Continue reading »]]> La Dolce Italia Festival is inviting film makers and student film makers to create a short film of no longer then 7 minutes with the following theme:
What does Italian culture mean to you?

No you don’t have to be Italian to enter!

…The top 20 finalists will be screened at Piazza Italia on
Saturday 12th and Saturday 19th with the top 3 winning entries screened on Saturday 26th!

ENTRY DEADLINE EXTENDED TILL JANUARY 31ST 2011
(DVD mailed entries only – terms and conditions to come…)

FREE ENTRY!

Send entries on DVD ONLY with a cheque or money order made out to:
“La Dolce Italia Festival” to this postal address:

Dolce Italia short film competition
PO Box 228
Carlton South Vic 3053.

GREAT CASH PRIZES TO BE WON
$500 – Primary school entries
$750 – Secondary school entries
$1000 – Independent entries.

Entries will be judged by Industry professionals and the event will be hosted by Italian/Australian performer
and M.C of La Dolce Italia Festa…
James Liotta!

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Big thank you to those who attended the film festival event on Saturday night – it was a great success!

BIG NEWS OF THE DAY is that today’s Il Globo has published pictures from the Italian Ball! Make sure you grab your copy! Also, if you can get yesterday’s copy, there is an article about the Ball on page 40.Both sets will be put on the website/Facebook as soon as we can.

ALSO, as per usual, the Italian Film Festival has been extended. The new sessions are below. We recommend Baaria which, despite its synopsis, is a good humoured yet insightful look into the development of a Sicilian town over the last 70 years and has been drawing packed houses throughout the festival!

Study hard and good luck for exams and assessments!
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Don’t miss your last chance to see the very best of the Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2010. Cinema Peroni presents these extra sessions of the most popular films:

Palace Cinema Como
Monday 11 October 7pm THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING
Tuesday 12 October 7pm HAPPY FAMILY

Palace Balwyn
Monday 11 October 6.45pm TEN WINTERS
Tuesday 12 October 8.45 BAARIA

Palace Brighton Bay
Monday 11 October 8.30pm HAPPY FAMILY
Tuesday 12 October 8.30 THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING
Wednesday 13 October 8.30pm BAARIA

Palace Westgarth
Monday 11 October 8.45pm LA NOSTRA VITA
Tuesday 12 October 8.45 THE DOUBLE HOUR
Wednesday 13 October 8.45pm LOOSE CANNONS

Kino Cinemas
Monday 11 October 6.30pm LOOSE CANNONS
Tuesday 12 October 6.30pm TEN WINTERS
Wednesday 13 October 6.30pm LA NOSTRA VITA

HURRY – LAST DAYS! Secure your tickets now -
- IN PERSON AT CINEMAS during box office hours until sold out.
- ONLINE available 24hrs at www.italianfilmfestival.com.au . Booking fees apply.
- BY PHONE using a major credit card by calling the cinemas. Booking fees apply.

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We hope you are enjoying the break.

Due to the amazing response we received, we are out of discounted tickets to the film festival event.However, we encourage you all to still attend and meet up with us on the night.

Also, the Italian Historical Society invites members to attend the grand opening of the new Italian Museum being held this Sunday 3 October in Faraday St. Faraday St will be turned into a piazza to celebrate this opening. The details are in the enclosed flyer.

Enjoy the rest of the break and don’t get too distracted by the fact that there is another grand final this weekend (luckily there will be no draw this time around!)

Museo Italiano Melbourne Electronic Invite

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Hope you enjoyed Italian Ball 2010!

The fun never ends with the Italian Club, and our next event is already upon us!

September is Italian Film Festival Month and you know what that means - the Italian Club is going to the movies!

This year’s event is even more special, as we are doing it in conjunction with the Swinburne Italian Club and the Circolo Giovanile Italiani Inc.

The event isn’t until the 9th of October, but because we are on two week break and we need to pre-buy the tickets, please purchase them this week – see details below.

Here are the details:

Italian Film Festival Event – Una Notte al Cinema

Date: Saturday 9 October
Time: 6:00PM for a 6:30PM start
Location: Palace Cinema Como, Corner Toorak Road and Chapel Street, South Yarra
Film: Scusa ma ti Voglio Sposare (Sorry but I Want to Marry You)
Italian with English Subtitles
Tickets: $14.50 members; $15.50 non-members
Tickets Available: Tuesday 14 September, 12-2PM, Foyer, Babel Building; Thursday 16 September, 1-2PM, Foyer, Babel Building (preferred time) or by contacting secretary@muitalianclub.org
Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=157304330952955

To be followed by coffee/dinner afterwards

Synopsis:
Writer-director Federico Moccia has created a legion of followers around the world since his first novel, Three Metres Above The Sky (Tre Metri Sopra il Cielo). He went on to write love stories Sorry If I Love You, Amore 14 and Sorry If I Want To Marry You, which became bestsellers and he directed the film versions of his novels which have become smash-hits. This has been called “the Moccia phenomenon”!

This highly anticipated sequel to the sensational box office hit Sorry If I Love You (IFF08) is a delightful comedy that continues the romance between Alex and Niki, a Festival highlight for all romantics. Three years after Alex (Raoul Bova, Under the Tuscan Sun), a mature and successful advertising agent, and Niki (Michela Quattrociocche), now twenty, have sworn eternal love, everything is going splendidly. They live together, they’re in love and everything seems just right. That is, until Niki starts moving in new social circles at university and Alex, becoming increasingly paranoid that Niki might leave him for a fellow student her own age, decides it’s time to pop the question…A domino effect of misunderstandings and miscommunications unfolds as the pressure this puts on their previously trouble-free relationship builds to boiling point. Moccia energetically directs this brilliant and funny romance, capturing Quattrociocche’s disarming charisma and Bova’s intensity scene after scene.

Please pass this on to your friends, and we hope to see you there!

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The Italian Club AGM was held today.

Thank you to the 30 members who attended and allowed the meeting the run as scheduled. It was a great success!

Elections for the committee to run the club in the period 2010-11 were held at the meeting. The following candidates were successful:

Executive
Co-President: Gabriella Marchi
Co-President: David Cardamone
Secretary: Carla Busso
Treasurer: Gemma Calgaro

Non-Executive
Operations Manager: Federica Cologni
General Committee: Richard Pagone, Ashley Onori, Olivia Formica
First Year Representative: As per the Constitution, to be filled at the start of 2011.

Extended Committee:
Lorence Ferro, Joe Mirabito

A full version of the President’s Report can be viewed on the website.

Again, thank you to all those who attended and good luck to the new committee!