20/06/2002 - The six-day event (July 9 - 14) is an opportunity to meet directors like Britain´s Mike Leigh and Mike Figgis, Denmark´s Lone Scherfig and America´s Terry Gilliam

The 6th edition of the Umbria Film Festival, aka «The Other Voices of European Cinema» is scheduled to take place in the medieval town of Montone (Perugia) from 9-14 July 2002. The six-day event is an opportunity to see the films of and meet directors like Britain´s Mike Leigh and Mike Figgis, Denmark´s Lone Scherfig, America´s Terry Gilliam, Tajikistan´s Djamshed Usmanov and Italy´s Alessandro D´Alatri, as well as Fabrica Cinema´s innovative producer Marco Mueller (who co-produced Danis Tanovic´s Oscar winning No Man´s Land as well as Usmanov´s The angel on the right shoulder screened in Directors´ Fortnight at Cannes 55 and selected for Umbria.
The programme foresees the screening every evening of one short film followed by a feature, and can be consulted by clicking on the TamtamCinema site.
Organised in tandem with the European Institute of Cinema of Karlsruhe - Germany, the Umbrian event has since 1998 been a member of the European Coordination of Film Festivals (based in Brussels) and since 2000 the festival is co-funded by CINESITES, part of the EU Commission´s 2000-2004 Culture Programme that also includes France, Germany, Spain, Belgium and Holland.
This year´s programme also features the Italian premiere, on 9 July, of a documentary about Terry Gilliam´s abortive attempt to make Don Quixote entitled Lost in La Mancha. The Un-Making of Don Quixote directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe. The project was definitively halted after the star French actor Jean Rochefort injured himself. The directors will be in the audience with Gilliam and the screening will be followed by Orson Welles´ 1970 Don Quixote, presented by the film editor Marco Bonanni.
The programme also features a round-table discussion about the growing importance of digital technology in filmmaking that will be followed by the screening of Mike Figgis´ first DV feature, Hotel.