II International festival of Young European Cinema VOICES
was presented in Roma on October 30, 2010

II International festival of Young European Cinema VOICES was presented in the frames of the V International Roma film festival in the conference hall of «Hotel de Russie» in Italy On October 30. The festival that started this year in Vologda Oblast will be continued in 2011 during June 30-July 5.

Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Russia in Italy A.Meshkov, First Secretary of Embassy of Russia in Italy M.Rossiyskiy; Advisor of the Cultural Relations Department, coordinator of the Crossed Year in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy Alberto Di Mauro; Employee of the Department of Cultural Ties, coordinator of the crossed Year of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy Mrs. Gianna Gianotti; representative of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Activity of Italian Republic Mrs. Chiara Fortuna; representatives of cinema art – art director of International film festival in Karlovy Vary Eva Zaoralova, director of International Roma film festival Sylvain Auzou, director of film market in Cannes Jerome Paillard, Russian producer Alexander Inshakov, representatives of Italian and Russian mass media and other.

Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Russia in Italy Alexey Meshkov, Senior Vice-Governor of Vologda Oblast Ivan Pozdnyakov, director of VOICES festival Igor Lysenko; actress, Audience Award holder of the I International festival of Young European Cinema VOICES Anita Kravos spoke at the presentation. The honored guests confirmed their intention to support II festival VOICES that was reached during meetings with the official delegation of Vologda Oblast. During the event there was a video-presentation that introduced the region, historical and cultural heritage, brands of Vologda land and history of the festival VOICES to the guests and participants of the meeting. The photo exhibition in the conference hall of «Hotel de Russie» was devoted to the same events.

On October 29 cooperation of Vologda oblast with Italy was discussed during the meetings in the Embassy of Russia in Italy and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy. Among the topics – participation of the representatives of Russian Embassy and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy in the festival, inclusion of the II International festival of the Young European Cinema VOICES in the calendar of the “Year of Russian culture and Russian language in Italy” and “Year of Italian culture and Italian language in Russia”.

Information by the Department of Culture
and Preservation of Objects of Cultural Heritage of Vologda Oblast