for young filmmakers, critics and film industry professionals.
Designed to foster the skills of emerging talents in cinema, the Locarno Academy is a professional training project from the Locarno Film Festival for young filmmakers, critics and film industry professionals.
Each edition of the Academy offers participants a chance to meet and liaise with major contemporary filmmakers, have their writing published in leading international film criticism journals, and gain in-depth insights from top industry experts on programming and distribution strategies.
During the workshops of the Locarno Academy one's idea of cinema inevitably changes, gets enriched, and becomes more nuanced by the workshops and conversations with the diverse group of international guests. Yet, Locarno Academy has an even more enduring quality. It allows the participant to engage with others who share a perception of cinema in the most intense and free way possible.
My experience at the Critics Academy and the Locarno Film Festival has rejuvenated and injected hope into my relationship with film criticism. For the first time I felt properly valued as a critic. The 11 days were a kind of utopia, as I could feel the value that the festival gives to critics; recognizes its importance in encouraging the Critics Academy, inviting great names of film criticism, and in the daily treatment and care for professional critics.
