19/07/2013 - Directors from around the world have been invited to make shorts between 60 and 90 seconds long with absolute artistic freedom to celebrate the festival

Bernardo Bertolucci, Paul Schrader, Shekhar Kapur, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Abbas Kiarostami, Monte Hellman and Walter Salles. These are just some of the names of the people who have accepted to contribute to Future Reloaded, a special project celebrating the 70^th edition of the Venice Film Festival (28 August-7 September).

Future Reloaded invited 70 directors from around the world to make shorts lasting between 60 and 90 seconds, with total artistic freedom. All shorts will be screened before the public for the first time during the festival.

Among the authors to have signed on are great maestros, well-known directors and young new talent. All have taken part in the festival at least once in the last twenty years. Future Reloaded is a collective homage by directors to the festival (the first festival in the world to reach the age of 70), and is a joint reflection on the future of cinema, as expressed by the personal sensibility of each director.

A complete list of participants will be released one day at a time, starting tomorrow on the Biennale’s website, on a new and specially made page dedicated to the history of the Venice Film Festival. 

(Translated from Italian)